Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-09

the 8th. Captain Dick L~ightburns, who
was present and has just returned. says
eVsrythinE was oYelyaE
Captain San shock goes D Lislle
Rock to-day on the r. p. Walt.A
Captain Z. A. Levy, of the st. Francis,
arrived Yesterday by rail from Madison.
. ne Robert Burns gets away to-day for
Co %, Louisville and Cincinnati. She
u kes sll way landings. Captain Frank
s in is master, and A. +. Power Is her
popular clerk. 81 cEf as-A
The Hesper, Captain James Ferguson,
with Lid Dore in the Office, leaves to-day
at 5 pm. for Osceola and all way land
The S. C. Day, Captain Everdon, viii
get away this evening for all landings on
the st. Francis river. j. L. Marshall is
clerk.
The River and Harbor Bill having
passed the Senate, the Louisville and
Portland canal gets a quarter of a million
dollars, and the hzrbor Of Chicago one
hundred thousand
Captain Keiser, superintendent of the
St. Louis and Memphis Packet Company
is IN Louisville looking after The compile
tion OF the City of Yieksburg- This boat
was expected TO W been completed sew
eral days ago.
The Mary Boyd went to the docks yes
terday. She will receive some slight re-
pairs.
The Natchez is due to-day from above.
The George w. Cheek, Captain Marx
Cheek, leaves to-day, Is usual, for Helena
and Friar's Point. b carries the Z. >.
mail. Frank Gonterman ana Charley
Jackson are her clerks.
The r. p. Walt, Captain Ashford, is the
regular U. S. mail packet for White river
to-day. She goes to ~Jacksonport, and
connects with the BatesviIle for Pocahon-
tas, and also uRe with the Little
Rack train. Messrs. Butler and Smithers
are her clerks.
The splendid steamer Grand Tower,
Captain LenRox, backs out this evening
tor Cairo n st. Louis. She makes al
way landings. and connects with the
trains north and east. Thomas H.. White
is her clerk.
The City of Alton, Captain 4. J.. Car
ter, leaves to-day for Nicksburg and the
bends. She is the regular mall packet
J. II. YOrs and Charles Parsons are her
clerks.
The new steamer City of Evansville
carries 700 tons, and runs eleven miles an
hOur on two bushels of coal 10 the mile.
Her fuel bill is a little under fourteen
cents to the mile on an average. She has
the HaTtuple engine, and, II Is claimed, IS
the cheapest boat on fuel for ner capacity
now running.
The people on Upper Red river are
about to conclude tha5 if they want the
81 raft nuisance F" abated, they Will have to
take the farmers final view OF the sllua-
ton, and instead Of trusting TO Congress
and the Legislature OF Louisiana ghey
must trust TO their own A
Gentleman we'll posted about this matter
gave il as his opinion that the obstruction
\ can be entirely removed for the sum Of
SIS OOO. the entire distance from Carolina
Bluffs to Poston's bayou. Tn raft Is not
being undermined as it has been
stated. bu5 is resting away. Al
bans canal from Poston's bayou TO
Dutch Jssp's lake, throws eonsla-
cradle volume of water into the
river in the raft which is cutting away
the battures. The necessary funds 70 DO
the work, il seems, ought TO be raised
among the planters on Long Prairie, the
| owners Of the land about the raft, ana the
citizens of CaddO parish and Lafayette
| county. The benefit they would receive
would doubIy compensate for ali the OUT
Law necessary to accomplish the work. If
this obstruction was out Of the way, there
would be no difficulty IN navigating the
] Red river for tWo-thlrds Of the year up as
far as jefferson, Texas.
The Louisville C0HTier-J0HTlGL says:
con Monday, contracts were closed by
/ Oaptain n. J. JaSine, OF Little Rock, with
parties in Kew Albany, TO build a ferry
boat for the Arkansas river, at Little
Rock. The hull is to be 100 feet in
length, SO feet breadth of beam and Al
feet deuth of hold, Tire machinery viii
1 consist of two cylinders each 10 inches in
diameter, 4 feet stroke, and two boilers 10
feet long and 80 inches in diamster. The
null will be built by VIM. Jones and the
machinery by Stueky 81 Co. The boat is
10 be completed by the first of Septem-
Der"
The St. Louis Republican gives the fol-
lowing personal sketches of Captain Can
non and Captain feathers: Captain
| Cannon is about % years Of age, and a
seIf-made man. He has acquired his
knowledge of steamboating by having
worked his way up. The first boat he ever
commanded was the louisiana She eX-
plodsd her boilers at the wharf at New
Orleans in 1913, killing a large Number of
| persons. Much blame was heaped upon
Captain Cannon in consequences OF this
unJOward event. But he was the greatest
loser by the catastrophe. and the accusa-
tion of the excited multitude was oubt-
less without reason. The next boat com
manded by Captain Cannon WAS the >. W.
Downs, a small Ouachita river packet.
The days OF the Downs passed away, ana
we next hear of him in command OF the
Belle Donna, q famous boat in her day.
| The w. W. Farmer was next built and
vi for some time. The Farmer was fol-
lowed by the r. W. McRae, and then the
Nicksburg. PHI great steamer General
Quitman was Captain Cannon's last boat
previous to bis bringing out the Lee. For
ten years the Quitman was the undis-
puted champion of the river.
"THE CoMMANDER OF THE NATCHEz.
| Captain Thomas P. Leathers, cOmmandsr
| of the Natchez, is a native of ~Covington,
KY, and 6fty-hye or hfty-seven years OF
age. In personal appearance he IS a grand
specimen of a man. Captain Leabhers,
| like many others of our noted steamboat
| men, has worked his way up through al
/ the vicissitUdes of fortune. Leaving his
native place when yet a very young man,
he went south, where, it is said, he began
his career on deck, and successfully rose
to be mate, and finally commander of q
fine steamboat. The first boat conn
manded BY Captain feathers was
called the Natehez. This was
in 1915. The Natchez of that
dsv was a handsome boat of the
kind, and ran in the New Orleans and
( Natcbez trade. The next boat after this
first Natehez was also called the Natchez
No. 2. It was a famous boat In It's day,
and after running man years III the New
/ Orleans and NstcheZ trade, she was sold
to some parties in Mobile, and was used
as a toW-bOat in the harbor at that place.
Her place was filed by the NatcheZ No.
3. in the same trade. She did not run
| very long. At the great steamboat hre in
| New Orleans, which took place in 1850,
she was consumed, along with numer-
Gus other boats. Several lives were lost;
among the unfortunate ones who were
unable to escape was a brother of Captain
| feathers. The Natchez No was a tamous
runner, and contested the claim OF the
Eclipse to the championship, and, al
though 3 much smaller boat, was the
1 equal of the Eclipse in running capacity.
The fifth NatcheZ was built, like the pres
ent, at Cincinnati, and was a very beau
tiful and swift boat. b was u up the
Yazoo, and burned during the war. The
sixth boat of the same name, commanded
| by the same captain who commanded her
five predecessors, is now the superior of
most steamboats, in the rapidity of her