Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-20

Departures.
Steamer Julia, New Orleans.
+" Silver Cloud, Cincinnati.
7. l.. McGill, New Orleans.
Boats in Port
Des Arc, Ozark, Cora s, Natoma.
MISCRLLAHEOUs.
Business was quiet yesterday upon the
levee. The up country packets due on
Wednesday had not arrived at dark last
night. arg
A lady passenger on the Cora S, from
Louisville to this city, gave birth to a son
on Wednesday night last. The officers
Of the Cora were equal to the occasion,
and promptly lent all the aid in their
power. This makes the third birth on
that steamer since AL. Croxall has had
charge of the office. He is a No. l clerk,
and takes no little pride in doing his
whole duty.
The J.. s. McCune came in yesterday
from White river with a damaged rud-
der. She lays up for a few days to put
in a new one.
The T. L. MeGm passed down last
night. She had but little trouble getting
over Phillips bar, but was detained
twenty-fouf hours at Island 81, at which
point she reports scant six feet.
Phillips is a favorite resort for down
stream steamers. Few Of them pass it
without delaying some hours. When
the Cora passed, the SoutheTner, bound
up, and the Lady Gay, also on the up
trip, were there, lending friendly aid 10
other steamers, or were hard aground
most probably the latter. The Stone
wall, Virginia, Henry Ames and Belle
st. Louis, all bound this way, were
drawing more water than the channel
/ nfFawla1 apH rvara FQuf Tho HDro NTH
two barges, was removing freight and
Tightening, and making a good thing out
of the misf0rtunes OF her larger sisters.
Some of the steamers above named
will, no doubt, be found in port this
morning.
The Cora S, Capt. Hicks King, will
leave to-day at 5 pm. for Cairo and
Louisville. AL. Croxall is chief clerk.
Mr.. G. T. Geoghegan, of 276 Front
street, returned home yesterday from a
short visit to the "blue grass Tegion.v
He reports business active in beth LOHis-
vile and Cincinnati, but says the Ohio
is no longer q respectable stream. 1t
would not compare favorably with Wolf
river. Mr.. g. gives a glowing descrip-
tion Of the girls of Louisville, but we
amt going there. They are too sweet
for US.
Mr.. Wilson has resigned his position
in the Office of the Ozark, and our friend
Jimmy Thompson has assumed control.
The Ozark leaves to-day for Little Rock.
| Capt. Rowland is master.
The NatOma, Capt. Elliott, via Fred.
Brigham in the Office, leaves to-day for
Mariana.
The Adam Jacobs, Capt. Crane, leaves
to-day at 5 pm. for Cairo and st. Louis.
! Mr.. Mason is clerk.
The fine steamer Rowena, Capt. John
Davis, will be found in port this morn
ing. She returns tomorrow evening to
White river. Messrs. Kidder, Harry
and Sharp are her secretaries.
The MinneOla, Capt. Hates, will leave
to-day at 5 pm. for Cairo and Gin
cinaati.
The Des Are, Capt. John D. Elliott,
will leave for Vicksburg and the bends
on Saturday. She carries the United
States mail, and makes all way landings.
Miller and Hanks are in the office.
The Cleaner, Capt. John Fenwick, will
leave for Pine Bluff tomorrow evening.
She made a quick trip, and will do so
again. Mr.. Patterson is her clerk.
We learn that the Memphis dry dock
company have made a very good and
substantial job Of the America, and
INhll- 4NDW lauh Ca W EHSES IlLlA,ElA nlELlN
pleased with the in which she
was repaired. Tomorrow the Myrtle
goes on, and will receive a thorough
overhauling. Capt. HardWick intends
putting on a new cabin, and the total
expense of her repairs will not fall short
Of $4,000. The Myrtle will ply between
Vicksburg and the upper end OF the
YaZOO. Her friends around the Heroic
City Will not know her on her return to
that port.
We omitted yesterday to mention that
Capt. Nat Green had received q dispatch
from Capt. FeDwick, of the Cleaner,
announces her arrival st Pine Bluff.
Capt. John made a high water Tun, and
went up to the Bluff with a large trip.
The old wreck laying below the city
wharf boat should be removed. The
Totten worked on it, but like the removal
of the wreck Of the JEFF. Thompson, it
was a failure. It will be the death of
some steamer, and the city will have
mOre to pay in the way Of damages than
would remove a dozen wrecks.
The gully at the foot OF Monroe street
has been filed up, and the paving laid
over it. 1t is now possible to get to the
City wharfbOat without endangering
ones neck.
We have been made the recipient Of a
a couple Of baskets Of peaches from the
plantation Of Capt. r. ID. Bailey in Mis-
souri,. Capt. Bailey, after many long
years upon the river, might well afford
TO sit down under his own vine and flo
tree, bat he is too much attached To his
first love, and still pursues his calling
with the energy and vigor Of early man
hood. One of the pioneers of the upper
Missouri, and lucky beyond precedent
few men now live who remember his
favorite river from Is early a day as
Capt. Bailey. During the course Of an
average lifetime he has commanded and
guided vessels along thst turbid river,
and has the satisfaction TO know that he
has neVe yet lost a boat or met with
serious accident.
The ida hees, now at Cincinnati, has
been sold.
The Starlight was 10 have left Cincin-
natl for this port on Wednesday.
At last accounts the Minneola was on
the wrong side of French bar in the
Ohio.
The Mound City Journal says Of the
late accident TO Mr.. LOunsbury: George
E. Lounsbury met with quite a vel
accident, on Thursday, aboard of the
Robert i. Lee, while she was being
launched. When the New Orleans was
pulling her out, he ran from one side to
the other TO see that she cleared herself
from the cradles, and not Observing
where he stepped, he fell into a hatch-
way. The fall bruised and Jared him
terribly, though d. bones were broken.
He fell about fourteen feet, and landed
upon the timbers that stay the flooring
of the steamer. He will he confined TO
his room by the effects Of the accident
for some days, but there is no fear of
dangerous consequences.
The propeller Magnolia has been re-
paired at Evansville. She belongs to
Cairo, but her owners were compelled IL
to Evansville on account of the strike
at the Cairo dock-yard-a strike which
foolishly continues, and which has
already cost the strikers, in lost time, as
much as if they bad worked the whole
year at even less than the wages Offered
them. HH .Th
The Tempest ferried her freight over
Scnfietown bar, and it wss expected
that she would abandon hertrip to White
river.
The attempt to raise the Northern Line
Burlington is likely to be sue
cessfuf.
The total receipts of wharfage at Evans
vile for the last year we're $11 $50 79,
Whhe the AMOUNT OF expenditures were
over 10000. fi
Thu Post Boy, while on her way down !
the Missouri, struck a hidden obstruction
the mouth Of the Gasconade, start
a plank and taking in three and q
half or four feet Of water. AbuIk head :
was built and she was pumped dry by
her syphon pumps i9Ajitt ,
The Dubuque Herald says:
Ira vaIinp o~ufhR-riVer is uncertain
business at present-pQthing comes to
lime but freight bills, which-are gene
rRlly prompt. low water troubles are (
Increasing. The Milwaukee was nine I
going from Prescott to st. Paul, .
lstance Of thirty miles or more. Boats
scraping saudbars all along.
The Cincinnati Enquirer OF the 18th
there have been rains in the noun +,
q rs, and 8 rise in the tributaries of the j
Upper Ohio is reported. There was a t
Use of two OF three inches at Parkers- q
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