Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-04

other parties, the occasion calls out for
moro, more What an opportunity for
that New Orleans Trans portation COmpa-
ny, which uses only barges and towboats.
/ This company, we understand, will short
IL inaug1rate the long considered plan of
dispatching from this port for New Or
leans two tows per week ia place Of
one"
The Utah gets 600 ton trip for the Ar
kansas at st. Louis.
Captain O'Neal, of the Mississippi, tele-
graphed to St. Louis parties that helanded
the cabin Of the boat ten miles below
Natchez, that the furniture, bedding, ETC.,
viii also be saved, and that the hull is at
Waterproof bottom up.
The Grand Era will load at Cairo, and
return to and leave this port tomorrow
at pm. for New Orleans. Emmett
Strange, one of her clerks, will be found
on the levee to-day to receive freight.
Captain C. L. Kouns commands, while
James Kerr, Jr., viii be found at the
desk.
The Indiana passed down yesterday
loaded to the guards.
The Nick Wall, from Red river, passed
up yesterday morning for St. LoUis with
a fair trip.
A runor reaches US that Captain Jno.
n. BofngeT and others of st. Louis have
purchased the Richmond, paying for her
the sum Of $4,000. We presume, how
ever, that as far as the purchase of the en-
tire boat is concerned, the rumor is in-
correct. and that one-quarter interest,
that owned by Shirley and voolfolk, of
Louisville, has been sold to the st. Louis
parties at the rate of $9o,00O for the entire
boat.
The new and spacious steamer r. P.
Walt, Ad. Storm master, is the regular
White river packet for tomorrow, and
will leave the wharf at pm for all land
ings on White river. She makes close
connections at Devall's Bluff with trains
for Little Rock.
New Orleans papers are still clamoring
for an extension of the levee at that city.
About two or three hundred feet more of
that commodity would not injure Mem
phis interests any.
Ouachita and Red rivers are falling fast.
The Emperor was sold to Capt. John
James, of Cincinnati, Wednesday, for
$4,000.
A steamboatman writing from Van
Buren, Arkansas, to an exchange, thinks
the trade in that river will continue until
May.
The Memphis and st. Louis Packet
Company have enroute to this city three
bsrges loaded deep with freight.
Cincinnati builders are constructing
several barges for the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company, to be used in
the ST. Louis and New Orleans trade.
They will posses several improvements
over all others vet constructed. Their ca
pacity viii be from 1900 to 1900 tons.
The Cincinnati Board of Trade, at re-
cent meeting, adopted the following pre-
amble and resolutions:
WHEREAS, It has been represented
that the Ohio river is being obstructed
with bridge piers, two hundred to two
hundred and thirty feet apart, TO the
great injury of our river navigation;
therefore.
Resolved, That the committee on river
navigation be and are hereby instructed
to make inquiries as to the facts in the
case, and report to the board of trade as
soon as possible"
The Mississippi Valley Navigation Com |
pany, finding it difficult to procure mon |
ey in the way of subscriptions to their |
capital stock, offer liberal terms to owners |
of lands, offering an exchange at fair val |
uation. One hundred thousand acres |
nave already been secured, which the /
Company now propose to dispose OF by /
donating alternate sections to actual set
tiers, and holding the remainder for the |
benefit of shareholders.
The Ficksburg Times of Tuesday con-
tains the following, and, in fact, only par
ticulars we have yet received regarding |
the sinking of the steamer Mississippi:
. The steamer Mississippi, bound from
st. Louis TO New Orleans, sunk yester-
day morning about clock, while lying
at the Waterproof, La, landing. The
y atcheZ, to whose officers we are indebted
for particulars, was in the river at the /
lime, and was first aware of the condition
Of the Mississippi by hearing cries for
help. Captain Richardson, who was on
5he roof OF the Eatehe2 at the time, came
up near the Mississippi and observed that
she was carsening, and would soon turn
over. Dropping back so as to be out of
reach Of her chimneYs, preparations were
made to render all possible assistance. /
The boat turned over and went down
very rapidly, the Cabin breaking away
and floating OF down the nveT. 1t
IS supposed that in making the
anding, the boat struck a snag, and COM
nenced Immediately TO Ill with water.
The passengers had ample time to get
ishOre, and 10 is believed that no lives
we're lost. The boats papers and money
we're saved, and most cf'tle baggage of
he passengers. The Mississippi was
heavily laden, and when she passed this
3ort Sunday her guards were dipping the
water. OF course the boat and her entire
largo are a total lOss-she having gone
lOwn in about 100 feet of water. The
,itizens of Waterproof, we learn, fmma-
lately upon the news OF the disaster
,preading over the town, threw open their
houses and afforded the sufferers every
comfort possible"