Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-16

I6uHlIk III tuAfBt Oi lu6 oilBty Sca'
away for the Rock on Tuesday next.
The Harry Dean, Capt. w. b. Miller,
viii be in port TO leave on Tuesday fol
Cincinnati. Being the only boat in port
for that city, she should have q fine trip,
The told reliabler will be in port,
"you bet,u in time, and will leave on
Tuesday for White river. Capt. Ashford
commands, and Messrs. Morton and
Harry are clerks.
The new Sam. Gaty did not get away
until yesterday. She took on board about
1900 sacks of corn for New Orleans. The
corn will be reshippeG on the Ruth a.
Vieksburg.
The Kenton also took 400 sacks Of corr
for New Orleans.
The Richmond passad down last even
ing with light trip. She had a detaeh-
ment OF ffty-seven men belonging 10 the
5th United States artillery, on their way
to Fort Bsrrancas, in Pensacola bay. BY
the neglect OF dilitoriness Of the tele-
graph company, she lost nearly $1,000
worth of freight at this port. Had the
dispatch which was handed to the Cairo
operator on Friday been received here in
time, she would have got fully 1000 sacks
Of corn, which was, after much trouble
and expense, shipped on the Gaty and
Mepham.
The good steamer Welcome, with Capt.
Johnson in command, will be in port to
leave for Vicksburg and the bends on
Monday at 8 pm. Nj. Powers is chief
clerk OF the Welcome.
The r. r. Lee, Capt. Cannon, will be
in port to leave for New Orleans on We'd
nesday next. She passed up for Louis
vile yesterday at 1910 am. At 2:I0,
Just four hours out, she was met by the
Richmond five miles above Randolph, or
nearly seventy miles above this city, and
Capt. Neal says she was "spliSting the
river wide open.U If she makes the run
to Cairo in 1880, we hope our Louisville
contemporaries won't be too much aston
ished to pay their respects to Jim Smith,
McVay and Dinwiddie. They amt proud
if they do run with the Lee.
The bids for the Improvement OF the
Rock Island rapids were opened on the
5th instant by Gen. J. II. Wilson. and
the bid Of Charles G. Case& Co, Fulton
Village, New York, was found 10 be the
lowest bid, the average being SO per
yard. They agree TO remove 5000 wards
per month, which would complete fbe
work in two years. They have BEEN
reported to the war department as the
lowest bidders, and will probably get thel
contract. The work must begin within
twenty-five days after the contract is
signed.
Since the 1st Of May Pittsburg, Pa.
has sent to southern ports 6 .656 600 bushels
of coal. To do this business $40 boats and
barges were required.
The st. Louis Times says of The sinking
Of the Gov. Sharkey: 1.-THE impression
prevailed among steamboatmen yester-
day that the ShArkey sunk because she
was overloaded. This the captain en-
phGticslly denies. He says she was not
near loaded to her full capacity. On
account Of having a great number of
horses on board, he had been compelled
to put the heaviest part of her cargo on
the forward part of the boat, which. we
presume, gave her a tendency to pitch
forward. The captain claims that when
he left port the guards aft were two or
three feet out of wster-that from abresst
the boilers to the chalk they were a
half ineh out OF water, and that her nose
was two feet above thewater. He states
that in rounding to quite q quantity of
water was forced on her deck. and he
went into the hold and found that some
cOmmissary stores were being damaged.
He at once concluded to land the boat
and shift his freight, and place the per-
lshabie height out of danger of being
damaged, and at the same time get more
of its weight bearer the stern At this
time the captain states that he had no
idea b a the boat was in danger: but
the passengers, seeing water on the deck,
ana nearing the order to land given,
became panic stricken, and rushed for
ward pelI neil. This action precipitated
the very event they so much dreaded.
AS We have already stated, the boat was
drawing two and 8 half feet more water
forward than aft, and the weight Of
nearly two hundred men on the bow and
one side caused her to list and ship water
rapidly. The first attempt TO land was
prevented by the current, and a landing
was not effected until they had reached a
point near the foot OF Miller street. She
was landed alongside of q barge, and a
line thrown out, which 500 parted, and
the boat drifted down near the arsenal,
where she run aground, careened toward
the middle Of the stream, aud nothing
but the pilot house and a small portion Of
her hurricane deck are above water"
The loss of life is ~variously estimated at
from six to thirty-ive. Among those
lost were Eugene TurtOn, clerk, and the
first engineer, A. Cornelius. But four
ladies were on board, all Of whom We're
saved. Many of the government en-
plOyees who were on board were drunk.
The steamer Gov. Sharkey was originally
known as the |" Alone,,i and was built at
Madison Indiana, in 1862, by Capt.
Frank Burnett, and by him sold to Capt.
John G. Copelin, who in turn sold hSr to
the United States government, by which
she "a used during the war as a trans
port. AT the close Of the war she was
sold to Capt. T. H. Newell and others,
who changed her name to "a Gov.
Sherkey. She was used for abBut six
mQ4bs as a pasPat between New Orleans
OF lh@SZqSsi on bond was then sold to
tablishfdtl the jury v and others, of this
city, and byd Judge sced in the st. Louis
and Arkansa o'clock Ade. At the time
of her loss tRbadsStsgS was valued at
$4,000 and insured for $1,000, Of which
amount the Phoenix of New York Ind
5000, and the Magnolia of Cincinnati
$4,000. The boat is a total loss. A por-
ton Of the cargo will be saved in a badly
damaged condition.