Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-15

Grand Tower and John A, Scudder, st
Louis, 2 am; Thomas Sherlock, New
Orleans, am. Departed: Colorado
st. Louie, s am; John A. Scudder
New Orleans, 4 am; Sherlock, Cincin'
natl, am, Weather cloudy and cool
Might - Arrived: Peytona, Evans
vile, pm; City Of Chester, ST. Louis
6p.m. Departed: E. Nj. Norton, Ohio
river, 4 pm. River q feet 9 inches
and decreasing. Westher-light rain
since dark. Mercury $40.
Movements at the Levee.
| ARRIVALS.
IdleWild, Gsines's Landing; Belle Of
Texas, Arkansas river; City OF Augusta,
White river; City of Helena, Vicksburg
ThomI son Dear, New Orleans; Susie
Silver, Cincinnati; John B. Msude,
New Orleans.
DEPARTURES.
City of Helena, st. Louis; Susie Sill.
yer, New Orleans; John B. Maude, st.
Louis; Illinois, Vicksburg; Idlewild,
Gaines's Landing; Audy Baum, Gin.
cinnsti; City Of Augusta, White river;
Osceola, st. Francis river; Belle Of
Texas, Arkansas river.
IN PORT.
Thompson Dsan.
BOATS DUE.
Osceola Belle, Phil Allin, George w.
Cheek, Csrondelet, John A. Scudder.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
HELENA-G. W. Cheek, N. 8. Green,
master, five pm.
FRIARs PoINT-Phil Allin, James
Lee, ST., master, five pm.
AsHPoRT-Osceola Belle, o. K. Jop-
lin, master, five pm.
Receipts Yesterday.
Idlewild-247 bales cotton, II bags
seduction, 326 sacks cOtton-seed, As
pkgs sundries.
The Belle of Texas brought out OF
Arkansas river sos bsles cotton, SO bags
seduction, 1890 sacks cotton-seed, 81
pkgs sundries.
City of Augusta brought out of White
river 439 bales cotton, boxes eggs, 4
tierces lard, bundles dry hides, 2 pkgs
furs, Is pkgs sundries.
Thompson DeRn-l97 bales cotton, 25
sacks hulled seed, 10 hhds sugar, As bbls
molasses, 172 bbls molasses, 10 casks
ale, 20 bbls rosin, Sc bbls oranges, l3 bbls
beets, s crates cabbages, 10 bbis rice, 19
pkgs sundries.
LeVee Paragraphs.
Gloomy is no name for it.
Business yesterday on the levee was
brisk.
Lookout for the disappearance of
more leyee soon.
The John B. Maude passed up yester-
day for st. Louis, to be turned over to
her new owners.
1t Is rumOred that Captain J. F. Noel
will charter the Carl Schurz to run In
the st. Francis river.
Notwithstanding the we.ness on the
levee yesterday, business transactions
panued out satisfactorily.
Sullivan, Of the Vicksburg Herald,
couldn't see the eclipse of the moon
Friday morning. Words are useless.
The Susie Silver, from Cincinnati en-
route to New Orleans, added here yes
terday SO bales cotton and 1000 sacks
oil-meal.
Wharfmaster Kallaher's books, pro-
duced before the city council last night,
efectually squelched the reflections
made by resolution entertained at the
previous meeting.
The sale Of the wreck of the Mary
Bell, which was to have taken place
at Vicksburg one day last week, did not
occur until yesterday. The result we
are not prepared to state.
Rumors circulated on the streets YES
terday that steamboat was in trouble
below here, but the story could not be
traced to reliable authority, nor could
we ascertain the nature of the supposed
trouble.
Cincinnati Commercial: "Commodore
Thompson Dean has gone to New York.
He says the Thompson Dean will re-
main in the Memphis and New Orleans
trade, all reports to the contrary not
withstandin9"
q The Andy Baum departed last even
ing for Cincinnati with 626 bales cotton.
Il bales rags, 80 barrels scrap-iron, 110
barrels potatoes, $50 empty beer kegs,
$50 barrels oil, 80 tons miscellaneous
freight, AZ cabin passengers, 26 deckers,
The lightning, renowned, elegant,
gilt-edged, etc., New Orleans Times OF
Saturday, has the following news:
Captain ]. T. Hicks, of the Inflated
steamer Mary Bell, ia in the CITY, AMI
will remain with US few days on bUsi.
ness matters exclusively. He 0as bsd
an offer of the Peabody hotel at Mem.
phis, Tennessee, but has not 40 AIDE nm his
mind fully whether he viii accent IL or
not. he is well calculated for the busi.
ness, and would make a capital Roni.
face" We don't know anything about
Captain Aicks's business, but the story
about the Peabody hotel ia told in these
parts in effect that Captain Hicks has
been trying to negotiate for that popular
hostelry, etc.
st. LlOuig Globe Democrat, Sunday.
'T'he stockholders of the,SI. Louis ami
Memphis packet held a meeting on
Thursday last. Messls. Laveille and
Levi AIchbrook resigned. Messrs. Jno.
f. Keiser and Theodore Zsigler were
elected to I'LL the vacancies, and Mr.. w
<. ALBEIT wRs elected to al the vaean.
cy at subsequent meeting. The FOL.
lowing officers were elected: John II.
Carroll, president and general superin.
tsndent; John G. Prather, vice.presi.
dent; w. Z. ALBEIT, secretary. The
board now consists Of the following
directors: John w. Carroll, J. G, Prath.
er, John A. Scudder, w. E. Atbetz.
John P. Keiser and Theodore Zaigler, u
Maybe the CD. meaus the st, Louis
aud New Orleans packet company,
Imagine the feelings of this chronic,fr
on reading the following in the Vicks.
burg Herald, Of Sunday, by which one
Of the proudest efforts ofour journalistic
career is tortured into nonsensicaI non.
sense. We wonder that his scissors did
not weep tears Of blood on being era.
ployed in such rhetorical desecration.
This is the way the river historian of
the Memphis APPEAL puts it: THE
azure depths are green again obscured
by lesden clouds, and verual showers
are promising their seasonable vista
TONS That fellow Brooks ought to be
writing for magazine, one of the nom
explosive kind, we mean" In III
name Of all the gods, my beaus a., e
blonde, where did you get the "r LII. ..J,
from? Have Won designs sp- 9Ioen