Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-23
EAsgELLAEEoU

Business wss lively on the levee yes
terdsy, and outgoing freigbts, Ia th'
way Of groceries, dry goods, etc, werI
heavy. All the LEGAL packets Rent on
crowded with peonle.
The tow boats B)az aud Mary Alioi
passed down yesterday.
The Tennessee left for Louisville VIII
800 bales of cotton.
Tie Liberty and Dsg Arc, for Whit,
river, had splendid trips; and the Nate
ms, f8r Frisr's Point, went Ous full o
people and freight.
This splendid passenger packet Ma,
geDta, Capt. J. Frank Hicks, is the reg,
uieT Vicksburg and New Orleans packsi
to-dsy, leaving at 5 pm. The MRgents
should receive the support ofevery ship
per IN Memphis, aud every effort should
be made 10 make her = paying instiiu.
lion. We know ihst Cspt, Hicks will
keep her in the trade es long as he esu
make both ends meet The office is IL
| charge Of John Sullivan, well known in
this city, and his assistants ara all e&i-
oient gentlemen. Frank Smith Is Stew.
ard, and mis- name is a guarantee that the
best in the and il in bis harder.
The w. A. Caldwell, Capt. Haynes, Is
due rom the Arkansas, and leaves to-
morrow for Little Rock aud all way
points. jack Chambers and B3b5hlelds
are clerks.
The handsome Minneols, Capt. W. B.
Miller, leaves to-day for Cairo and Gin
cinnsii. She is D OF the bsst carriers
We know OF and will have q good trip.
Mr. Grub Is her CLERK.
The ice broke up ST Kansas City, No.,
on tbe 18th.
The propeller Volant, which arrived at
Henderson, Ky, with p tow from Evans
vile, exploded her boilers near the
former place on Monday, killing the en-
giBeer and wouRdlng several othere.
The Mississippi isJrczsn yer at Mon
tr0se, the heas Of the lower rsDids.
The Chicago Times SAVE If Morgan l..
Smiths whereabouts Ia 1851 HE as
washing the levss mud from his clothes,
aud msrshalling the river rats of St.
Louis into Fegimentsi line.n
The contract for the Building Of the
railroad bridge across the Mississippi
river at Ksokuk has beer closed with the
Keystone Bridge Company, at Pittsbnrr.
for 81 .000, 600. Ths bridge Is to be of
iron, Of the pattern Of that built by the
same company at Dubuque, and IS to be
commenced % soon as the openi3g of
spring and completed within the next
yesr.
Cspt. Bowman caao,1ded not to leave
with the s.. Francis yesterday bat laid
hsr up uutil her shaft can be Repaired
has ordered the Noble Hambieton
down rom Cair0. She viii be here to- day
or to-merr0w and will take the trip OF.
the 81. Fcsneis. The ~lstteris shas. will
be all right before Thursday next.
The kiigcur left Louisville Oh Sunday
last for New Orleans.
The Cred Republic goes to Mound City
for repairs.
The J. J. Albert, one Of the most pow
eFful snd efficient sn2g boats ever built,
Ia yesterday from 0sceola, and Il
now st U levee. To give an idea Of
usefulness We take the following eX-
from q letter to the St. Louis Demo.
ordt: the ]. J Alert has cozpietely
Plum Point, and Capt. TFunneli
that If the ice does not Interfere he
viii try to make Plum Point as safe as
any part OF the river. BE tells me that
it - almost impossible to hoist snsgs
when 1t is freezing, es the place where
the men have TO work becomes SO slip
perry thst they cannot stand and work,
and the frost makes the ehaiHs so brittle
that the saFgjng snaps them like glass, |
When II Is freezing they cut the heavy
timber-that gJOH6 ON the eavinG banks.
a U preventing them from becoming
snags IN the future, and lssseuiug theif
labor when they come sgRiD.
Tne most Of tbs heavy snags are large
that cave of the bank which wssn@1
es a7ey, leaving them Standing in the
channel with al their roots. The roots
frequently have a spread OF twenty I've
fee' ana some mes a good deal more.
filled up with blue clay, which ia as teps.
clous ~ putty, and enits a smsll that i
offensive. Ia order TO let your readers
something Of The " that is re-
snlred TO tax on some of the y. l will
state, that the batting beam Is three
from the water and fifteen inches
thick, and in pulling the large snag AT
she pulled herself down 40
the beam Hzs under water baIore
ne roofs gave way rom TIE bottom.
When brought to the surface. itshowed
By tue mud that he tODcf the roots we're
eight feet below the sand, aud must have
been at least twelve feet below The eur.
lace OF the sand.
II all The Others do as we'll as the Albert
{ VIII be buta few years before ths nav
cation of the Mississippi will bs free
that kind of obstruction.