Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-02

The steamers Colorado and Jay Gould
arrived at Buffalo on Thursday night
from the upper lRkes-the first through
arrivals this season.
The damages lone to the Alice Dean by
eolliding with the Covington bridge, viii
amount 10 about 5000.
The Mary f. Forsyth, Captain Luker,
will pass down to-day for E~ieksburg and
tle bends. She is the regular United
states mail packet. Charles Hough Is
clerk.
The Belle Memphis is the regular mail
packet for st. Louis this evening, Capt.
Crane In command and Billy Blenker IN
charge Of the office. She makes all rail-
road connections.
The fine steamer Mary Boyd, Captain
Rube Haihes, gets away to-day for Pine
Bluff, Little Rock and all landings on
the Arkansas. She Is a No. ! passenger
packet. +. w. Outlaw is chief clerk, and
his assistant is Bob Shields. The Boyd
connects with steamers for Fort Smith
direct.
The Legal Tender, Capt. Elliot, leaves
tomorrow for White river. Tip and Ar
thur Field are her clerks.
The Des Arc is on the dry docks. She
stunek a snag between Augusta and Jack
sonPort, and broke eighteen Of her tim
bers.
/ 1aHLhAu EAuAs OF MS civ,
twO-thirds OF the steamer MOllie Gratz,
on Saturday, at the rate of $500 for the
entire boat.
The fioater found in the river on Satur-
day, below Island 40, had on corderOy
pants and vest, but no coat. An inquest
was held on the body yesterday, and par
ticulars will be found elsewhere.
The elegant low-pressure packet Rich
mond will pass down to-day at 5 Pm. for
/ NipESburU and NaW ORLEANS The Rfob-
mond is: now a finer boat, ii such a thing
Is possible, than when she first hoated on
the water, and has been thoroughly re-
painted from stem 70 stern. Capt. Nat.
Green Is master, and too well know here
to need any praises as a careful, compe-
tent master. Lnther T. Woods sher chief
clerk and is assisted by John Langlois.
The Belle Lee Will pass up on Tuesday
evening.
The Alaska is due from below.
The Robert Burns, Capt. Frank Stein,
with A. +. Power in the Office, leaves for
Cincinnati on Tuesday.
The ST. Francis leaves tomorrow for st.
Francis nver. Tom Bowman is master.
A late Evansville Courier y "a di-
vorce was granted in the Circuit Court
last Saturday TO Sarah Alice Chisholm,
from her husband, William Hamilton
Chisholm. Mr.. Chisholm is a steamboat
engineer who always goes by the name OF
VIM. Hamilton, and a day or two ago was
circulating a petition to the local inspect
ors of Louisville and ct the same time 8
petition to the city council of Evansville,
TO appoint him engineer of one of the fire
engines. He obtained signatures bY max
ing different statements to different par
ties, and we doubt not some fraud is
intended by the use of the mines. For
the facts in the signature case we refer 70
Recorder willard"
A correspondent of the st. Louis Times
advocates a sort of cooperative union
between merchants and steamboat own
erns. Among other things, he says: "As
an extremely low estimate of the amount
of freight delivered in Memphis from st.
Louis, and all purchased by Memphis
merchants or parties in the interior, may
be set at 1000 tons per week, at 8 mini
mum rate of freight of twenty-five cents
per hundred pounds, or five dollars per
on (t has often been fifty per cent.
higher or Sl0,0 0 which the merchant has
70 ay. The same can be transported for
fGeen cents per hundred pounds, or
rec dollars per tOn-S6000-showing a
dear gain to the merchant of $1,000 on one
4 weeks business, or for a very short sea.
son of, say, forty weeks in the year, a
gain Of $3.50, 600. These estimates are
far below the amount of business dons BE-
tween the two cities, but Will serve TO give
an idea of what can be done. The boats
necessary to do this business can be out
fitted complete for Sl0O, 900, showing q net
gain of $4,000 on the investment the
cost of The boats for one year., which will
accrue to the merchants. This is not
chimerical, but a plain statement of facts,
as any one will see who Will give the
matter one moments thought, and will
ere long be demonstrated. This can be
accomplished by a trifiing individual
outlay, to be increased as the objective
point needs greater tonnage, but all bear
in the same relation to the amount Of gain
and the business to be done. The
idea is to form companies composed
Of merchants and traders, put on
boats and run them in their
own interests and protect themselves
from Overgrown m~OuOpOlieS which have
sucked the very life blood from them,
and driven millions of dollars of trade
away from them and to other cities. 1t is
true the boats will not make the profit
directly themselves, but the smoun of
net gain will accrue to merchants at
points where such a system is Inaugural
ted, and go into their pockets as a part of
their yearly gains, and at the same time
give them control of their own means of
transportation. such system properly
managed would go far toward building
up the trade of any of our Southern cities
adopting it. In Memphis merchants
AVE rome int the matter with a will,
and in the buildings Of the steamers Wicks
and Church, prove their belief in ae-
ton &C."