Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-20

" Natoma, frlaSs IOlnt'
MARITIME, st. Francis.
Cheyenne, Arkansas river.
w. A. Caldwell, Ark. river.
Liberty, White river.
Richmond, New Orleans.
" Sully, New Orleans.
Luminsry, Vicksburg.
Departures.
Steamer Sully, st. Louis.
Richmond, Louisville.
Cheyenne, Cincinnati.
Natoms, Friar's Point.
Luminsry, st. Louis.
In Port.
Steamers W. A. Caldwell, Cooss, Sam.
]. Hale, MARITIME, Linton, q. w. Cheek
and Liberty.
nIsCELLANEeUs.
The Ievee was muddy and freight
handled slowly upon it yesterday.
Everything seemed to be under the in
huence Of the weather, which never was
more variable than at present.
Capt. J. B. Davis is still in Cincinnati,
but will be home in a few days.
Joe Lambert, of the Hays Coal Compa-
ngyho has been missing for sOmedays, is
sill non est. Whether he wss foully
dealt with or v8mosed, is still a matter
of uncertainty. He had, we learn, the
confidence Of his old employers, Messrs.
Rigley & Mellersh, to the fullest extern.
The United States mail packet R1bi-
con, pioneer OF the Vlcksbdrg line, lesves
to-day, at five pm, for the bends q
Vicksburg. Capt. VIM. Black is master
of the Rubicon, and ALI. Grissom IS her
competent chief clerk.
Capt. Walker will back out the Sam.
Hsle to-day for Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati. She makes ali way landings,
and is q swift and elegant packet. Mr..
Miller is her chief secretary.
The Linton, Capt. Hayward, leaves
to-day for all points on st. Francis river.
she goes to Wittsburg. Les. Ware is
chief clerk.
Co. Jake FroIich, Of the Searcy Re
card, is in town. He leaves for home to-
day on the Liberty.
The Richmond passed up yesterday.
Will L. Visscher, of the Richmond's
Headlight, stopped off in our city, and
will go through to Louisville by rail. he
will call on our merchants to-day.
The celebrated case of Ben johnson
W. Titus and others, which has been
pending in cur law Court for some
weeks, was brought to q close a day or
two ago, the jury dissgreeing after being
out nine days. / will come up again st
the next term.
Coliax and wife and Ben. Wade, will
be passengers on the next down trip OF
the Richmond.
The Liberty, as usual, came in prompt
ly on time, with q large trip of people
and a good freight. She is the regular
q. 8. Mail packet, leaving to-day al five
PM, for ali points on White river, con-
necting at Devall's Bluff with the Little
Rock Railroad, and at Augusta with the
| Fairy Queen, for the headwsters. The
Liberty mas no superior, as far as speed
and comfort are concerned. Capt. VIM.
Conley commands, with tMessrs. James
Thompson, James Rowland and Char
ley Sharpe, a trio Of clever gentlemen
and attentive clerks, iu charge Of the
office.
Sea gulls have made their appearance
st Vicksburg. Gulls are plentiful here.
J. NJ. Owen, formerly q well known
Memphis and Cincinnati pilot, is now
running q velocipede school in this city,
and is known as Prot. Owen.
The Cheyenne departed for Cincinnati
with los bales of cotton.
The George w. Cheek, Capt. Malone,
leaves to-day at 5 pm. for OsceOia and
all way landings. she is the regular
packet. Frank Gentleman is her clerk.
The w. r. Arthur, Capt. Isaac Jones,
will pass down to-day for New Orleans
and all way landings. She is an elegant
passenger packet, and Capt. Jones is n
Of tie most popular officers on the river.
The elegant passenger packet City OF
Cairo, with Capt. j. Walton on the roof,
leaves at 2 pm. to-ds6 for Cairo and st.
Louis. Sac possesses every convenience
usually found upon modern steamers,
and connects with the trains North aud
f ,st. H. E. Corbyn and Glenn Mott
are clerks.
The splendid U. S. mail packet w. A.
Caldwell came in yesterday with nearly
200 bales of cotton, and fail of people.
She leaves again to-day for Pine Bluff,
Little Rock and all way landings. She
connects with the Fort Smith packets,
and is one of the best packets in the
trade. Rube Haynes is master, and the
popular and ob,iging Jack Chambers is
clerk. His assistant, Bob Shields, is q
competent clerk.
G. b. Redfelj, of Pittsfield, read an in
teresting. paper on ~stesmboating on the
Hudson river, in that town recently.
He stated that there was more freight
carried over that river than upon any
other water course in the world, and that
Il would require the employment of 1000
freight cars and so engines daily through
the whole season Of navigation to trans
port Il. We wonder II Redhsld ever
visited the Mississippi river.
There are four regular mes OF sailing
packets between New York and San
Francisco, in which, on an average, six
vessels per month are dispatched with
about 10 600 tons Of cargo. The line Of
steamer. via Panama, takes ut monthly
about $500 tons.
Some recent experiments have been
made in England on the effect of q non
conducting coating OF cement in reduc-
ing the radiation Of heat from the sur
face Of steam boilers. In the expert
mepts referred to, the boiler has a super
fetal exposed area OF $50 square feet,
and it was found that, with the boiler
uncovered, nearly fifteen cubic feet of
water was evaporated each hour. After
the boiler had been covered with q nom
conducting cement, the evaporation was
ct the rate of twenty-one and one half
feet per hour. The coal used, and all
the other circumstances in the two ex-
periments, we're precisely the same.
TIE Louisville Courier y The Lee
ma. which boat has been running in the
Evansville and Green river trade, was
brought tn this port yesterday by order
OF the u. S. Marshal. She is the property
Of L ID. Tyler, of this city, who has
taken the benefit OF the bankrupt act
and will be sold for the benefit Of his
creditors.
The New Orleans Crescent says: We