Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-19

for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all points
on the Arkansas river. Mr.. G. H. Con-
rad is her chief secretary.
The regular tri-weekly coast packet
Pat Cleburne, in command OF Captain
Stack Lee, leaves this afternoon at five
o'clock for Friars Point aud all the usual
way landings. Mr.. J. Q. Harris is her
prime minister.
The fine and fleet passenger steamer
! City of Cairo, with Captain Charles
Shuttle on the roof leaves this evening
at three O'Clock for New Orleans and al
way landings. Mr.. l.. 5. Miller is chief
purser.
The elegant steamer Indiana arrived
last night, and is now at the landing to
leave at ten o'clock this morning for
| Natchez, New Orleans and all lower
landings.
miscellaneous.
| Yesterday was not a good day for
steamboat owners and captains 10 meet.
| We therefore omit to-day the proceed
ings of the meeting called for yester-
| day.
The raging Arkansas fell two inches
at Little Rock yesterday, and has now
! twenty-five inches at Rob Roy and sew
enteen inches at FOuTche bars.
vertised for lease or sale.
Matters about the wharfbOat begin to
assume an active air since the Ohio
opened, and the White and Arkansas
river boats load and discharge there.
1t is expected that owing to low water
above there, the City of Helena will
either lay UP at or turn back from Cairo. |
The Arlington telegraphs Captain |
| Walker, agent, that she will be here at
noon to-day, to leave for Cincinnati to-
morrow.
There is quite a lively competition
now between the two Cincinnati packet /
/ lines for freight. Usually, during the |
season, there is quite a large number of |
empty beer-kegs sent from here to Gin |
cinnati at from twelve to fifteen cents |
each, but now the rate has been reduced |
to five cents.
Workmen commenced on Saturday to !
lay the plank for q roadway along the |
crown Of the levee, to connect with the
paved portion Of Beale street.
The Anchor Line are seldom slow in /
making improvements that will in the |
least contribute to the interest aud vel |
fare of our fast growing city. In view
Of the city having built a plankroad |
above their elevator, theywill now build |
plank ways from each approach to the |
elevator to the plank laid down by the I
city.
Passengers who came up to Greenville |
on the City of Helena reported the |
weather colder in lower Mississippi dur
ing the past week than ever before expe- |
rienced this early in the season.
New Orleans proper and the State Of
Louisiana are about to establish water 1
and land-house quarantine to prevent |
the introduction of the kalamazoOtic or
some other horse disease into those re-
gions.
The Kyle brings up one thousand
sacks of salt for st. Louis.
-Four persons were killed, it is report |
ed, by the accident which happened to 4
the steamer w. S. Pike, a few days ago, !
at Baton Rouge, while taking on board /
some cotton.
While the Mollie Ebbert was landing |
at the VicksbTg wharfboat the other
day, and during a gale, she broke a
fender and smashed a barrel of whiskey, |
the contents of which was scoOped up /
by the deck hands in a short time and /
as a result got glOriously drunk.
A Baton Rouge telegram of the four
teenth states that on the night previous,
one of the w. S. Pixies guards gave |
hundred bales of cotton.
General William Meyers, Chief Sig
nal Officer, United States Amy, was at
the Calf House, Louisville, on Friday.
A Davenport, Iowa, telegram of the
fifteenth says: 1.-THE Anna Johnson
went up about two o'clock this after
noon. Previous to this, there were no
arrivals for several days. Five boats
are now above, waiting to come down.
The Muscatine has been lying at Leclair
since Wednesday, unable to come over
the rapids during the high wind. The
two government boats, Montana and I
Caffrey, are now in the Rocking Hill |
slough for the winter.n
A Keokuk reporter says: River on
stand; five inches on board;n but don't
mention, whether it was that many
inches of ''pine-topp or ''tanglefoot.n
On the third of December, last year,
about a thousand persons H'footed it''
over the river at ST. Louis on the ice.
The wells and cisterns in Southern
and Central Illinois have been dry some
time, and now the creeks have frozen
over hard, in consequence Of which
large numbers of stock-hOrses, cattle
and hogs-are dying for the want of
water.
e. Ross Powell has resigned the clerk
ship of the P. W. Strader, and been sue
ceeded by Captain r. A. Darst. Mr..
Powell goes on the Richmond.
William Thomas goes into the Office
of the Frank Pargoud, instead of the
John B. Maude, as has been announced.
Colonel +. E. Snow, clerk of the
Northwestern, will be a candidate for
Clerk of the Minnesota Legislature this
winter. He filled the position creditably
two years ago. .-4
Ed. Wainey, one of the most expert
enced river caterers, goes steward ON the
Richmond this season.
Captain J. V. Throop has named his
new Cumberland river boat "Silver-
thorn after J. n. Silverthorn, of the
Evansville Journal. [" Silverp may be
a thorn " in that gentleman's side
(pOeket) when he buys a thousand dol
lar piano for the boat.
The river man Of the National Repub-
ican at New Orleans has pretty rough
time of it with the catfish stand proprie-
tresses there, and judging from his re-
marks, expects to be annihilated soon.
He went out the other day for a few
items, but met so many ugly faces that
he went home and wrote the following:
Taking everything into consideration,
COublCu WIN TIC lttJL lllAl OuI DklllllR
partner was sick, we thought discretion
the better part of valor, and most grace
fully sheered well off to the windward,
at the same time keeping our weather
eye well on old Aunt Sallie's red pepper
bow. Aunt Sallie is the high-cOckalo-
rum Of the meat houses, and looks upon
all reporters with an avenging eye"
The Robert Mitchell got five thousand
barrels of -four at Evansville for New
Orleans.
The J. J. Albert has gone to Cumber-
land Island for the purpose of pulling
out the snags that are in the way of the
contractors who are building the dam.
Anticipating heavy business when
the river closes above Cairo, the Illinois
Central Railroad Company have s. large
dredgeboat at work there cleaning the
river, in front of the elevator, of all OBJ
structiOns, 80 that boats may have a
better landing to transact their business.
4 Low water now interrupts navigation
above and below. The Vieksburg Her
aid of Saturday says: "But eight feet of
water, scant by the stick, are reported at
Glascock's island, and she rubbed all
the way through there coming up. She
met the Frank Pargoud with about
twenty-three hundred bales of cotton,
and learned that she hat been aground
at Glascock's twenty-One hOurs.p ~
Sound mules and oxen will be in de-
mand for hauling freight to and from
the landing ina few days. The epizoot-
ic prevails.