Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-06

Little Rock train. Messrs. Butler and
Smithers are her clerks.
A shotgun went of accidentally on the
levee yesterday, and wounded two per-
sons. See local columns.
Mr. +. T.. Anderson, of F. w. Irvine &
Co, on Front street, has, with his pencil,
drawn very handsome representations Of
the Pat Cieburne and Mary Boyd. Mi.
A. Is really a 6rst-class artist In the way
Of marine pictures. We have alluded to
his skill on several occasions.
The r. p. Walt brought in q good pas
ssnger trip.
An interesting letter from Capt. Nc
Manus, late president Of the Memphis
and st. Louis Transportation Co., will
be found in our commercial columns.
There was never a gentleman who more
deserved the affection and confidence of
his associates than A. E. Randall, OF the
st. Louis Times, who recently died at
Columbia, Missouri. A New Yorker by
birth, he was by residence and in all his
predictions a Thoroughbred Southern
or. As a Southern soldier he forgot the
attachments Of his earlier years save those
illustrated in his boundless veneration
for his mothers name and tenderness.
In the very midst of ths maturity Of his
intellectual manhood, he was stricken
down. His associates in the army, and
those with whom he was brought in hour
ly contact in 81. Louis, his fe~llOw-loborers
In newspaper life, and the mother that be
loved 50 well, will never forget the manly
virtues and generous traits that adorned
the almost faultless character OF A. F..
Randall, the river and commercial edi-
tor of the st. Louis Times
The Little Roc Republican says: Son
the last trip Of the steamer Little Rock,
commanded by Captain Sam. Houston,
was a eolored man, l.. j. Wheeler, Of this
offu muhn uarnraA the nV-uuuI - n To-
Southern people by exercising his right
when meals were ready. He quietly
o his seat at the table at breakfast and
dinner, and no objection made; but at
the supper table h chiUGIry observed
him, and then proclaimed that their honor
must be protected, and one or two pro-
posed to pitch the id niger overheard
But Captain Sam. Houston was on hand,
and very politely informed the indignant
rebels that he would have a slice of that
pie, and only over his dead body could
they put Mr.. Wheeler of that boat.
Having heard Of Captain sam. before,
they cOnclued 1t was best TO smother their
indignation, as they were not quite ready
to enter the dOminiOns of the devil. A
very wise conclusion to come to, for had
they interfered somebody would have
gone under, certain, and that somebody
would not have been Wheeler nor his
friend Captain SAM"
A correspondent of the APPEAL, re-
ferring to the above, says that the state
ment made by the Republican is utterly
false, with one exceptiOn-that the chiUdL-
Ty did object to sitting at the table Nth q
negro. Nc threats were ever made, nor
q word spoken to the negro. Having
taken passage from Pine Bluff for Little
Rock on a Ohite boat, as they supposed,
after fndingthey were deceived, of course
the gentlemen saw proper to say whether
or not they would eat at the same table
with a negro; that was all. To prove the
inter fallsey of the '~overbosrd'' and
dead body part of the business, you
will only have to look at the past charsc-
ter of Captain SAM. Houston. Twas he
who commanded the Hesper while carry
ing arms to the negroes of Arkansas, and
It's said by those who ought to know that
the young paw-paw trees still suffer from
his ingloriOus retreat from that Inflated
vessel. "Dead bodyr'-a good thing for
Arkansas political capital. We hope the
st. Louis and Arkansas River Packet
Company will, II ~endeavorlng to force a
new regime of offairs on US, notify the
people along the line, that they may be
prepared for the emergency, and not ha 70
to walk over Captain Sans dead body.