Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-10

Departures.
Steamer Belle st. Louis, st. Louis.
Lady, Friars Point.
" Ezra Porter, New Orleans.
John Kilgour, New Orleans.
ROats in Port
Rowena, Dan. Able, Cleaner, City OF
Cairo and Victor.
MIsCELLANEOUS.
The fine packet Rowena, Capt. John
B. Davis, goes out to-day for all points on
| White river. She is a swift and beautiful
packet, and makes connection at DeYalPs
Bluff with the train for Little Rock. Mr..
Kidder, Milt Harry and Charley Sharp
are her well known clerks, while her
table is unsurpassed, being under the
control Of Mr.. Walters, who has won
fame as a steward on the Commercial.
The Legal Tender will be at the land
ing to leave for Cairo and Louisville to-
day at 10 am. Capt. Yves. Conner COM
mands.
Capt. Elem Calvert, superintendent of
the St. Louis packet company, has been
appointed agent of the Diamond line. No
better selection could have been made,
and we predict for the line NJ small share
OF popularity under the able manage
ment OF Capt. Calvert.
Admiral Tegethoff, of the Austrian
navy, and party, arrived in the city yes
terday by rail, and went south on the
Kilgour.
Capt. De Haven left yesterday per rail
for New Orleans. We are glad to learn
that our men of means are taking an in
terest in his new steamer. Mr.. Clarke
who has charge of the stock o in
this city is meeting wittfAnuch success.
A new club, composed of OuDbest citi-
zens, has peer formed in this city. Its
second meeting was held yesterday, and
a few new members elected. Mr.. Billy
Green is president, DR.. d. J. O'Rielly,
secretary, and Geo. W. Miller, treasurer.
II is known as the w. NJ. & L, and its
proceedings will be found in our local
column.
The Dan Able withdraws from the
Vicksburg trade for two weeks, and un-
deTgOes a thorough course of repairs.
She will come out as handsome as when
new, and will make things howl this
son in the bends.
The wreck of the Madison is being re
moved by the w~harfmaster.
The City of Cairo is the st. Louis
packet for this evening. Capt. Bob
Riley is the popular first officer, and
Billy White is chief clerk. Her steward
Is QOB eActileu III Lu6 dIt Oh ulhhluB
travellers feel happy and contented.
The Ezra Porter did not arrive until
last evening. She had some freight for
this port, and some for the Arkansas,
which was reshipped on the Cleaner.
The fine United States mail packet
Cleaner is now in port, and leaves for
Little Rock to-day at 5 pm. Capt. King
commands and Messrs. Fenwick & Pat
terson are clerks.
The steamer Silver Lake was fired into
by Indians at Heart river, on the Mis-
souri,, forty-ive miles above Fort Rice,
and the captains son was badly
wounded.
Williams & Co., of Vicksburg, offered
a barrel Of pork, one of flour, one of
meal, and a free passage TO st. Louis
and return, to the party bringing into
that city the first lot of shelled corn of
this years growth. The prizes were
taken by a citizen living near Vicksburg,
who came in a few days ago with, we
learn, some 800 bushels Of the new crop.
The corn passed up on Thursday, on the
Rubicon, for st. Louis. We will yet fur
nish the northern states with grain, if
the OdiOus cotton tax is not removed,
so as to make that crop profitable.
The river bank near the landing at
Pine Bluff is caving rapidly, and COM
pels the movement of houses in hat To-
Something material must be
done with the bank in order to save more
valuable property.
Our friend FrOlich, of the Record, has
sold his feather bed to some nutmeg ven
ders from PorkOpOlis. They represent
that new feathers cannot be used for the
purpose they wish. They promise to re-
new ones in a month, and ia token
of faithfulness they deposit twentyc ents
for each pound Of feathers. As they are
worth seventy.ive cents there is little
of them ever bringing new
feathers and redeeming the twenty cents.
They keep gathering until sufficient for
shipment, when they take them TO the
nearest point on the river and forward to
Cincinnati.
Capt. Cakes new stern wheel steamer
successfully launched from Maek's
yard, at Cincinnati, on Wednesday last.
She will be ready for the fall trade.
Gen. Warren, in his report, gives the
navigable distances OF streams f:
The Yellow Medicine, navigable 237
the St. Croix, from the falls to its
SO miles; the Canon and Lake
So miles the Zumbro, go miles;
the Wisconsin and Fox, $50 miles, and
the Mississippi, from st. Anthony to
Rock island rapids, 369 miles,
The first train drawn by a locomotive
burning crude oil went from Tidioute to
IrvingtOn, n. Y, last week and the trip
was successful.
The underwriters of st. Louis will
make no discrimination in insurance
rates between rope-bOund and irOn-tied
Their action in the premises has
.r., 4alr,, -, vsan % ~aa,Ir4fsnr /
by New Orleans steamboat mas
ters, to charge twenty-five per cent.
freight on all cotton not irOn-tied.
Mai. Thomas Cornell, of ROndOut, now
member of congress from the Thirteenth
New York district, is said to be the
individual steamboat owner in the
States. He owns altogether nine
teen steamboats, and propeilers, and his
is variOusly estimated at s., 500,-
300 T 5000, 600.
The Atlantic and Mississippi steam
ship company have closed engagements
ior a full complement Of pilots for one
year, at $500 per month, or S2400 for the
year.
There has been lately some dissatisfac-
ion between Capt. W. B. Donaldson and
he other members of the captains Ma
line charitable association. This resulted
n Capt. Donaldson delivering his writ
withdrawal as a member of the assO-
,iatiOn, and he announced his determin-
.tion to run the Great Republic heTeaf-
as an entirely independent New Or
cans and st. Louis packet, for which
hat boat was built.
Secretary McCulloeh mas issued a cir
,ular, notifying local inspectors of steam
lsats that they are required, under the
Inspection laws, once every year to in
meet the hull, boiler, machinery and 4
.quipment of each steamer belonging TO
heir district, and to approve Of the same
granting certificates. This inspec-
ion includes the locked safety valve, as
veil as other equipments.
The Walter B. Dance, while on her
way to the upper Missouri, struck a
st the mouth Of that river on We'd
lesday night, and had to return to st.
louis for repairs. The snag entered her
iuil making q large hole in her bow,
.bOve the water line, and breaking her
spindle. Not q drop of water
Some packages of freight were
Inocked into the river. A deck hand
md fremen standing near the capstan,
umbled into the river. The fireman
vas drowned. {
We understand that the Alton packet
company have contracted at Jefferson
lille, Ind, for the hull OF a new steamer
or the Alton trade. II will be 235 feet {
D length, thirty-five feel 1sor, with a :
Of hold of six feet IN the clear.
he new boat will be furnished with
power to make her one of the fast {
st boats afioat. mfkItf 2
Nom Resident Notice.
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