Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

d MISCELLANEOUS.
The Hambleton, from Cincinnati e
b Arkansas, passed down yesterday.
q 3The RubicOn, from Vicksburg 70
st. Louis, passed up yesterday morning
The Johns. McCune, Capt. Duffer, viii
Z leave the Star wharfboat to-day at 5 pm
j. for White river.
o The Gen. TOtten was working at tn
: wreck Of the old wharfboat sunk at tn
foot of Monroe street, last evening. Pre-
: parations rave been made to blow up tn
wreck at 8 O'Clock this morning will
, tOrpedoes.
4 The Dan. Able, Capt. Jas. Lee, leaves
e to-day st 5 pm. for Vieksburg and tn,
: bends. MI. William FIELDS is her pnr
! ser.
The Starlight passed down from Gin
! cinnati for the Arkansas with a very fail
} trip yesterday.
f The Marble City, Capt. Tsehudi, leaves
the wharf to-day at 5 pm. for Cairo anC
st. Louis.
The Victor No. ,, Capt. House, is the
regular Saturday Haile's Point packet
She leaves at 3 pm. Mr.. John Grehan
presides in the Office.
The Virginia, from st. Louis for New
Orleans, passed down yesterday. The
Sam. Gatey, from st. Louis for Vicks-
burg, also passed down last evening.
The Celeste is receiving for the Arkan-
sas, to leave on Tuesday next.
The st. Patrick, Capt. Wash Wyatt,
with Messrs. Clay Rice and Jas. Thomp-
son, in the Office, will resume her regular
trips in the Vicksburg trade on Tuesday,
the 9th of August.
The little steamer Flora will leave the
wharfSunday morning at 10 I'm. for Is
land 40, returning att p IN. Those wishing
a pleasant trip will do well to avail them
selves of this opportunity.
The Golden Eagle viii probably arrive
to-day from Cincinnati.
The Great Republic will leave the
What tomorrow at u NJ. for Cairo and
st. Louis.
Capt. !. B. Townsend is in the city,
| soliciting stock for the Mississippi Valley
! Navigation company. Those wishing to
make a good investment will do well to
subscribe stock to this important in
ventiOn. 1t will form a new era in
steambOating, and will undoubtedly
prove a success. One of the boats is now
being built at Cincinnati, and will be
finished by fall. Capt. Townsend makes
his headquarters at the Gayoso. We
can assure the merchants and capitalists
that this viii be a safe and profitable in
vestment.
Capt. John w. TobiR has contracted at
Louisville for q new boat, for the New
Orleans and Red river trade. The new
packet is to be similar to the famous boat
built for Capt. Tobin Just before the war,
the ]. f. Pargond. The length OF the
new boat will be $50 feet, with 40 feet
beam and 8 feet depth of hold. She will
have two high pressure engines, each 80
inches in diameter, with 9 feet stroke,
working water wheels with is feet length
of bucket. The boilers are Z in number,
each 2s feet in length and 40 inches in
diameter. The cabin is to be the latest
style of modern improvement, with state
rooms twelve by eight feet.
The next session of the board of super
vising inspectors eonvenes at Chicago on
the 18th of July. This is a matter in
which all s-teambOatmen are interested, |
and they should bear this meeting in
mind. 4he object of this meeting IS to
consider the action of the commission
that assembled in New York a few weeks
ago, by order of the secretary of the
treasury.
The gunboat Palos made q third trial
trip in Boston harbOr on Wednesday,
using petroleum for fuel. The trial was
even more satisfactory than the previous
experiments. The rate of twelve knots
was made against wind and tide, with q
pressure Of thirty-twO pounds of steam.
The vessel was fourteen inches deeper in
the water than on the previous OCCASION,
and was in bad trim.
The Louisville Courier of yesterday
has the following: The river was falling
rather fast yesterday, with only three feet
nine inches water in the canal ia the
evening by the mark. During the pre-
viOus tWenty-four hours it had fallen
three inches at the head Of the falls and
nine inches at Portland, the lowest stage
this summer. The weather has turned
warm. On the fails, in the pass or dug
chute, there were but twenty-one inches
water last evening, and the river falling.
The late Pittsburg rise has not reached
this locality, and we think it likely to be
all absorbed by the bars at Rising Sun
and Warsaw. The last reports from that
were twenty inches in the ehan-
lel, and falling. Cincinnati, like the
70 dog with the bone" is beginning to
grOwl and grumble at our bridge over
the falls of the Ohio. We can give Gin
and Pittsburg, too, for that mat
the assurance that said bridge will
interfere with the fleet Of stern
wheel dinkies that sail from their porfs
Can you say as much for the Cincinnati
= nuisance ~
The low water hence to Cincinnati is
heavily with the mail line. The
little Blue Wing No. 8 made her first
appearance yesterday morning in place
Il the great America. The latter has
ought summer quarters somewhere in
he vicinity of Rat row, or Sausage row,
Cincinnati. =
The General Lyle, unable to work up
,ver Rising Sun bar, has, laid ND along
bore somewhere below the bar. Louis
lille, or Rising Sun bar, may be con-
idered as the head Of low water naviga-
ion, Cincinnati, like Pittsburg, being
Ut off by protruding sand bars or natu-
al distractions. A good rain may make
'ater enough 70 relieve the Cincinnati
eet awhile.
Owing to the restrictions to navigation
enee to Cincinnati the famous PINK {
'Arble has been chartered to take q cargo "a
Z tobacco for the east as far as Cinei1.
at to relieve the mall boats.
We hear it rumored that the Pink =
arble and Norman, will be chartered to i
y the trade between this port and Gin
matt during the prevalence Of low
alter.
There are some nineteen OF twenty n
in port, with, however, not business By