Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-25
EIsCEJLAHROUs.

IA Pert.
Liberty, City Of Alton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The mud upon the lower end OF the
levee Is getting quite plentiful. Business
dull even for the season.
The bne steamer City OF Alton, Capt.
VIM. Thompson, will back cut to-day
for Cairo ana st. Louis, where she con-
meets with the Northern Line. The A.
ton is splendid passenger packet, eur.
passed by none on the river. Mr.. Jim
w bite is chief clerk.
The United States Mail steamer Julia,
Captsin Loekhart, with ANDY Isaaes in
the Office, will be in port to leave for
Vicksburg and way points to-day at
pm.
Captain w. Jay johnson received q
telegram yesterday from Captain Tobin
that the steamer Pargoud would leave
here promptly at O'clock Sunday even
Ing. Freight for the Pargoud will be re-
eeived to-day at the Star WharfbOat for
New Orleans and intermediate points,
and bills lading signed by the agent.
The Lizzie GIL, Captain OiNesl, will
pass up for st. Louis to-day ct 10 am.
The fine steamer Liberty, Captain Jim
Rice, viii back out today at her usual
- u
Mail packet, and makes sill way land
ings. By new arrangement the Liber-
ty connects at the mouth with the
steamer Platte City for Vicksburg. Pas
sengeTs are now ticketed through to all
points South by this line. Milt Harry
is chief clerk Of the Liberty, and is as
sisted by Charley Sharp.
WOrkmen are now putting the texas
upon the w. A. Caldwell, and in a few
days she viii look ike another boat.
TIE Legal Tender is at last on her way
South.
Portland oar is almost an insurmOUut-
able barrier to boats plying to Louisville.
IS Miles Above Town, at Anchor.
Dear appeal: While the good snag
craft is st the bank, spending the Sab
bath and awaiting the coming of to-
morrow to try her hand at long pull,
on i've long snsg5 at "Bow P1int,n
have presumed that few lines would De
taken not amiss. Arkansas has given
from her loyal bosom the Hot
SPRING." yet it is strange that her
denizsns cAA't get used to the
summer Of our discomfort" which is
so warm that the old Georgia costume of
"spur5 and collar y with q pair OF tin
boots is sighed for. It may BE- OF inter.
est to your many readers OF the river to
know what Uncle Sans J. J. Albert has
been doing on the "pick up" line since
she left your portuuder the hottest sun OF
mid summer, with the old veteran VIM,
3. DodsOn in command, late of FithiAn's
"Old Pacific" that sunk st the Point ia
the fall OF 1857. With Tom Trunnel at
the helm it is impossible for snag"
to live and poke its head above water ia
"dOg days" From the Iog-book of the
Albert we find thst sixteen snags from
the head Of Psddy's Hen and Chickens
to this point have been taken up, ampu.
tated and thrown overheard. These
river monsters which have been
q terror to navigation, are now
no more. The pilot on his larboard
or leeward watch will now find the old
Democratic channel, free Of all Grant
snags, or COlfax sswyers, and if the
Long, De Russsy and Albert play all
summer on this line doing the service of
the latter, navigation will be sgsin safe,
and the underwriters should confer a
reward upon the noble crew who have
performed the servics-the immense
job of modifying ell risk to them Of life
and of property by the removal of q
nuisance more terrible than taxation OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, from the folly
% follies and the king of floods. The
darkies, in honor of the snag boat,U
gave shindig, in which the sable crew
ali participated. One of the darkies, at
the close OF pertiIlioD," declared that
" it was better, fore God, dan pulling up
dem snsgs from de ribber, dat was not
in de way il dey would run round 'em."
The clerk has just called on me to take
drop OF Mississippi with Missouri mud
in it !; but fearing sun-stFOke, EEs sug-
gested ice-snd what Gen. Grant used to
take. The Victor No. Is now at the
landing, and reports the death Of Col
Geo. w. Guess, of Texas, who died
suddenly on board last evening. She
was forced to return with bis corpse,
where they have been eenotsphed to
await the arrival of the remai0s of A.
Frank Robertson, his brother-in law, who
died in the bend Of So some two wears
ago. What melancholy truth do we
ind in this fearful and heart-rending
picture. His loved wife, a most excel
lent lady, had come on pilgrimage OF
more than q thousand miles 10 visit the
burial place of her husband, who had
found a grave amidst strangers in
a wild yet hOspitable land. She
had come to pay loves last tribute
at her hearts welded shrine-to re-
move to your beautiful ElmwOod all that
was mortal of him, and immortal with
her, thst he might rest in this his last
| slumber, though far away from his loved
( Lone Star home, above the high waters
Of the lowlsud where stranger hands had
I placed him; that she might plant with
! her own hands the willow, lit en-
blem of her sorrow, and the
/ ivy, fit memento OF her love.
1.-Two graves side by side, will hold
the two Texan friends. May the turf
rest lightly upon them, and may pru-
/ denee teach this wounded heart TO bear
| the trisls of His will. When she returns
home with gulf dividing her from him,
may she calmly await till she, too, is
| called TO meet him, where flowers fade
not, and death is known no more.
/ We but express her own wishes 10
! thanking her friends. Their kind deeds
| will be remembered. To Mr.. S of Arksn-
| sas, and the urbane hosts Of the OvertOn,
S. B. Robbins q Co., her thanks are
especially due.
More anon, semi occasionally,
NHETS TONE, JR.
4 A quarrel occurred between the mem.
/ bers of q negro excursion party on board
/ the steamer Ajax, Tuesday, near Savan-
nah, Ga. Four negroes were danger
ousIy stabbed, and q drunken negro fell
| overheard and was drowned.
A Louisville river reporter went on a
picnic a few days ago and was well
] treated. Strange.
The Chaneellor's decision in the case
Of The City vs.. Star Wharf-boat will be
found ia our law reports.
~Ahn Robinson's circus troop are at
their o''d tricks on the upper MISSISSIPPI
s9 - fobp saok on lot of wood at Eagle
Po;nf and refused to pay for it, fatally
i,' S,,-; one of the owners who demand-
~ II The 5riee of the wood. John should
oone South and steal from the id
rsbeIs,i whom he wished so many evils
80 during the late little unpleassntness