Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-11

ENANsNI.ALEy DcC6IuUoI ~ - VOdJu
| er cleared during the night, but cloudy to day
| Mercury SOTO 40o. River II and LILO feet and
| a stand. Up: Etna and tow and Idlewild,
| am; George Roberts, noon. Down: Airing
| ton, noon; Tarascon, 30 pm; Andy Baum,
| pm.
CAIRO, December 0.-Noon.-Arriv.
ed: Mary Houston, New Orleans, 9. am; Capt.
tol City, st. Louis, 10 am; John A. Wood
| Pittsburg, am; Osceola Belle, am; Alice
Brown, Ohio river, 10 am. Departed; join
| A. wood, New Orleans, am; 0sceola Belle
south, 3 am; Mary Houston, Louisville,
q m; Alice, Memphis, 10 am: Capitol City
| Night-Ariived: H. c. Yaeger, st. Louis,
D.m; Bismarck and Fannie Lewis, pm
Departed: e. NJ. Norton, st. louis, noon
Jaeger, New Orleans, p.n; Charles Brown
st. Louis. pm River Is feet inches, anC
rising. Weather fair. Mercury 40o.
Movements at the Levee.
ARRIVALS.
Ste Genevieve, st. Louis; Nellie Peck, st
Louis; City of Augusta, White river; George
w. Cheek, Helena; Phil Allin, Friars Point
Ruth, White river; QuicKstep, mouth o.
White river; Julia, st, Louis
DEPARTURES.
George W. Cheek, Helena; Phil Allin, Friart
Point; Julia, Yicksburg; Ste. Genevieve, st
Louis; Nellie Peck, Vicksburg.
IN PORT.
Quickstep, City of Augusta, Ruth, Minneola
BOATS DUE.
Osceola Belle, Alice, Capital City, Osceola
Louisville, Thomas Sherlock.
BOATS LEAVING SATURDAY.
For VICKsBURG.-The.C Capital City, Captain
O'Ne8l, master, leaves as advertised thil
evening at five O'Clock. She leaves the ele
vatOr promptly at the hour stated.
For NEW ORLEANs.-The Louisville, Cap
tain Power, master, leaves Glenn's wharfboat
at ten O'Clock this morning, for New Orleans
aud the bends.
For WHITE ,RTvER.-The City OF Augusta,
fn4R, hig linz Tl,rr
O'Clock, for all points on White river. Ship.
pers will note the fact.
For CINCINNATI.-The Minneola, Captain
Skunk, master, leaves at five O'Clock this
evening for Cincinnati, and all points on the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers Intervening. Tiff
StriGer is chief secretary.
FOR ARKANSAS RIvER.-The Rosa Miller
Captain Banks, master, cuts loose at five
O'Clock this evening for all points on Arkan-
sas river, including Red Fork, Auburn, New
Gascony, Pine Bluff, and all points through
10 Little Rock, carrying the mail.
For MOUTH OF WHITE RIvER.-The Quick.
sieD, Capt. Stack Lee, master, leaves at five
O'Clock this evening fer the lower bends
including Helena, Uelta, Friars Point, Old
Town, Australia, Laeonia, Concordia, Grady 8
mouth of White river, and all plantation
landings, carrying the United States mail.
For WHITE RIvER.-The Ruth, Captain
Postal, master, sails for White river al the
the mouth of White river, Bay st. Charles
Crockett's Bluff, Mt. Adams, DevaIl's Bluff,
Des Arc, Augusta, Jacksouport West Point
and Searcy. She carries the mails. CrOWell
is chief clerk.
Receipts Yesterday.
The following comprises the receipts by
river since last report:
George W. Cheek-2j bales cotton, 6l2 sacks
cotton-seed, p pgs sundries
Phil Allln-2i2 bales cotton, 66l sacks cot
ton-seed, 3 bags seed-cottou, q pgs sundries.
Quickstep-ll3 bales cotton, 6 bags seed. cot.
ton, $50 sacks cotton-seed, 20 p9,s undries.
The Ruth brought out of White river 655
bales cotton, 54S sacks cotton-seed, 10 barrels
cement, beer kegs, lot of game, and sun
dries. .L-.rgW
The City of Augusta brought out of White
river 4S0 bales cotton. It's sacks cotton seed, q
hides, head deer, Is pgs sundries.
Leyee Dots.
Vicksburg complains OF mosquitoes yet.
Departing packets yesterday mad fine trips
out.
Business on the levee yesterday was not OF
the most active character.
The Phil Allin left snow al inch deep at
Friars Point, and awful Geld weather.
The Osceola Belle was at Cairo yesterday.
She will be here to-day. Look out for her.
The towboat Oakland passed down last
evening, going south with q large tow OF coal.
Captain .. z. Joplin was n passenger up on
the SIC. GenevieVe yesterday, en- route to meet
The Ruth snd Quickstep were both late get
ting into port yesterday evening, but both
hau good trips.
The tug Oriole, of the st. Bernard coal COM
pany, OF this city, is being repaired by Walker
ard Willis, OF Cairo.
The rugged condition of the channel be-
with steamboat interests.
The Vicks0urg Herald says that the Mary
Bell took on 3S6 bales cotton from the cars at
Chicot in forty-SiX minutes.
The weather was too sweet to last long, and
now we are promised another wet season for
a change. Sic transit gloria D1uTldi.
They have commenced the cut-throat bust
ness in freight rates at st. Louis, in which the
shipper, of course, Is the only man made
happy.
one hundred "tramps" took passage on the
Belle st. Louis at cairo for the cotton fields
below here, having been hired by planters to
pick cotton.
II is whispered that the Osceola Belle is rot
the only belle Captain Joplin will take charge
# IN tbs tnot very lar distant future-but we
will let that pass.
The fleet of broadhorns have begun arriving
ouJ of the Ohio, as is evidenced by the big
cabbages, and other produce peculiar TO that
kind OF river transportation, seen in our mar
ket. ..t
Local packets complain of dullness of BUSH
ness. Tney seem to be doing enough, but get
mighty little for lt-almOst 10 the extent that
the less they carry the more clear money they
make.
Captain r. NJ. Bradford, her agent, is re-
ceiving for the John B. Maude, which will ar
rive Monday and leave promptly Tuesday
evening for New Orleans and all intermedi-
ate points.
Henry Wood, pilot, got into a difficulty
with another river man named Samuels at
Cairo Monday, during which he cut Samuels
with knife, tnfiicting serious wounds. Both
were dr. mixing.
ers on the levee yesterday afternoon. The lit
tie grunter ives TOO fat to waddle lar, and was
soon captured and carried aboard the Phil
Allin ri et dTmfS.
The Vicksourg Herald of Thursday SAYS
that the Robert Mitchell met the Thomas
sherlock near Lake Providence, going up the
river apparently on one wheel, with the tow
boat LIZZIE Gardner alongside OF her.
The Mary Miller lost horse overheard at
Glenn's wnarfboat last night, for the recovery
of which Captain Glenn wilt pay a liberal re-
ward. He (tne horsel has a white Etripe down
his forehead, and one white foot, and is sup.
posed 10 have got ashore near the elevator.
Captain Stack Lee, ike man OF taste and
rein -mCnt, has now one OF the finest braks
bands on the river, and the arrival and de-
parture of sLe Quiekstep here, and at the land
iugs along the coast within her line, forms
an interesting event, and draws immen Sc
crowds. Everybody speaks in praise of the
Quic Kstep's band.
The new o lceoIa Belle will be the attrac-
ton at the levee tomorrow. She was built
expressly for the upper bend trade, and is rep
resented TO be elegantly adapted TO the busi-
ness she Is expected 10 command. Captain U.
Z. Joplin Will command the Belle, and OF
course she VIII be popular with our merch ants
and the upper-benders.
Wharfmaster A IL. Hurd, of Cairo, reports
the following arrivals at that port during the
month Of November: Number of steamboat
lss; towboatsr IS; registered bargts, az; total
tonnage (hull measurem emit, lO5,SGl tons. OuI
whaTfmaSter would contribute an interestinR
Item TO marines hereabouts, once q month, Il
he would give US such a monthly statement
or other statistics pertaining 10 his depart
ment.
Hearing some complaint about the length OF
time cotton-seed and ol-barrels were allowed
TO occupy valuable space on the levee beyond
the time prescribed by ordinance, we inter
viewed the wharfmaster on the subject, who
informed us that he had notified the oil-miIl.
10 remove their stuff, and that he was enfoIc
ing the ordinance TO the letter. He stated thai
the Ol-Iniils find great difficulty Ia gettins
drays 10 remove the seed as fast as Il Is re-
ceiVed.
New Orleans Times, Thursday: "Fhe cham.
p'Ou cotton carrier, the great steamer Mary
Bell, Captain ]. r. Hicks, Clerk All GrissOm
arrived with another monster cargo of 6l6l
bales cotton and IA s5S sac ks seed. The wealth
eT iDteTfered very much with her, or she
would have brought rs large load as on heI