Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-14

Steamer Eyra Porter, Cincinnati.
" Pauline Carroll, st. Louis.
/" Marble City, st. Louis.
Dan. Able, Vicksburg.
Victor No. 2, Hsile's Point.
Boats In Port.
Celeste and John S. McCune.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Gen. TOtten~ succeeded in blowing
I'D part of the wreck of the old wharf
boat sunk at the foot of Monroe street.
Six torpedOes were used. The explosion
and force Of the powder Jared many
houses, and the citizens for awhile
thought it was IN earthquake.
The Ezra Porter, from New Orleans
for Cincinnati, passed up yesterday norm
ing.
The Pauline Carroll, from New Or
leans for st. Louis, passed up yesterday.
Capt. William Mullins, Of Commerce,
was in the city yesterda-, prospecting
for a side wheel boat to place in the
Memphis and Napoleon trade.
The John s. McCune, Capt. Duffer,
arrived from st. Louis yesterday, en-
route for White river. She has for this
port a large lot of corn. She will leave
this morning at 8 o'clock for White
river.
Capt. ". c. Hardwiek returned from
| Cincinnati yesterday. He has been in
search of a suitable packet to ply in the
Memphis and Arkansas river trade.
The Golden Eagle is due to-day from
Cincinnati, with u cargo of miscel-
l~aneOus freight. Wgrns to Cincin-
natl on Tuesday a&
The Celeste is receiving for the Arkan-
sas, and is announced to leave on Tues
day.
The Mollie Hambleton is the Tuesday
st. Francis river packet.
The Lady, Capt. Ward, is the regular
Helena, Moon Lake and Mariana packet
for Tuesday.
The Belle Memphis, Capt. Dan. Mus
sulman, with Mr.. George Dean in the
office, is the regular Monday Cairo and
st. Louis packet.
The Victor No. > for Haile's Point. the
Marble City for st. Louis, and the Dan.
Able for Vicksburg, include the depar-
lures.
The sale of the boats, wharfboats and
boat stores of the Atlantic and Missis.
sippi Steamship company, to be held at
trustees sale, at the levee at st. Louis on
Monday Bext, the 18th inst. Tue boats
consist of the Ruth, w. r.. Arthur, Lu-
minary, MOllie Able, Julia, Olive Branch,
Mississippi, Pauline Carroll and CONT
nental-nine in all.
Mr.. Thomas Pearsall, the commits
sioner appointed by Gov. Patton, Of
Alabama, has commenced the survey Of
the COosa river at Gadsden, and had at
the last report progressed to the railroad
bridge owe that stream. To this point
Mr.. Pearsall thinks it not only practical
bic, but entirely feasible to render the
river navigable with five feet water for
steamboats, at all seasons of the year.
An important decision has lust been
rendered in the court Of common pleas, 1
in the suit of n. Il w. Smith to recover
the value of a box OF merchandise shipped
TO this city on the steamer KentOn. |
Sometime in September, 1865, the Ken
ton, on her way to st. Louis or some
other port beyond Louisville, discharged
a box of goods on the city wharf, con-
signed to the above parties, and the clerk
of the boat and the agents, MOorhead q
Co, both notified cODsignees that their
goods were on the wharf. They neg
lected sending for them for several days,
and when they did the box was missing,
hence the suit. The court, sitter mature
deliberation and hearing the testimony,
ruled against the eOmplainants and de-
cided the case in favor of defendants.
The box of merchandise was valued at
anu III killC UEttslbu AL AHlDOILdiL /
point is decided. 1t is this The landing
delivery of the goods on the wharf,
and the notification TO the c~onsignees,
constitutes legal delivery.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 18th
has the following the Sam. J. Hale is
the only boat loading for Memphis, and
the only q needed just noY. Several
parties were on the wharf Yesterday
offering freight for Arkansas river, but
there are no boats now loading for points
that stream. The government snag
boats being built by the Marine railway
company are being pushed forward to
completion rapidly. They will be out by
the LIST OF September. The Bertha is on
the Marine ways, and the Charmer on
Eureka docks, getting q new hull.
The st. Louis Republican of Friday
has the following 1t was generally con
ceded that yesterday was the hottest day
of the season. AT noon the thermometer
stood at n~inety-eight degrees in the
shade. Business was but moderately &C.
tive, especially in the New Orleans
trade. The river at this point is about
stationary. The upper Mississippi is
falling. The Missouri is rising at Omaha
and falling at Lexington.
The Iron City yesterday transferred
her government freight to the regular
White river packet Johns. McCune, and
her went into retirement.
The Henry Ames left yesterday for
Warsaw, ILL.,, for which point she has
some four hundred tons Of railroad iron.
Messrs. Stillwell, Powell & Co, have
purchased MI. VIM. H. Rhodes one
eighth interest in the steamer Lizzie
Gill.
Geo. G. Wolf, at No. 4 South Levee,
has for sale elegant photographs Of the
steamer st. CrOix-the boat that lived
the longest OF any steamer ever built on
western waters.
Owing to a failure on the part of the
government contractors the Mary Me-
Donald was unable to get off yesterday,
but at 4 pm. tomorrow she will posi-
lively take her departure for Little Rock
and all way points on the Arkansas.
Capt. James GunsOllis commands, with
Tom W. Shields in the office.
The Davenport Democrat Of Tuesday
says: A large raft struck one OF the
piers of the bridge about noon to-day,
and sustained considerable damage.
One of the men was separated from his
companions, Gnd was picked up while
floating down stream on = few boards.
The ferry boat tOwed the wreck to the
Rock Island shore.
The Cairo Democrat Of yesterday has
the following The Cairo tug Magnolia,
commanded by Capt. w. Nj. Brown, and
owned by MessFs. Fenton & Co, of this
city, sunk in Forked Deer last Tuesday,
at a point six miles below Dyeisburg, for
which point she wa destined. She had
on board four hundred barrels salt,
shipped by Messrs. Halliday Bros. The
salt was insured. Upon the tug there
was no insurance. She will probably be