Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-22
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pavement or the leYee which was washed
out by recent rains III high water.
The levee between Union and Beale
streets should be paved immediately. we
learn that Mr.. LOwdsn has nearly enough
stone on hand 70 complete 1t and proposes
to take a certain proportion Of the re-
ceipts for wharfage until paid, should he
city var the work done. Wharfage
dues will be a myth in q short time and
our authorities should make hay while
the sun shines.
The Richmond passed down yesterday.
She arrived with eighty passengers and
added nearly forty more here. She had
an excellent trip of freight.
It IL reported that a prominent New
York s~hip-Owner has offered to bet
$4,000 that he has a steamer which can
beat BY twenty-six hours any steamer
which has vet crossed the Atlantic. Also,
that the steamer is Of American build,
and Will be commanded by an American;
and that, if the bet should be accepted, it
would enable him to show the world
something new about American
Parties from st. Louis are in Cincinnati
looking up a suitable steamer for the Mis-
/ souri, river trade. They have been look
ing at the hull built for Captain Metzier
by the Marine Ways.
Barney Hughes, in his last RGliDGy
Record, under the head Of "River," says:
I'VE are negotiating with a perfect mer-
maid OF a reporter to manage ms COL
umn, and hope by our next issue satisfac-
tory terms will be arranged. Our individ-
ual acquaintance with the intricate
machinery and workings of steamboats,
will be of valuable assistance. This re-
porter would rave enjoyed a connection
with this journal some time since, but
his dntipdthg to tOdter seemed i~ncurable,
and we were 10th to risk our reputation
on his jottings, fearing mis- notices would
conclude with 'How's that for high?' In
the present Ton stage of the river such
levity wsuld have annihilsted u.s."
The st. Louis Republican says; "We note
the shipment of the first raft of lumber,
direct from this city to New Orleans, as
consisting Of 800, 900 feet Of probably the
finest white pine ever sawed on Pine
river, Wisconsin. The shipment was
made by our energetic lumber merchant,
| Philip Gruver, jr., of Ninth street and
Cass avenue, in connection with A. ID.
Cronkite, Of Davenport, Iowa, the lumber
being from the mill of Hon. JnO. L. Davis,
| of the latter city. The gentlemen named
have already dispatched several rats OF
lumber this season to Memphis and Nlcks-
burg, and upon the safe arrival of this
shipment at New Orleans, and ready to
send several others forward to the same
destination"
The st. Louis Repu5 lean has the fol-
lowing: ave have often said before,
and now repeat again, that nO~twithstand-
ing the difficulties at some periods during
the season, experienced on account oflow
water, yet business cannot be said at any
time to have been extremely hull. It is
true there were times when trade was
lauguid and movements of freight o
brisk, but taken altogether st. Louis has
much reason to congratulate herself on a
year of unbroken prosperity. To confirm
this opinion of ours we need only to re T
to the fact that, in addition to u own
regular line of steamers, and irregular
and outside boats that frequent our wharf,
steamers from Louisville, Cincinnati and
/ New Orleans have come hither in search
of business nj have not gone away
empty"