Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-16
RIVER MATTERS.
RIYERs.

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Marble City, ST. Louis.
%" Kate Kinney, Sc. Louis.
LOtawsnna, Cincinnati.
Virginia, New Orleans.
Countess, HAiies Point.
Cumberland, Cairo.
Departures.
Steamer Marble City, st. Louis.
" MOllie Hambieton, st. +. River
" Empire, Louisville.
NstOma, Louisville.
LOuisisna, New Orleans.
Kate Kinney, New Orleans.
" b. L. Hodge, New Orleans.
LOtswannR, New Orleans.
Virginia, st. Louis.
Boats in Port.
Empire, Darling, Dan Able, Minneola,
GOldfnch, Guidon, Cumberland.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Goldfnch, Capt. Kari, is the reg
ular packet for Point Pleasant, leaving
to-day at 3 pm. Bruce Hunter is
purser.
The Empire departed for Louisville
last night with some cotton.
The gay steamer Darling, whereof
Lew Hates is master, departs to-day for
Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati. Capt.
A. F. Power and Charley Woodbury. are
CLERKS. She is a No. l steamer.
The Dan Able, Capt. Jim. Lee, re-
enters her old trade to-day. She will
leave hereafter regularly on Saturdays
for Vicksburg aud the bends. Billy
Fields will do the honors OF the Office,
while Stack Lee is his assistant.
The dashing Countess made her first
trip to Haile's Point and returned with a
good cargo. She leaves again to-day at
SPIN. Capt. Heaight is master.
The popular light draft United States
mail steamer Guidon, with Capt. Geo.
w. Cable on the root, will back out at 8
pm. for Devall's Bluff aud Augusta.
She connects with the train for Little
Rock, and with the handsome Fairy
Queen for upper White river. Kidder,
Harry and Sharp are her clerks.
Capt. John b. Davis is in Washington.
We have no boat to-day for the Ar
kansas.
During the present week our port list
has been heavy, and our steamboat men
have had a gay old time al the races.
They have not had much money to bet
on results, but they enjoy the sport
hugely. They will talk steamboat,
though, instead of horse. When MilI
Harry saw VictOIine let down, he re-
marked that she had "run through
herself" which s. hOrsemRn standing
neal did not understand, 60 Mllt ex-
planned by saying that she had picked
up a snag which had unshipped her rud-
der and let down q gsllOws frame. The
jockey left him, and bet mis- last green
back on the red. o4F
The RubicoB, Capt. Blake will pass up
to-day at noon for st. Louis. Mr.. All.
Grissom is chief clerk.
The Henry Adkins and barges were
aground At Hat Island when the Kate
Kinney passed down. The tOWbOat
Shark was also there sounding. Her
bar3es were above the bar.
The B. l.. Hodge received about 1000
bales of cotton at this port for New Or
leans.
The Virginia passed up last night for
st. Louis, with a cargo of HollRnders,
who came over to raise ~cabbages in Min
nesota and vote the Radical ticket.
They wore wooden shoes and short pet
ticOats, and think a Niger as good as
Faust or Goethe.
The Ezra Porter, Capt. Porter, will be
in port 10 leave to-day for New Orleans
at 3 pm.
Capt. Bob Riley will back out the City
of Cairo to-day for sl points 10 st. Louis.
She is q flyer. Mr.. White is clerk.
The Dean line packet MinneOls, Capt
w. B. Miller, will leave TO day at . p u.
for Cincinnati. Passengers will not
starve on this boat for she sets a good
table, and has Grubb even in the office.
The Cumberland will be found in port
this morning. She is the pioneer packet
of the Red line, and leaves for Cairo at
E.nr Darkar ann m anda-
Five negroes and u white man were
drowned by the sinking Of the new
steamer Jimplecute al Eagle Bend, in
Red River, on the night Of the LIST inst.
The Golden Eagle with q barge, left
Cincinnati for this port on Wednesday.
The Florence Trabor and Tahleqush
are loading at Cincinnati for the Arkan-
sss river.
The Champion No. 4, is on her way to
the supken steamer Peerless.
It is said that the Mayhower is load
ing at Evansville for this port. The
Michigan returned to that port from
Cairo when she reshipped her Memphis
freight.
The Louisa broke a shaft at LOckhart's
| Point IA the lower Ohio, and had to be
lowed TO Evansville.
The Amanda struck a rock, or the
18th, in the upper Missouri, and was
badly Injured, but did not sink. She
shipped several inches of water.
The Deer Lodge, from Fort BeTthOld,
| reports that the Imperial had got of
grounding at Dauphin's Rapids, and was
on her way down the river full of half.
starved passengers. The Deer Lodge
met the Benton sixty miles below Fort
Stevenson. She reports the Cheyenne
river full Of floating ice. The Missouri Is
in q very bad condition everywhere.
Sam Milliken, a well known Cumber.
land river clerk, died at Paducah a few
days ago.
4 mar named Abrams, in New York,
wants Dexter badly. He said to Bonner
the other day: II have a steamboat
that cost me S4S, coo, which, Mr.. Bonner,
l will give you for your horse" We
should not be RstOnished to see the
| Ledger man Captain of a sternwheeler
yet. Nat Green offered to trade the Pill
grim for Dexter when he was in New
York.
The Stonewall was to have left st.
Louis Oh Thursday for New Orleans.
The Mary Mcdonald is again in the
Wicksbutg line. She comes out in place
of the H. N. Shreve.
The st. Patrick has been thoroughly
/ repaired, and leaves st. Louis to-day for
this port and Yicksburg. Capt. HRls
commands and ]. Lee Finney is in the
Office.
The Underwriters Of st. Louis have
contracted with Reese Dugan, of the
wrecking boat Underwater, No. /, TO
| raise the sunken steamer Amelia Poe il
successful Dugan is to get $500, if unsuc-
cessful he will get but q half Of what
is saved from tBe wreck.
The Submarine, No. lS, arrived yester-
day from Mobile. She goes, we believe,
to st. Louis.
Among the victims to yellew fever at
New Orleans we record the name OF
Tom. G. Stewart a well-known river
elerk.
The W. J. Lewis into the Mem
phis trade under the auspices of the
! Memphis and st. Louis Packet Company.
The new channel digger recently at
work near St. Paul has made some i'm
| proyement in the river, but 1t does too
little good at too much cost.
The work on the great bridge at st,
Louis is being pushed forward with an
energy and rapidity that augur well fol-
its ultimate success. The sunken wrecks,
which delayed the pumping out of the
1 cofferdam, have been cut in two and the
outer portions are nearly all cleared
away, and 10 a very few days more the
excavations will be resumed to prepare
the bed for the masonry.
The wreck of the steamer Hymph ar
rived at st. 10 on the 18th, propelled by
sweeps. She mas been purchased by par
ties at that place, who will place the
boilers of the old steamer Demsr on
board and the Nymph will be recon-
structed.
The st. Louis Democrat says The
Board of Underwriters of this city yes
terday met to consult on the subject OF
risks on bsrges. The decision arrived at,
If any, has not TRANSFERRED. 1t is the
opinion Of many Insurers that risks
| should not be taken on bsrges in tow OF
passenger steamers; that the risk OF
damage and loss is small on bsrges 10
! tow of vessels exclusively devoted TO the
business of towing barges to and from
! New Orleans, while bsrges and cargoes
in TOW Of passenger boats, themselves
carrying freight, and making numerous
I landings on the way, are much more
liable TO loss and damage, than when
taken directly 70 their destination. We
have not had a full statement Of the
question, nor are the boaimen yet very