Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-03

" suspended. The custom Of making
New YEARS. calls is very generally OBJ
served.
falling, with 8 feet on Harpeth shoals
/ Weather cool ard cisar.
NEW ORLEANs, January 2.--No arrivals
or depertures,
VIcKsBURa, JsnuaTy2.-Down: Charles
BOdman, 10 4. M; Emperor, II m. d; Colos-
sal, g pm. Up: J. W. Garrett, IL am
Mareella, IL M; Belle Lee, 8 pm. River
rising. Weather clear and pleasant.
BusoELLANEoUs.
Particulars cf the great steamboat fire
in New Orleans will be found elsewhere
in a special TO the APPEAL.
Ths Dss Arc caught ire at our leYee
| Yesterday, and suffered damages to the
extent Of several thousand dollars. Far-
/ ticulars in local columns.
The Magenta, burned at the fire in New
Orleans, Sunday morning, was owned by
her commander, Captain J. Slut Neal,
/ Captain Frank Hicks and Major Mart
Walt, Of this city. The former owned one
halfsand the two latter One-fouith each.
| She was worth probably $4,000, and in
| sured for nesrly that sam. She was tied
up at the time owing to some disagree
ment among her owners.
The elegant sssaInar Pat Cleburne,
| Captain Reese PritchsTd, gets away to-
morrow for all landings on the Arkansas
to Little Book. She carries the United
States mail ard connects with the packet
/ for Fort Smith. Messrs. Creed Walker
| and Joe Thomas have charge of the office.
! The A. J. White, Captain Malone, with
/ Charley Smithers, Charley Sharpe and b.
/ p. Field in the office, leaves today at her
usual hour for Frisr's Point and way
/ landings.
The popular steamer St. Francis, Cap
/ tain Thomas Bowman, leaves for Mariana
| and all points on the st. Francis this even
! ing at five o'clock. Sam G. Paine and W.
! B. Berry are clerks.
/ The United States mail packet Legal
! Tender, Captain John Elliott, backs out
/ TODAY for JacksOnpOrt and all landings
| on White river. She connects with the
| Little Rock train and with the packet for
! all landings on Black river and IS splen-
| did passenger steamer. Joe Elliott,
| Arthur Field and Dan Sullivan are her
| clerks.
! The Thos. H. Allen came in from the
| Arkansas with 43I bales cotton, So5 sacks
! seed and 92 passengers. She reshipped
! III bales cotton.
The MinneoIs, Captain W. B. Miller,
| gets away this evening for Cairo, LOUIS
| vile and Cincinnati. She is the regular
| packet. John S. Jones is her clerk.
| The Dexter was aground yesterday at
! Shoe Fly bar. The Legal Tender was at
work at her nearly twenty-tOur hours,
/ and finally got her of,
Dan Sullivan, clerk Of the Legal Ten
| der, is on the leve5 receiving freight for
| that steamer.
! M. SALISBURY has severed his cOnnec-
| ton with the Memphis and Arkansas
| River Packet Company, and will be
| found on the leves hereafter as discharg-
! ing clerk for all boats needing his services.
The II. S. Turner passes up at noon to-
day for Cairo and Louisville. Captain
Rusk commands.
The new steamer Phil. Allin raised
steam yesterday to test her machinery.
The towbOat Mohawk passed up yester-
day.
mouth of White river after some empty
coal barges.
The Ozark departs to-day for New Or
leans. It is said that she has been sold
to some parties for the bayou trade.
The Dss Arc was toWed to the docks
Yesterday. She was insured against ire
only.
The Legal Tender found an ice gorge in
White river, one and a half miles below
JacksOnpOrt, and the Seminole with lOOJ
bales of cotton, was fast in It.
OF the cotton on the John Howard,
burned at New Orleans, only 100 bales
were added at this port.
1t was rumored last evening that the r.
p. Walt broke a shaft at Clarendon, on
her way up White river.
Another rumor prevailed to the effect
that the little steamer Belle Ida, Captain
Duffer, plying between this port and
White river, had cspsizsd somewhere be-
low here.
The Fort Smith arrived on Sunday with
405 bales cotton.
The Nightingale, Captain Piercel, leaves
At 3 pm. to-day for Cairo and Cincinnati.