Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-13
RIVER MATTERS.

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Natoma, Fri9r's Point.
In Port.
Guidon, Leni Lsoti, Bermuda, Laura,
MARITIME, Linton, Liberty.
zIsCELLANEoUs.
The Sam Hale departed for Cincinnati
with 100 bales Of cotton.
The Norman got away for Evansville
with 200 bales.
Toe Cooss, We learn, went on the
docks ct Cairo; and the Mollie Handle.
took her trip on to Evansville.
The Psoris City is due from the Ohio.
The Natoma left for FrisE's Point with
q splendid trip.
The Bermuda gets away to-day for
some Ohio river port.
The MARITIME, Capt. Rector, will get
away to-day for Hales Point, and all
landings intermediate.
The City Of Cairo, Capt. Geo. w.
Mslin, will back out to day at 8 D. for
Cairo and st. Louis. She connects with
the trains North and South. john Met
calf has charge Of her Office.
The Linton, Capt. Ware, leaves to-day
for st. Francis river.
The Gee. W. Cheek gets away at 5
p.m., for OSceolR and way landings.
A1l2 az n
The Mi1neCla is the next regular Gin
cinBsti packet.
The great Ruth will pass down this
morning for New Orleans. Capt. Pc
gram is master.
the Lumiuary, Capt. Dan Conway, is
the regular VicSsourg Z. s. mail packet
to-day. She leaves the st. Louis wharf
boat at 4 pm. Lee Finney is at the
deck.
The fue passenger packet Lsni Leoti,
Cspt. Tom Berry, will get away to-day
for Little Rock and all landings on the
Arkansas. she Is rapidly gaining popu-
larity in the trade, aud Capt. Tom will
soon place her among the favorite
packets. She connects with the Fort
smith packets. Mr.. Morrison is her
clerk.
Cspt. E. A. Levy viii again back out
the Liberty for White river tO.dsy. She
carries the y. s. msil, connects with the
Little Rock train st Devalrs Bluff, and
the Fairy Queen at ~Jscksouport. No
better packet f0sts. Jimmy THOMPSON
and Charley Sharpe are her clerks.
II will be seen by our dispatches, that
the Mittie Stephens caught fire and
burned to the waters edge, in Lake Cad
do, Red river. Sixty lives were lost.
TAe Glasgow enters the Alton and ST.
Louis trade as a regular packet.
The new mountain boat Carrie V.
Kuniz, now being completed at Pitts
eurg, has low pressure machinery, the
same as the Great Republic, with some
late improvement
Among the other acts of the Supervi-
sors' Board, recently held at Washing
ton, they re-districted the Sixth and
Seventh districts, thereby enlsrgiDg the
boundaries of the Sixth so as to extend
the jurisdiction Of the local inspectors of
Louisville to Csrrollton On the Ohio, and
also inoiu3ing the Kentucky river.
The steamer Leslie Combs was sold by
the United States Marshal st Wheeling
on Saturday for 1886.
The Vicksburg Herald ssys: Capts.
Wiley and King have purchased the
steamer Powell, and will place her in
the Suufower river next Saturday, leAv-
ing here on that day.
The steamer Mary Byrd, recently sunk
near the Half Moon Island, Tennessee
river, arrived in port at Chattanooga.
Oae hundred and thirty-one engineers
were granted license at this port by the
INSPECTORS during the year 1868.
The New Orleans Crescent says:
The music of the negro deck hands is
rarely heard, in these days, along the
banks Of the Mississippi. There is no
longer that happy feeling Of perfect o u
tent among them ; that absolute reliance
In the csptsia, the mate and the pilot
that indifference to sught but enough to
eat, = good master and q bully boat,
the children OF Ham. They are
not yet arrived at the practical expert
ence Of Gray's line,
Where ignorance Is bliss tits folly to
be wise"
It is suthoritatively announced that at
the recent meeting Of the Supervising
OF Inspectors, held a. Washing.
ton, D. C., q rule was adopted requiring
all applicants for renewal of piiOt's Ii
cense or original papers to undergo ar
before their respective local
boards as to their knowledge Of the rules,
laws, etc laid down for their govern
meut. Any failure 10 understand and
the full meaning OF such laws
will be sufficient cAuse on the part Of
said local inspectors 10 withhold such
Another wise rule was also
tO-wit:
That it shall not be permitted when
making storage OF steamers for any per-
to obstruct the full and free passage
Of the engineer from his engines to his
or to any part Of the machinery
requiring his care and attention. An
observance of this rule is required to be
enforced, and any failure on the
part OF owners or masters to comply with
regulation will be sufficient aus
to fad action against the steamer so Of
Engineers upon cur Southern
and Western waters viii, W. have no
doubt, fully appreciate and acknowledge
the merits OF such enactment. AS a
general rule, their interests and comforts
have been very little respected, especial
y on the class Of steamers engaged In
The transit Of bsled cotton and light mer-
,handise.