Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-12

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Cheyenne, Ciaoinnati.
{" Legal Tender, Louisville.
Ozark, Arkansas River.
4" 81. Francis. st. Francis River.
" Ra5icon, Vcksburg.
Magenta, New Orleans.
Thompson Dean, n. Orleans.
Departures.
Steamer Magenta, st. Louis.
" Thompson Dean, s.. Louis.
4" RIbicon, 81. Louis.
" Cheyenne, Arkansas River.
In Port.
Stesmers G. W. Cheek, Clifton, Ozark,
ST. Francis and Legal Tender.
HIsGEELAEEOUs.
The Ievee looked as quiet yesterday as
the landing st Louisville does in the
mldst OF Jhe business seasOu. Up to
noon we had bat one LEGAL packet in port,
but later in the day they commenced to
drop in until We are able to present quite
a respectable list this morning. Oas
cause Of the quiet which prevailed upon
the levee was the absence OF msckerels.
That useful but not ornamental portion
of our community were st the depot in q
body 70 witness the departure for Nash
Vile OF their chief, the Alderman of
the Third Ward, Capt. Jim SkzSE.
We would say to his friends
abroad that though u Penitentiary ia
locsted at the capital, he will no5 be
placed in that institution at present, but
should he continue to descend in the
scale Of social position as he has done il
the last few months, or since he got
mixed Up in politics, we msy look for
such 3 result at NJ distsntday.
The delegation OF the City Council and
citizens who are to escort eX President
Johnson TO this city, left last evening by
rail for Nashville. Among them were
cOtempOrsry, Capt. Jim Durff, OF the
AUaJGnche. Capt. Bob Coed, WhaTfmss-
ter, Capt. Sam SaOck and others. We.
have made IL arrangement to get the
reception speech to be delivered by Jim,
and viii present it in the shape OF a spe-
cisl tomorrow morning.
The q. s. nail packet Ozark, Capt.
Blsedsu, leaves tomorrow for Little
Rock and way points. She makes close
connection with the Fort Smith
steamers.
The splendid steamer RubicOD, Capt.
VIM. Bake, leaves to-day for Cairo ami
St. Louis from the Wbsrfboat foot Of
Jefferson. ALI. Grissom is her popular
chief secretary.
TIE LumiBary passes down to-day for
VieksbUrg and the bends. She is the
regular u. :. mail packet. J. Lee Fin
ney is her chief clerk and is well known
70 all Msmphians.
The splendid steamer Legal Tender
will be in port this morning, and leaves
tomorrow for Augusta and all way points
on White river. Sac is said TO be- in ex-
cellent trim by cur up river cOtelpo-
raries. VIM. Miller and Andy Granger
are her clerks.
The Clifton. Capt, Stein, leaves or
Wednesday for Cairo and Cincinnati.
Sac has no superior in the line. Mr..
Hunter is chief clerk.
The Geo. W. Cheek came in early yes
terday and leaves tomorrow for Frisr's
Point, Jim Lee is master, B. P. Fled
and Stack Lse clerks.
The new and elegant packet ST. Fran
Gle, leaves on Tuesday for St. Francis
river and way landings. Capt. Tom
Bowman is master, Paine and Clark
clerks.
Capt. Weller will back ont the Ben.
Campbell this evening for OsceOla and
all way landings. She is the only packet
now in that trade. Jim Hall is her pur-
ser.
The Guidon is the regular Wednesday
packet for Pine Bluff.
The Magenta passed up yesterday
morning, light.
The splendid Virgins, Capt. Holcroft,
will pass up ct 10 O'Clock this morning,
for Cairo ald Louisville.
Toe Nashville Press and Times saws:
=" Capt. Tom Newell, an old steamboat
@an on the Western rivers, is in town in
the Interests Of tia Mississippi Valley
Navigation Company. Capt. Newell,
forty years ago, was captain of the Harry
Hill, II. r. w. Hill and other well
known boats of those days. He is meet
iDg with considerable success in urging
the interests of the company above men
toned. Several of our well known bust
ness men hSVe taken stock.p
A correspondent of the New York
Liberal Christian says Nowhere upon
earth are mere remarkable meu seen
than on board a Mississippi steamer.
Resistless energy, indefstigeble toll,
glowing hope, are written on many a
face, though with the rude lines beiosg
ing 10 8 Western trapper's life, 3 Texss
herdsm8n's, or a sugar and cotton plant
eT's. All are dark all smoke and chew;
but they swear fsT less than the average
No playing for money was TO be seen on
board the IRdisns, and on Sunday there
was as attentive an audience as your
friend eve addressed gathered within
the lsdies' cabin. One funny aneedOte
they told me OF the steamb boat Captains
obliging spirit. An old lady hailed him
from the shore. She wanted to send a
dozen eggs to her daughter. II he would
only wait a m the hen would lav
the twelfth. So the story was fastened
on the kind man, that he ordered the
boat to lie by till the foil complement Of
eggs was ready. The curious thing
about the navigation il that you sell TO
all points OF the compass, and when 8
steamers smoke ls sean abreast of Won. a
forest intervening, it is hard TO tell
whether its course il with or against
your own. Such perpetual winding is
hardly surpassed even by the cork-screw
Jordan.
The New Orleans Crescent, of Friday,
says son Tuesday morning, 9th inst,
when the steamer Selma was at Dixie
BsF, ten miles below Coushata Chute,
fire was discovered among the cotton on
her starboard guard. The fire had gain
ed considerable Roadway lowing 10 it's
being well covered with ~tarpauline) bs
fore discovered. Fifty bales were thrown
overheard, and al but two recovered, in,
% course, a damaged condition. Capt.
ScOvill attributes the safety of the boat