Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-12
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Inc tOWDoat ATgosy passed. up yeSteI-
day for Cincinnati.
The r. P. Converse, which has been
plying between Friar's Point and Moon
Lake, came up yesterday, and Is lying at
the upper levee.
The Cusa No. 2 sunk in Red river on
Tuesday, between Shreveport and Jeffer-
SON. She YVES on her way down, and
had nearly 600 bales of cotton on board.
No lives lost. Boat a total loss.
The Leni Leoti, Capt. Tom Berry, ia
! the regular Arkansas river U. s. mail
packet for Saturday. She goes to Little
Rock and connects with the Fort Smith
packets closely. Mr. Morrison is purser.
Capt. John Ford was in town yester-
day. He was barely recognized by bis
friends-his hair having turned gray
during his incarceration at Little r lck.
Capt. ]. J. Cox was buried OF Friday
last, at Montgomery, with Masonic hon.
ore. A large number Of his river friends
accompanied the remains from Mobile.
The Linton, Capt. Ware, leaves to-
morrow for all points on st. Francis
river.
The Geo. w. Cheek is the regular Sat-
urday packet for Oscsola.
The g. A. Thompson, Capt. Alex.
Frazier, will pass up for Cincinnati to-
morrow. She wants cotton.
The Ruth will positively be here to
leave for New Orleans, tomorrow at 8
am.
The gay steamer Natoms, Capt. Jim
Lee, will back out to day for Frisr's
Point and sill way landings. She is sold
reliable" B F. Fields and Stack Lee are
her secretaries.
The U. s. mail packet Liberty, Capt.
Conley, with Jimmy Thompson and
Charley Sharpe in the Office, is the regu-
lar packe. for all points along White riv-
er tomorrow. She connects with the
Little Rock train.
The Dexter, Capt. Ell. Montgomery,
will pass down this morning for New
Orleans. She is an elegant new packet,
and makes all way landings.
The Clifton left for Cincinnati last
evening with 500 bales cotton.
The Darling came in from Cincinnati,
and leaves again on her return trip to-
morrow. Garter is master, and Power
clerk.
Tho Luminsry, Capt. Conway, is the
regular Vicksburg packet for Saturday.
She leaves the Wharfboat foot OF Jeffer-
son street.
Capt. Bill Blake will pass up to-day
with his elegant R1bicon for Cairo and
ST. Louis. She makes connection with
all trains. ALI. Grissom is her clerk.
The Belle st. Louis did not arrive to
leave yesterday, but will get away at 10,
o'clock this morning for st. Louis and
all way landings. MI. Baskette is her
secretary.
In abiding TO the new line Of steamers
between st. Louis and Shreveport, the
NetOs Of the latter city says The advan-
tsge to be derived by Shreveport from a
.as-.,k tad nth O. mi, go 20 aAo
insurance rates were not lower, are surely
too evident to Cur business men to need
being enforced by argument. "Compe-
tition is the life of trade" and the sooner
Shreveport frees her trade from monop.
oily, the oon will her prosperity and
business enlarge. We hope the new
boats will receive every encouragement
from our merchants, and efforts put forth
to secure them return freights. Mem
phis likewise presents some peculiar ad-
vantsges for trade with this point.
Visscher, Editor in chief OF the Rich
mond's Headlight, got left ia Louisville.
The DsVil mounted the tripod and in an
editorial iutimated that "Vish.n was
drunk. Upon ~overtaking the boat the
latter comes back ct the boy in this
land this is the return he makes us
for taking him out of the aims house
and bringing him up in tbs way be
should go. For this VI educated him in
the mysteries of the c~stechism, and set
before him 3 shining example of the
truth OF the axiom that virtue is its
own reward A dog would not have
served us so, il We had raised him from
a pup as we did that boy. 1t is said that
{ the way the twig is bent the tree Is In.
olinpn } and ua haua rooi5faro1 O anlauan
oath to bend that twig or perish in the
We have thrashed him until
we are black AMI blue, and our next
course will be to put him down on deck
and let the mules kick him O spell.U
TIE s.. Louis Democrat says of the
Tennessee river trade and old steam
boat men
Before the wal burst forth and all its
our steamboat business with the
Fennessee-which is said to rank IS the
sixth most important river on the conti--
nent-was q very good thing, giving en-
to 8 considerable number OF
All we mean at present Is to
our readers with some facts re-
'atlng to men engaged in the st. Louis
Tennesst e river trade.
Capt P. D. II sddy, commanding the
Julius ii. Smith, afterwards General in
the G. 3. A. ,isengsged in business in New
York. Geo. w. Brown, clerk Of that
boat, Afterwards on Roddy's stat, in SER
vice of the c. 3. A, is in Cincinuati, ACT
ing as general agent for two steamers
engaged IN the tennessee trade, which
regularly with fell cargoes.
3; ID. Stiekles, who built the Julius
smith, at Paduesh, is manufacturing
cotton goods at Cherokee, Ala.
Capr: Geo. w. Evans, who ran the
5allie Wood, is merchandising az south
Florence, Ala. He, like many olhers,
valuable experiences Of the
lsrdships OF life in the G. S. armies.
Gen. ken. well knswn IS clerk on
several OF the Tennessee boats, has long
10 Alabama, and is there still.
Matt. Evans, pilot, was wounded while !
a boat on the Cumberland for 4!
he Federals, captured, and died in
J
Jim Mckinley, engineer, was in the j
service, and is now eRgi-
leering on Tennessee packets. 1
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