Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-22

gence; "a private letter received from
an officer on the steamer Natchez says
that arrangements have been made foi
2 time trip from New Orleans 70 st.
Louis within three weeks. The inten-
ton is to reach st. Louis on the tenth
of June. Strong efforts are being made to
bring about the race with the champion
r. e. Lee, but the trip will not depend
upon tbis' 49, Frank Gault, a we'll
known levee clerk here, who some time
since made run from here to New Or
leans and back, by rail, inside of two
weeks, has quit the river and gone
into a Main street music store......
There is big swell in the Arkansas, and
a rise is expected in White river.
-Four feet was the stage of water and the
river stationary at Pittsburg yesterday.
THE City of Chester was due at day
light this morning. THE Smoky City,
with coal tow, is due down tonight
on her way to New Orleans, and the
Simpson Homer will follow her with a
tow for Vicksburg. The Pat Rogers
should arrive to-day from the Ohio.
......Sevety-five cents per bale was
the rate charged yesterday on cot
| ton that went 10 Cincinnati.
Something ofa connUbial sensation, that
occurred yesterday on the James D.
Parker, before she left, wherein an old
white-haired man claimed young girl
of sixteen for his wife, will be found
elaborated in our local columns. The
old man didn't get the "claim," and, to
revenge himself, took deck passage for
Henderson, the lady in question occupy
ing cabin apartments, though destitute
of funds, the captain of the Parker, Cap
| fof in Do fIoN,
as ever lived, giving her passage to her
home at Henderson, free of charge.
The Thomas Sherlock broke the pis-
tOn-head to her larbOaTd engine at
Greenville, Friday, and went to Vicks.
burg on one wheel. Captain w. l..
Hambleton, of Mound City, has re-
ceived the contract to transport the ord
nance and naval stores at Mound City
to Pensacola, and is now loading the
| Mary E. Forsythe The snag-bOats at
Mound City are undergoing thorough
overhauling and painting, which will
occupy about five weeks......W When the
narrow-gauge road is completed
! to Cairo, which will be in about
month, Captain Joseph Gartside
is going to start coal-yard at Cairo to
supply steamboats, with the black dia-
mOnds from his MurfreesbcTo coal
mines. The tug Alma, it is said, will
be sent there to do the towing THE
George G. Wolff is having the diameter
of her wheel lessened from twenty-five
feet to nineteen feet, and her wheel
arms from sixteen to thirteen feet, and
is also having five new fianges put in,
which, it is thought, will increase her
speed at least three miles an hour. If
so, she will be the fastest stern
wheel boat plying Red river.
The alterations to her wheel
will be completed by Thursday.
We are sorry to learn, as we do from
dispatch received by a well-knOwn gen
tleman in this city, that four death
from cholera occurred on the steamer
John Kilgour, between this city and
Evansville, on that boats recent trip
up. At Evansville, yesterday, many of
the passengers left her and went by rail
to their homes, as there was then three
more cases on board......The Maude
is getting her cotton aboard at a
lively rate, and will leave at
five o'clock sharp this evening".
While coming down the YazOO q few
days ago, darkey, who got aboard
boat at one of the woodyards on the
river and slowed himself, when next
seen by any of the boats crew, was
corpse. The manner Of his taking off is
of course a mystery, but it is supposed
that he died of heart disease. e......A Ten
nessee patentee named Maynard has in
vented new wheel for propellers, which
suits the secretary Of the treasury to
such an alarming degree that he has or
dered his chief engineer to experiment
with it upon several large war ves-
sells 1.-The Louisville Courier is after
some of its Nashville friends like a leech
after sick horse. Here is one paragraph
that Is sent 'outp on that account:
Commodore G.. B. Hauk, former resi-
dent of Evansville Che was, in fact,
born, raised and acquired all his habits
there), was arrested in Nashville the
other day for attempting to pay board
bill of three hundred and fifty dollars
with washboiler and mop that he had
stolen from the Ella Huges." Then
comes the following 'locali notices of
poor "Hauk," who, if he is not served
as George Francis Train was the other
day in New York, will be soon after
knowing that"these few linesphave met
the eye of every river man in the united
kingdom of Grant. This is what the
Nashville Banner says: &c. B. Hauk
arrived here few days ago from Evans
vile, and by his plausible address and
false Representations managed to in
sinuate himself into the confidence
of a few of our citizens, and Oh
tanned small amounts of goods. He
was detected, arrested, committed Fri
day night, arTaigned before Justice Cas-
setty ThuTday OH the charge of obtain
ing goods under false pretenses, mort
gagged his wife's trunks, wardrobe and
jewelry for money to pay the value Of
the goods obtained, sWore to the follow
ing statement, and departed hence.
This is to certify that have been de-
tected in obtaining goods under false
pretenses, and that through the kindness
of the parties knowing these facts have
been permitted to leave Nashville, Ten
nessee, and not go to prison, where the
evidence would send me. promise for
the love my wife bears me in this trial
to lead different life, and prove in fu-
tuTe an honorable man. 1.-The par
ticulars of the more than cold
blOoded murder on the Phil Allin
night before last, will be found III the
local coldmn..a..The merchants wharf
boat at Henderson Is offered for sale.
She is one hundred and fifty feet long,
and in excellent condition. The big
Mccoy wharfboat at Cincinnati also
awaits d purchaser. 1t is the largest
ever built, and some enterprising steam
boat party should buy and bring it here.
-. Captain Ben. Egan, of the
City of "POdunk,n has our thanks
for valuable papers ..... 1t is barely nee
essary for us TO state for some of the
"doubting Thol1lasesn that the inspec-
ton trip yesterday, as given in this col
umn, was the copy of an official report
made and sworn to before notary
90 Skeesicks," by a gentleman who
'writp the thing for another fellar......
The Elliott's Bob Captain Riley while
here had made and presented the ladies
conducting the benevolent fair at Rocco
hall an elegant pyramid cake, weighing
leighty-nine pounds, and costing more
than a dollar a pound. The Maude's
officers were not slow either. They
''donatedr bunch of bananas, the like
of which has never been seen. By
F'actual count" there are eleven hundred
and one bananas hanging to the branch,
unless some river chap has been up
there and "pilfered few away.
The elegant Henry Ames, Captain J.
w. Jacobs, w. G.. Aiken clerk, leaves
for New Orleans this evening. The
Colorado will be the Vicksburg boat for
five o'clock this evening. Captain
Ed. Gray comes down on the City of
Chester in place of Captain Zeigler, who
stopped off owing to sickness in his fam
lily. Several distinguished MOuth-of-
Smithland worthless are attending the
Nashville races and exposition. Prom
inently conspicuous among the number
are Little Old Jofield, Senator Piles,
nr Gihsnn aud ID Casnar MantZ.