Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-13

Louis, where hewill spend three months
representing the cotton shipping inter
ests of his line from Memphis south b.
barges.
The A. j. White, from Napoleon
came in yesterday evening with
| splendid trip. She had 346 bales OF CO..
ton, 81 bags seed.cotton, 1918 sacks cot
on-seed and large lot OF sundries, anC
a big passenger trip. She unloaded al
the elevator.
Jimmy Sullivan intimates that hi
stands NO. 3 as the funniest man of the
marine type. So he is to look at. Jim
| Durff is No. as the ugliest. The same
current OF mOdesty that carried the
Sullivan into the woods prevents this
chronicler from naming the handsOmest.
Give it TO us easy, friends.
Helena World, 9th: at is almost i'm
possible for steamboats, 10 obtain hands,
as there is so much cotton in the fields,
and so great an amount comparatively
Is offered to pick it-Out. Before the fall
season Que dollar per day was regarded
as good wages. Now the boats pay one
dollar and fifty cents, and in many cases
are forced in the middle Of their trips to
pay greater prices"
The New Orleans Times, of the
eleventh instant, gays: Labor here for
steamboat purposes is scarce, and we
hope our friends at Chicago, Cleveland,
Buffalo, st. Louis, Pittsburg, Penn syl-
wanna, and other points, where the riv-
ers and lakes will soon be closed by ice,
VIII give this a notice, and perhaps
thereby they can be enabled to help us
out with class OF men who want to
WORK and know how to do it in a man
ner that will be satisfactory to our boat
men and be remunerative to themselves.
Pass 1t along We have been asked
the question, why is it that our SOUTH
ern trade boats, and especially those in
the Memphis, Vicksburg and the bend
trade, don't go into the pool-line sys-
tenn, and thereby work for each others
intert st and save this cutting business
which is so disastrous TO all. Can any
body answer the above question? We
cannot.
In the chsncery court yesterday the
Memphis and Vicksburg packet COM
pany, Memphis and Arkansas line,
Memphis and White river packet COM
pany, United States mail line, the Lee
line, and Milton Harry filed petition
asking that the city of Memphis be en-
Joined from the collection of Wharfage.
The petition alleges thatthe condition Of
the wharf is such as to render it impCs-
slble, except at an enormous expense, to
put out freight; that the city makes TO
appropriation OF the funds asst S sed for
the improvement of the wharf, which is
in dilapidated and impover she'd con-
dition. The petitioners therefore pray
that the city be enjoiued from the col
lection OF wharfage until the levee be
put in proper repair for the facilities Of
commerce, and the money assessed for
such purpose be appropriated thereto rs
provided by ordinance. The court yes.
terday issued a fiat.
The lighthouse tender Alice has Ioca-
ted the following rev lights on the
Mississippi, between st. Louis aud
Cairo. One light opposite foot Of Birds
TOwhead; one light at Greenfields;
one light opposite rock-pile above Eliza
Point; one at foot COttonWOOds, below
wreck Of Boston; one at foot Missouri
Sister; one at bunch sycamore3 below
foot Orient field; one at warehouse, foot
Sliding Island; one on field on Goose
Island; one on corner of Burnham's Is
land; one opposite "Paul Jones" Rock;
one on point rocks below Thebes; one
above Thebes; one above Rock Tow
head, opposite Gray's Point; one orpo-
site end of dixie on DEVILS Island; one |
in field on DEVILS Island ION bari; one
in field opposite Hat Island illinois |
'ide); one opposite Begy's; one on foot |
Of Saline Island; one in head OF Kas-
zaskia Bend; one in head of Ste. Gene.
We've Bend; one on corner of Ste. Gene
We've Island; one light at Sand Depot;
me on wreck of Glendale; one at Frank
Brickey's; one at head OF Fort Charities
Island; one at John Brickey's mill;
me at Fish Landing; one at foot of
imber above Forest Home; one in head
II lend above Jim Smiths; three at
Widow Boards Towhead, and two at
1or5etail Crossing.