Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-02


warm. River falling.
NASHVILLE, September I.-River ha
: risen inches in the last "A hours;
inches on the shoals. Weather cloud
and hot; Indications OF storm tonight
PIFTsBUI;G, September THE Mo
uongahela has 3 feet inches, and
falling.
CINCINNATI, September River ha
risen foot inches, and Is now 70 feet
. LOUISVILLE, September 1.-River ros
: . inches in past "A hours, and is nov
, stationary, with feet inches in cana
: aud 5 feet , inches in chute.
! BOafA TO Leave.
t George .MalOne's clipper steame
} George w. Cheek will take her depart
= urs at five O'clock this afternoon from
E the foot of Court street, for Helena, Ma
: poleOn and all intermediate landings.
: The Fort Gibson, Captain Gibson, de
parts at five o'clock this afternoon 70
) all landings along the Arkansas. Sh,
: carries the United States mail and i
' sure to go through on time.
; The good steamer Anna, Captain
: Peter EichOls, is now receiving, snC
viii leave st twelve o'clock to-day 70
! Cairo, Louisville, Cincinnati, and al
J way points.
/ The fine Anchor line steamer Emmi
: c. Elliott is t)-day's packet for st. Louis
leaving the elevator at five o'clock thii
evening. This boat and her officers art
, particularly the favorites Of the Memphis
! people, and the will undoubtedly leave
the elevator well laden.
MsyiieId WIFI Recover.
John Britton, doubtless, arrived il
New Orleans last evening. The follow.
ing telegram regarding the condition o
Mayiield explains itself:
NEW ORLEANS, September l, 1873.
b. L. smith, River Editor Appeal:
Your telegram Just handed me
Frank Msyfeld is much better thi:
morning. The doctors have good hopes
Of his intimate recovery.
JAMES KERR. ia.
Wore Shooting.
Yesterday afternoon little shooting
match occurred on the steamer Phil
Allin, that fortunately did not
result in any injury to the
shootist or shOt-at. Ben. Evans, 9
lOunging negro, thinking head or two
of cabbage would taste well in the succo-
tash be would have for tea, found the
cabbage where it had rolled from a crate
IN the Phil Allin, and was making for
/ the Anna with it, when the second
mate, Hogan, ordered him to "stand
aud deliver" He didn't stand but
| dropped one and was bound to have the
/ other, when the tirst-mate, Starr, got
| after him, and being "pusson" Of few
! words, Evans quietly bounced" Starr,
aud being q powerful fellow would have
/ smOthered him but for the bystanders.
| Starr after being released drew a small
sized hOwitZer from his trowseTs and let
I fly one ball at the cabbage procurer, the
shot passing away over his head. The
police were sent for but couldn't find
anybody to arrest.
Personals.
Captain John Nugent, Of the Grecian
! Bend, the Evans vile Journal has been
Informed, was fined two hundred and
ifty dollars for running his boat without
a licensed pilot, and had his license re-
voked III addition Captain Joe Dill,
clerk, Captain John Hawkins and
Major w. d. Shanks propose starting
for Colorado shortly, and starting a
Ianche. Mr.. Bertram will leave to-
morrow to seiecs location. Captain
Frank w. Bedard is lying seriously i'll
at Smithland, hentucky......Says Sun
days Nicksburg Herald: ''The last
time somebody took bath at the eleva-
tor be broke something, and Captain
Hartigan thought it was q Herald re-
porter. How singular There isn't
anything singular about il unless it is
the fact that Ha,tigan did the Herald
man great injustice in even sus-
picioning him Of taking & bath.
Captain John P. Keiser, Of the Anchor
line, arrived yesterday by rail, and stops
at the Peabody hOtel.....Mr. Spencer.
the owner Of the Jessie, IS expected to-
day from Gallipolis. Upon his arrival
that steamer will be turned over to him,
her charter to tl3e Elliotts having ex-
ed......Captain John ID. Elliott ex-
poets to leave to-day for St. Louis, to
bring down the Legal Tender Help
er, the author Of the IU,pcEliag Cri-
sis, is in Little Rock. but the other
Helper, the author Of the George &.
Wolff crisis, is somewhere else........
Says the Shreveport Times Of Tuesday:
We never seer so many steamboat
captains about as we sighted yesterday
at one time, and it was not a good day
for captains either. Let US see five can
oemember them all. There was Captain
George Alban, Captain James Z
II. z. Cobb, Captain Il. A. Phelps, Can
ain Jerry Sullivan, Captain William
simpson, Captain BOley, Captai,
Charles p. TrusloS. Captain H. Hazlett, |
Captain Mat. SeOyille, Captain Henry
Boazman, Captain Ike Hunter, Captain |
Joseph A Aiken, Captain J. ?. Fitz-
gerald, captain Of the Ruby, and Com |
modOre Nick Murphy, all learned in
he art of navigation. We are con-
vineed that there were more of 'em, but
just now we canno. call them to mind
Tue first good day for captains we will |
resume the thread Of our discourse and
noralize at length. The Louisville |
Ledger tells the following regard |
ing the early life of CaptaiI /
John w. Cannon who, with his family,
now rusticating at Hawesville, Ken. |
ucky. Captain John w. Cannon and I
ady leave on the Grey Eagle foj I
Hawesville to spend a few days with 1
I'D friends-friends Of his bOyhood /
captain Cannon was a 'lOng-shore 1
bOy,n like many OF our prominent |
teambOatman, having been born anO /
-aised among the hills surrounding tht |
Iuiet little town of Hawesville. Captain |
Cannon's boyhOod foreshadoWed the fu |
uTe famous commander Of the fines |
nd fastest boats on the western waters /
he used to walk in to town from hi 1
ather's farm, three miles IN the coun- 1
~, barefOoted, on Sunday mornings 1
md spend the day skiff-raciDg, Cannon /
md the late Sam Archer, oarsman 1
,gsinst the three Hawley bows, o. |
dawesville. The captain has grown gray 1
ince then, but he delights TO laugh oveI |
hose days OF bOyish sports ......
Captain w. r. GreathOuse died at New /
orleans on Friday last. OF him tht /
New Orleans Times says: "The captain /
was whole souled and very liberia /
turing his career as a ooatman, and u,
ioubt bis many frieuds along the coasl
rom this point 10 Baton Rouge will ais,
egret to learn Of hi, demise Captain
Greath0use has been commander
everal cOast-packeis for many yeaTs
Iast, and was esteemed by all VIII
Knew him" Captain Ames Fisher,
;hief clerk Of the deflnct Belle Vernon
arrived here this morning. He saved
lnly suit Of Thomas SheI-
iock, president Of the national board o
team navigation, has issued a circular
letter toOwDeTs Of steamboats,, nOtifyina
hem that the annual meeting of th,
BOARD will be held In Philadelphia,
18th, at twelve O'Clock noon,
It the continental hotel, ano
lrgi1g them to send representatives.
News Drift
All the river men IN town expressed
themselves as highly pleased with the
yesterday, and thought tht
,nly feature lacking was its usual newsS
liver column which We were compelled
% leave out to give room for the
statistics Of Memphis ano
her surroundings which was con-
aimed in the ninety-column edition.
.... The Falls Pilot was expected dowu
asst night with a siXty-fve thoUsano
,pshel tow Of st. Bernard COAL. The |
Howard on her way up yesterday wak
lot over three DAYS and nineteen hour
,Oming from New Orleans here.
Pwenty y-fonr thousand nine hundred ano
ighty-6ve barrels of salt arrived at Gin
innati last month ia fiatbOsts. The
Arkansas river. the Nile Of an abundant
ALLEY, IL two thousand miles in length, /
md has tributary t. it innumerablt
treams draining secti DDs Of remarkable
ertiilty y.--... -Four feet seaDf is the latest
water report over. Couichatta bar in REQ
Wei. Several bodies from the wreck !
y the steamer Wolff have been washed
ssnore near the mouth OF st. Francis
liver and huried...9l the new steam
,levator about to he constriIcfed e.