Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-30

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build for the Fairy Queens machinery.
The Memphis Pilots Association meets
on Monday for permanent organization.
Captain Nat Green leaves tomorrow for
st. Louis.
The SaIlie, Captain McKosh, leaves to-
day at 5 pm. for Little Rock, Fort Smith
and ali landings on the Arkansas. Henry
Corbyn and Charley Sharpe are her clerks.
The Emma Floyd, Captain Jim Cheno-
with, leaves to-day for Cairo and Louis
vile. She connects there with the packets
for Cincinnati, and checks passengers
through, besides giving through bills for
freight. Little or no delay is experienced
at the falls. Robert Wise is her chief
clerk.
The City of Vicksburg had not arrived
at a late hour last night, but has, no doubt,
passed up ere this.
The r. p. Walt, Captain Ashford, isthe
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 and
Smithers are her clerks.
The Colorado, Captain Ike Mckee, will
be In port to leave for Ncksburg this
evening at 5 O'Clock. She makes all way
landings. Henry Dietrich is her clerk.
The spledid steamer Grand Tower, Cap
tdin 15HnO DdckS Jul lulS tNcHAAk III
Cairo and st. Louis. h makes all way
landings, and connects with the trains
North and East. Thomas II. White is her
clerk.
The Leenidas, Great Republic, Mary
Houston, Henry Ames snd Silver Spray,
are due from below.
The Commonwealth is due from above.
Abe Consol died of sunstroke at Peoria.
ILL.,, a few days ago. He WSs formerly a
nall AE IOnia anil Nnur nrIa1n9
clerk.
The Annae enters tho Memphis and New
Albany trade, having been chartered by
the Cincinnati Packet Company. Frank
Stein will command.
The Nashville Union and Amerfcan
says: upon the theory that all power
exists in the boiler, in its capacity TO con-
vert water and heat into steam, a gentle
man Of Nashville will o apply for a
patent, claiming to make direct applica-
ton of steam to the wheels of a boat, and
do away entirely with cylinders"
Work on the new canal is being pushed
forward as rapidly as possible. A largo
number of hands are now at work, and
the force is being daily increased.
The following circular, just issued by
the Surveyor of Customs at Cincinnati,
will interest boatmen:
Repeal of tonnage tax on vessels engaged
in the coasting trade and of fisheries,
and of the special internal revenue tax
on boats, barges and flats.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, July q, 1870.
By the twenty-ffth section of the " Act
to reduce internal taxes, n for other
purposes" approved July 18th, 1870, it is
enacted. aThat section fifteen of he act
approved July 18th, 1862, entitled, 'An
act increasing temporarily the du-
ties on imports, and for other pU :
poses,' and section four of the Pct
in amendment thereof, approved March
Sd, 1865, be, and the same are here by
SO amended that no ship, vessel, steamer.
boat, barge or flat belonging to NY iti-
zen of the United States trading from one
port or point within the United st ties to
another port or point within the United
States, or employed in the bank whale
or other fisheries, shall hereafter DO sub
ject to the tonnage tax or duty provided
for in said act and the provisO to section
I03 of the Act oprOvide internal revenue
to support the Government, and to paw
the interest on the public debt, and for
other purposes approved June 80, 1864,
requiring an annual special tax to be paid
by boats, barges and flats, is hereby re-
pealed."
In accordance with the above provision
of law, no tonnage tax could be legally
exacted after the 18th inst, and you are
instructed to abstain from its
collection on receipt hereof; and all APP
plications for %refunding of moneys so
paid, from and after the 18th inst, you
will forward with your report to this de-
partment. Very respectfully,
GEO. =. BOUTWELL,,
Secretary of the Treasury.
r. Fl. Stephenson, Collector of Customs,
port of Cincinnati.
The Nashville Banner, in an article on the
river says: "The trade upon
this river was much larger before the
war than it is now, but the following is a
statement of its present amount between
Nashville and the mouth OF the river, a
distance of two hundred miles. Fifty
steamboats,, averaging two hundred and
fifty tons each, carry out annually to all
sc, 900 bales of cotton, 25, 900 hogs
heads of tobacco, 1900, COO feet of lumber,
2, 1000, 900 tons of iron, 5000, coo pounds Of
bacon, 625, 600 bushels Of corn, 200, 600
bushels of oats, 500, 900 bushels of coal
aRd of salt an immense quantity"