Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

her appearance up e. dark
The Belle nf Texas leaves for Whiit
river next Saturday A. tbs indegandenl
packet. Hays Moore, ESQ, went out a
second clerk on the G. w. Cheek last
night. Captgin John +. Noel arrived
per rail yesterday morning from Hot
Springs, aud goes south today IN COM
mand OF his boat, the Maude TOwboai
Bee and barges passed down at dark
without landing.
Eews Drift.
The James Howard loads next week
at st. Louis for New Orleans. Cap
tain VIM. Boyd, who for forty years mas
been connected with the Ohio and Ten
nessee river trade, died In st. Louis
Tuesday. He was seyenty.one years OF
age......The Pauline Carroll was aue-
toned for eight Thousand aud thirty
dollars to Captain John n. Bofinger At
st. Louis Tuesday. She will be repair
ed aud enter the New Orleans trade ......
The Indiana will load at Evansville for
New Orleans as soon as there is q rise.
ED. Edwards will lie the Thompson
Deans mate this season.. CAPTAIN
Moss, Of st. Louis, has presented John
w. King with cane made Of the floor
timber Of the old j. NJ. White IA
movement is on foot to enjoin the city
from collecting the wharfage tax. Al
though the city laws require that all
moneys received from steamers as wharf
age shall be expended on the wharf im-
the common council has
adopted a resolution sppropFiRtiRg a
large part OF this sum to other purposes.
This Is ignorant stupidity, as IL a res0ln-
ton could do away with an ordinance,
the latter not having been repealed.
The wharf Is in 2 deplorsble condition,
and during the present low water steam
boats find il impossible "a discharge
freight above Court street. The wharf
age Is exhorbItsnt Tae wharf is for
Of its length comparatively
useless yet the river interests are neg
eeted aud damaged by illiterate NUM-
,ipal legislation thattwOuld disgrace the
Intelligence OF q monkey.
CIippIsgs-
Tuesdays st. Louis Times: aThe
transfer boat Walker, which plies across
he Missouri at Blair, sunk at Platts-
mouth yesterday. She vas on her way
o st Louis TO undergo repairs. The
owners of the sunken boat telegraphed
lere for divers, yesterday, and they
left for the sceneof the disaster
sst night.". Tuesdays Cincinnati
"a few days since Captain
James II. Pepper purchased an interest
n the Robert Mitchell from Captain Gus
DeSouehet, who is in New Orleans,
when il was announced Captain Pep
per would take com Dand of that
steamer. In the meantime the directors
II the Mitchell transportation company,
It Evansville, being unadvised Of the
arranged with Captain Lew
Aates, of the Nick LongWorth, 10 take
,harge of the Mitchell. Captain Lew
Aates, consequently, will have COM
nand of the Robert Mitchell the COM
ng season. Captain J. II. Pepper will,
doubtless, secure another boat before
ong.". Tuesdays st. Louis Democrat:
The river here continues rising slowly,
md there is deeper water to Cairo than
asst week. Raining extensively during
he past few days, and the upper Missis-
iippi is rising slowly for two hundred
niles above here. The Illinois has not
,ssn much as yet, but it is observed thst
he Missouri at st Joseph has suddenly
capped from eighteen inches above low
water mark to seven feet, AT lower
points the Missouri was low and on
tand on Sunday. Rates we're advanced
o New Orleans yesterday only TO fifty
i've cents for flour, and pound freight
wenty seven and one-half cents, by
,arges and steamers