Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-25

Business was very geOd on the levet
to-day. The large amount Of merchan.
disc discharged in front of the st. L0uii
wharfboat added very much to the lif,
th~ereabOuts. The gangway of the
Rowena was also well blocked up with
White river freight. The Celeste got
little of the chicken pie and take it al
around, yesterday was moi by any means
q dull day for this very remarkably dull
season. -.. l.U.
We were called upon by the superin-
tendent of the Memphis Dry Dock com
pany, who assures Us that our informant
was in error concerning the damage to
the Flora reported by US yesterday. She
is straight and trim as q new steamer,
and we take pleasure in setting the matter
right. 1t was not published TO do the
company any injury, for we must confess
we were hardly aware of its existence.
Mr.. Sell Howell, western passenger
agent Of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, was q passenger on the ROwena,
bound for Little Rock, where the COM
pany will open an Office.
The Minneola will be in port to-day,
and will leave for Cincinnati on Tuesday
next. Capt. Miller commands.
The w. NJ. I. meet to-day at their
rooms. Every member is expected TO be
present, as business of Importance will
be acted upon. III
S-teamboatmen mostly congregate
around the WorshAm house, in this city.
All river men are epieUres, and know
where to find the best hotel. Mr.. C.. B.
Galloway has no superior as a genial
host.
The Belle Memphis is the regular st.
Louis packet for Monday. Capt. Mus
sulman commands and the office Is in
charge Of George Dean.
The steamer Celeste leaves on Tuesday
next for Arkansas river, with Capt. King
upon the roof.
The steamer Mollie HambietOn will
leave on Tuesday next for st. Francis
Capt. Bowman commands and
Tom Day Is clerk.
The ShyIock who with head erect with
honest people mingles, should cease to
shave his fellow nan and 90 to shaving
shingles. The lawyer would be better
of. his science far less plant, who owned
3 little farm in fee and made that farm q
client. We have some doctors in our
midst whose talents they Shonld use, in
practicing the healing art-heeGRg boots
and shoes. The msG who wants to buy
cheap goods, in which there is no fault, |
get them from Ed. Furguson, at
he house of Martin Walt. The world
should have its docket called and slug
cards all defaulted, and those alone be
Upper ten whom labor hath exalted.
The good steamer Commercial, Capt.
Ashford commanding, will leave for
White river on Tuesday next at 5 pm.
Morton and Smithers are in the
,ffice.
The splendid steamer Natoma viii
her place in the Vicksburg trade
N Tuesday next, and will leave at 5
I'm. on that day, Capt. Edison command
ng and Clay Rice in the Office.
The Ingomar, Capt. Smith, running
Plaquemine and st. Martins
lille, in connection with the Bayou Sara
teamers, struck a snag about one and a
lslt miles from Plaquemine, on the 18th
nst, and sunk. The boat will be raised.
Mr.. NJ. A. Bryson has returned to st.
IOuis from a tour in the northwest, and
eports that there is everywhere very
rest interest in the projects Of river inn
FOvement. Large and earnest meet
1gs have been held, and the people are
ecoming fully aroused to the Importance
{ the subject. 1t is a matter of vital
Onsequence, not only to shippers and
teambOat interests, but to the producers
f the whole northwest, for they now have
D pay in increased cost Of transportation
heavy tariff on all their products,
nd therefore begin to realize the ueces-
ty Of reaching 3 better market by the
.ver.
The late steamboatmen's convention
lat convened at st. Louis are 10 hold
n adjourned convention, or meeting, in
incinuati, sometime next month. In
ls meantime, the active committees to
wise and amend the steamboat law so
) to present it to congress for its con-
Iteration have not been idle. They
ave had q number of blank forms
rinted and partially filled in, and are
the boatmen everywhere to con-
der and, If necessary, revise the new
made up by the committee of the
invention. This is likely to make the
complete and satisfactory to all
arties, and il il receives the approval
{ the bOatmen as well as the cOnven-
on, it is likely to be adopted by con-