Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-09


shot Capt. seef. an Enelieb odleers CD
] board, without provoeations aad threat
/ ened 10 shoot another id citizen before
de got through. He was not arrested.
George Shields, & well known bailder
Of engines 1t Cincinnati, died o. the 9Th
OF dr0psy.
About noon, on tie 4Gh inst, q large
lumber raft, on which there was s party
Of over twenty men, was wrecked by
striking a snag in SawyeT's bend, about
seven miles above 81. Louis. The aeei-
dent was caused by the swell cccasiOned
by a passing steamboat whieh drove the
raft on the snag. Shortly after it struck
the ~fastenings parted and the raft went
to pieces. Seven Of the men were
drowned.
The crew Of the Richmond egged the
citizens OF Minneapolis on her last up
trip. The p~rovoeatiOn was the taunting
bv some Of the young metropOlitans Of
the boat on account OF her defeat. The
crew took advantage, and as the gay
larks had on their Sunday-gO-tO-meeting
clothes, gave them a shower of eggs by
way Of accelerating their progrCss up the
bank.
The Deer Lodge 0roke ner shaft Ii the
Missouri and had TO abandon her "trip 70
the mountains. The Huntsville takes
her trip.
The average depth Of the Atlantic
ocean is estimated at 10000 feet, and Of
the Pacific at 20, 900. The deepest water
IN the Atlantic is of the island Of st.
Helena, which has been sounded p 900
feet, or over five miles.
The Grey Eagle takes the place Of the
the QGitman in the Greenville trade,
and the Magenta will take the place Of
the Lee in the New Orleans and Cairo
trade during the rest % this season.
There is a diving bell boat at Owens
borO, KY, hunting for a barge loaded
with whisky and lead, which was sunk
forty or fifty years ago..
A mutiuy occurred on board the
schooner Walrus, in the harbOr Of Chi
eagO, on the 4th. The Captain refused to
allow the men to 90 ashore, when three
shots were fired at him. Two Of them
missed, and the other, infiicting a slight
wound, struck Capt. Dunkins0n, Of the
schooner Ellsworth, who was on board
the Walrus on business, inficting q dan
gerous wound in his breast. The crew,
four in number, escaped 70 the shore, but
two Of them have been arrested.
The darkey pic nickers at st. Louis had
q high old time on independence day. A
lot OF them chartered q ferry boat, and
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a difficulty arose between a negro named
Thompson and four OF five others, and
Thompson was killed. A few more were
stabbed and many more are now in Jail.
SteambOating on the Amazon will
compare favorably with that now doing
on the Mississippi. VIM. Clark, who
was at one time chief engineer of the
Peruvian government, organized an eX-
plOring expedition, two or three years
ago, to the upper waters of the great
river, and is nov resident with his
companions at IquitOs, in the Peruvian
territory. He took out two steamers,
boats, machinery, ETC., and was accom-
panied by fifty volunteer soldiers, and by
q number Of British wOrkmen and their
families. The settlement is nearly as far
eff and romantic Is Robinson Crusoe's.
There are plenty Of cannibals e and
some twenty five of these rascals were
shot in a single days adventure. Mr..
Clark has a foundry and engineering
works, and has built and launched q
floating dock for the repair of his vessels.
From his letters the upper Amazon ap-
pears to be a magnificent country, prom
ising a splendid future. His steamers
run regularly deWn the Amazon, and
keep him and his colony well supplied
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outer world.
A correspondent writing Ia an eastern
paper, says of the st. Louis levee A
portion OF the city which for a time past
seems to have been ignored, is gradually
crawling into widespread nOtoriety.
There are more boats 4" laying uD" now
than has been known at this season for
years, and the number Of men out of
employment, ont Of money and out Of
credit who Jog along the levee renders
that part of the city a terror to every in
dividual who Is the pOssessor of a suffi-
cient smOUnJ Of currency TO purchase a
sandwich, Garroters, thieves, confidence
men, and all representative of the 4" fax
ing" tribe seem 80 have sprung up like
magic from among these impoverished
wretches. Fights are the familiar pastime
through the day, generally originating
about ten or twenty-five cents, and the
policemen in chat vicinity never have
any rest, for as they return from taking
one man to the statiOahOuse there is an
other ready. At night the men become
more ambitious, or au least that portion
of them who have picked up money
enough through the day to purchase
courage at ten cents a drink, aud dark
assaults, rObberies, burgiaries, ETC., take
the place of private Uroils.