Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-30

Silver Spray, Cincinnati.
/" Alaska, Cincinnati.
Cora S , Cincinnati.
/" Laura, Write river.
Lady Withsup, Ferked Dser.
Fl. Gibson, Arkansas river.
" Julia, Vieksburg.
Pauline Carroll, New Orleans.
Richmond. New Orleans.
In Port.
Belle Memphis, Cooss, Natoms, OAR
ling, w. A. Caldwell, st. Francis, Gui-
don, Cheek, Des Arc, Thompson Dean.
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We had q large list of arrivals and de-
psrtures yesterday, and to day present q
port list which is only equalled by that
| OFFS. Louis or New Orleans.
The Silver SpTsy, Alaska aud Cora S.
passed up yesterday for Cincinnati.
The Pauline Carroll and Richmond
passed down for New Orleans.
Capt. Dick Lightburne had 1900 bales
Of cotton engaged yesterday for New
Orleans. 1t will be shipped to-day On
the Thompson Dean.
The Thompson Dean, now in port,
leaves at TO am. for New Orleans. Tom
| Pepper is her master.
The Geo. w. Cheek, Capt. Mslone,
leaves to-day for OsceOla and all way
landings. b. G. Barinds and Frank
GOnterman are clerks.
the reliable Eatoma, whereof Jas. Lee
is master, will, as usual, take her depart
gre for Friar's Point and all way land
ing5 to-day. B. P. Field and Stack Lee
are secretaries.
Clay R;ce's Guidon leaves for Pine
Bluff and way points on the Arkansas
tomorrow, sure. Huls and Wood are
clerks.
The splendid steamer Dss Arc, where
Of President Matt Glass is msster, will
back out to-day at her usu9l hour for Des
Arc, Devalls bluff, Augusta and sl way
points on White river. She connects
with the Little Rock train, and with the
Argos. for Jaoksonport. Joe Elliott and
Alex Waddell are her popular and com
petent Secretaries.
The Belle Memphis came in away
shead CT time, and leaves to-day at 5
Pm. for Cairo and st. Louis. She ia an
elegant passenger packet, and connects
with the trains north and east. Capt.
John Crane is master Of the Belle, and
that " noble H~essisn,n Billy Blenker, has
her office 10 charge.
The new and unsurpassed passenger
packet, st. Francis, Of which Capt. Tom
II. Bowman is master, will get away to-
day for WittsbuTg and all points on st.
Francis river. She is all that could be
desired in the way OF q comfortable
steamer. Sam. Paine and Billy Clark
are her clerks.
The great Magenta, Captain J.. Frank
Hjcks, with John Sullivan aud Charley
Smitber in the office, passes down for
New Orleans to-day, at 10 en-. She is
is an elegant passenger packet.
The r. e Lee is due up tonight for
Louisville.
The dne steamer Darling, Captain
Carter, leaves tomorrow for Cairo and
Cincinnati. she has few equals IS 8
hrst-clsss packet, and we might IS well
say that her clerk, Power, is unequaled
as 8 No. l officer.
The UGited States mail packet w. A.
Caldwell, Capt. Rube Haynes, will back
out TO day for Pine Buff, Little Rock
and all way points on the Arkansas. She
connects closely with the Fort Smith
packets. Besides being g fine packet,
she has a bully crew, in the persons OF
Capt. Rlbe, Jack Chambers, alias HCoal
Oil jack" and Bob Shields. Travel on
her, If you want o0diins of fun.
The Antelope left s.. Louis on Satur-
day for the m0untsins-the first boat OF
the season.
The Dexter is to be sold for the benefit
of her creditors. She owes some $50 600.
There is ten feet on the shoals at Har-
peth, in the Cumberland, and falling.
How you'd u steamboat owners like
to have such a partner and agent as Jno,
g. CopeiiU, of st. Louis. An exchange
OF that city, says: In the case of Tnos'
Rea and Henry Dohrman against John
G.. Copelin, a report had been filed in the
Circuit Court by the referee to whom the
case had been referred by the Court,
This was q suit brought by the plaintiffs,
who, together with tie defendant. were
jointly owners Of the Deer Lodge and
Benton, calling upon the defendant to
account and pay over to them their
OF the earnings o. these boats while
engaged in the mountain trade In the
summer OF 1867. The defendant claimed
in his defense that he had the right
to deduct the cum of SIS, 600 from
the earnings of the boats in carry
ing Government freight 70 Fort Benton,
on the ground that tie contract with the
was an individual matter
and did not inure to the benefit OF the
ners OF the boats. The claim the ref
cree disallowed on the ground that the
was acting as agent of the
vessels, u that any contract made by
him for freight Of the boats must be con-
sldered, in the absence of n express
agreement, as taken for the COM mon
benefit of all the owners. The defend
ant also claimed the right to deduct about
s25, 000from the earnings of the " ssels
to indemnify him for the loss Of ma.
ehinery which he had agreed to carry to
Fort Union in 1866, and which, being
unable to get up the river on the Grs-
ham, u of his own boats, ordered TO be
transferred to the Benton, which was
hen descending the river on her home
and to be carried as near Fort Union
as could be done. The Benton carried
he machinery until it reached q sand
near Fort Union, where il was land
ID on the shore, and there suffered to re-
main until the next spring, was carried