Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-01-23
RTYdER MATTERS.


Weather and business.
The weather was pleasant yesterday
with some indications Of rain toward
evening. Business on the landing was
confined to that done by the local pack
cts leaving in the afternoon, and to tine
loading OF boats with cotton, bound up, Gt
some future time.
The river at this point Is full of floating
ice and falling. The Arkansas has but
30 inches to the Rock. st. Francis and
White rivers are falling. The Mississippi
is yet closed at Columbus, and naviga-
ton suspended between Cairo and St.
Louis. The Ohio is a sealed book; il is
still gorged at several places and frozen
entirely across at Wheeling-the Hrst
time, it is said in twenty years.
arrivals.
steamer Amazon, New Orleans.
" NJ S. Mephaln, New Orleans.
/" Lizzie Gill, Cairo.
Departures.
Steamer Lizzie Gill, New Orleans.
:" Commercial, White river.
st. Patrick, Ticksburg.
/" NJ. Hambleton, st. Fr. river.
Boats Ia FoFs.
Dora, belle Memphis, N s. Aepham,
Celeste, GuidOn, Amazon, Liberty, Vic
tor, Ruth, Stonewall, Mary Mcdonald.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Capt. J. B. Archer, of the Liberly, re-
celved the fC.loEing dispatch last even
nag from Columbus d" KilgoUr and Gen.
Anderson went through the gorge this
morning." Capt. Archer will, in Conse-
Quence, leave with his boat positively at
noon to day.
SoLD.-Cept. Steve ~. Wilkins, wharf
master in this city, yesterday sold his
one-half interest in the steamer CONNER
cial to Nj. J. w. Smith, of Little Rock.
The terms were private.
The gorge at Chalk Bluffs still con ,in-
ues formidable. Rasg2ASeF2 from Cairo
CoL1e iowa IL the gorge or TIE steamer
Cumberland. They are then conveyed
in wagons, or walk around the gorge,
some three mics, when they are met
by the Gen. Anderson The Nindicstcr,
an irOn-clad, is working vigorously at
tie goFga aud 4, is hoped will break it up
very soon.
The TIL. McGul, We suppose, is out Of
danger before this time, as the Comet
was working st her yesterday and the
day before, trying to tighten her over
the bar at Plumb point
The Lissie Gil ~camedown from above.
She picked up 500 bales Of cotton and
other freight at this point fer New or
leans and departed las, night.
Cant. bubble will give our people a
chance 10 get rid of ell surplus freight
bound south, on Friday next. The great
Ruth turns back from this port on tnat
day and viii, no GoGSis De hlied to repIe-
t,gn, Yitn people, stock and cotton
Our friend Riley, the lightpins rod
- 90 aaww..EaI GOD aim L. ~aHw
useful little article, which No housekeeper
should be without. II is an iron instru-
ment for handling cooking utensils
around a fire and can only be apprseia-
ted by the ladies, va WISH him success.
we condense q few items from the
Louisville Courier: The Ohio is fGli OF
ice and river at g stand. The Cincin-
natl and Covington ferry dock which
was carried away from its m~OoringS
reached Louisville Gu Saturday night
and sunk at the head of the falls. The
coal barges that were sweat away al the
same tiQe Went ashcge at various points
and some went over the falls, Including &
model barge OF the Pnrkef line. Five o!
the barges loaned with GOAL sunk on the
rocks. fhe ice is said to be gorged to the
bottom OF the river between the tOwhead
and the Kentucky shore. IL Is from Is
inches TO Is feet thick and if it breaks
with a rise, will jeOpardize the boats IN
the bend, If Il DOES nDt sweep everything
( 81 the wharf as 1t did a few years ago.
Capt. Nick Mclaughlin, Of the Mon
soon, gave a hop on MS steamer at Cam
den, a few days ago. Vae Herald, o
that city, says il was an elegant affair
and Capt. Nat. evidently walked into
| the affections OF the good citizens Of tia
place through their mouths.
Can't. Marble has fitted up his towbos'
| ChAmpion, at Louisville, as a ram anC
is now ready to clean out all the ice il
the Ohio for a consideration,
HAYS, Of the nsm5cFdt, is in an il
humor about not getting the particular
Of the Platte Valley disaster sooner. G.
for the railroads, VIII; we had the par
ticulars 'tset UNI i'll less than two hour
after she went down..
The sinking OF the Rowena at McCul
lumis, resulted in heavy losses to tn
merchants of Nashville.
EPIiiRAE.
How brave a soldier Butler was.
Let his one fact reveal,
That even silver spoons and forks
Were worthy OF Ills steal.
There was no arrival at Fort Smitl
from the 9TH to the l5th-the date of on
latest adviees from that port. Cause, n
water.
STEAMER BURNlsD.-The fire steame
Montgomery, bound from Tuscaloosa {
Mobile, was destroyed by ire on til