Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-21
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VicksbUrg and the bends on Saturday at
SPIN.
The good steamer Lady, Capt Ward,
hacks out to-day at 5 pm for Friars
Point and Mariana, on the st. Francis.
She is swift and Capt. Ward is a careful
officer. The Office Is in charge of Mr.
Ward No. 2. who win make travellers at
home. raraaz rrFrFTrn
THE Golden Eagle, Capt. Ben. Merrie-
lees, will get away for Cairo and CinciA-
natl, this evening At 5 pm. a IA
We learn that the River News COM
panY is about to institute suit against
two well known mercantile agencies of
this city, for an improper estimate of the
| standing and capital OF the firm. ThOmp-
son made an effort yesterday to buy q
hat, but the confidential clerk Of the
house, who slipped out for 3 moment,
did not make a favorable report on his
return, and our cotempOrary did not get
a new tile.
The people Of saltwater, Minnesota,
have lately been pelted with hail stones
the size of walnuts.
A shoal Of dead horses and mules lost
on the Gov. ShaFkey may be locked for
sOon in these waters. A large number
Of them recently drifted into the eddy
opposite Carondelet, tainting the morn
ing breeze most u~npieasantiy, and Great
ing an olfactory nuisance which the eiti-
zens of that ambitious city could not
stand. Immediate measures were taken
by the authorities to have the carcasses
pushed into the channel OF the river and
carried southwark by the current.
1t is reported that not less than from
fifty to seventy persons We're lost on the
Sharkey, and their bodies are being daily
found. We trust that the aus Of this
sad affair will be thoroughly sifted.
Asteamboat, the Brooklyn, has arrived
at st. Paul direct from Green Bay, Wis
consin. The Brooklyn left Green Bay
on the 5th inst, and arrived at st. Paul
on the14th. She went up the LowerFox
river to Winnebago lake and through
the Upper Fox river to Portage, thence
through the canal which connects the
Upper Fox with the Wiscopsinriver, and
thence down the WfGRxkH into the
Mississippi and to st, -the9The trip is
the first of the kind eve made, we be-
lieve. The Upper aud Lower Fox rivers
are improved on the slack water plan,
and between Green Bay and Portage
there are twenty-One locks. The Wis
eonsiD river Is about four or five feet
higher than the Upper Fox, anden abun-
oAuCC VI WotCA S&n 10 NuIutu uOEn<tnt
Wisconsin into the canals. From Green
Bay to Portage the distance is one hun
dred and sixty miles, and from PORTAGE
to Prairie du Chen it is 12S miles, max
ing the whole distance from Green Bay
to the Mississippi river two hundred
and tw~enty-sight miles,
The Louisville ColriCr says We hear
that definite instructions have been re-
eeiVed from the department at Washing
ton reyiving the assessment of the q
per cent. tax on the gross receipts Of
steamers for passengers. This is to take
immediate effect, and all the steamboat
men and owners have been notified to
make out their lists since August, 1866,
and pay the aecruiDg taxes. This will,
We know, be a very heavy tax upon
some OF our western boatmen, who have
not realized more than p per cent. profit
on their entire seasons business. The
low pressure steamer Richmond viii
have a little special tax bill on that
score of about oes thousand dollars to
pay. OH