Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-07

on the Cumberland river" Dix and
friends. No such man as Samuel
Haycraft Is now, nor never. was,
a Cumberland river boatman. Pee
lies under an Incorrect impression.
News DrlfE-
A Cairo, paper mentioning Sanday's
excursion ON the bully Tyrone, says:
'sThe reason the occasion was such q
d 'easant one is because the Tyrone is
b tier Officered than most baais having
a colonel as well as a captain.r That
d gper doubtless refers to Biggs as the
k,trael. He was the only man of the
craft that adorned his shoulders with
the silver leaf during the struggle"
The keokuk packets now leave 81.
Louis at four o'clock in the evening and
arrive at Keokuk at six O'Clock the fol-
lowing day, making semi-weeklg trips.
...... Mondays st. Louis Dispatch says: ::
''The first shipment of VatermellOns
was received this morning. The Julia
brought them in her hold, with locked
matches, to prevent the cholera, with
which they are filed, from being dis
tTibuted among her crew. w.. The
Pittsburg eoal-dyke difficulty has not
| been settled. War is expected to follow
forthwith; but whether it will be words
or by the sword, has not yet been
promulgated Business on the Cum
berland canal has been resum-
ed, the combination of coal COM
panies to force lower prices
for transportation having failed.
Passengers going to st. Paul by river
are now transferred around the lower
rapids, twelve miles, in thirty minutes,
| by q special train chartered by the Keo-
kuk Northern line, which connects i'm
mediately with the boats above. 49, An
other race at the trOtting-park to-day,
and another river digpitary stretches
the "ribbons" over one of the trotters.
1t won't, however, be the chap with the
sore dTTuBl. THE steamer Exchange
has no bar. A colored man belonging
to the boat sold cigar to stranger at
| Cincinnati, and was arrested for dealing
in the article without license. He was
given his option to pay twenty-one dol
lars for license and costs, or be held for
trial on the charge of violating the in
ternal revenue laws. We did not learn
which horn of the dilemma he took, but
can imagine which horn the informer
would have got had the "selling" oc-
Cured here......St. Louis rates to New
Orleans were, as we anticipated, adj
vanced as follows on Monday: To 17Ic
per hundred weight, and 35c per barrel
for -four by barge line, and 25c per hun
dred weight, and SOC per barrel for flour
by steamboats,. To Memphis an ad-
vance was made to 174c on grain, that
being the only change outside of the New
Orleans tariff. Captain Benyaurd of
the engineers locates the wrecks in the
Yazoo river, which are first to be re-
moved, as follows: Arcadia, packet, lies
about two miles above Greenwood, Mis-
sissippi, in the middle of the stream !;
upper works have been burned off; hull
supposed to be in pretty good condi-
ton, but partly covered with sand. r.
J. Lakeland and Golden Age, these two
packets lie side by side at SouthWart's
landing; upper works have been burned
off; machinery still in. Clyde, an old
wreck lying in the middle of the stream,
about two hundred yards below the head
of Honey island. Petrol, lying near
bank of river opposite Whites house,
two miles below YsZoo City. Ivy, pack
ct; Van Dorm, gunboat; Polk, packet;
these three lie at Liverpool landing; up
per works have been burned of; ma
chinery, ETC., still remaining on the Van
Dorm. Idaho, at mouth of river, in
middle of stream, and supposed to be
loaded with iron. All these wrecks,
with the exception of the Clyde, are
packets, ETC., sunk during the war.
They all lie in shallow places, and
are well exposed at low water.