Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-10

clear and sultry,
ST. LOUIS, June 9.-Weather clear
and warm. River stationary. Arrived:
St. Genevieve, Nicksburg. Departed:
Belle st. Louis, Cambridge Grand
Tower, Memphis.
EVANSVILLE, June 9.-Weather
partly cloudy: mercury 549 to So, wind
nom the south. River is falling slowly,
with 1910 feet on the gauge. Down:
Tarsscon, pm; Thompson Dean, 3
pm. Up: Etna, S am; Geo. Roberts,
sam; IdIewild, 9 am. Business fair.
The Dean got large quantity Of freight
here and from the Grey Eagle, and has
10000 bags Of corn engaged below.
Movements a, the Levee.
Below we give the arrivals and de-
partures since last report, boats in port,
and packets leaving to-day:
ARRIVED.
Phil Allin, Frisrs FONT; Simpson
Homer, New Orleans; Mary Houston,
New Orleans; Illinois, Vicksburg.
DEPARTED.
City of Vicksburg, st. Louis; All.
Stevens, Dyersburg; Simpson HOrner,
Ohio river; Mary Houston, Louisville;
Phil Allin, Friars Point; Minneola, Gin
cinnati.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
For ST. LOUIs-The City of Chester,
Captain Zelgler, at five pm.
For VICKsBURG-The Julia, Captain
Blake, at five pm.
LeVee Reflections,
L" A-ca-chew! a-ca-cheww is the bur-
den of our song these days in cOnse-
Quence of the unreasonable coOlness-
the last " chew" long drawn out, &C.
companied with outrageous distortion of
feature, and frequently yell that could
be heard mile or mOre......TwO daTkies
in a lesky skiff. Says one to the other:
Julius, kin you prayW "NO." "Kin
you sing 8 hymnW mo" See
heah, Julius, sumfin 'ligiOus is got to be
done, and that dam quick, too; s'pose
you pass round de hat. The body of
the negro boy drowned near Whites
steam-mill was found Tuesday evening,
but as far as we could learn no inquest
was held over it......Captain Glen has
a number OF petitions signed by the best
merchants and steamboat owners, resi-
dent and foreign, praying a favorable
considerationIof the Wharfboat question
in view of its great convenience to the
commercial interests of Memphis, but
he says the committee investigating the
matter won't give him hearing, even de.
nyiug him the right to plead his case at
the consultations. Verify, there is some
thing strange in this wharf boat bust
ness. The communication below indi-
Gates how the action of the city
council is regarded in other cities.....
The general council spent much
eloquence and consumed much time
yesterday in discussing matters pertain
ing to the marine interests, but failed to
accomplish anything of Importance.
City Engineer Burke informs us that he
is mRrshaling his hosts and making
preparation to tackle the levee improve
ment business with q will; that he will
begin the preliminaries in week or ten
days, and that he is determined to put
his best engineering ability to the test in
making the Memphis wharf one of the
best on the Incorporated the city will
put up the amount necessary to put his
plans and work into practical use......The
picnic for the benefit of the Old Memphis
brass band is the event Of the season,
and comes off this evening at James's
park. Dark-eyed beauty as well as those
whose windows of the sOuln borrow
tints from ETHEREAL realms; raven tresses
and golden ringlets; the blonde and the
brunette-al will be there under the pro-
lection of the brave and chivalric
buffer Of the younger gender-among
the latter class the marines will be con-
spicuous. The objects for which the
picnic is given should inspire everyone
to patronize it. Good music and pleas
ant evening generally are assured......AI.
u Nv TlDN L.
hospital at Cairo last Sunday morning.
MIR. Al. d. CroxalI, late chief clerk
of the Indiana, has resigned his berth
to engage with the well known grocery
firm of Carson, Daniel & Co., as trav-
cling salesman. Captain Frank Stein
succeeds him in the office of the Indi-
ana......The following is from one Of our
st. Louis exchanges: "The momentous
question now agitating the marine world
is the name that will be painted on the
wheelhouse Of the new Belle Lee.". .....
The Dyersburg packet ALI Stevens, got
away during Tuesday night. The tow
boat Grafton has been purchased at st.
Louis to do the towing for the Eads jetty
business at the mouth Of the Missis-
sippi......The steamer L. G. Mccormack
was sold at Pittsburg on the seventh to
James r. Martin and Chas. Buck; price
five thousand dollars. She will ply
in the Muskingham river trade.
The WharibOaf Question.
ST. LOUIS, June Z, 1879.
River Editor Memphis Appeal:
SIR see from your column, Of which
continue to be daily reader SIS of old,
your city council continues to harp on
the wharfboats at your landing. Send
your landing committee (of which l had
the honor of being chairman for several
years. to st. Louis, and let them exam
inc the long line OF wharfboats from one
end OF the landing to the other, and
they will see at glance that the river
commerce of this city could not live
fOrty-eight hours without them. II your
city government would give all the
packets who want them wharfboats, and
set aside the money the steamboatmen
pay for privileges they don't receive, and
appropriate il where it properly belongs,
to the improvement of the entire land
ing, from the mouth of Wolf river to
Fort Pickering, If necessary, they would
thereby invite business to your city, in
stead of driving iC away. So long as 1
live will l anXiously watch the move
ments Of Memphis, and feel deep in-
terest in her prosperity, and hope to live
to see her yet one of the leading cities
in the Mississippi valley, which she will
be if her citizens will wake up and take
advantage of what nature has already
done for her. merely make these sug-
gestiOns for what they are worth, "if
anything" Wishing the APPEAL
long life and prosperity, am, yours
truly, 1T. CARTWRIGHT.