Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-08

Vicksburg; Osceola. st. Francis river
| Golden Rule, New Orleans; Frank For
rest, Ashport; Alice, st. Louis; Gland
Tower, Vicksburg; John F. Tolie, St
Louis.
DEPARTURES.
John B. Maude, 81. Louis; st. Gene.
We've, VicksbuTg; A. J. White, Frisrs
Point; John +. T0lle, New Orleans;
Alice, Vlcksburg; Frank Forrest, Ash
port, Colleen Rule, Cincinnati.
IN PORT.
Illinois, Oscsols, Cons Millar, Grand
Tower, Ella.
BOATS DUE.
City Of Vicksburg, Rosa Miller, Shan
non.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
WHITE RIvER-Eua, Ed c. Postal,
master, five pm.
VICKsBURG-City of Vicksburg, r.
K. Riley, master, ten an.
ST. LOUIS - Grand Tower, George
Lennox, master, five pm.
Observation-Disclosures, Mark Cheek,
master, five Pm.
Demonstrations. Millar, Sterling
I'LL
ARKANSAS RIvER-Rosa Miller, T. J.
Da-rsgh, master, five pm.
Receipts Yesterday.
Osceola-3 bales cotton, S35 SKIS cot
ton-seed.
IllinOis-59 bales cotton, bags seed
cotton, 2573 SKIS COttOn-seed.
A. J. White-27 bales cotton, Is bags
seed-cotton, 955 SKIS cotton-seed.
Golden Rule-lO0 sks and II Iris salt.
40 boxes tin plate, 5 brls pitch and q lot
of suDdries.
Cons Millar $50 tOns-1 pkgs furni-
ture, l56 SKIS corn, 81 brle flour, 81 bales
hay, 200 brls cement, 20 brls apples, 155
boxes ST. rch, $50 boxes soap, 50 rolls
bGgging, 1929 bGls cotton ties, ITO pkgs
paper, SO pkgs tobacco, 800 empty oil
barrels, 81 head sheep and sundries.
Marine Miracles.
Cloudy yesterday.
The departing packets left with fair
trips.
There was mighty little doing at the
levee yesterday.
Our ssndbar is showing up in all its
beauty and picturesquenes3.
The sandbar on the opposite side of
the river will soon be favorite resort
for bethers.
The Rosa Miller is due from Arkansas
river, and returns this evening with
Thomas j Darragh in command.
st. Louis papers complain Of the "dis.
GRACEFUL condition of the levee there.
They ought to come down here and
take look once.
The Cons Millar is Oh berth for Gin
cinnati, and leaves this evening. Cap
tain Sterling M'Intyre is in charge,
while Captain James Wilson attends to
the affairs of the otlice.
The AnchOr-line packets leaving to-
day are the City OF VicksbUrg, for VIcks-
burg, at ten O'Clock in the morning, and
the Grand Tower, for st. Louis, at five
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Illinois, in command OF Captain
M, Il. Cheek, backs out this evening at
sharp five, making all-Way landings
through to ViCks6uTg. Captain Joe
Spears can 30 found in the Office.
. The channel Of the river at the foot of
DEVILS Elbow cutoff seems now to be
turned into E'Og'emanis chute, where
there are three fsthoms of water and
current lunning at the rate Of six miles
an hour.
Captain Z. L. Starr, mate VI the 1lli-
nois, wss obliged to use siX.sLooter on
a negro who tried to assasginate him at
Nlbletps Saturday night. Full particu-
lars, and what became Of the WOuld-be
assassin, will be found in our local COL
umn6.
The John L. Iolle passed down yester-
day morning with a full load. She was
drawing little over nine feet. The
Frank Forrest assisted her in lighting
over the bar opposite Osceola. She was
two days getting over, not being able to
find but eight feet.
We regret being out yesterday when
the genial Captain Ed. Thomas, Of our
fsvorite steamer IdleWild, called to see
us. Tears welled up, Ed, when we read
that HgOOd.byh over your phisht. Cap
tain Thomas has been down among old
friends enlisted while the pretty Idle.
wild was running i'll the lower-bend
trade, and returned yesterday to Cairo
to join his boat, which is now a fixture
between Cairo and Evansville.
A st. Louis paper says: "The A. J.
Baker is laid up at Cairo. Her captain,
Thomas Poe, YVES sun-struCk while up
the Tennessee. He was dOctored empiri-
cally in Cairo, and then brought home,
it was thought to die. His son John,
and daughter hRstened over here and
happily report their father, yesterday,
recovering slowly and now out of dam
ger. He is at the house of Lis son-in-
law, Blythe, mate of the Baker"
Captain Ed Postal informs Us that his
new packet, the Hard Cash, building at
Pittsburg, will be ready about the If
teenth of September, and delights in
telling US that she will be beauty. By
card elsewhere it will be seen that he
has started his independent line, having
chartered the steamer Ella, q good pack
ct, to run until his new boat is complet-
ed. The Ella, with Captain Postal in
command, goes out on her first trip this
afternoon. Captains Washington and
CLAIM ara her apentq