Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-21

Senger agent.
The White river packet COMING eial,
with her usual promptness, will back
out on Tuesday evening. Capt. Davis
commands and MessIs. Smithers and
Harry viii do the honors of the desk.
Jas. T. Bourne & Co. and Levy & Miller,
agents.
The Mollie HambletOn, will go out for
st. Francis river on Tuesday evening at
5 O'Clock. Capt. Bowman commands.
Larry Harmstad & Co., agents.
The St. Patrick, for Vicksburg, will
go out with Capt. Berry in command,
en- Tuesday at 5 pm. w. Jay Johnson,
agent.
The ]. D. Perry, with Capt. Lee Fin
ney in command, will leave for Louis
vile on Tuesday at 5 pm. Levy 81
Miller, agents.
The Robt. Burns, Capt. Bowers, will
leave for Cincinnati on Tuesday at 5 pm.
Larry Harmstad & Co, agents.
The Belle Memphis, Capt. Musselman,
leaves Of tomorrow at 5 pm. Capt.
Calvert, superintendent.
Capt. John Cannon came up on the
Lee yesterday morning. He went to
Cairo on the Adam Jacobs.
The Des Arc went out for White river
yesterday with a very fair trip.
The Dan Able left for Vicksburg with
a light load. This line of packets have
lost many friends by drawing off their
boats just at the time their patrons along
the river below were sOrely tried by the
flood.
The Mollie Fellows struck a snag in
Red river we learn, and went to the bot
tom. Her cargo was saved. What style
of boat or what worth, we can't say.
Alexander Mcdonald, the second mate
of the ship George Hurlburt, and John
Ford, the carpenter, were drowned in
Mobile bay on Sunday last.
The interesting race between the two
American clipper ships, the Luis Walsh
and the Charlotte w. White, both of
Belfast, Me, from Callao to Algesiras,
attracts attention in Europe. These two
vessels sailed on the 26th of September
at the same hour and kept company for
ffty-four days, passing Cape Horn on
the twenty-sixth day. They parted in
latitude 20 deg. south, longitude "a deg.
west, crossing the line in sixty-fve days,
losing the northeast trades in latitude
%, longitude SO west, after which time
they had light east winds for seventeen
days and came in company again sn the
Both of December, but paked the same
evening. On the 9th of 5puary they
met again Off Gibralter, when the Luis
Walsh won the race by twenty-five min
utes, after a passage Of one hundred and
four days.
Several new plans are being devised,
and some old ones revived, for moving
vessels without steam or sails. Promi-
nent among these is one to have a wind
mill connected with an ordinary screw
propeller. That is not quite equal to the
n proposed, of placing a large bellows
at the stern of the boat; while this and
all others are eelipssd by the more eco
nOmical Of employing the resistance
of the water at the bow to turn the pro-
peller at the stern.
The Cleaner had all the freight and
people she wanted for the Arkansas river.
On the 18th inst, at Pi~ttsburg, an ex-
plOsiOD took place on the tugboat Alex
ander Chambers, by which three deck
hands and a fireman were seriously in
iuraH Vba apuinaar uro ~ ~, koa-7 i
at the time Of the accident.
The rise st. Louis is at an end for
the present. Tonnage is in excess at
that point.
We learn by a private dispatch that
the man calling himself "a Darling,1 and
who made a raid upon some reporters of
this city and New Orleans, passed
through here night before last, on his
way to Louisville. We hope our ex-
changes there will show him up.
CoLLIDED.-The steamers NJ. S. Me-
pham and Continental collided yester-
day, a short distance above Helena.
They were both bound up and the for
mer boat attempted to run across the
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together and the Mepbam had part other
wheel and a~fterguard carried away. No
damage was done. Both boats
have passed up.
The great steamer Richmond passed
US last evening, full of people. She re-
ceived a large accession here, and would
got many more had she adj
vertised. AS it was, no one knew when
to expect her. She has made a very
good run from New Orleans, considering
that it is her first trip, and her passen- |
gers speak in terms of the highest praise
Of Capts. Neal and Voolfolk.
Some apprehensions were felt last
evening that q fire might break out in a
building on Main street, neal the corner
Of Madison. The property of a well
known pilot, consisting of bottles, paper
boxes, cigars, lamps, empty jugs, !
,te., were hastily removed from the gen. I
leman's room through the window. It
a moving sight and drew a large
,rowd.
The Lesvenworth Buletin of the 10th
The water has risen about two feet
ince yesterday. The current is very
wifi, and the river filed with driftwood
which indicates a continued accession Of I
water. Portions of the island are suh- i
and the dyke has been dam
ged considerably. The levee presents
b~ustling appearance, large quantities
( freight arriving.
The Quincy Herald of Thursday saws
The river has risen about five inehesin =
he last t~wenty-fOur hours and is still /
though slowly. 1t is now within
bout six feet of the high water mark of
SOL, and the further rise of q foot or two
lore would do serious damage to prop :
rty on both sides of the river, but /.
specially at West Quincy. q
The Louisville Courier Of the 18th
lys:
The river was slowly rising yesterday G.
forming, but at a stand in the evening
it'll 10 feet water in the canal bv me u
lark. During the previous "a hours If '
nd risen . feet at the head Of the falls M
10 inches at Portland. The weather an
as clear and delightfully."- pleasant ali o. o.
~, with the thermometer ranging at mi
degrees. y
On the falls last evening there were 7
ct water over the rocks, and 8 feet in =,
e pass down the Indian chute and sta 81.
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There is another good tide at Pittsburg. e
coalboat rise, the influence Of which
reach this port in a day or two, and
use another rise here. The stage Of
alter ct Pittsburg Wednesday evening
as Il feet and rising rapidly.
The falls were in good navigable order n
sterday, with nearly six feet water 10 =
. middf chDta for mn afraaoo ho.t-
ID the river and the weather very "a, II
lrabie for business, but trade is excess. =
dull to all quarters ami in an de- CIV
rtnenis. 90