Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-22
to the secretary of the Treasury to con

to the Secretary of the Treasury to con
vene investigating boards, which bOardi
! should have plenary power to inquire
I into all circumstances attending casual
ties, and to suspend or revoke the Ii.
/ censes of steamboat directors who are
direlect in duty.
At McGreg0r, Iowa, the Mississippi /:
/ frozen over sOlidly, and teams are ex-
pected TO cross it to-day. Heavy run
ming ice passed st. Louis yesterday, and
several large boats are humping them
selves to get out TO Cairo.
The Ohio River Improvement Com
missioners, in session at Cincinnati yes
terday, adopted a resolution asking Con-
gress to donate two million dollars out
of Mr.. Boutwellis bank for the improve
ment of the Ohio and its tributaries. A
committee of ten was then appointed to
present the memorial TO Congress.
Some fifteen OF twenty dray mules
that are employed in hauling freight to
and from the levee were stricken with
the "up-the-snootic," yesterday, and in
eapacitated for labor.
The magnificent passenger steamer
Idlewild will back out at five O'Clock
this evening for all the upper landings
to Cairo, and goes through to Evans
vile.
The st. Joe Herald of Saturday says
the Minnie is high and dry on a sand
bar between Pulo and Nebraska with a
large hole in her hull. Her cargo is be-
ing taken of.
A telegram from New Orleans an
nounces the sinking of the barge Blue
bird, lying at a salt werehouse there,
with a cargo of two thousand sacks Of
salt, consigned to Rogers d Co., of st.
Louis. The barge was insured, and one
hundred and sixty-five feet long, thirty
feet beam and five feet hold, and was
raised.
The cause of the damage to the gates
Of the new lock of the canal was the
weight of the gates, which crushed the
wheels on which they operated, render
ing them unfit for service.
a dispatch from JacksonpOrt states
that shooting affray occurred there
Monday between a gentleman named
Stallman and a river pilot named Red
man, in which the latter was killed and
the former shot in the shoulder. NOl
particulars.
As Fitzfozle" would say, the canal
locks at Louisville are such a boah."
The Courier of Louisville has the
following: The river is again pros
trated with the epizootic, or some
thing else. Somebody ought to dig a
trench to some crawfish hole at the foot
Of the falls and run the little thing in
out of the wet. The canal appears to |
have got the epizoOtic, but there seems |
TO be no danger that it will reach the
stage. This is probably due to |
the fact that nobody is likely to put it to |
work before it has quite recovered"
The Louisville Courier says a large |
number of oxen have been purchased |
within the last few days, which will as
iist greatly in hauling freight both to the /
evee and the different railroads. The /
condition of the horses and mules affect
ed with the epizOotic is but little i'm
proved, and we cannot reasonably ex-
Dect brisk times until the disease entire
y subsidies.
Captain w. B. Donaldson, once LOm-
nander of the Great Republic, now re-
'ides in California.
The Western is frozen in at Omaha
Mission, on the Missouri, and the Nellie
Peek at st. DuPoines, about three miles
ibove RulO, on the same stream.
A grand hop was given on board the /
John B. Maude, Tuesday night at st. |
Louis, and was attended by over one
hundred couples, composing the elite of
hat city. Dancing was kept up till day
light next morning, and those in attend
Ince enjoyed themselves to the utmost.
4 band has been engaged to accompany /
he boat on the down trip. The officers
intend giving a dance at several points,
md may nominate Memphis as one of
hem,