Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-07

MEsCELLANKOus.


The fine packet Adam Jacobs will
leave for St. Louis on Thursday next.
The Pauline Carroll got $500 sacks OIL
corn at this place for New Orleans.
The Republic did not arrive until late
10 the evening. She was aground al
Plumb Point for several hours.
Somebody is talking about q moon
light excursion on the McCune.
The Mary Mcdonald loaded at st.
Louis in place of the Gaty.
The Rob Roy blew out a cylinder head
above st. Louis a few days ago.
Novels, clerk of the Florence Ira
Der, left last evening for q short stay in
st. Louis.
Thompson, Of the Bulletin, who has
been dOmieiled on Front Row for the
past few days, was victimized to the tune
of all his store clothes by a thief who
entered bis room in the night. River
editors have been particularly unfortu-
nate OF late, but the raseals appear to
know that the news agency is flush, and
that the partners have laid in q supply Of
clesn linen. Had the thief taken the
shirt of our cOtemporary's back, as well
as the dirty one found in the corner, our
friend would have been in q bad fix. As
it is, he lost half his wardrobe.
A man named Gallagher, who COM
mitted a murder and robbery in Iowa.
and for whose capture Sl40O reward was
offered, was taken to st. Louis last even
ing on the City of Alton.
The canal, o 10 be built around the
lower Des Moines rapids of the Missis-
sippi river, is to be about seven and a
half miles long, extending from Nash.
vile to Keokuk. The width Of the water
surface inside the canal TO be three hum
bred feet in embsnkment and two hun
dred and fifty feet in excavation, and in
low water to be five feet deep. All the
material exeavated from the prism Of
the canal to be used in building the en-
bSnkment. The latter throughout the
greater part Of the distance will be
about three hundred feet from the Iowa
shore. Where rock excavation occurs,
the bottom Of the canal viii have q slope
Of one and one-half inches to the mile.
The embankmeDt is to be built Of earth.
clay and rock to be ten feet wide on top,
including the rip-rap covering; to be two
feet above high water mark.
The Atlantic and Mississippi steam
ship wharfboat at Vicksburg is for sale.
There was nothing done at the last
meeting Of the Louisville Captains asso-
excepting the Introduction Of a
resolution eondemning the late action of
the New Orleans association in reference
to cotton bound with iron ties. The Lon
isyille boatmen consider the rope ties as
good and as safe as the iron ties, and are
at least liberal enough to draw or make
no invidions distinctions.
Ever since the surrender Red river has
been haTigable for medium sized boats.
Steamers capable of carrying three
thousand bales of cotton and over one
hundred passengers have made regular
trips from Shreveport TO New Orleans fer
The last eight months. This unpreee-
tented stage of water, says q Shreveport
exchange, has caused US 10 lose sight Of
the difficulties and defects in the navi-
Of this unreliable stream. The
is falling rapidly, aud ia 3 few
if the weather continues dry, 1t
viii be difficult for the smallest stern
wheel boats TO come to U wharf draw
nc three feet water. Red river would
oe navigable during the entire season II
IN the water was confined 20 one chan
ael. BY q system of dams constructed in
such q way as to permit the excess Of
10 escape
Tones bayou, thirty miles below cur
,itv. carries into Bayou Pierre lake fully
bwosthirds Of the water, which does not
snter the main river until it reaches
Grand Ecore, thus cutting of q supply Of
to the proper channel for over one
hundred miles.
The CoraS. left Evansville at 10 O'Clock
IN the 4th, having been aground st
French Island tWenty-four hours at the
head of Henderson bar. She cast an
shor, swung round on s root, stove q hole
- b,sIi conaa0uenfIy filing with
= possible, and lies straight and easy
with the water half way up toe nosing
her lower guards. The freight was
being taken out, and she will be readily