Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-15

several new packets, and contemplate
building others more suitable for the
trade. This boats above named are all
hrst-rafe low waser steamers.
The Liberty, Capt. Pat Wheat, goes out
tomorrow for ali prints on White river.
She left DevaiI's BIun on time, and viii
be in pofs t0-d-y.
Ths Cnited States mail packet Rubieon.
apt. Bill Blake, Will PASS down thls
sseniDg for Helena, F~ieksbnrg and the
ends. She Is the peoples ~f@Torite. All.
Srissora, 3 capable and popular clerk, has
eharge OF her Office.
Tn Norman, Capt. p. X. Barclay, will
get away to-day for Cairo and Evansville.
Henry Miller Is chief secretary.
The upper Mississippi may be consid-
cred closed. No regular packets now
leave for any point above ke0kuk, though
boats VIII run i~rregularIy until stopped
by ice.
Messrs. stiIIweIl, Powell 4 Co. and
Capt. SEDAN have bought the Common
wealth fog ~ COO.
Capt. Whitfield bought the CleOna at
New Orleans the other day for $500.
This fin steamer GgidOn. Capt. Clay
Rice, VIII get away to-day for DeY4l.,s
But and way points on White river, con
Meeting with the railroad for LiItle Rock.
She Is a fine passengers packet. VIM. 81.
Morrison and Alex WaddeIl are her we'll
known secretaries.
The Mississippi came in last evening,
and leaves this afternoon for Nicksburg
and New Orleans. She had hard work to
get over the bar at "a. She is one OF our
handsOmest packets, and probably no
boat landing AZ our wharf is more popular
with Memphians. Capt. Nat Green Is one
of our " citizens, As is also Cook
Creighton, The clever, accommodating,
rotund clerk. Passengers should not for
not tho drrdar MfaGf-afnr4 InHu Tanrr1afa.
i assistant secretary.
The NatOma came in with 475 bales Of
cotton and 81 sacks cotton seed. She LAYS
up for the present.
The Mississippi adds $50 bales Of cotton
at this port.
The tSeorgs W. Cheek brought in $50
bales cotton and 737 sacks seed.
The Mississippi, on her return, Will
enter the Memphis and New Orleans
trade.
The work on the Wsitzel dam, at Louis
Vile, has beer suspended, owing to cold
weather, and will not be ~resuIaed till
spring.
The prospects for a rise at Pittsburg are
by no means encouraging, and steam
boatmen feel very much discouraged; es-
peeially those who have boats that have
been lying there loaded for a month,
waiting for water.
Tn Cincinnati Commercial credits eX-
tracts taken from the APPEAL TO the Blst-
IetiH. There Is no such paper As the latter
published in this city. BE honest, Mr..
O0zrmeFeiai, and you will, etc.
Several dangerous snags have been re-
Gently removed from the Ohio, near Au-
rora.
The Wauanita Is due from the Ohio.
A late Salt Lake dispatch says:
A large schooner arrived to-day from
Stockton, a town on the southern shore
Of the lake, loaded with lumber, silver,
e.c.
We think that word silver Is a Utah
terA for shingles.
A Cairo dispatch says Of the accident 10
the Louisville: The steamer Louisville
bound from st. Louis TO New Orleans,
heavily Laden, struck some obstruction
about three miles above DEVILS Island,
and was so badly injured as to compel her
to be run on a bar A. soon as possible. The
Cornelia had just passed, touching the
saine obstruction without injury, and Inn
nIediatcly vent 10 the assistance OF the
Louisville; nearly all the freight was
taken OF, pumps riSged everywhere and
everything done 20 ave her. But the
water was slowly gaining when the Cor
ueIia left to send a belleboat TO assist.
Captain Frazier was cJn6dent Of keeping
her ahOat until assistance reached him.
II she hlls, her stern will break off, as Il
Is IN Qtep Wallet Inc MdEDie INV came
down soon afterward, struck the same
obstruction. and broke between thirty
and forty tioOr-timbers, but will be able
to complete her voyage 70 Memphis and
return. As this is so dangerous an oh
struction we give pilots the following de-
scriptiOn of its locality: It Il opposite n
house with porch, l50 feet from shore, and
inside the wreck ofthe steamer Union.
The Cincinnati OoamereiGk v A
correspondent thinks We will have to
change opinion OF Capt. Washing
tons conduct in passing the wreck o the
StOnewail without stopping his engines
that is, when the facts are ali OUT
Possibly. The correspondent could not
expect US to predicate cur remarks upon
alleged and u%nproyen facts. n It should
turn out that Capt. Washington and those
who have confirmed his statement. have
not told the truth, il is not difficult to di-
vine what oar OPINION would be. But we
cannot approve q course OF treatment
predieated upon the presumption of guilt.
An Evansville dispatch SAYS: The Of
hcers ofthe Clara Scott report the Dexter
over Walkers, but fear she will have like
trouble at Cottonwood and Cumberland.
They also report that Capt. DIX, Of the
steamer Ella Wagbes, shot aud killed a
drqhKen man named Peters at Union
town on Thursday night. Peters boarded
the boat. abused the crew, Knocked down
the mate, and chased as second clerk IN
stairs, bF4ndisAiag a pistol, when Capt.
Dix shot him. Everybody justiaes the
killing.