Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-25

70 mompnls, D pm. river BtablOuhrys
Light showers this afternoon. Mercury so.
mis- oRLLA EoUs
The snagboat DeRussey came down yes
terday, on her way to White river.
The Norman leaves tomorrow for Cairo
and Evansville. d. II. Kenneday is mas
ter.
TIE launch of the Phil T. Allen will
come off on Monday at p. N.
The Columbia will be in port, to leave
on Tuesday for Fort Smith and all way
landings on the Arkansas
Terry Cunningham, steward on the
steamer Mohawk, was landed here in
dying condition two days ago, and was
sent TO the Marine Hospital by Mast &
Hooth, where he died At O'Clock pm.
yesterday, just as his wife arrived from
Cairo.
1t will be seen by advertisement else
where, that the cargo of the Edinburg
will be sold by 4. A. Frlnkland, Esq, on
Monday, at 10 am.
Captain Richard Lightburne will have a
clerk at the Ievee on Monday and Tues
day, to receive freight for the Arkansas
river, to go by the Columbia, leaving
Tuesday evening. Shippers can have
their bills of lading sig3ed at his Office,
No. 296 Front street, at any hour of either
day.
Captain Frank Y. Bachelor, one of the
OWHdASY anu dptdlu Low agent
of the underwriters, arrived here yester-
day TO see after the Edinburg and her
freight.
The railroad will be completed between
Pine Bluff and Eunice, On the Mississippi,
on the Sd of January next. Two packets
will then be put in the Memphis and
Eunice trade.
The r. P. Walt, for White river, had an
excellent trip of both freight and people.
The Oil City, Captain Randall, leaves
tomorrow for Shawnee village and all
way landings.
The City OF Cairo, Captain Luker, will
pass up to-day for Cairo and st. Louis.
She is the regular packet.
The Belle Memphis leaves tomorrow
for Cairo and st. Louis.
The Ruicon passed down on Monday
evening for Vicksburg.
The Legal Tender goes out on Tuesday
for White river. Captain Elliott is mas
ter.
The Columbia will be in port to leave
on Tuesday for Fort Smith and all land
ings on the Arkansas.
The cargo of the Edinburg is being dis
charged at the levee. 1t will be sold for
account of the underwriters.
The K. @. Gray, Captain r. S. Yerkes,
leaves on Monday at pm. for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati.
The elegant steamer bismarck, Captain
Bill Thompson, leaves to-day at pm.
for Vicksburg and New Orleans. She is
unsurpassed as a passenger packet, and
Captain Thompson is one of the best Off
GERS on the river.
The Wauanita leaves tomorrow for
Cairo and Cincinnati. Captain Rees is
| her master. She makes all way landings.
The United States mail packet, Pat
Cleburne, Captain Pritchard, leaves on
Monday as the regular Arkansas river
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Indiana, Captain r. s. Neal, will pass
down tomorrow from New Orleans.
Col. James Ransom has purchased the
Nora from Smith & Porter, of New Cum
berland, West Virginia, for $4,000. Col.
Ransom contemplates fitting her up as
cotton boat to run in some of the small
streams in Texas. The Nora is nearly
new.
The MolIie Gratz was scratched at Louis
vile a few days ago. She was loaded for
White river, but had to discharge her
trip.
George Clark, a well known pilot, died
in st. Louis of apoplexy on Thursday. He
dropped dead in cigar store.
Another meeting of steamboatmen and
interested property holders was held in
Cincinnati on Wednesday morning, to
take some further action regarding a re-
duction of the wharfage tax. The COM
mittee appointed at a previous meeting
reported memorial drawn up for the city
council, and having received over one
hundred signatures. A free wharf is
asked for, and also the privilege of three
hundred feet of said wharf at the foot of
Broadway, that a wharf boat NAV be
placed there for the benefit of the steam
boat packets and steamboats, generally
doing business at the wharf or landing.
1t seems very probable that Cincinnati
steamboatmen will obtain their request,
or at least that only nominal tax will be
imposed, sufficient merely to keep the
landing in good order.
The committee recently appointed by
the st. Louis river men is at work en-
deavoring to find out Just what propOr-
ton of the tax has been appropriated for
improving the levee. If we catch the
real tone of feeling among steamboatmen
on this subject it is not so much tax
applied to improving their facilities for
handling freight that they object to, but
they are opposed, and that Justly, to hav-
ing their business made a direct source
of revenue in the way of taxation for
every corporation, great or small, which
boasts of river front.
The st. Louis Times says the hull of the
Indiana was recently inspected at Cairo
and certificate granted ranking her in
the same class as when built, although
no repairs have been made. Inspector
John Shalcross examined her very criti-
cally, and failed to detect the presence of
a single decayed or unsound plank or
timber in her hull. This was so surpris-
ing and unusual, that he has written To
her builders in Madison, Indiana, asking
for information as to the circumstances
under which the timber was gotten out
the time of year when it was cut down
the kind of soil on which it grew, and
any other particulars which may serve
to throw light on the causes of its ex-
traordinary preservation. Such informa-
ton may be of the greatest value to boat
builders. 1t is believed, from present
appearances, that the huh of the Indiana
will be as sound ten years from now as
it is to-day, as the timber is as hard as q
rock.