Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-20

inches. CHAS. GOODWIN.
The latest news from the Ohio and up
per Mississippi will be found in our aid
night dispatches. The river is falling
rapidly at st. Louis, but there Is no com
piaint of the water so far to Cairo. The
Ohio at Cairo is rising, but at Louisville
and Cincinnati it is falling. There is +
feet 5 inches in the canal. h Arkansas
is falling, with 80 inches TO Little Rock.
White is falling slowly. Weather cloudy
and warm.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Edinburg and Minneola will be
| found at the wharf this morning.
The Dan Able droppeddowntOthe land
ing last evening.
The Marble City passed down yesterday
| for Nicksburg.
The City OF Alton passed up.
The Natoma has been bought by parties
at St. Louis, for the Arkansas river. Price
| $1,000.
|. The new and gallant steamer, Geo, W,
| Cheek, the regular tri-weekiy Friar's Pt.
packet, viii leave this day, at her usual
| hour. Our merchants n friends along
| the river can rest assured that the Cheek
will continue in the trade the year round.
Capt. Malone, with This accommodating
manners, has won hosts Of friends in the
trade, and will continue to do so, as he
saws il is q pleasure TO land his packet
anywhere, for anything letter, milk,
butter, cotton, etc.-that the people must
be served faithfully, and that he has got
lust the PACKET to do il with. John and
| Charley Smither are clerks.
The HambletOn, Capt. Hsrdwick, with
| Frank Gonterman in the Office, leaves to-
morrow for OsceOla and ali way landings.
The st. Joseph, Capt. Corbett, will be
in port tonight and leaves tomorrow for
| Hale's Point. Our old friend Billy White,
| the California orator, we are glad 10 learn,
| has her Office in charge.
The magnificent Great Republic, Capt.
VIM. Il. Donaldson, Will pass up at All
early hour this morning for Cairo and ST.
Louis. Mr.. Atkinson and Jas. Kerr ara
her clerks.
It will be seen by a card elsewhere that
Capt. Dick LighthurEe is prepared to give
through bills of lsding 10 all points be-
low rs well as TO Shreveport and other
landings on Red River.
The fine steamer MiHeola, Capt. Miller,
will leave tomorrow for Cairo and Gin
cinnati. Charles Hall is the chief clerk.
The ST. Francis came in yesterday with
1874 bales of new cottou-the champion
trip of the season. She leaves for the cnt
of Tomorrow. Capt. Tom Bowman is
master,
The Check brought ID % bales of cot
ton.
The GuldOn Dame in from the Arkansas
with a good passenger trip, and leaves
this evening for Little Rock and all way
landings. She carries the United States
mail and connects with the packet for
Fort Smith. Clay Rice is master and
VIM. Morrison and Sam Wood are clerks. /
We are to have a brisk competition in
the bends trade. The fine steamer Dan
Able, looking as handsome as a bride, with
her new carpets, spring mattresses, and in
fact a complete new outfit, leaves to-day
as a regular Friar's Point packet. She is
known to be 3 swift sailor, and viii keep
up her reputation as a No. l packet in
every respect. The veteran Capt. Jim
Lee viii command, and he is too well
known in the trade 10 need eulogy. Stack
Lee, a chip OF the old block, viii occupy
the office.
The Mississippi viii lie down on Thurs
day evening.
The Alaska, Nick Longworth and Julia
are due from below.
The Legal Tender, Capt, John Elliott,
leaves on Tuesday for Augusta and all
way points on White river. Matt Glass
is clerk.
The Lady Gay, Capt. Isaac Jones, will
pass down to-day Tor the Crescent City. |
She has no superior On tho rizer. gwen
@. Gates, q well known and very popular
clerk, one of the best on the river, does
the honOTs 81 her cd3Se. We would like
to ace Capt. james and Gates, with the
Lady Gay, in the Memphis and New Or
leas trade.
The handsome Belle Memphis, with
joan Crane on the roof, viii be in port to
leave to-day for Cairo and ST. Louis. She
makes all raiiroad connections North and
Fast. Mynheer Blenker is her chief
II old Caesar had arrived at the modern
RubicOn, he would never have crossed il.
He would quietly aud peaceably have
placed himself under the charge of Capt.
Bill Blake and All. Grissom, and taken 4
trip 10 the Heroic City OF N~icksburg. Tor
which paint the handsome RubicOn leaves
this evening, RtomptlF. lapt, iii an!
AT are No. u ficers,nf whom we couldn't
say too much It we filed This column.
We take the following from the Clncin-
natl Enquirer, of Thursday. Il was
headed, in display type, Excitement at
Burnett HOuse-The Baggage Smash
er on Guard-What They Saw, and all
It." We cannot give it entire, as
it is too long fer our columns to-day;
On Tuesday afternoon last, Capt. NJ, .
commander Of 4 steamer of the ]
Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Line, J
at the Office of the Burnett House,
asked that one OF the best rooms on
he first floor be set aside for the use of
lady friends, whom he expected to ar 7
rive in the city next day. In making the 3
request for a room on the first floor, the {
OaptaiE stated that one of the la :
dies was an invalid, and unable 10 CHINA !
10 the upper stories. The clerk politely in d
the Western mariner that he 5
,ould be accommodated, and stfaightway +,
ordered room No. 3 to be prepared foI the \
expected guests. Late in the evening two =
females of middle age, of great
personal beauty, and much of the air CT I
he delai-megds, mede their appearance, Q
egistered as Mrs. Beckwith, OF New o 4
cans, and Mrs. Ryder, of Cleveland, and t.
Only assigned To room No. 6. Now
t so happened that some one had dropped 2
bng into the auriele of one OF the pro- +,
and that this bug during the X
vening kept whispering of anOrous in T
forbidden meetings, violations of s.
he Seventh Commandment, etc, in room q
20. 5, y
Two luggage smashers, OF African de- s.
cent, sable hue, and good character for ,
ourage and chastity, were ca led and in =
TO keep watch and ward over IL
No. O
In a short time a request came up from b'
be occupants Of room No. s that they be AZ
to another part OF the house and a,
FINISHED with adjoining ara tments. In 81
lmpliance with this strange request, TT
lev were assigned To rooms Nos. III and al
on the door above. Still suspecting =,
le women, and determined 10 prevent, II St
ossibie, the Dissertation of their house of Il.
spotless reputation, the proprie- al
rs called in their pickets from the first
and marching them up to the vicin- CO
V OF Nos. ll2 and ll3, stationed them in OF
lie shadows of the hall, with orders TO 81
eep n close watch. and Instructions To dc
port all that they heard saw or felt. pl
Carefully and patiently did the dark ~
sentinels note every thing that !
Every flicker of the gas light &C
lat streamed out through the transom ie'
7er the doc was noted, and every ali
ladow that fell on the wall measured tr,
ID reported. For two mortal hours did nc
keep watch and ward without dis Ia
any thing that would lead TO & "a
of improper conduct. At about ~
O'clock, however, their patient vigil was sci