Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-03

MISCELLANEOUS,
The Legal Tender ia due'from below.
The Goose, Capt. Gus Brown, will be
found at the levee this morning, and will
leave at 5 pm, for Csiro, Evansville
and all way landings. Pat Terry is her
clerk.
The good steamer Ben Campbell, Capt.
Weller, with Jim Hall in the Office, will
back out this evening for O5ceOla and
points intermediate.
The independent steamer H. NJ.
Slreve, with Boo Riley, will pass down
this evening fer Vicksburg and the bends.
She viii land at the star Whsrfboat.
Andy Isaacs Oficiates in the offiCe.
The Magenta will be in port to leave
tomorrow evening for Vicksburg, Nat
chez and New Orleans. Frank Hicks is
master.
The Thompson Dean will pass up to.
day. She has freight at 10 and l24c per
hundred. The Lacy Gay had freigRt at
the same rates A; lS3 was the lowest, we
believe, ever paid before.
Arthur Cartwright, porter OF the w.
\. Caldwell shot and killed Mr. Rogers,
second steward OF that boat, ct our
landing yesterday. An old feud existed
and the murder vas wholly uDjustiis-
bic. Particulars will be found 10 our To-
csl columns.
The Independent packet Argosy, Capt.
WA. Ashford, will leave tomorrow for
Jacksonport and way points on White
river. Milt Harry, L OF the most pop
ular Of White river clerks, has charge of
her desk.
The Port Gibson, Capt. WOODBURY.,
will get sway 10 day for Cincinnati.
She will have q good trip.
Capt. All Stein will get away with
the Clifton to-dsy for Cairo and Cincin-
natl. She is 2 very elegant passenger
packet, and her clerk, Mr.. Hunter, is
Il IA ,orite officer.
The United States mail packet Leni
Leoti, CSpt. Tom Berry, will leave for
the Arkansas river tomorrow. She con-
meets with the Fort Smith packet at
Little Rock. j. A. Dillon is at the desk.
The City OF Cairo, Capt. John w.
Malia, viii leave to-day at four p. ~,
for Cairo and st. Louis. She makes
connection with the trains North and
East, and is one Ct the finest steamers
sfiDat. In her office Monroe Cunning
ham will be found, and travellers could
not be better cared for than while under
his charge.
The steamer Argonaut, Capt. Gus
EverhRrt, viii get away tomorrow for
Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati.
The Guid0n is the regular packet to-
day for Pine Bluff and way landings Oh
the Arkansas. Sne will no doubt be Al
the landing this morning, IS she was
due during the night. Capt. Clay Rice
wake the roOi and Garrett Huls is Sec
rotary. The GuidOn has good accomo-
dstions, and is y first class sternwheeler.
Capt. Frank M. Davidson, OF Cincin-
natl, is dead.
The Louisville Democrat says: 1.-THE
underwriters sold the wreck of the sunk
en- steamer New Stste to the former own
eTs for $500. She is 10 be rebuilt.
The ST.. Louis Democrat says: Judge
Trest, OF the United States Court has de-
cided In the case OF the Big Horn, which
is fined $500, that in the case Of 3 steam
boat changing owners q new license
must be procured.
"Rscently, s. E. Marsh sold one
# the steamer Farrsgut to the
st. Louis and Peoria Packet Company
for 5000. Fred. DOzier has sold one
Of the steamer Tom Stevens for
$500, to Charles p. Warner and Adrian
Michel. The boats are more valu5le
than those figures would Indicate"
From The Cincinnati Commercial We
take the following;
We are Credibly informed that a move
ment is on foot in this city to organiz9 3
transportation and insurance company,
consisting of three toW-bOats and nine
bafges, 60 ply between Cincinnati and
Memphis aud New Orleans, in cOnnec-
ion with the Erie Railroad Company.
The offset is TO give through bills be.
.ween New York, Memphis and New Or
cans, at all railroad rates.
The Vicksburg Times says:
The snRg boat J. ]. Albert arrived from
below yesterday. We learn from Capt.
8 now clear Of sBsgs, and that since the
Albert left here, q month ago, d hiss
pulled ii sDSgs snd chopped down 1897
ree5 that Wsre on the edge of the bank !
mi liable TO fall into the river at any
ime. The Alert will axe on a heavy :
at this point, ami then pIoosed 20 !
Memphis. +
ADOtker boat is shout to be- placed in /
he Alabama river trade. A novel fes-
ure, says the Mobile Tribune, in this /
aspicant for business, is that she is
o be run, we hear, on the mutual priD- 1
ipie, all hands interested, Rad il they I
Jake any thing it is divided among
hem; and if they dOn'l make any
hing, they don't divide any thing. :
AS a pike-stah.
Gen. D0ckeTy, Of Arkansas, addressed
be business men Of New Orleans on :
on the material interest Of the 1
1untry, and the advantages and posi-
OF opening, by slack water navi- r
alton, the commerce Of the upper Red :
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