Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-16

phis, 8 pm; Mary Ann, New Orleans to
| Louisville, IL am. Mohawk, st. Louis
to New Orleans, 1 p.mi Marble City, st.
Louis to V~icksburg, 5 pm. River sta
tionary. Mercury, 7S'.
NASHVILLE, June I5.-The river is ris-
ing, with twenty feet on Harpeth Shoals.
The weather is fair and pleasant. Ar
rived: Umpire and Tyrone, from Cairo.
Departed: John Lumsden, for Cairo.
NEW ORLEANS, June Is. Arrived:
Dexter; Bee and barges, st. Louis. De-
Weather cloudy; heavy rain this after
400
VIcKsBURG, June 15.-Up: Colossal, G
an. Down: L~eonidas; Cherokee, ten
am. Weather cloudy; thermometer, SIS.
ST. LOUIS, June Observation-Disclosures,
~Vicksburg; Belle Memphis, Memphis.
Decentralization, Kansas river; Grand
Tower, Memphis; Continental, New Or
leans. The river is rising slowly bus the
swell has nearly run out. Weather clear
and warm.
PIrrsBURG,Ju I5-The M~onOngahela
Is falling, with six feet in the channel,
and indications Of a further fall. A rise
is reported in the upper MOnOngahela.
1t rained considerably last night and this
forenoon. No arrivals or departures re-
ported.
LOUISVILLE, June I5.-Arrived: W. F.
Curtis, New Orleans. Departed: Nick
Longworth, for New Orleans. The river
rose one foot in the past twenty-four
hours, with six feet three inches in the
canal and four feet three inches on the
falls. Weather cool. It rained most OF
the afternoon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Natoma left for Cincinnati with 40
bales cotton.
Tha NfChNTn-u7a not u-a- To- Cg-.s-
natl with 50 bales cotton
The rate on cotton to Cincinnati, we
learn, is sixty cents per bsie.
We notice, among the arrivals at the
OvertOn, MsjOr Edmonds, Of Bolivar
county, Mississippi, President ofthe Levee
Board. The Major had the misfortune dur
ing his last visit to Memphis to have his
dwelling destroyed by fire. He reports the
crop prospects in his section of the cOun-
try unusually fine, better than at any
time since the war. We presume the
Major intends TO resume housekeeping,
as he was tWalt 4 Co.'s yesterday pur-
chasing a cOOk-stove and squirrel cage.
The Marble CITY, Captain Conway, viii
leave for Vicksburg ats o'clock this after
ternO0n. Messrs. Will I. Powers and G..
w. Briggs are her clerks.
The George W. Cheek, Captain Mark r.
Cheek, will leave as usual to-day for Hell
ena and Friar's Point. She is the regular
mail packet. Barney BaFinds and Char
lev Jackson are her clerks.
The Mary Boyd, Captain Haynes, leaves
on Friday for the Arkansas. She is the
regular United States mail packet.
Captain Cad J.. Hanks, formerly of this
city, and well known throughout the
White river country, arrived in town yes
terday from Louisville, where he now re-
Sides.
Ed. Phelps, a well known Red and
Wachita river clerk, was in the city yes
terday. Ed. was one of the heroes of the
Virginia Peninsula. While a ragged sol
der lad, be one day seated himself unin-
vited at dinner opposite General Magru-
der. Upon being asked by that digniied
chieftain if he knew who he was about to
dine with, he mOdestly replied that " he
didn't know, and didn't care. Before the
war he had been very particular about it,
but since soldering began he hadn't been
half so fastidiOus. All he cared for wa
something to eat.'' The old war horse
hadn't another word to say
We heard it rumOred on the street yes
terday that Capt. A. l.. Oummins, Secre-
tary of the Memphis and st. Louis Trans
portatiOn Company, had resigned. We
merely give it as a rumOr and hope it is
not true. Capt. Cummins is one of our
best and most energetic citizens, and we
would regret to miss him from the circle
of our live rivermen.
#The Belle st. Louis is the regular mail
packet for st. Louis to-day at 5 o'clock.
Capt. Zeigler commands, and j. W. Bas-
kettle is clerk.
The Indiana passed up at midnight
Tuesday. She had $40 head of mustang
ponies taken On at the mouth Of Red river
for Louisville at a per head.
The Great Republic and Pauline Carroll
passed up before daylight yesterday.
The Robert Burns is due from Cincin-
natl. She leaves for that port on Friday.
The Virginia passed down at an early
hour this morning. She was due at day
light.
The R. P. Walt leaves on Saturday for
White river. She carries the United
States. mail.
HsFy rains nave fallen along the upper
Miss1ori.
A. McVay is now commanding the Par
gOud in the Vicksburg trade.
An exchange says: "a well known
steamboat Captain, who lately lost his
craft, we are credibly informed, is about
to bring suit against Uncle Sam, and at
5ach all the Government property in this
vicinity, as well as the Newport barracks, !
N Kentucky, in case a deduction is not
made for the ~unexpired term on his IL
tense, paid for the coming year, his boat
met with an accident by which
she was lost only a month after payment
20 b Government was made. The best
If legal talent has been consulted and is
"a athe aforesaid Captain, and the
or all steambOatmen is called TO
his suit, as it will be made a test case,
md is important to the Captain, if no one