Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-11

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Steamers Darling, Tempest, NatOmsr
Lady Withsup, Myrtle and Argosy.
KasCELLANEOUs.
The new steamer Thos. H. Allen left
for the Arkansas with q first rate trip.
She is 8 splendid packet, and Capt. John
Adams is justly proud OF ner.
last evening.
The O:tsvia (dredge boat left last
| evening to cooperate with the snag boat
! S. z. Long, which is at work below here.
The Continental passed up yesterday.
She was loaded with railroad iron and
Texas cattle.
The City Of Cairo left for St. Louis
with q fair trip.
The Tempest, Capt. SRul,z, leaves to-
day FOR Cairo, Evansville and Louisville.
She is a regular packet, and we hope
may build Up 3 good trade. Alex.
Stewart is chief clerk of the Tempest,
and is a favorite wherever known.
Capt. John B. Davis, the efficient Su-
p~eFiutendent of the Memphis and White
River Packet Company, left for Cincin-
natl Oh Wednesday evening next. He
wilt be back On Monday next.
oar illustTiOus cOtamporary OF the
ArgLGRche, James O'Durff, we learn,
{ NJ L- ANlANlAANE4 a0 G@L4A44LO v u
man Of tbs Third ward lsst night.
The Misaissippi went into New Or
leans with AIS bales Of cotton, the big
gest trip since the var.
The Ames passed Vicksburg With ever
1000 bales.
The Darling, Capt. Ross, with Capt.
Power in the office, leaves tomorrow for
L1uisville anG Cincinnati.
Tbe Nick L1Dgwortb was due from
above last night. Capt. Hates was to as
sGme command on her arrival here, and
Capt. Ross will take the Darling to Gin
c~iuu&ti.
The Argoey, Capt. Vandegrlft, leaves
to-day for Cairo snd Evansville, making
ali way landings. Mr. Dowth is her
clerk.
The Marble City, Capt. Conway, leaves
tomorrow for Cairo and 81. Louis.
The Linton, Capt. Hay ward, will back
cut to-day for all points on st. Francis
river TO WittsbuTg.
The q. 8. mail packet Commercial,
Cspt. VIM. Ashford, leaves Tomorrow
for al POINTS On White River, connecting
at the Buff with the Little Rock railroad.
The Natoma, Capt. Jim Lee, leaves to-
day az her usual hour for FriaI's Point
and way landings. She is an elegant
packet, and is promptly on time. Billy
Fields and Sterling Whitehead are her
secretaries.
lhe w. A. Caldwell will be in port to
leave on Monday for Little Rock.
Thirty bodies of these lost on the Uni
ted States were taken to Cincinnati on
Tuesday last. All tle bodies recovered
were lying in 9 not twenty feet
square at the stern OF the Inflated
steamer.
mos. persons who have Travelled on
Western rivers have probably been more
or less interested ia studying the
teuspce of the mysterious being that
dwel.s high up aloft in q little ~seven-by-
nine in~closure called the Texas
There is q conclusion TO which such
study is apt TO lead, and that ie, that the
place il called Texas because its lone
~ occupant partakes 81 the nature Of the
conventional Texan, who dimes on aili-
gator raw, and picks his teeth with the
same bowie knife that d~isemboweled bis
enemy in his last iscTimmsge.' The
face OF the river pilot does not often belle
him. He is q man OF undOubted pluck
who knows every danger from New Or
leans 10 st. Paul, and who cares as little
for consequences as it is possible for a
human being to care. Every river
steamboat moves in the power and at the
LleEtN Oi NDGs 1tcklGSS Snu iCAAlSsH UQb
Indispensable person. Until either law
or usage can introduce q somewhat high
er sense Of moral responsibility into the
region cslled Texas on river steam
boats, wholesale slaughter, ike that on
toe Ohio, will be Of not u~nfrequent occur
rence.n
We we're astoDIshed TO find the above
article in an editorial of the Chicago
Times Of the Sth. We say astonlshed,
for the article shows an amount of igno-
rance not usual 10 those who control the
columns of that widely read journal.
"Most persons who have travelled on
Western rivers" knows that the +" seven
by nine. Enclosure" occupied by the
rfnysterious beiDgp Is not called a
texas. II Is known SIS the pilOt-hOuse,
and is on many boats which have no
such thing as q texas Oh board. River
pilots are not reckless, and as a general
thing feel ell the responsibility resting
upon them. The assertion that "they
care as little for consequences as q human
being can csre,N Is d base calnmDy.
River pilots, IS 8 class, are gentlemen,
not only ia the p~il0t-house, but in the
boats cabin, ia the parior, ashore, and
10 every way, socially, very much above
the mere steersman OF a Lake vessel,
which the writer of the above must have
bad IN vie when be penned such e sour
riious and base attack upon a high
minded, honorable and respectable body