Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-23

her way up the Richmond put off one
dollars worth of freight and one passen-
ger at Evansville, for which privilege
she had to pay seventeen dollars and
fifty cents wharfage. .....A A diver has been
examining the wreck of the Friendship,
and reports d hole in her hull about five
feet long and two feet wide, probably
caused by the pulling out of the timbeTs
and planks to which the hOg-chains
were attached. The wreck lies bottom
upward on her smoke-stack, with deep
Water running under her toward the
City of Vicksburg, and George Vickers
goes on the Emma Elliott. Captain
John Massie succeeds Captain George
Vickers as commander of the Noun
taineer Chief Engineer Perkins, of
of the Lee to 'pony over" five
if the Lee wins, in the comming race.
The Vicksburg Herald man thinks
journalism here in Memphis has reach
ed its climax, and complimenting " We
'UnsD saws: "Every member of the
press of the Bluff City is both moral
and piOus, and each has his class in one
piety shines through their local and
river columns, and the suggestion of
the Ledger that the morning newspaper
reporters start a temperance society
was certainly gratuitOus, so far as the
river reporters are concerned, for their
column show that they stick close to
Billy Dill, eE-Oficio river reporter, ought
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..... We copy the following from the
New Orleans Times, of Wednesday, to
give steam0oatmen an idea of
their trials at New Orleans: For sew
eral days past many of the negro labor
ers have taken it into their heads to go
about in gangs, inquiring ofother labor
ers who are employed, the amount they
receive, and if it is under four dollars
per day, the gang will order them to
knock off, under the threat that if
they do not, they will be
made to do so. An evidence
of this fact took place on the levee yes
terday. The steamer Robert E. Lee en-
gagged labor at less than four dollars per
day, and while the laborers were at
work, few of these gangs gathered
about the staging and tried to intimi-
date those engaged. This, however, did
not last a great while. Three or four of
our levee police came upon the scene
and arrested one of the ring-leaders, and
duly installed him in the first district
lookup, where, we understand, for this
outrage on commerce,
the prisoner was fined a paltry
sum, with bonds for his good
behavior, which was no doubt, given,
in order to set him at liberty to go back
to the levee and try it over again. The
Robert E. Lee is not the only packet
that has met with the same inconveni-
ence, but other steamers, the Thompson
Dean, which left the levee on Sunday
with laborers for the salt pile, met with
opposition from an armed mob, and
when the captain sent word to the po-
lice about ii, he was answered to the
effect that they could not help him.
This occurred at Algiers. We make this
statement in order that the police who
did their duty yesterday may not be
classed with those who did not. Colonel
Badger would do we'll to look into this
matter, and put sufficient force in the
vicinity of the depot of Nor
gan's Louisiana and Texas railroad, as
it is but a short distance below that
place where boats receive iron and salt.