Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-29

hundred and thiTty-three bales cotton,
two hundred and fifty sacks oats, two
hundred sacks bran and two hundred
and forty-three sacks e0rn, and went
back about dark with even hundred
bales Of cotton for reshipment at Cairo
amidst. Louis.
Beats GeinE To-day
The passenger steamer Mary Boyd
leaves this evening at five O'Clock tor
Devalls Bluff, ~Jaeksonport and ali the
usual way landings on White river.
Captain Joseph Rice commands. Mr..
Charles Smither is her chief secretary.
The regular tri-Weekly coast packet
Pat CleburDe, in command Of Captain
Stack Lee, leaves this afternoon at five
o'clock for FriaFs Point and all the
usual way landings. Mr.. j. G. Harris is
her prime minister.
The semi-weekiy passenger steamer
St Francis Captain T. r. Bowman,
leaves this evening at five O'Clock fOf
Helena, Mariana, and all the usual way
landings. Captain Sam G. Paine, Billy
Dean and James Franklin are her
clerks.
The United States mail and passenger
steamer A. J. White, in command OF
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this after
noon at five o'clock for Napoleon, Chi
cot, and all the bend landings. b. P.
Fields, William Smithers and Charles
Sharpe are her popular secretaries.
The st Joseph, Captain C0rbett, viii
leave THIS evening at five O'Clock fol
CAIRO ana st Louis, making all railway
and steamboat connections.
Ihe hne passenger steamer Vim. J.
Lewis, Captain VIM. Blake, leaves this
morning at ten o'clock for Vicksburg
and all the bend landings. She has
superior accommodation and fare. Mr..
John Blake is her prime minister.
The Batesville, Captain "A. B. Smith.
leaves as above this evening at five
o'clock for Devalls Bluff, J-acksonport
and all points on White river.
miscellaneous.
The New Orleans National Republican
says that M Of the political parties OF
that parish has incorporated in its plat
form, among other things, the reduction
Of the enormous levee dues nov exacted
from steamers coming to the wharf, and
pledged itself, if elected, to relieve the
steamboat interest Of this tax.
The Crescent City and harges are COM
ing up with three thousand two hundred
boxes Of sugar, thousand bars Of rail-
road iron, four hundred and fifty sacks
of salt and one hundred and fifty tons of
miscellaneOus freight for St. Louis.
The Jennie Howell left J~acksonpOrt at
ten o'clock yesterday morning for this
| city.
The steamer Umpire struck an OBJ
structiOn in the Ohio, below shawnee
town, on Sunday evening, and sunk
with her cargo. No lives were lost, but
the boat, valued at six thousand dollars,
will, it is thought, be a total loss. She
was owned in Nashville.
The flags of the steamers were dis
I played at half-mast yesterday, in respect
to the memory Of J. William Pittman,
better known as Billy Pittman, who
died Of consumption, at his residence on
Carroll avenue, at four o'clock .yester-
day morning. Mr.. Pittman has for a
number of years been engaged as a pilot
in the trade below here, the last steamer
upon which he served being the A. ].
White, and stood at the head of his
profession. He was kind, agreeable.
and generous to q fault, and there was
never, perhaps, a popular gentle
man upon the broad waters Of the
Mississippi. Everybody speaks in bis
praise, and with an acquaintance of
| river matters for nearly four wears we
have yet to learn Of a passenger, no
matter how much he or she iutruded on
or questioned him, while off or on duty.
who ever received an impOlite OF curt
reply. The funeral services will be held
from the First Presbyterian Church.
corner of Poplar and Third streets, at
three O'Clock this afternoon.
The following are the advanced rates
from St. Louis TO New Orleans: Flour
Csc per barrel; Whisky $500 per bar
rel; Pork S1.05 per barrel: Pound freight
&c per 100; Hay Acc per 100. Barge line,
Flour Csc per barrel; Pound freight
grain 33c per 100. The Upper Missis-
sippi packets have advanced their
freights on up stream to third card rates.
No advance on Memphis freights.
The NatcheZ '~iscorched'1 the long
shore strikers at New Orleans by doing
her own discharging and thereby effect
ually ended the strike.
The old locks of the canal at Louis
vile will be opened on Thursday.
The attention Of shippers is called to
the card Of the Cincinnati and Memphis
Packet Company, which appears in our
steamboat column to-day. This line
will, upon the resumption of navigation.
start the Andy Baum, Potomac, Airing
ton, and st. Marys in the trade, leaving
here on Wednesdays and Fridays. ANY
information regarding freights, etc, can
be obtained from Mr.. W.gP. Walker,
agent, at the wharfboat.
Owing to fog and low water, the Fort
Gibson viii hardly be here in time to
leave before Wednesday evening.
The Nick LOngworth was due from
above last night, but had not arrived up
to a late hour.
The Pink Marble goes on the ways at
st. Louis.
The r. c. Gray has been fastened tov
by the United States Marshal at Cincin-
matt on account Of a misunderstanding
on the part af her owners.