Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-10
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Able, Celeste.
MTsCELLANEOUs.
Freights are getting scarce for all
points. A negro with a barrel and small
box on his dray, marked for Arkansas
river, WAS the only person seen upon the
landing yesterday. The captains of the
Caldwell and Florence Traber " went
for" the lot. After considerable cutting
the TRADER got the freight and concluded
to get away with it. which she did.
The Olive Branch, Capt. Jones, goes
out for New Orleans this day at 10 am.
Larry Harmstad & Co, agents.
The prompt and comfortable White
river packet Des Arc, in command OF
that veteran officer and clever gentle
man, Capt. John D. Elliott, viii leave
on Saturday at 5 pm. Travellers can
neS@Afud a better opportunity. The
Des krc makes positive connections at
DuvaIPs Bluff with the train for Little
Rock. Larry Harmstad & Co. and
Levy & Miller, agents.
The City of Cairo goes out for st.
Louis this day at 5 pm. in charge of
Capt. McPheeters, than whom a better
man don't run the river. All know the
speed, as we'll as the comforts of the
Cairo. Capt. Elem. Calvert, superin-
te0dent.
Capt. King will back out the Empire
for Louisville this day at 5 pm. w.
Jay johnson and Larry Harmstad Go,
The Clifton, Capt. Stein, will head for
Cincinnati direct, to-day az O'Clock
pm. Larry Harmstad u Co. are her
The steamer Rubicon, for Vicksburg,
with Capt. Blake in command, will go
out to-day at 5 pm. Larry Harmstad
d Co., agents.
We learn that the Southerner, after
complying with the law concerning her
water gusges, etc, will enter the Mem
phis and Louisville trade. With popu-
lar officers she may do well.
Capt. j.. a. Levy, who went to Pork
opolis to buy the bridge, returned last
evening after having effected the trade.
1t will be brought to this city in sections.
The Octavia will, we learn, enter the
st. Louis and Arkansas river trade in
connection with the Mcdonald.
A stern wheel boat, with two barges
in tow, passed down yesterday. Jim
could not make out the name.
The new steamer st. Mary, after try
ing to pick up a mountain trip at st.
Louis and failing, went around into the
river and got a load for New Or
leans. She passed down yesterday with
stopping.
Capt. Wilkins, our Wharfmaster, has
had several new and strong ringbolts
inserted IN the levee. Accidents Ice
which happened to the Lee will
not soon ecu
Capt. J.. Gordon Jenkins, well knOYn
this city as an officer Of the Clift5n,
died at Newport, KY, on the 9Th inst.
M. Bazin has obtained clear submarine
photographs at a depth Of 800 feet, in his
studio, by means Of the electric
thrown through Water-tight lens
windows upon the objects to be photo
graphed. The value Of this invention
in submarine surveying is obvious.
From eastern exchanges we learn
that the projected experiments with Pc
troleum as fuel, on the gunboat Palos
have taken place, and proved eminently
successful. These experiments were
under the superintendent OF Chief En-
gineer Asherwood. There was, beside,
on board the Palos, a board Of twelve
other engineers. Everything being in
readiness, steam was raised on the Palos,
and she was made to excel her usual
speed by two knots per hour; the gases
burning with a pure white flame, and
GAk lAA+6 EeA AACAC AaNANAAI !
and abundantly than any other fuel.
The flame is steady and uniform, and
there is no going down" of fires by
the carelessness Of 6remen, or the infe-
of fuel. One great advantage of
this invention is that the fires are at all
times under perfect control, the simple
turning of a stop-eock being sufficient to
eXtinguish them all in q moment. The
apparatus is simple and inexpensive,
consisting Of a small iron box or retort
in the place of the CRATE bars, and
burners all around it. Its bot
is kept hot by burners beneath. The
oil is carried into it by a small iron pipe,
and vapoTizes as soon as it enters. Steam
is then introduced through a coil of iron
pipe filed with iron filings and located
over the burners, where it is intensely
heated and decomposed, and its gases
enter the retort, into which air is at the
time forced, and the whole forms q
gas which escapes from some nine hun
bred burners, where it burns with a clear,
blue flame, completely filing the
and extending into or through
the hues. The heat is very great. It
smits no smoke, can be increased or di-
in a moment, or be entirely
extinguished by turning a ~stop-cock.
The apparatus is very simple, and any
part Of it, if broken, can be repaired or
made anew by any mechanic. No al
t~eration Of boilers is required. 1t will
burn wherever coal will, and the fire can
be run by any man of ordinary intelli-
geRce after aGs@ur's instruction.
A few days since the boiler in the Key
City Touring mills at Dubuque, exploded,
the fireman, engineer and others,
and wOunding many more. This boiler
IS said to have been taken from the
Itaska, n of the white-cOllared
.moke-stack sort, Of the Northwestern
Union packet line.
The st. Louis Republican Of the sth
The decline goes on here steadily. The
upper rivers are getting down to an ordi-
nary stage. There may even be low
before long. There is yet a great
Of water hence to Cairo, The
Missouri river boats are bringing down
good cargoes, and do not 20 out without
/ full complement Of freight and passen-
gers. Upon the whole, the river business
5 not 50 dull as il might be.
The Louisville Courier of the Sth SAYS:
The river was rising very slowly yes !
with nine feet eight inches water
the canal in the evening at dark, by
he mark. During the previous twenty
our hours It had risen only two inches
It the head Of the falls, and six inches
It Portland. The weather has turned
quite cool, the thermometer at fifty de-
srees, with every indication of frost last
though it was cloudy. On the
ais last evening there were seven feet
light inches water in the pass down the
indian chute, and the river about sta
This is ~Gnfavorable news for
coal feet, several of which arrived
yesterday, and WILDE compelled to float
heir tows of flats through the canal.
was water enough, however. for /;
barge feet, and several were taken
YER the falls in the evening.
A gentleman who has lately passed
yer the Inundated country between the
Mississippi and the Atchafalaya thinks 4
hat not less than five thousand cattle, {