Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-22
RIVER AND WEATHER

....,..........Upper Cumberland
EMMA FLOYD ........... Cincinnati,
LEAVING THIS DAY.
TY ROM Cairo, Pm.
The river at this point was declining
fast yesterday, with 81 feet on Hsrpeth
Shoals Weather showery. Mercury IS.
The Emma Floyd arrived and departed.
There was no freight in sight, and Mi
Lord concluded to send her out light.
The Tyrone, Capt Tom Harmon, is the
regular packet for Cairo to-day, leaving at
A P. NJ. Wash Weaver and Alex Hard are
in the Office. She is popular craft, and
always goes out crowded with passengers.
In Memoriam.-Thee channels of trade |
having entirely changed, and there being
now no commercial intercourse, by river,
between this city and St. Louis, we propose
20 give sort Of obituary notice of the
boats and boatmen once engaged in the
packet trade between the two cities.
Woods, Stacker b Co. owned the Toledo,
st. Louis Oak, and Hibernia which were
for several years engaged in the Transport
tation of their own freights between the
Cumberland Iroa Works and 81. Louis.
The first regular packet, however, WAS
the Josephine in 1S45, owned by A. L.
Davis, now enjoying his OtiHm cum dig.
on his Caney Fork farm. Com
manded by Gordon RuOyan, dead
| many years ago, as genial and
generous hearted a man a. ever lrod the
hurricane deck Of any steamer. John
Morgan Smith was the clerk. He ia sill
engaged in boating, and has charge of the
Office on the pilot, an eccentric mao, but
LIE Claire No. 2. Marine Daunell was the
a thorough boatmaD; he is buried at
Smithlsnd, KY. This pioneer in trade
was sunk at Betseystowu.
The Hibernis followed next, owned and
and commanded by james Miller-OLD
GIBRALTAR. This plain, blunt, honest
old mariner wss really the founder of the
trade, and was, up to the time of his death,
always himself in command of Nashville
and st. Louis packet F. w. Weller, Of
Horton, McRoberts & Co., was always
connected with him as clerk.
This steamer was destroyed by fire in
st. Louis Her place was taken by the
Susquehannab, purchased by Capt, Miller
of III. r. McComas. Her bones now lie
at the head of Fia1-patch. Capt. C. G..
Cabler then rau the Sligo No. 2, o. w.
Davis, of the Jno. Lumsden, being clerk.
This steamer WAS dismantled, and her
machinery Pleced in the DR.. Rob
ertson. Then came the West Newton,
the fastest little boat of her day, Capt.
Millers pet. II. C. Hensley, of Hart &
Hensley, clerk, and VIM. Dix, Of the
Ella Hughes. pilot, sunk in the upper
Mississippi.
Then Capt. John A. Couch, Of this
city, introduced the Consignee. The clerks
were ii. Z. Shaw-blown up on the ill-fa-
ted David White, James w. Hunt and
Thomas Tyler, dead also-sunk at Balm.
bridge, on the Mississippi river. Then the
glorious Ssllie West, of immortal memory,
made her advent This was the first boat
built expressly for the trade under the i'm
mediate supervision of Jesse L. D0rich,
her first master. Her officers, during her
career, were J. V. Throop, J. N. Corbett
W. N. Long worth, William Boyd, Ed. @.
Doyle, James F. Miller, John Morgan
Smith, Ben. F. Egsn, Jesse JamisoD, VIM,
Hand, Dick Weston, Dol Cofield and Ben.
Jewel. This fAvorite craft was, perhaps,
The most successful and popular packet
that ever turned whell in the Cumber-
land river. Her famous career was ended
by Missouri snsg. The Aleonis, which
ran 10 connection with the Sallie West
was a fortunate boat Dismantled at st
Louis and her machinery placed in the
Emma Duncan. The B. NJ. Runyan, Capt.
James Miller, and c. E. Hillman, Capt.
]. N. Corbett, were by far the best boats
ever in the trade, and were running when
the war commenced. The c. f. Hillmsn
was captured at Cairo by the Federal
forces. The 3. NJ. Runysn was sunk in
the Mississippi. During the war there
wac Suspension of trade After The sur
render Capt. Fl. G. McComas ran the NJ.
S. Mephsm, Brilliant, Imperial and Anna
White.
LAST season there was not single trip
made in the trade by any boat. This
spring Capts. COrbett and Egan made an
effort two trip-) with the Pink Varble TO
revive the trade, but signally failed. The
Nashville and St Louis trade is emphati
cally dead.
The Umpire departed for the Upper
| Cumberland, having engaged for her re
turn trip 100 men Of BrownlOws melisb,
| 60 900 feet of cedar lumber, and 1000
| cedar posts. The Commodore will here
after conliae his nautical operations eIclH.
] siyeIy 10 the benefit of the Ied chimney
| institution
Capt Tom Bruce, Of the Emma Floyd,
Yesterday, babe his friends farewell for the
season, aud extended an invitation to Lord
Palmerstou to visit him at his PinnikeD-
nick farm.
The Pink Varble will be taken to Louis
Vile aud be placed in suitable repair for
| the Cairo and Louisville trade.
Emma Floyd was the maiden name Of
the wife Of Capt. W. B. Donaldson, Master
the Great Republic, now being tried at st.
Louis for the murder Of 4 negro.
CAPITAL, 100000