Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-27
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FLOR DE CANTERo.
RIVER NEWS.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
R. P. Walt. t. H. Allen. Pat CIeburne.

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IN PORT.
r. P. Walt. T. H. Allen. Pat CIeburne.
RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
The decline goes on steadily at this
port, and the bar opposite is assuming
huge dimensions. The Arkansas is fall
ing, with AZ feet to Little Rock. White
river has gone up nearly 2 feet, but is
again falling, with 5 feet to Augusta. A
big rise is reported at P~ittsburg. Our dis
patches give the latest news from all
points. b weather was clear, and BUSH
ness on the levee yesterday was active.
BY TELEGRAPH.
C-INCINNATI, August 2G.-The river has
fallen II inches. There is 9 feet 1 inch in
the channel. Weather clear. Thermom-
eter, 1872. The Altoona will re-
ceiving freight for Memphis Tomorrow.
Clear and cool.
LOUISVILLE, August 28.-The river is
falling slowly, with 3 feet over the falls.
Weather pleasant.
CAIRO, August 26.-Port list: South
western, from Louisville to New Orleans,
9 am; Sam. Parker, from st. Louis to
Louisville, / pm; Ella Hughes, Nash
vile packet, 4 pm; Grand Tower, from
st. Louis to Memphis, 6 pm. The river
C@NHoA tACAhgs 2A6AC1INf
7Ss.
V~IcKsBURG, August 25.-Up: Mohawk
and barges, 4 am ; City of Cairo, IL am.
Down. Thompson Dean. S am. The
river is rising. The weather is cloudy
and warm.
and cloudy. The M~OnongaheIs has ) feet
8 inches water, the Allegheny 7 feet and
falling. No coal went out to-day. There
will probably six steamers leave to-mOr-
row if there is sufficient water.
NASHVILLE, August 26.-Ths river Is
falling, with 81 feet on Harpeth shoals.
Weather fair but less warm. Arrived:
Umpire, from Cairo. Departed; Umpire,
for Cairo.
ST. LOUIS, August 26.-Arrived: st.
Joseph, from Memphis; Lockwood, from
Shreveport; Susie Silver, from New Or
leans. Departed: Belle Memphis, for
Memphis. The river is still falling.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Leo Pollock, of Little Rock, was mar
ried a few days ago at Philadelphia, to
Miss Emma Silverman.
1t is said that Nat. Low wears clutches
to aviOd being drafted into the militia of
Mississippi, where he spends most of his
time.
Captain Frank Hicks arrived yesterday
from st. Louis. He says the Belle Lee Is
all ready for the fall campaign.
Captain Matt Glass returned from st. |
Louis yesterday.
Mr.. Jas. Franklin, who has been absent
in Middle Tennessee for some weeks,
returned HON yesterday.
The r. z. Walt did not get away last
evening for the Arkansas river. She laws
over one trip, and the Thomas H Allen
goes out to-day in her place, leaving at
ten am. The Allen makes all way land
ings to Little Rock, and connects with
n q for Efnrf Gn,TEk no-e- HN--I
Rice is her master, and her office is in
charge of Messrs. A. Banksmith and
Aleck Waddell, both competent clerks.
The beautiful new steamer Grand
Tower, Captain Lennox, leaves as usual
to-day for Cairo and st. Louis. She is
the queen bee. Mr.. Thomas II. White is
her chief clerk.
A Queer-looking animal came down on
the same boat with Captain Elem. Cal
vert. 1t was covered with ticks and
cuckle-burs, which had taken possession
where there was enough hair on his
body to cling to. The whole wharfboat
crew, however, have been at work on
him for the past two days, and last even
ing several persons recognized "Old
Sorrer' in the wo- begone looking anil
NAL. He has come to stay, and is open for
a race with anything which has never
been under the saddle or in harness and
has eve beaten 13A minutes.
The Colorado, Captain Ike Mckee, will
be in port TO leave for Vicksburg this
evening at five O'Clock. She makes all
way landings. Henry Dietrich is her
clerk.
We are indebted to our friend Robson,
Assistant superintendent Of the Little
Rock railroad, for a Little Rock paper
hours from that city.
The tow-boat Tom Rees passed up yes
terday.
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partures yesterday for a midsummer day.
The Commonwealth, going down, had a
big trip.
Captain Patterson will raise steam on
the c. B. Church probably to-day. He
wants to take her over the falls at Louis
vile on the present rise.
The Norman will enter the Memphis
and Evansville trade at an early day
Josh ThrOop is at Evansville sloshing
Captain William Atkins, of Alton, has
purchased one-eighth of the Arkansas
for 5000.
The Charleston is for sale at st. Louis.
The Robert f. Lee, Natchez. Pargoud, I
Belle Lee, Richmond, n all the line of
the Lower Mississippi river packets, are
10 commence running next month.
OLD-TIME STEAMBOAT HIsTORY.-A
Vicksburg correspondent of a paper
in that city says that the first steamboat
descended the Mississippi was the
New Orleans; that she reached New Or
in December, 1911; that the next
was the Nsuvius, and her the ELna,
Foe writer further asserts that the steam
boat Washington reached Natchez in Sep
1877, and that the story recited by
The APPEAL about the fright to which
Shawueetown was subjected is wholly i'm
In reply to these allegations of
An Old Settler of V~ieksburg, our in
says that he gave the facts as he
recollects them. He is very old, and does
deny the possibility of mistakes about
which occurred nearly sixty years
ago. Referring to the letter in the Vicks-
burg paper, our aged correspondent
Editors AppeGE-Shortly after the great
race between the steamers r. f. Lee and
Natchez, in conversation with an editor of
The APPEAL, 1 gave him sOme information
IN regard to early ~steambOating, in which -.
[ stated hat the first steamboat that de-
the Ohio was the Pennsylvania.
[ see an article in the VIcksburg Herald
somewhat severely commenting on my
statement. If such is the fact, it was a
very general error forty-two years ago, at :
time l first descended this river.
It was then q common subject Of CONVEX i
Iation. Whether the Pennsylvania went '
% New Orleans or not l cannot say. / c
vas acquainted with q man in Tuscumbia, 4,
Ala, in 1923, named John +. Smelly, 4
whom / have frequently heard tell Of the =
right at Shawn6etown, occasioned by the
descent of that boat in connection with !
he earthquakes. / once owned an old
Navigator of the Ohio and Mississippi
published in 1926, in which an
account of the descent of the =
and the earthquakes were
iven, and I cannot, / think, be mistaken 9
8 Il the year 1913. The steamer New Or 9
cans was at that port in the winter Of p
n served General Jackson well, o
ut l am very certain she only arrived
hat season; therefore the "old CORES
ondent" of the Herald has been set back :
ONE two or three years. But It is q very Z
mali matter, and can easily be corrected {
any one who will give himself the
of consulting an early edition Of
be Navigator" OLD TIMES. n
By the way, we would gladly borrow an J
Id copy of this book. Who can furnish :
!? We owned one a few months ago. but :
ome one borrowed it and has failed to re- =
arm it.
Another mammoth side wheeler ia
at Towards ship-yard, near
.ouisville. 1t will be called the Z" CLARA
'arnes, I" n will carry more freight than
ny steamer now atloat on Western waters.
The Treasury department. has decided 9
1at in all cases where the tonnage tax =
ad been paid prior to the repeal of the +
levying h tonnage tax, i. {. July IL, !
that the amour cannot be refunded
} the parties who had so paid.
The lobe Hurt has been ~recabined. re- L
ainted and put in tip-top order, and Il
'oks like a new steamboat. She has =,