Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-13


: been elected president, George H Rea
vice-presideut, and Jas. MiCOrd, secre.
tary Of the st. Louis B0Rt-ownera' ass0cia.
! tiOn.....Shreveport has received this sea.
son 1859 bales Of cotton. The EUegl-
: ing Ledger speaks as follows Of two WELL
known river men whose deaths Were
! noticed in yesterdays APPEAL: HWith
deep regr, { we chronicle the death OF
our tried aud true friend, Captain Bob
} Good, who died suddenly yesterday
morning. MIR. Good was web known to
the river fraternity as man of many
virtues and generous to iault He was
whsrfm aster for two teTmssince the war,
and performed the duties faithfully,
thereby winning the confidence of all
river men with whom be came IN con-
tact. He was buried to-day in ElmwOOd
cemetery. We are also panied to an
noUDce the death of Benjamin Piers
Field, who moored his craft on the
stream of life yesterday, at the early age
of thirty-One. Tip Field for the last
twelve years has been one of the first
clerks in the Memphis and New Orleans
and other prominent packet lines run
ming out Of this city, and during that
period attached to him host of friends,
! who will mourn his departure from their
midst to that bourne from whence no
traveller e'er returns.' May he receive
credit beyond for his many good deeds"
...... There is but seven feet at Rseves's
bar, south of here. Captain Milt. r.
Harry arrived by rail yesterday from
Devalls Bluff, where he left his steamer,
the Ella, which will arrive with four
hundred and fifty bales of cotton to-day,
Z rrerr
afternoon. The steamers in port yes
terday displayed their eolors at half
mast, out of respect to the memory of
Ex-Wharfmaster Bob Good, and B. P.
1 Field, a prominent river clerk.
Cffppingal
! st. Louis Republican of Wednesday:
Business on the levee yesterday was
quiet. Rates south are firm at old fig
uTes, forty-fve cents per barrel being the
rate to New Orleans, and twenty-five
and half cents per hundred on pound
| freights. Weather cooler, and prophets
predict ice and cold .n..St. Louis Re
publican: "Wonder If the political rev.
Olution will help river business any2
We should like to see the great Demo-
cratic tidal-wave float few Well-lOaded
steamers out of the Ohio and down the
Mississippi." Cincinnati Enquirer
1.-THE fact is made public that Captain
| 0. P. Shinkle has sold his interest in the
Charles BOdmann TO Captain Uriah
Shinkle, Of CovingtOn, on private terms.
The commander of the BOdmann has also
sold all right and title to his interest IN
the tobacco firm of Shinkle & Swift to
the same party. Whether or not the
Bodmann viii be under tie same man
agement is not yet definitely determined
upon, but it is at present presumed such
will be the case .....New Orleans Tunes,
Wednesday: 'sThe Red river trade still
languishes. Card rates still prevail to
Shreveport, but it is possible that
freights will be advanced shortly, on ac-
count OF the low stage of water"
Shreveport Times, tenth instant: "Fhei
government observer, after q clear OBJ
servation, gives it as his opinion that
old Red at this point is still on the de-
cline. We thought so too when he said
his megs called for fall of four inches
on Sunday and the same amount of
arithmetic yesterday. This leaves the
branch seven feet and one inch above
the lowest water of 1872 or a fall of four
feet and two inches from the highest
water of this season. THE Brooklyn
IN. Y. } Sunday Sun speaking of Thur
this State, Weed was a cabin boy on
! the Hudson river boats for two years.
He next entered a printing Office at
Catskill, and soon afterward went with
| his parents TO Cincinnati, then q
frontier village, where he was employed
for some time as Juvenile pioneer. He
hungered, however, for the case. and
| in his fourteenth year, returned to
| it. In the war of 1Sl2-he was then
but fifteen-he served as volunteer,
and, on becoming Of age, set up cOUn-
try weekly of his own. Until he was
| thirty, he was connected with divers
journalistic enterprises, one of them be-
ing the Rochester Aglti- Masonic Lnq1Jir-
or. He was an ardent anti-MasOn dur
ing the excitement on inst subject, in
1881, and was twice elected to the as
sembly on that issue.N A newspaper
called the LslOliG1G Blade, dated NOvem-
Der 2, 1874, gives an account of the ter
rible explosion of the steamboat Lucy
Walker, which had occurred on the
twenty-third of October, about fOurmiles
below New Albany, and by which sixty
to eighty persons were killed and wound
ed. Joseph Meeker, a citizen of Rising
Sun, was among the killed.
The Presidential election was close
st hand - the race between
Polk and Clay-and both parties
were to have a tOrchlight procession
that evening in Lawrenceburg. The an
nouncement is made of the marriage of
James II. Pepper to Miss Rebecca r.
Shocley, which took place at Spring
field, Ohio, October 18th. The river is
reported as heing in good navigsble or
der, and rising fast. Produce BUSH
ness brisk, and good many
boats loading. Wheat, SIS TO zoe; flour,
So 65, at retail; potatoes, 20 to 25c; on
ions, SOC; green apples, 75c to 81 per bar
rel; oats, is 10 zoe; corn, new, &c. The
Pike No. Z, a new mail boat, had just
come out, and is meL.IOned as being q
very beautiful, large, and, it is presumed,
will be one Of the fastest boats sflost
Extracts are made from the st. LOUIS
newspapers that have received news
from the steamers Boreas and Osprey,
of the impending Mormon war at Maui
VOC. A convention for the promotion
of Wesi ern interests was to be held at
Memphis on the seventeenth. The re-
suit OF that convention was to get the
navy-yard st Memphis. The steamer
Andrew Jackson had picked up a snag
near White river which took every
thing out of the clerks Office except the
safe, and the steamer Plymouth had
been run into and sunk by the Lady
Madison, near Shawneetown, by which
twenty deck passengers were drowned.
The towbOat Persian had blown up
twenty-five miles below New Orleans,
killing a number of persons. James
Stirrat announces that he has just re-
ceived, in forty-nine days from New
York, by way of Toledo, a large and
splendid stock of fall and winter goods.
This was the time of the Mexican war,
and the announcement is made that the
fifth Indiana regiment had left Madison
on the previous Sunday for the seat of
war, on the steamboats, Ne Plus Ultra,
Phoenix and Wave.