Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-16

ST. LOUIS, September 15.-Arrived:
st. Joseph, Memphis; Mary Alice, New
Orleans; NJ. j. Wicks, New Orleans.
Departed: Belle Mempis, Memphis. The
river is stationary. Weather cloudy and
cool.
LOUISVILLE, September I5.-The river
is still declining, with IA inches in the
chute, and 4 feet scsnt on Portland bar.
Weather cool and cloudy, with appearance
of rain.
CINCINNATI, September 15. - River 4
feet 8 inches in the channel. Weather
cloudy all day.
PITTsBURG, September 15.-Rslning.
Rise ofl6 inches, and falling.
NEW ORLEANS, September 1s.-No
! arrivals or departures.
LITTLE Rock, September I5.-Westher
fine; rain last night. River still deelin-
ing. Reported from below as arrived:
DArdsnelle.
VICKsBURG, September is. - Down:
B. L. Hodge, Ppm. Up: Lady Lee, II
IN. Weather warm and clear. River
falling.
EVANSVILLE, IND, September 15.-The
weather is cloudy and cold; rain last
night. The river has risen 3 inches.
Business active.
Parties in Evansville hsve purchased
the steamer lobe Hurt for the sum of
$500.
The julia came in from balow and put
of FIVE bales of cotton and left for above,
Phil Allin brought in 1872 sacks of cot
ton seed, etc.
John Kyle passed down and added q
lot OF miscellaneous freight.
The Sioux City also came down and
added light freight for the Arkansas river.
The GAINESVILLE came in from ST. Louis
with a good cargo of grain and produce
nine days out from st. Louis.
The City Of Vicksburg and Virginia are
due from above.
The towbost Bee and bsrges passed up.
The City of Vieksburg added at this
port, $50 ons of freight.
The Mary Boyd, Captain R, L. Raines,
leaves to-day at 5 pm for all points on the
White river. Mr.. Walker Outlaw has
charge of the office.
The George W. Cheek, Captain Mark
Cheek, backed out at o pm for ETiar's
Point. Frank Gonterman, clerk.
The Nashville Union and american says
that the up-river combination was yester-
day dissolved by mutual consent.
The new steamboat law requires that
all vessels be equipped as early as posi-
bic, and 1t is imperative that these equip
ments shall De made blythe LIST of January,
1872.
The Paducsh KentackiGR says: I'VE
have lost the Burksville somewhere. She
Ia probably gone to roost on q log in
Cumberland river, or maybe she has got
seven or eight hundred hOgsheads of to-
bacco more than the boat can carry, or
more likely she has laid up somewhere to
give Thad. an opportunity TO hunt for the
escaped monkey"
Rates were advanced, September 18th,
from st. Louis to Memphis and Vicks-
burg, as follows: To Memphis-Flour, so
cents; whisky, 81 so per barrel, and pound
freight, 80 cents per 100, and hay, 81 cents.
To Vicksburg-FIour zoe; whisky, 81 per
barrel, and pound freight, 40 cents per leo.
The following are additional rules
adopted by the Board of Inspectors at
Washington:
RULE 81. Every life-preserver sdjusta-
BILE to the body of a person, and that shall
be used or required by law upon any
steamer, shall be made Of good, sound
cork blocks, with belts q shoulder
straps attached, so as to preclude the pos
sibility of its being sceidently detached
from the body; and every such life-pre-
server shall be so constructed as to place
the cork underneath the shoulders and
around the body of the person wearing
it; and It shall be the duty of the inspec-
tors to see by actual examination ths
every such life preserver contains at
least six pounds of good, sound corks.
Ali life preservers that sIe not strictly in
accordance with this rule shall be con-
by the inspectors.
Rule 81. Safety valves, attached to the
boilers of all steam vessels hereafter
built, shall have an area of not less thau
twenty square inches for five hundred
feet OF effective heating surface (half the
1ue and all other heating surface being
taken as efectivel and shall be so
arranged hat each boiler on the steamer
shall have M separate safety valve, IN
less the arrangement is such as to pre-
clude the possibility of shutting off the
communication of any boiler with the
valve or valves employed. This
arrangement shall also apply to lookup
safety valves when they are employed.
Rule 80. One or more of said safety
may be taken wholly from the
of all persons Engaged in navigat-
ing such vessels and secured by the in
spectors, that said safety valves for the
boilers Of the smallest vessels shall in no
case be less than two inches in diameter,
and for larger vessels shall be of such d.
mansions as shall bedeemed by the super
Wis ing inspector Of the district necessary
and proper for the boilers of such vessels,
provided that in no case shall the lookup
safety valves have an area of less thar
fifteen square inches for every five hun
bred feet OF effective heating surface.
Rule SO. The lookup safety valves here
IN provided for shall, in their mechanism.
but n leVer, or q spring-losded
valve, and must be provided with means
TO relieve the valve of its pressure, and
hat the valves, valve seats, valve cham-
Ders, pits, and guides to the spindle of the
valves, shall be made OF composition
composed of copper and tin, and that the
yalve shall be guidedt TO its seat both above
and below, and that the case shall be 50
constructed as 10 preclude the possibility
If obstruoting che working of either from :
he interior or exterior of the boilers, one
n more of which kindo I valves shall be 1
to the boilers Of all steamers I