Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-11

The river rose four inches. The weather
is.cioudy. Mercury, So.
MISCELLANEOUS.
"Bad luck never comes singly" Is an old
adage, and has ~proventrue in ona instance
at least. On Monday last the steam tug
Nettie Jones, beIongingto Brown & Jones,
coal-dealers of cur city, was sunk at our
landing by collision with the Great Re
public. We announced on the following
day that the firm had sent to Cairo for the
tug Jennie Sutton, to replace theo one lost.
We are now called upon to record the
sinking of the latter by collision with the
steamer Gallatin, above Island 80, before
daylight yesterday. The Gallatin was as
cending and the Sutton was comingdown.
and both vessels were hugging the point,
which they reached simultaneously. Mel
Their saw the other until too late, and the
/ collision was unavoidable. The Sutton
sunk almost Immediately in deep water.
but no lives were lost. The crew was, we
believe, the same h~atsurviyed the Nettie
Jones disaster, and they were brought to
this city yesterday on the Alice Dean.
The tug was worth probably $4,000, and
the loss falls heavily on Messrs. Brown q
Jones, as several of their coal boats re-
| quire ~pumpingout frequently, which now
must be done by hand. Our leVee is also
left without a tug, and much incon-
venience Will be experienced by packets
passing up and down, as they may have
TO LAND at the coal-yard for want ofmeans
to drop a coal-fiat alongside.
Captains James H. and D. W. Maratta.
of the Inflated Emma No. 3, are in the
city.
The T. L. McGil is due from above.
The w. R. Arthur passed up in the
night.
The saIvor No. 2 came up yesterday
from the wreck of the Lizzie Gill. She
haA ON nE WEaf uaaa.ET-
board, saved from the wreck.
The tOwboat Greyhound passed up yes
terday.
The Rubieon is due from above, on her
way to Vicksburg.
White Carroll is clerk Of the Olive
Branch, in place of George o'Neil, who is
sick
The R. E. Lee viii, we learn, come to
this port next trip.
The r. G.. Gray has been purchased BY
the Louisville and Arkansas River Packet
Company. Captain Yerkes will com
mand. Price said to be SIS, 600.
Commodore John d. Adams left for
New Orleans yesterday by rail.
Captain Sam. B. Miller, of Elliott &
Miller, left for New Orleans last night on
the Legal Tender.
Captain f. A. Levy went out, we learn.
on Tuesday evening as clerk of the st.
Francis.
The Legal Tender got away late last
night Tor New Orleans. She added $50
bales cotton here, and had a good passen-
ger trip.
The X. P. Walt leaves tomorrow for all
points on White river.
The Commercial gets awayt tomorrow
for all landings on White river.
The Olive Branch, Captain McCOrd.
leaves to-day at ) pm. for New Orleans
and all way landings.
The Clara, Captain Abrams, will leave
at pm. to-day as the regular Cairo and st.
Louis packet. Mr.. Joe Dill, a brother Of
our Billy, has charge OF the office and will
be found competent clerk.
Rod Hand, a prophet of the Piute In
dams, uttereth this %pTophssy: "We shall
soon have a flood like the n 1870 years
ago, when il rained forty DAYS and forty
nights, and all he people got into the big
boat built by Columbus"
Information is wanted by a distressed
mother, of Willie st. Andre, who Is sup
posed to be on board some boat. He is
fourteen years of age, has rather pleasant
face, dark brown hair, black eyelashes
and eyebrows, full gray eyes, and has a
scar under the left jaw. Any information
conveyed to Mary +. st. Andre, Vicks-
burg, viii be thankfully received.
Mr.. Rudd, clerk of the MlIbrey, laid
over at this port to settle up the boats
trip, and leaves tor Cairo to-day BY rail.
The U. s. mail packet Guidon, Captain
Clay Rice, will get away to-day for Little
Rock and way points on the Arkansas.
She connects with the Fort Smith pack
cts. VIM. Morrison, Alex. Waddell and
Charley Musseiman are her clerks.
The gallant General Anderson, Captain
Jim Lee, gets away to-day, as usual, for
Friar's Point and bend landings, She
goes on time. Stack Lee, Cummings and
Chism are her secretaries.
The hull of the Emma No. 3 has settled
in t~hirty-ive feet Of water, the bed of the
river having been cut to that depth bv the
witt current where the Inflated vessel
was lost. Wreckers are at work, and are
to get 80 per cent. salvage on everything
they save. The safe has been fshed out,
but it contained nothing of value except
the boats books and papers. Nous of the
cargo or machinery has yet been taken
out.
The Y irginia is announced to leave for
Louisville Tomorrow evening.
A small, swift steamer is wanted for the
Evansville and OwensbOro trade.
Captain George O.. Walton has been ap-
pointed commander of the st. Louis and
Keokuk packet Harry JAnsoa. Sixteen
years age George enterd service In the
company as cabin boy. " has advanced
steadily until he is now IN command of
one of the finest vessels ahoat, Captain
F. Lee, lately ia command of the John
son, takes charge of the Rob Roy.
The Newsboy was sold at V~icksburg, a
few days ago, by the Marshal, and brought
$3.50. She goes to Cincinnati, and then
to Nashville.
The recent Freight Agents Convention
put up rates on cotton from Csc. to 81 Il
hence to New York by river and rail. One
or two of our agents had a few contracts
made at h low rates, which they were
allowed to fulfill; but it is really wonder
ful how large their contracts now amount
to. All the cotton sold since was covered
by these previous contracts" and il is
said that all to be bought hereafter will
also be covered in the same way. That
a true old saw which ran, There are
more ways of killing a dog than by
choking him with butter"
Since the war but few boats have died
Of general debility, but the Rapidan has
achieved that honor. The Paducah Ken
,HckjGa says:
The popular Tennessee river steamer
peacefully departed this life at
daybreak on last Sunday morning. She
here on Saturday evening for Flor
with avery heavy trip, being loaded
down to the guards and having over forty
passengers on board. Nothing unusual
until about forty-seven miles
from Padueah, when the Waterman
Tusu6A up sldlES anu arDuSbQ every DOUE
with the information that the beat
was sinking. OF course they
stood not on the order of going but hur-
red out, many of them dressing on deck.
The boat was then two hundred and fifty
from shore. She was backed to it
ran upon the willows that grow pro-
-usely there, until they stopped the
wheel, when she creeled and spilled a
lot of freight into the river. The
water was so cold hat persons could not
swim, but most of the people on board
umped of and caught hold of the will
ows, thus supporting themselves. There
we're three or four skiffs on board.
Two of these were got out and
with them the people on the willows
we're rescued and taken out. The boat
Junk gradually and drifted, catching
very few yards, and then drifting aHsin,
Until about 81 o'clock, she was three
niles below where she first began to sink,
at the head of Widow Runnelfs bar,
he stuck fast and was wholly under
water, except a small portion of her hur-
icane roof. The cabin had been broken
Il two. A good deal of the freight that
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