Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-04

trip. The R. W. Dugan, nom Clncin
natl, came in at one O'Clock yesterday
with $50 barrels of apples and IS bales
of cotton for this port, and lot of fnr-
niture for points below. She was TO
have left last night for the Arkansas
river, where she will run as q connect
ing boat with the packets nom this city.
Owing TO the cool unpleasantness on the
river between st. Louis and Cairo, the
John Kyle VIII load ST the latter port
for New Orleans No additional news
regarding the ice gorge was received
yesterday. The st. Louis papers seem
to avoid that cold subject. The John Is.
Maude cleared last evening for New Or
leans with 1000 bales of cotton, IS tons
OF miscellaneous freight and a good pas
senger list, including two bridal couples.
Captain Bob Wise's popular James ID.
Parker arrived this morning, and leaves
at six O'Clock this afternoon for Cincin-
natl. DR.. Wiseiwill be glad to have his
| friends call down to-day, and he viii
greet them with q warm reception.
Ecsss Drift.
The ice gorged below st. Louis at
Kimmswick Monday last. The City of
Helena, City of Chester and Em Elliott
harbOred safely below st. Louis. Boat
men were little uneasy about ship
ments, but the fright has passed away.
THE Salvor, No. 2, is repairing at
st. LOuis......St. Louis had but one ar
rival aud two departures Tuesday .....R n.
+. Sass has been elected secretary OF the
st. Louis boat owners association, to fiji
the vacancy caused by the death Of
Captain James M'COrd. The Idle
wild, Thompson Dean. Belle Lee and
Great Republic leave New Orleans To.
day. The Lucy keim is being repair
ed at NieksbuTg and viii enter the Tai
lahatchie river trade. The Tommie
Sherlock lett here at three o'clock Sun.
day afternoon and reached Vicksb1Tg
at ten o'clock Moaday night....T The va
zoo Is 10 ply as a semi-weekly packet
from New Orleans to the YazOO and
Tallahatchie rivers. Louisville Coatr-
ser-.I0uT7lai. "Long John, of the ALE
ghenies, T" is mate on the United States. |
A Drawer man never lived, and longer
one wouldn't want TO. John will carry
an honorable scar with him TO his grave. |
and his noble conduct on the ill-fated
FSt Rogers will live in the memories of
men long after he is gone $500. The !
United States supreme court, yesterday, |
rendered decision against the upper |
Mississippi river raft. steamer Mollie |
MOhleT. Her owners had sued a rail- |
road company for damages growing out |
of collision with q railroad bridge |
pier. The case was carried from the |
Wisconsin circuit court to Washing |
ton. Justice Davis delivered tie
opinion TO the effect that, i'll
the owners of steamboats, attempted |
to pass their steamers through q bridge, |
when the wind was blowing, they did |
so at their own risk; that steamboats,
must accommodate themselves to the |
of commerce, and that among |
its necessities are railroads, Obliged to /
take these means of crossing navigable |
and navigatOTs are bound to |
use all possible care and prudence in |
passing them" .....Ciucinnati Times: !
9 The boats now forming 3 tTi-Weekly |
line to Memphis from this port are of a |
better class, taken as 8 whole, than ever |
ran in the trade. The Memphis trade is 1
one in which cur merchants are moi 8 |
little interested, and every shipper |
should regard everything done to sup |
port the line as bringing trade directly |
to his own door. It requires no little
courage on the part of the boats in the |
line to leave tri-weekly with such en-
as they receive, but they |
have faith in the trade, and that should /
be a sufficient inducement for meT- |
chants TO award them greater at |
tentiOn. The prOmptness Of departure |
which characterized the movements
of the line last season will be
initiated this season, and it only
remains for our merchants to support
the boats so that they can carry out the
without that loss which
they would otherwise incur. With
Commodore James S. Wise as the man
aging head of the line, however, there
need he 40 fears of its ultimate success
during the season just begun. Nerve
and ability seldom fail in any undertake
ing, and there is abundance of it en-
bodied in the officers Of the Memphis
and Ohio river packet line" Ike
Brooks and John Richie came down as
pilots on the Colonel KOuntZ. Captain
Add WATSON shipped from this port as
pilot for the Arkansas river. As a spe-
'ialty for that stream he's a reliable
success.