Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-30

evening for Little Rock and way points
on the Arkansas.
The Belle st. Louis passed down last
evening with fair trip, adding few tons
Of freight here.
The Susie Silver has 200 bales Of cotton
at the levee awaiting her arrival.
The Grand Tower came down yesterday
and returned at dusk, taking a few pas
sengers and light freight trip.
The Henry Ames passed down yester-
day we'll laden She put of here 20 casks
bacon and 126 sacks bran, but added
nothing.
The Sam J. Hale got sway for the Ohio
river yesterday, with Al sacks rags, 800
beer keg7, go sacks OF. oil-cake and 24O
bales Of cotton.
The City of VicEsburg will pass down
tomorrow evening for Vicksburg and the
bends
The Pink Varble will pass up on Mon
day for all points on the Ohio river.
The popular passenger steamer, Indi-
ana, Will pass down tomorrow at noon
for New Orleans and the bends.
The r. J. Lockwood is the regular Red
river steamer to leave on Monday, at
5 p. m.
The Utah will be down to leave at 8 o.
m. Tomorrow for the Arkansas river
The MinneOla Yves to have left Ciuciu-
natl yesterday for this port.
A dispatch from StsubenVilIs reports
ths sinking Of the tOwbost kangaroo, on
the rocks a. Cables Eddy.
The steamboats, at New Orleans had
their cOlors at half mast, Thursday, IN re-
spect to the memory OF Captain i. Bayhi,
W"O died on "Wednesday lgst.
The Belle YszUO encountered a violent
storm few days since, about eight miles
above Yaz0O City, in which she lost both
Of her chimnsys.
The J. h. BigIey arrived at Vicksburg
on Thursday evening with her tow Of
coal.
By a telegram to Capt. J. 7. Washing
ton, agent, We learn that the low pressure
steamer Richmond, Capt. Nat Green, will
pass up at p. m. to-day for Cairo and st.
Louis. She has splendid accommOdat atiOns
and is going through with lightning
speed. Cook Creighton and John Lang
l0rs are her clerks.
A telegram from Detroit says. " St.
Mary's rlver Is clear Of ice, and ths naVi-
CATION Of Lake Superior is therefore
open"
Several Of our leading grain dealers
contemplate purchasing q small steamer
TO transport Bheir freights from points on
the Ohio river and Mississippi, believing
that they can, by doing so, save & large
amount annually in freight bills.
Captain Prime Emmerson, who twenty
years sgO foresaw the great natural ad q
vantages Memphis possessed over other
Western cities for stRam boat building.
came here with view to establish per-
msnent shipysrd and built the famed
Altoona, which made the run from St.
Louis 20 Alton in one hour and thirty
i've minutes, q distance of twenty-five
miles, and against g current Of six or sew
en- miles per hour. The model OF which
he has preserved through the wrecks Of
wsr-and kindly placed IN the Cham Der
Of Commerce-Whiehf tor beauty and sym
m8try cannot be eexcelled, and has only to
be seen to be admired.
As Southern bOstmsn at that day pre-
f0rred TO have their boats built farther
/ North, ne had to 70 NOctA to find en-
ploymeut, until the war broke out, when
he again came South and cast his lot with
/ our people. At this place he built the
ram Arkansas, and with the waning war
Of the COnfsd5racy went farther South.
AT Montgomery, Alabama, he built the
ram Nashville, if snything more power
fui than the Arkansas, After the war. he
again went North TO find employment,
aud year or 50 ago returned here with
the Dry Docks, repaired many steamboats,;
built for Captain Adams the Dunhan and
Wheeler, two OF the best light water boats
ever butt; also for Captain Lee, the river
locomotive Phil. Allin, the fastest boat on
the Mississippi. To such men, Memphis
owes muCn, and without them cannot be
much. Shall he again be forced to 20
North to find employment? Let the
merchants and property holders of Mem
phis sazwer.i