Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-01

In POrs.
Ben Campbell, w. A. Cald we'll, Sam
J. Hale, 81. Francis, Natoms.
zLs0ELLANEOUs.
The good steamer Alice Dean will pass
up to-day for Cairo and Cincinnati. She
ia a No. l packet.
The Sam. Hale, Capt. Walker, ia the
regular Wednesday packet for Cincin-
natl.
The United States Mail packet w. A.
day for Pine Bluff and Little Rock. She
connects with the Fort S NTH packets.
Jack Chambers is her clerk.
To-day the elegant City Of Alton,
Capt. J. B.. Archer, will back out for
Cairo and st. Louis. She connects with
the trains north and east, and as a pas
senger packet is unsurpassed. Jim White
is her chief clerk.
The Nstoms, Capt. Jim Lee, leaves
for Friar's Point at her usual hour to-
morrow. B. P. Fields and Stack Lse
are clerks.
The Caldwell came in yesterday, from
the Arkansas, with a fair passenger trip.
The old ladies along that river always
send their husbands to the city under the
care of Jack Chambers, whom they know
to be q quiet and careful gentlemsB, who
will rotUrn their worseT halves sober and
uncontsminated by the evil ways which
prevail iD Memphis.
The 81. Francis came in with All bales
Of cotton and 1909 sacks cotton seed.
Capt. Tom Bowman backs her out to-
morrow evening for all points on St.
Francis river. Paine and Clark are her
clerks.
The Magenta passed up yesterday for
Cairo, and will be back to leave for New
Orleans on Thursday.
The Norman was to have left for
Evansville last night. She had $50 bales
of cotton.
The Guidon leaves on Wednesday for
Pine Bluff and way landings.
The United States mail steamer Des
Arc, Capt. Matt. Glass, leaves tomorrow
for Augusta aid all way points on White
river. She connects with the Little Rock
train. Joe Elliott and Alex. Waddell
are clerks.
The elegant United States mail packet
Julia, Capt. Ed. Callahan, leaves to-day
at 5 pm. for Vicksburg snd the bends.
She is the regular packet. Andy Issacs
is secretary.
The fiue little steamer Ben. Campbell,
Capt. Weller, gets away to-day for Osce-
ola and way points. She came in yes
terdsy with a good trip. Jim Hall ia
clerk.
The Emperor is tied up ct Parkersburg
on accoult of some difference between
the owners. Capt. Dickerson, who is one
Of the owners, fearing that she would be
seized on her arrival st Cincinnati, con
cluded to have the FIST pull by attaching
her at Parkersburg until the difficulties
are arranged.
Capt. McCarty, of the Armadillo, fell
through the boats hatch at Pittsburg,
and was seriously injured.
The stern-whesler Petrolis was sold at
Pittsburg, a day or two ago, for $500.
President Garrett, of the Baltimore
and OliO Railroad, and friends, are il
Washington, in force, workiBg against
the passage of the bill prohibiting the
constructing Of any r~silrOsd bridge over
the Ohio river Of less than four hundred
feet span.
) b. WindhGm, q passenger on the
Alabama river packet Admiral, was
of $1,000 q few days since by q
named Sam Herring. The thief
was arrested, and 5000 Of the money re-
covered. This individual figured about
this city some months ago quite extern
and is we'll calculated to deceive
On dit, that Jack Carter will soon
8 Memphis and st. Louis
packet.
The Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad
Company has sold to the Memphis and
LCHis Packet Company the side
wheel steamers ST. Joseph and Colorado
for $40, 600. Capt. Smith will have both
placed in the most complete order.
The Cairo Bulletin says: 1.-THE stock
yards of the Illinois Central railroad
company are again full Of Texes cattle,
Two or three times q week Large steam
arrive from New Orleans, the decks
crowded with these l0ng-horned cres-
lures, but they go forward by rail as fsst
as received. No less than sixty or sew
enty thousand of these cattle have ar
rived at Cairo during the year past, Civ
ing u people an idea of the vsstness of
the Texas cattle range or pasturage, of
which they had no just conceptions"
We take the following from the Gin
cinnati Commercial. Pilota is the well
known landing of our friend, Capt,
Charley Morris:
"Pilota Landing, Lower MississinDi.
February "A, 1869. Sir: In answer IN
your inquiries as to what dsDth the wa.
ter is in the outlet? How clta-i it is Of
drift and o~verhsngiag timber. and
whether it is widening or not? L an
The outlet is q first elass chute.
sll OF five fathoms water at q
bank full stage, and, since the snags and
rock heaps have been taken out. II ia
washing deeper fast. 2 There is not a
sDsgo or drift pile in it, and the timber il
all cut off the banks on both sides. so
that it cannot fall in and ob5truct the
the clear flow of water. 8. It ia both
widening and deepening very fast, and
is now one of the easiest chutes on the
an upstream boat, cutting of
least ten miles of distance. When
the J J. Albert went into it on the ION
Of February, 1t was n of tie nost diff
suit cbus.s on the riysr on account of
snags and drift, and the task of CLEANING
It out looked hopeless, but she boldly at
them, determined to fiSbt
il out on that line il it took
sl summer. The first week wss
devoted TO clearing Outachsnnel, so that
the drift that set into the chute W. uld
dcat clear, and on Saturday, after four
lays steady work, she got out OF The
head OF it, starting whole acres of back
After woodiDg on Monday, enc
,esurned, and by Tuesday night tbs
bead Of the chute was clear of every OBJ
truetion. She then returned to the foot
If the chute and began the choppirg OF
he timber likely TO fall into the river
preparatory to the pulling the snsgs close
o the shore, and as soon as she got a
snaE in 1t before she left it, aud