Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-25

Z captain rem carver acquitted MIN
self right handsomely yesterday a
Superintendent and Manager, and wor,
his honOrs gracefully.
: A towbcat, probably the Atlantic
passed down the river yesterday with
tow of barges.
The City of Chester, from st. Louis
came down at daylight with three hun.
bred and fifty tons Of grain and produce
for this point, and returned at darl
with several hundred bales of cotton fol
st. Louis.
The Bismarck went south before noon
drawing six and a half feet, with two
barges in tow.
The James Howard, from st. Louis
came in during the forenoon, and added
here three hundred bales of cotton, one
hundred barrels of oil and eight hun.
dred sacks oil-cake, leaving for New Or.
leans before dark, drawing six feet large.
The Jennie Howell, from White river,
arrived early yesterday, with two hun
dred and thirty-fve bales Of cotton and
three hundred and fifty sacks Of seed,
and went back at dark with a fair trip.
The Josephine, from above for Red
river, went south at dark, without land
ing.
The regular tri-weekly passenger
packet Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Friars Point and all the usual way land
ings. Messrs. w. P. Gray and Wynne
Cannon are her clerks.
The regular United States mail packet
g. w. Cheek leaves this afternoon at
five o'clock for FriaTs Point and all the
way landings. Captain G. w. Malone
commands, and Robert Wildberger and
Charley Jackson are her clerks.
The Frank Forrest, Captain Sexton,
will back out at five o'clock this even
ing, from the foot OF Union street for
Fulton and intermediate plantation
landings. Mr.. o. P. Joplin is chief
clerk. .
The light-draft Ohio river packet Ada
Holman, Captain BOlus, leaves this
afternoon at five o'clock for Evansville
and all way landings. Mr.. John Mum
is her prime minister.
The City of Helena, Captain Mckee,
leaves this morning at ten o'clock for
Vicksburg and the bend landings. MI.
VIII I. Power is chief secretary.
The City of Quincy left st. Louis
Tuesday with nine hundred tons and a
fair passenger register; also a number of
deckers; VIM. Ford and Lew Pearce
pilots. The City of Helena for Nicks-
burg, and Adam Jacobs for Grand
Tower, got away with all the freight
they wanted. So says the Republican.
The same paper has the following:
1.-The 10 Kinney goes to Nicksburg to-
morrow in place of the Julia. S. Rider
Captain, Raleigh Porter and Joe Dill in
the office. Captain Dave Silvers takes
command of the Emile LaBarge on her
arrival here from New Orleans, relieving
Captain GunsOlis, who resumes his po-
sition Of pilot On her. Captain Ed.
Gray will command the St. Joseph in
the future. No other change will be
made i'm the crew.
The officers of the new steamer John
B. Maude have been appointed, and are
as follows: John Il. Noel, captain: J.
swivel and Billy Thomas, chief clerks,
and L.. W. Noel and William Jones, sec
ond clerks. Fabin Peyult goes as chief
engineer. She will be completed and
commence loading on the fifth of next
month.
The Great Republic is to be painted,
and will have the diameter of her wheel
increased two feet four inches, which
will somewhat benefit her speed-how
much will not De known until she makes
her trial when completed. Her wheels
at present are thirty-eight and half feet
in diameter length Of buckets, eighteen
feet.
The Belle Of Pike will have her re-
pairs completed and be ready to resume
her trip from Mound CITY by SATURDAY..
The st. Louis Repu6licdn Of the
twenty-third says that Captain J.
d. Elliott came up on the Emma
@. Elliott and returned home on
her last evening. In a conversation he
remarked that he still owned three
steamers, the r. P. Walt, Legal Tender
and City of Augusta, but said he would
not mind disposing of the Walt.
a dispatch from New Orleans saws
labOrers are getting four dollars a day,
and rOustabOuts one hundred dollars a
month. If this state of things lasts, the
boats had better lay up.
The o Kinney enters the Vicksburg
trade / II the service Of the Anchor Line
as an auxiliary boat.
Quite a number of st. LOuisans came
by rail yesterday to take passage on the
James Howard.
Mr.. Henry Kerr, late steward of the
Great Republic, has been appointed by
Thorwegan superintendent of
the st. Louis billiard hall-a position he
formerly filled.
The st. Louis Times, of the twenty
third, says: 1.-THE Andy Johnson, which
has been in trouble for some time past,
IS now all 0 X, and VIII load for the
South in a few days. She will pFOba-
bly, enter the Memphis and Vicksburg
trade.
Hon. Ed. Gray, member of the Mis-
souri, Legislature from Scott county, is
down in command of the
Emma Elliott. She left st. Louis Tues
lay drawing five feet three inches.
On Monday the Katie carried to New :
Orleans two thousand two hundred and
.wo cotton bales and t~hirty-siX bales Of
,snaburgs; the r. +. Lees receipts were
hree thousand three hundred and forty
i've bales of cotton, four thousand and =
light sacks of eotton-seed, twelve sacks ]
# seduction, ninety barrels Of oil and 1
hree hundred and ffty-two sacks Of oil
AXE.
The H. NJ. Shreve, though hourly ex.
'ected from st. Louis, had not arrived
It late hour last night. =
Captain Joseph COrbett IS to COM !
nand the Elliott, and Messrs. Tom
Vhitledge and John McFadden are :
Jerks.
The Yaeger was due last night from :
NhONs RAE Has OnC huhuiCu IDI6 HIS Il
ellaneous freight and two thousand
acks salt for st. Louis.
The Emile LaBarge Is about due from ]
Glow. She has one thousand boxes of :
1gaT and nearly three hundred tons of
Miscellaneous freight for points above. :
The big Exporter is coming up with
bout one hundred tons OF old iron be- :
to Captain Dave Campbell, and |,
yO hundred TONS Of miecallanaoug
Colonel John Doutherty, of Rockp0rt, !
Captain Egan that he took par
cular pains to mark q rock at the ex-
low water of last fall, and now =
ne Ohio is exactly at the same stage as
len.
Rates on cotton from New Orleans :
ave been reduced from q dollar and "
twenty-five cents to one dollar per bale. f
like it, but steamboats, cannot =.
lake q living at It. 81
The Dexter and Great Republic viii
let OF the ways at st. Louis next
eek.
A compromise has been effected be- =
yeen the Gov. Allen and Katie, lately n,
in opposition from New Orleans 4
Buckridge, resulting in the Allen n
through to Nieksburg. =
Emerson Gould is assisting VIII T. u
over on the City of Helena. .
The w. i. Ewing's machinery went =
to the Des Arc, then into the Emma
Elliott, where it now does good ser -
zee.
A st. Louis paper has Il that the Glas- q,
wv is to follow the Belfast to New Or y
ans, loading at St.LOuis, while a Cal
telegram has If that II has OoDa nj "