Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-06
Arrivals.

st. Patrick, MOliie HambletOn, City OF
Alton, Commercial, Cleaner.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The +" old reliable " Commercial, Can't.
Ashford, with Messrs. Morton, Smithers
and Sharp in the Office, came in with a
good trip. She leaves again as usual for
White river to-day at 5 pm.
The Arthur was due at midnight last
night from below, and we suppose has
passed up.
The MinneOla departed for Cincinnati
with 500 bales of cotton.
The City Of Alton came in early yes
terday afternoon with q big trip.
The Celeste did not get away for Little
Rock until yesterday.
The Clara Dolson passed down loaded
to the guards.
The Flora, with a delegation of city
officials, made a trip yesterday to Island
40 and Presidents Island. What they
saw is set forth in our local columns.
The Dan. Able got hard aground at
Friars Point on her way down and lost
several hours.
We learn that the Mary Swan has
been seized by the sheriff, and is conse-
quently laid up for the present.
The tOwbOat Yankee passed up. She
put of $50 barrels Of tar and cement for
the Nicholson pavement at this place.
The towbOat Bee sunk a barge by over
loading at Cairo. 1t was raised by the
bell boat Underwater. On Sunday the
Bee was lying below Hailes Point IN
loading another barge which had sprung
a leak.
The magnificent Great Republic vii
be in port to-day, and viii leave for
Vicksburg and New Orleans at 5 pm.
No finer or swifter packet floats than the
Republic. Her praise is in every mouth.
Capt. Donaldson commands and Messrs.
bravo and Barr are clerks.
The steamer Mollie Hambleton is the
regular st. Francis river packet for to-
day at 5 pm. Capt. Bowman is her
commander, while the Office is in charge
Of the clever Tom. Day, who never fails
in making himself both useful and agree
able.
The City of Alton, Capt. Sam. Nc
Pheeters, viii leave for st. Louis to-day
at 5 pm. Mr.. White oficiates in the
Office.
Augusta is the largest cotton shipping
port on White river or its tributaries.
The shipments for the season amounted
to nearly 5000 bales.
The steamer Lacon broke a shaft at
Jersey Landing while on her way to
Peoria.
Only one proposal was received for
wreeking the Northern Light. Henry
W. Smith, Of St. Louis, proposes to re-
move the wreck, five feet below extreme
low water mark, for $4,000.
While ten men watch for chances
man makes chances, and while ten wait
for something to turn up, one turns some
thing up, so while ten men fail one sue
ceeds and is called a man Of luck, the
favOrite of fortune. There is DO luck
like pluck. That we have plueky men
in our midst we can prove by pointing to
Mike Pyne, the owner, and John j.
Edison, the master of the st. Patrick.
They have shown by putting this fine
packet in her present condition, regard
less Of expense, and placing her in the
Vicksburg and bends trade when times
are comparatively dull, that they possess
the requisites necessary Tor complete sue
cess. That they will achieve ii no one
who knows them will doubt. Much as
has been said of her appearance, her old
friends along the river will find that she
exeels in every particular. Capt. John
Edison commands, and he has no supe-
riOr in his profession. Clay Rice-Dr.
ClRy-is in the office, and his genial phiz
will be like a ray Of summer to his MANY
friends in the trade. Capt. Jim. Perry
handles the fish tail. Her engines are
controlled by Shacklett aud Baldwin. of
whom we have before spoken, and her
tables, under the experienced Y of Mr..
Geo. Birch, will vie with any on the
river. Her bar is presided over by Neil
Sparks, a good soldier, and Of course a
good boy, Don't forget that-the st. Pat
rick leaves at 5 pm. to-day.
Capt. E. A. Levy returned Yesterday
from st. Louis. While absent he made
arrangements by which Capt. Davis line
Of White river packets secure all the
freight bound in that direction which
may be brought here by the st. Louis
packets. The new Office, No. 262 Front
street, into which the firm of Levy q
Miller have just removed, is centrally
situated, and is being fitted up with every
convenience.
Capt. John T. Shirley, after a short
visit 10 his plantation, is again in our
city.
We learn that the mate Of the We'll
come died just before that steamer ar
rived here OIL Sunday. We did not learn
the cause OF his death, but it was sudden.
The second clerk was III Of the same dis
ease, but was convalescing until be heard
Of the mates death, when he took a re.
lapse and wss not expected TO live. The
body Of the mate was placed in a me-
table corin at this place and conveyed to
ST. Louis.
The merchant fleets Of the different
nations is the subject Of a comparison by
q contemporary, from which it appears
that Great Britain, with her colonies,
stands greatly ahead in the amount Of her
mercantile tonnage, while Northern
Germany for exceeds France, being third
on the list. The figures are /: Great Briton,
I ,O00, 009 tons the United States, 5,000,-
900; Northern Germany, 1,340, 900
France, u.s.. 009 Itay, 666, 900 Neither
lands, $4,000 Spain, 276 600 Austria,
983. coo; Sweden and Norway, ia, goo
and Denmark, 10000. In the year
ls60-6I the United States had overtaken
| England as the first commercial power,
and had az that time the largest tonnage
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