Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-09
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MISCELLANEOUS.
We will have competition to both
White and the Arkansas this season.
Cincinnati will put the ArmadillO and
Nightingale in the Arkansas trade,
and Louisville will put two boats in
the White river trade.
Stack Lee is now at the Hot Springs.
The United States mail packet
Natoma Capt. John Davis, viii get
away tomorrow for Augusta, Jack
sonport and way landings on White
river. Jimmy Thompson and Charley
Sharp are her clerks.
Captains MOrg. Bateman and Gus
D'Arch, returned yesterday from Lou
isville and Cincinnati. They have
been hunting for a boat suitable for
the Upper White river trade, but were
unsuccessful.
Capt. A. MeBay Of the r. f. Lee,
Pargoud and other inc paekets arrived
Yesterday from New Orleans, and
leaves to-day on a short trip to Louis
vile. Nc. looks lovely.
About the time the gold fever broke
out in California, some twenty years
ago, Capt. j. c. AinswoTth, who com
manded an upper Mississippi packet
running from st. Louis to Dubuque,
determined to seek his fortune in the
land of gold. With barely means
enough to cross the plains, he started,
and to-day is living in princely style
at Portland, Oregon. He built the
first steamer in that far distant Terri
tory, and is now President of the Ore
gon Steam Navigation Company,
which Owls and controls all the
steamers IN the state Of Oregon and
Washington Territory. lie has over
a million invested in the line, and is
still the polite, afi&ble but hardwOrk-
ing Captain who had many friends
while treading the deck Of a Missis-
sippi river steamer.
a Commercial Convention com
meace6 its session at KeOkuk, Iowa,
oh the 1tir. is object principally was
to adopt measures for the Improve
meBt ST Eavigati0n OF the Upper MIS-
sissippi. Geu. EaRdegeF, not an
known to infany in these parts, was
one of the leading spirits. If morals
ere improved by di5 Convention he
Viii prUp9tIy return to their rightful
owners two piiln0s, az elegantly illu-
minated family bisle and ether. things
stolen from the people Of the South
during the war, and which now grace
his parlOr in Dubuque, Iowa.
The steamer Helen BROKER, fifteen
ton burden, left Baltimore Thursday
for Attakapa, La. Her route Is to
New York by canal, up the Hudson
and through the canals to the lakes
and down the rivers.
The P. w. StFader Is coming from
the Ohio bound to New Orleans.
The Great Republic passed up yes
terday m1Tging loaded with people.
Every stateroom was I'LL. She also
had eco tons freight.
Travel on the upper Mississippi was
meyer bsttsr than this season. Every
boat is crowded beyond its capacity
for comfort, and those passengers who
are fortunate enough 70 secure a state
room are indeed lucky, Even sleep
ing room in the cabin commands a
premium.
The pilots on the st. Louis and Keo-
kuk line, named Madison and Hines,
had a desperate fight the other day at
keahub. Madison was cut very Sc
Verely with a knife.
The Bismarck lays up at st. Louis
this trip for repairs.
The Pink VarbIe il coming from
Louisville to this port. She brings
for the Elliott line of White
packets.
The handsome st. Francis, Capt.
Fom Bowman, leaves tomorrow for
Wittsburg and all landings on st.
Francis river. Paine and Clark are
The Legal Tender, Capt. John 81
lott, leaves tomorrow for all points
on White River. She Is the indie
pendent packet. Matt Glass is clerk.
The elegant L. ). mail packet Thos.
Ii. Allen, Capt. Reese P%ritchard, will
get away as usual to-day for Little
Rock and ali way points on the Ar
kansas. She connects with the Fort
Smith steamers direct. Ned Outlaw
is her clerk.
The handsome Geo. W. Cheek,
Geo. Malone, will back out to-
aay for Friar's Point and intermedi-
ate landings. Charley Smither and
LlisIItN ChSOu EGCNCEA ~.
Jack Chambers is again in town.
lie stopped off the Allen TO attend to
some business, and may visit his pe0-
pie before he again gets into harness.
He will come out in the Office Of one
Of Capt. Adams new boats.
The Rubicon, Capt. VIM. Blake,
will pass down to-day for Vicksburg
and the bends. She is everybOdy's
avOrite and never passes a landing.
Bill Blake has no superior as a
and competent master. John
Blake has charge of the Office.
The Julia leaves the wharfbOat to-
lay for Cairo and st. Louis. She con-
lects with the trains North and East.
capt. Callahan is master, aud Andy
Is chief secretary,
TheSt. Louis Democrat says: 1.-THE
It. Joseph viii leave Mondays and
Wednesdays for the Tower, and Fri
for the Cape" 1t will appear
therefore, that she viii not run in the
Memphis and Hale's Point trade, as
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