Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-21

police officers were Inadequate to tn
task Of keeping the crowd back, and ul
20 the time of departure the throng con
tinued TO increase. Men, women and
children stood the pelting of the storm
until the mammoth vessel disappeared
from sight.
! A Washington paper says: 1.-THE
sword to be presented to Maj.-Gen. But
Ter can be seen in the basement of the
Fifteenth street Presbyterian church."
The Dubuque Herald adds deposit
ing it in the basement was doubtless a
precautionary measure. Had it been
left in the altar Butler would have stolen
It as part of the service before the rre-
sentation could come off, That's pretty
hard on the digger Of "dutch gap.'
The Cairo Democrat Of Tuesday says /:
The river came to q stand at eight
O'Clock yesterday morning, and at dark
we could not discern that It had varied a
particle. The news that we get from
shove leads us to completely anticipate
that the river will be falling this morn
Ing.
AtdsOuisville, Sunday night, the river
had fallen eleven iaches in the preced-
ing twenty-four hours. 1t commenced
to fall at Paducah Sunday. The packets
report it going down at Evansville. The
most encouraging news of all, about the
rivers, IS the rapidity with which the
upper rivers are falling.
Big river! you ~wailoping old she-tiger
Of an inland sea, good bye Tale, yale,
lougum yale! and may the old devil
himself bring only such blessings upon
your old, misehievous and independent
back as you deserve.
TIE wrecking boat Underwater, In the
past year and a half, has raised at differ
ent points on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers twelve steamboats-eight Of them
with valuable oargoes, viz Express, al
Manchester island, Ohio river, value
$50, 600; Huntress and cargo, near Cairo,
Ohio river, value 80, 1000; J. r. Gilmore
and cargo, near Golconda, Ohio river,
value $4,000; Darling and cargo, Plum
Point, Mississippi river, value 100000
Minnie and cargo, Island No. ], Missis-
sippi river, value 1900; Sherman and
cargo, Paducah, Ohio river, value $4,000;
Convoy Nc. 2, Cairo, Ohio river, value
1000 Messenger and cargo, Island %;
Mississippi river, value 1884, 600 Empe-
ror and cargo, Louisville, Ohio river,
value 100, 900; Argonaut and cargo, New
Albany, Ohio river, value 100, 900 Mary
Swan, Rockport, Ohio river, value 90
900 +; Armada, Caledonia, value 5000.
Amount of property saved by raising
boats and csrgoes, SOC, 000. During the
time over $4,000 worth of prop
erty was saved from the wrecks Of the
Highland Chief, Black Locust, Ben
Stickney and Roanoke.
The Evansville Journal Of Saturday
speaks of a Capt. Haggerty, of Cincin-
natl, who COMMANDED the steamer Cor
vette in 1918. 1t says: 4Capt. Haggerty
has in his possession the cases of a silver
watch which had been sunk ON the
steamer Tennessee in 1925, aud had
remained there for twenty-five years.
In 1850 a yankee came along with 3 steam
pump and diving bell, and was shown
the Tennessee had SUNK ct Ten
nessee landing, in the Mississippi. He
went to work and recovered a considera-
ole lot of goods, silks and hides, which
were in 8 good state Of preservation also,
the watch, the works of which had been
up by rust. He also recovered the
covering OF an old fashioned leather
what was years ago denominated
4 "hair trupk.n The wood work was
iecayed, but the leather covering was in
Z state Of perfect preservation. The
Tennessee belonged to Breedlove q Rob
Inson, of New Orleans. But we set out
to note the contrast between the stage of
The river in 1915 apa now. Thsn there
was twenty-five inches of water on
bar now there is between
fhy and sixty feet. A wonderful con-
srast, truly.