Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-06

| CAlhOs July O.--Up-NOfm8D, 2. 10
Lizzie Gill. 8 am.
River fell inches.
MEzPHIs, July G.
We had a shower Of rain Yesterday
which would have been respectable hal
it lasted longer. The lightning and
thunder, however, which accompanied
1t was Of the first class, side wheel kind.
and would have insured in any Office az
standing A No. l. The river at this
point is still declining, and the bar oppc-
site the city becomes more formidable
every twenty. four hours. We have 40
later news from the Arkansas or While
rivers than We gave in our last.
Arrivals.
Steamer Pauline Carroll, New Orleaua.
City Of Cairo, st. Louis.
III. Hambleton, ST. FIR, River
Clifton, Cincinnati.
Departures
Steamer Pauline Carroll, st. Louis.
In Port.
City Of Cairo, w. A. Caldwell, Monie
Hambleton, Clifton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Eau Claire is out on Cotton Wood
bar, near Padueah, and will stay there
untn rain lifts her of.
The United States mail packet Com
mercial, Capt. Ashford, leaves to-mor-
row for White river. Charley SMITHS
is clerk. The Old Reliable connects ST
Devslps Bluff with the trains for Little
Rock.
The Mollie Hambleton, Capt. Bow
man, is the regular st. Francis river
packet, leaving tomorrow. She makes
all way landings. Paine, Clark and
Shell are clerks.
The Clifton, Capt. Stein, came in LAST
night, and leaves for Cincinnati to-mor-
row at pm.
The Richmond is lying high and dry
at Walkers bar. Her freight, coal,
dunnsge and tenders were all taken off,
but without avail. A barge loaded with
pork and corn taken from her, was
dropped to the foot Of Hurricane Island,
and there sunk. The cement is damaged,
but the pork saved unipjured.
Mr.. Aft. G.. luther, of the Star Union
Line, u returned yesterday from BUSH
ness visit to the East,
Capt. L. w. Upright, general agent Of
Chidester's celebrated Arkansas stage
line, and passenger agent at Little Rock
of the White river line Of packets, is in
town on short visit.
Capt. Bob Gibson, who has been alb
sent in st. Louis for some days, ia again
athome.
10 Bsnfill and Steve Wilkins are also
in town. They went to Ohio to join the
Pendieton escort, but found the uniforms
too long for one and too short for the
other.
The City OF Cairo came In last evening
from st. Louis, commanded by that gall
liant officer, Capt. Bill Thompson, well
and favoIably known as master Of the
Mississippi, Lady Gay and other fine
packets. We welcome him into the
Memphis trade, and hope to see him a
fixture with US. The Cairo leaves to-day
at P m. for Cairo and st. Louis. Billy
Blenker is chief clerk.
The gay U. S. Mail packet W. A. Cald-
well, Capt. Haynes, backs out to-day for
Little Rick and all way points on the
Arkansas. She is light draft, and will
go through without detention Of any
kind. Jack Chambers just fills up her
C6lce, and will be found a pleasant trsv-
cling companion.
Congress has appropriated $l05, 900 for
the improvement of the Tennessee. Ii
is to be used in removing snags and sand
bsTs, and otherwise relieving navigation
Of its dangers and difficulties.
A roustabout named James Fahey,
who passed up on the last trip of the
Olive Branch, murdered his wife at st,
Louis on the Sd.
The following boats are at the Bone
yard at Cincinnati Tahlequah, Lotto
wanna, Cheyenne, Alaska ION the docks)
st. Charles, J. II. Groesbeck, r. @. Gray, |
Pine Grove, Belle, Cottage No. 2, Rose
HambletOn ION the docks), Ezra Porter,
ArgOsy, Empire and J. II. Mccullough. |
The Darling hss also gone to the bone
yard.
The Minneols is giving through bills
to New Orleans.
The scarcity of water over the prinCi- !
pal bars is becoming q source of consid- |
cradle trouble to boRtmen on the upper |
Mississippi, and heavy freights cannot |
be carried without the assistance of !
barges.
The Minnesota, and indeed all the |
tributary streams Of the Mississippi, are !
falling rapidly, so that navigation will |
be prosecuted at great disadvantage.
The q. A. Thompson, which was sold |
on Monday last st Cincinnati, has oeen |
again seizsd by the .. S. Marshal and /
towed to Fulton.
Daniel Burns, of Bay City, Mich, has
written pamphlet upon boiler explo- /
slons. It's object is to give an exposition
of the causes of these explosions, and the /
means Dy Wnlcn they may De prevented, /
dedueed from an examination of the /
chemical principles involved in the gen.
GRAFTON of steam. He advances q new
theory, that explosions occur from the
" passage Of hydrogen gas through the
boiler plate when heated to an improper
degree, and when that gas comes in
contact with the fire it will explode the
iron, for the iron becomes highly charged
with gas,n Another class of explosions
occur from the latent heat set free from
the steam in the boiler. He proceeds to
elucidate the whole theory Of the forms-
ton Ofsteam, and claims that electricity
is produced by the operation, which,
the oxygen and hydrogen gases,
set free by the heat, in contact with each
other, causes an instantaneous union,
and so produces an explosion. That
seems to be the chief point OF his theory,
and he has so fortified himself by an ar
raw Of Qutborifias that he SaaDos inv,tl-