Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-27

LOUISVILLE April ZO.-htNbE AaAAluE
slowly. There is now IS feet in canal anC
II in chute over the fails. Weather warm
and cloudy. Port, list: Messenger New
Orleans to Pittsburg. Arrived: r. E
Lee, Indiana and Alice Dean from New
Orleans. Gen. Weitzel has received sd.
vifSg from Washington that he will b
fu(hished with money to 90 on with the
improvements of the canal. He will ad.
vertiseson Thursday for proposals for the
work. His intention is 10 push the WORK
to a speedy completion.
CINCINNATI, April 26.-Weather cloudy
thermometer So; barometer 1855; wind
northwest. River has fallen 2 feet IL
inches. There Is now In channel 43 feet
inches. Business steady and all our ton
mage employed withsProht. Rates are,
however, weak.
GALENA, ILL, April 26.-Tbe river is
falling rapidly, having already declined
10 inches from its highest point.
ST. LOUIS, April % The river is falling
rapid Weather warm and cloudy, in
dieatin ain.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Ozark came out of the Arkansas
with $50 bales cotton, 400 of which she re-
shipped at the mouth.
The Sam Hale left for Cincinnati with
700 bales cotton.
The Glasgow, Capt. Andy Robson, ir.,
will pass up at DON to-day for Pittsburg
The fine steamer Marble City, Captain
Carter, leaves to-day at 5 pm, tor Cairo
1St, Louis. She is the regular packet.
EBnlia, Captain Callahan, passes
down tomorrow for VicksburR
The Z. s. mail packet Ozark, Captain
Rufus A. Caldwell, will get away TODAY
for Pine Bluff and LittB Rock, making
all way landings. She is a 6rst-elasS low
water packet, and has superior aecOmmO-
dstiOns for people, MszsTs. Brashear and
Bankhead are her clerks.
The Pauline Carroll left New Orleans
for st. Louis on Monday, The Great
Republic left last night. The MolIie Able
leaves tonight and the Commonwealth
leaves Oh Saturday,
Some time ago-how long, our memory
serveth Us lOt-but since the Suez Canal
has been opened and the civil vas has
ended, two valiant steamers left the
Northern ports to seek .he wilds of Ark
snsas. They were we'll loaded, carried at
cheap freight, passengers ct low fare, and
we're differed by bully crews, selected for
their pluck and endurance. Yesterday
they passed this port on their way hopie
the one Utah to st. louis, and the
other (Nightingale) to Cincinnati. The
voyage has not proven profitable to the
shipper or carrier. The goods. which
EACAAa A1NU 11NA ~ a0AA cLG NuASs aEE
now out of season and unstable; the
low rates of freights, and the time ex-
pended, have eaten up the boats re-
eeipts-yea, snd nearly eaten up the
boats too, The passengers became old
on their j-Ourney-nOt a few turn
ing gray and unrscognizable by cid
~frisn0s, little children became grown up
boys and girls. The crew who started out
with flying cOlOrs, and so full of pluck
anl nw1u-,-a- -. -
and detected, no to be known to their
families at home, who rave long mOurned
them as dead. It's q sad, sad story, but
1t has a moral which u n in this Sise:
People of Arkansas, p~atropiZs your own
pacSets-thOse which come to your doors
with the pFomptness Of a clock, and which
fail. Merchants Of st. Louis and
Cincinnati, sell all the goods you can to
the merchants of Arkansas; ship them BY
the Memphis packets to this city, pd re-
ship here on Memphis packets to destins-
ton.
The st. Louis Republican has a new
river editor, who, in a late issue, made
some misstatements relative to the NJ. J..
Wicks and G., B. Church. We had in
tended to ego for him, /" but he cOrrects
the matter In his issue of Monday, and
besides Randall, of the Times, has left
nothing for Us to say. Hear him: ave
nave HOuAOtln41S A1A q SLAOnE D0Albl L4hb
some natural born FOOLS as SUIT. Luven-
good used to say, We're engaged as news
paper reporters. When we read the fol-
lowing in the river column of the Repaid
JiedR yesterday morning we were con-
WINGED of the fact"
The Parkersburg and Wheeling Trans
portation Company has contracted at
Wheeling for q hull for the machinery OF
the Rebeecs, 100 feet long, SO test beam,
and 5 feet hold. The boat viii be a side
wheeler. for the Wheeling and Parkers-
burg trade.
Captain Pegram's new boat is to be the
on the Western waters. She will
be $50 feet long, So feet beam, and 100 feet
in extreme width.
The Crescent City was sold at Evans
vile, on Thursday, to Xavier Talbert for
1880, for the Bayou Teehe trade.
There are three boats nov running in
the Chippewa trade, the Ida Campbell,
Chippewa and Union. Business is quiet,
he freshet and the jam combined COM
~stagnating trade.