Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS

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toryu in the matter Of the ram Arkan-
sas. We were satisfied that he would do
so, hut we must confess that the follow
ing passage which ccurs 10 his eXplana-
ton, rather knocks the linen off the
~shrubbeTy:
This Is the more remarkable from
the fact that we 'had frequent CONVERSE
tons with Capt. Shirley while the Ar
kansas was being constructed, and were
with him when she was launched, and
remember well the frequent dissppOint~
ments to which he was subjected by de-
lays on the part of the contractors for
the iron works. r
The above paragraph opens up q new
question In the history of the Arkan-
sas-i. e., where was she built? Wa it
in Memphis? Was it at Paddcah? Wa
it at Louisville? Was it at Metropolis?
Or-Oh, Lord, we can't help it, it must
out-was twas it at K-K-Kairo? gJ
The Wild Irishman will be In port this
evening, and will return again to Nicks-
burg on Tuesday evening. Capt. John
J. Edison is the wen known and popular
master Of the st. Patrick, and Clay Rice
is clerk.
The f~nesidewheel packet MoIlie Ham,
bleton, Capt. Bowman, leaves for St.
Francis river on Tuesday next. Tom.
LAY Is cnleI Clerk
The steamer Commonwealth, Capt.
Joe Lloyd, will leave for New Orleans
to-day at 4 pm.
A meeting of the w. NJ. J. club takes
place to-day, and it is expected that
every member will be present.
The towboat Hyatt, with four barges Of
stone, arrived yesterday from above.
The last heard of the Rob Roy she
was aground above Louisville.
MI. E. w. Halliday, Of Columbus, KY,
arrived in u city yesterday. He de-
parts for home by rail tonight.
Capt. Thomas Newell returned yester-
day from sn extended trip to st. Louis,
Cincinnati aud other northern watering
places. He did not, however, visit Chr
cago, which the papers of that city claim
as one of the finest in the world. Capt.
Tom looks as though the trip had not
been an unpleasant n
An August sun was waning fast.
Wben up Front row a planter passed,
Looking each sign board Ger and Ger,
To md the famous well died store
Of MART WALT co.
The Great Republic is laid up at
Cairo.
Capt. T. H. Wills, of st. Louis, has
bought three-eighths of the steamer Far
ragut at the rate of $4,000.
Old Abe, from q rail splitter and fat
bOstman, became president and martyr,
Andy Johnson was 8 tailOr,HenTy Clay
was q plough boy, Tom CdfWin a Wag-
oner, old Chase was q ferrymaB, NapO-
leon q corporal, Ney a tavern keepers
son-but the latest and by far the great
est stride towards fame we have heard
Of since Durff was a boatman, is that of
a steamboat clerk, named George Moore,
formerly of the Lscon, who from that
humble position has become commercial
editor of the Quincy Herald.
The Mountaineer is said to be high and
dry somewhere up the Missouri. She
was valued at $4,000 and insured for
$4,000, and is q total loss. Capt. Robert
Baker, Ben. r. Smith and r. f. Wool
folk were her owners.
The Sucker State, on her last trip up
to st. Paul, had over six hundred pas
sengers.
The cotton press men Of New Orleans
have combined together and determined
to charge s~eventy-fve cents per bale
storage for the first sixty days, and
twenty-five cents for the succeeding
mOnths-One dollar per bale storage for
three months. Hitherto it has been but
thirty cents the season. The cotton men
Of new Orleans have been trying to drive
away the cotton trade from that city in
various ways, and so far as this region is
concerned have been very successful.
The steamer Lawrence recently carried
into Mobile q lot of loose cotton and the
safe of the burnt steamer Sunny South.
Three important tributaries Of the
mighty AmaZOn-the Ucuyali, Pachitea
and Paleszu-have been successfully nav
igated by steamers for a distance Of 1927
miles from the embrochure of the first
named river. The successful voyage of a
late expedition ia destined TO lead to great
commercial results, for it has demon
strated the possibility of supplying seve-
raj departments of Peru possessing a pop
ulatiOn exceeding half a million, with
foreign goods by way of the Amazon, !
and of vast and fertile regions of the in
terror, after q navigation from Maio,
situated on the eastern slope Of the
Andes, no less than $500 miles. Such is
the field soon to be thrown open to the
commerce Of the world by the inaugu-
ration of the free navigation of the ANA
zOn.
1t may not be generally known that
Memphis embraces within its limits some
young gentlemen who are given to the
healthful exercise Of boating. We have
a boat CLUB in prosperous condition.
The nucleus Of the present club found
its origin in the old Memphis boat club
founded in 1866, whose first boat was a
fiat bottomed but good skif, and humor-
ously dubbed by "the boys" the SEX
tirminator," and they did have some
glorious old times In her, When able, /
they had the present beautiful specimen
Of architecture and model, the Ivan
hoe" built by Frank Dsshney, at a cost
of 800. Removal from the city and
resignation dwindled the club TO q bare
crew, but they labored on "half rations"
for awhile, tryingt to keep alive the orig
iual project, and found success in the
formation Of another club, thu Mag
nolia," who, finding that in union there
was strength, desired a consolidation of
the two clubs, which was effected re-
Gently under the happiest and most
favorable auspices. Ben. A. Shepherd
was chosen president, las he was of the
old club Fred. Scharper, vice president,
J. S. Smith, secretary, and o. Felthouse,
treasurer.
We wish the young gentlemen every
success, and hope soon to be able to
chronicle their proves upon the broad
river in a match with the crack crews of