Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-15

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the brightness of the sun and exerting
themselves to reach, as near as possible,
10 its warm embrace. The river at this
point sweils slowly, and will be again
falling within q day or two. All the
upper rivers are declining, as will be
seen by the telegrsphie dispatches In
another column. White river Is falling,
with five feet to JaeksOnpOrt. The Ar
kansas has thirty-tive inches to the Rock
and tWenty-six inches to Fort Smith.
Arrivals.
Steamer Tempest, White river.
City of Cairo, St. Louis.
NJ. Ham bletOn, st. F. river.
Cleaner, Arkansas river.
Belle Lee, New Orleans.
d partureL
Steamer Belle Lee, Louisville.
Tempest, Louisville.
In Port.
City Of Cairo, w. A. Caldwell, Ida
Norvell, Mollie Hsmbleton, Cleaner.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There was very little doing on the
landing yesterday. Tue packets in port
as we'll as the wharfbOats were nearly
deserted. WharfbOst proprietoIs, nearly
all of whom are pOssessOr5 of one or
LuOEb E-1b CiAUSf were Oul dL INNlEl20, OF
some other equally attractive watering
Tor whiskying) place. Capt. Fred. Mon
tano, proprietor of the we'll known
Linde park and an old bOatman, has
made his grounds very attractive, They
are visited daily by large numbers Of
citizens, and literally dotted with river
men who go there to enjoy the shade Of
lofty oaks and slaBe their thirst with
POOl sprinV water and sUoh
By call in our local columns it will
be seen that all steamboatmen in port
are requested to attend meeting at u
NJ, which will be held at the Chamber
Of Com merce.
STEAMER FORT SMITH SUNK. The
steamer Fort Smith, of the Memphis and
Arkansas Packet Company, sunk on
Wednesday last st Webberis Falls, be
tween Fort Smith and Fort Gibson. She
was on her way to the latter place with
6 load of miscellaneous merchandise.
She sunk in shosl water, and can be
raised, but her cargo Is said to be badly
damaged.
A river captain and q business man of
this city had set-to in an office on
Front street on Saturday evening. The
captain proved himself MISTER OF the
situation, coming out first best.
The Cleaner came in with light trip.
1t Is said that the Celeste will lay up
on her arrival at this port, and that the
Ozark will take her place.
The Belle Lee passed up last night
with big trip. She had $50 cabin pass
engers and $50 head OF stock. Capt. Nc
Gill says that be will probably make one
more trip to louisville and then lay up
at this port.
Mr.. John V. Savage, of Little Rock,
but formerly OF this city, where he has
many friends, arrived last night on the
Cleaner. He reports the growing corn
crop better than ever known before, but
that times sre dull about the Rock.
Texas beeves are going North from all
directions. They seek transportation st
almost every landing below the mouth
Of Red river, and at ports above. The
Tempest, which passed up yesterday,
brought IS head from DeValps Bluff,
which arrived there via Little Rock and
the railroad. The Commercial, due at
an early hour this morning, also had 200
head engaged at the same point. The
cattle trade between the prsiries of Texas
and those of Illinois and other Northern
States has assumed very large proper
tions.
Luo gay HAOitAc IIoAOlclOUg Mn6E6OI
Tom Bowman is skipper, leaves t0-mor-
row, as usual, for the st. Francis river.
Paine, Clark and Shell are her pursers
The Darling Capt. Hates, with the
popular Mr. Power in the office, leaves
tomorrow for Cairo, Louisville and Gin
cir natl.
The q. s. mail packet, ". A. Cald-
well, Capt. Rube Haynes, backs out to-
day for Little Rock aud way points,
going through to Fort Smith, water per-
hitting She has good passenger &C
commodatiOns, and In her Office will be
found Jack Chambers and Ed. Mitchell,
both the cleverest OF gentlemen.
The fine little packet Ida Norvell
leaves to-day at pm, for Vicksburg
and all way points on the Yaz0o. She
has been to Cincinnati and thoroughly
repaired, and makes 8 very handsome
little steamer.
The City of Cairo, Capt Crane, with
Billy Blenker at the desk, backs out to-
day for Cairo and st. Louis at 8 pm.
She connects with trains East, and with
the Northern Line for St Paul.
The comfortable q. s. mail steamer
Commercial, Capt. Ashford, leaves to-
morrow at pm. for White river and all
way landings. She connects with the
TseCh aino az OCNdiA AAU
Smitber Brothers are clerks.
The Nashville trade has played out,
owing to low water in the Cumberland.
The Norman is on her way to the Ar
kansas river from Louisville. She has
1000 barrels salt for Pocahontss.
The tug Emma Potter, which blew up
at Saline Mines few weeks ago, has
beeu repaired at Evansville. She was
formerly the tender to the gunboat Es-
sex, and she was being used for towing
coal out Of the Saline river when she
blew up.
The st. Louis and Miami packet COM
pany have purchased the steamer Wal
ter B. Dance. The company now has
i've steamers navigating the lower Mis-
sonri.
The Northwestern Union and the
Northern Line packets have agreed to
competition In the matter of
freights.
The Robert Burns Is now In the picnic
huainsss at Cincinnati.