Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-20
IN PORT
BY TELEGRAPH.

PTTTsBUR0, August 19.-Weather clear;
thermometer 9OS. Monongahela 8 feet 2
inches.
LOUISVILLE, August I9.- Departed:
Emma Floyd, Memphis. River rose, q
inches in the "a hours ending at 8 pm,
with 4 feet 4 inches in the chute and s feet
on Portland bar. Weather sultry, with
rain at 5 pm, after which it was pleasant.
ST. Louis, August 19.-Arrived: st.
Joseph, Memphis. Departed: Belle Mem
phis, Memphis. River failing. Weather
cool. Mercury $50.
CINCINNATI, August I9.-River risen 2
feet II past "a hours, with Is feet in the
channel. Weather Dol and pleasant.
New ORLEANS, August ~19.-Departed:
Tom Rees and barges, st. Louis.
VIcKsBURG, August 19.-Up: Rubicon,
II M; shannon, IL pm. Down: Mo-
cloudy and warm.
CINCINNATI, August 19.-The river has
risen 3 feet 3 inches; there is IL feet in the
channel. Weather cloudy; thermometer
$50,
PTTTsBURG, August I9.-Weather clear;
thermometer $50. The river is falling
with 3 feet Q inches in the channel. There
is nothing doing on he wharf. Reports
from the upper Monongahela say the river
is falling.
NAsHV1LLE, August I9.-River station
airy; 8 feet on Harpeth shoals. Weather
fair and warm. Departed-Umpire, for
Cairo.
CAIRO, August 19.-Passed down: Pau
line Carroll, st. Louis to New Orleans, 8
am. Mary Alice, Cairo to New Orleans,
3 pm; City of Vicksburg, st. Louis to-
Vicksburg, 6 pm; Little Fleta, Louis
vile to New Orleans, 6 pm. Up: Julia,
Vicksburg to st. Louis, 7 am. River sta
tionary. Light showers during the day,
and heavy rain this evening. Mercury
so.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cattle are now carried at 81 per head
from Shreveport to New Orleans. Poor
business.
The cities of J~effersonviIle, Louisville
end New Albany will have built and com
pleted twenty boats and barges durfag
the year 1870.
Captain James 0. Durf, formerly of the
AUGLanehe, leaves to-day or tomorrow on
q brief visit to st. Louis.
The engines, machinery and one boiler
Of the Inflated Silver Spray have been re-
covered and are now lying at our wharf.
No bodies we're found OF the wreck.
The body of Captain Jordan. lost on the
Silver Spray, has not yet been recovered.
One of the five u-nrecoguiZed bodies
buried by Captain Patterson had tire false
teeth on a gold plate.
The tOw-boat Grand Lax came down
49, 2L4 Do VI ~ ~AO &LOALs I
Carbon Coal Company.
The Mary Boyd leaves for Little Rock
and all way points on the Arkansas, on
Monday.
We learn that the steamboat launch has
been postponed until Monday evening.
The rain has retarded the wOrkmen.
A fatal shooting aftray occurred on the
Colorado yesterday, on her way to this
port. Particulars in local columns.
The elegant new steamer City of Vicks-
burg, Captain @. ID. Conway, will pass
down to-day for V~icksburg and the
bends. She carries the United States
mail. Andy Isaacs and George Briggs are
her clerks.
The splendid steamer Grand Tower,
Captain Lennox, backs out this evening
for Cairo and st. Louis. She makes all
way landings, and connects with the
trains North and East. Thomas II. White
is her clerk.
The r. P. Walt, Captain Ashford, is the
regular United States mail packet for
White river to-day. She goes to Jackson
port, and connects with the Batesville for
POcahontas, and also connects with the
Little Rock train. Messrs. Butler n
Smithers are her clerks.
The MOllie McPike burst a cylinder a
few days g at Rock Island. Three men
were scalded-two fatally.
The following boats were lying at Port
land on Thursday: ArmadillO, Emma
Lorena, Wauanits, Nick Long
worth, Virginia, r. G. Gray, Glasgow,
Rose Hite, Mary Houston, Pink Vsrble,
Kate Putnam, Sam j.. Hale,
Leonidas, Argosy, A. J. White, Bertha,
Minneola and Leclsre. The p. W. Stra-
der, Bermuda and Emperor were at New
Albany.
Captain N. F. Webb, a riverman of forty
years experience, died at st. Paul a few
days age. The Dubuque Times says of
accident which resulted in his death:
Last Monday the Montana got aground
at q point known as Robinscn's Bar, about
ten miles below st. Paul. She had thrown
out q line to the shore, and with the aid of
the dummy" engine was attempting to
haul herself of, when the steamer Mil
waukee, passing down, came in sight,
and as the line was stretched over the
main channel she was obliged to pass
over it.. Instead of Stacking their rope
the officers of the Montana kept it taut,
and through this carelessness the accident
The Milwaukee steamed down
n passed over the rope, stop
ping her wheels entirely in order to avoid
all danger of tangling with it, but caught
the line with her rudder, and of course
It down with great violence. The
through which the line
passed from the Montana we're unable to
bear the pressure and gave way, allowing
the rope to sweep down over the deck
with great force. Captain Webb CHANGED
TO be standing on the boiler deck. Before
be could make & motion to get out of the
way or even think, the rope struck him
full in the stomach and threw him up in
The air a distance of ten feet. He was
a large, portly man, and he struck
5he deck with a sickening th1d, alighting
the back of his head. When picked
up he was insensible, and a hasty exam
revealed the fact that his skull
was badly fractured. He was soon re-
moved to st. Paul, and shown every at
possible. He first commenced his
career as cabin-b boy, then he worked mp to
The post of engineer, and from that to
About two years ago he was
commissioned to take charge of the gov
srnment steamer Montana, a responsible
the duties of whichhe performed
with much acceptabihty."
Captain Milt Harry returned yesterday
rom Cairo, where he and the Messrs.
Ellis have purchased the Petrolia No. 2,
Tor the Black river trade, in place of the
Fairy Queen. The Petrolia is almost
new, will carry 200 tons, draws II inches
light sndi is very fast, with a full length
cabin. She will be turned over to her
owners on Monday next, and will
Iaova hara IN Thuro5av for Rlook rivar