Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-30


deck load partly grain.
Up to Sunday night last the depart
ures of coal from Pittsburg were as fol-
lows: For Cincinnati, Il tOwbOats,
l, $4,000 bushels; Louisville, % towboats,
3,l42,000: Matches, / tOwbOat, IS, 600;
New Orleans, ltOwbOat, $1,000.
The funeral of Mr.. Pittman was at
tended by a large number of friends.
The Hudson cOllided with the Blue
Lodge Monday morning, at P~ittsburg,
and was so badly injured that she sunk
near Smithield bridge in fourteen feet
water.
There is considerable stir at the cities
and towns on the Ohio now that there
will be water enough to again place
large boats in commission. The Louis
villeand Cincinnati Mail Line are getting
their large boats ready, and one or two
boats have already been taken to the
landing at Cincinnati to load for the
South. The Mollie Ebbert will be the
first out from there, andthe Mary HOus-
ton the first from New Orleans.
The Cincinnati and New Orleans
Packet Company resume business this
season under the old organization and
the same officers. Captain II. A. Jones
is President, and Captain James S. Wise
superintendent.
On a recent trip of the Mary Miller
to New Orleans Captain Paul shipped a
deck-sweepeT at Evansville for twenty
dollars a month. At Vicksburg ne was
discharged for stealing four hundred
pounds of tobacco. The amount Of
wages due him was four dollars, which
was offered him, but he refused it. He
brought suit against the boat at Evans
vile, and obtained Judgment, as follows:
For wages, four dollars; passage from
N1cksburg, eight dollars; board for nine
teen days, nineteen dollars; wages for
nineteen days, fourteen dollars; costs Of
suit, eighty-siX dollars and ninety cents:
total, n hundred and thirty-One dol
lars and ninety cents. which was paid
by Captain Paullast Thursday. Indiana
courts are the places where Justice is
measured out to steambOatmen.
The Lady Lee will load at st. Louis in
the Anchor Line on the first vacancy.
The Julia leaves there to-day in place of
the II. NJ. Shreve. The p. w. Strader
was to have left Monday night Tor
Nicksburg.
The st. Paul Chamber Of Commerce
has adopted the following resolution:
''That a committee be appointed to pre-
pare a report upon the Importance and
p~racticability Of forming a sluice-dam
upon the upper tributaries of the Missis-
sippi and Minnesota rivers, and larger
reservoirs On their head waters, so as to
furnish uninterrupted navigation, ex-
cept when INSTRUCTED by ice, for the
largest steamboats, that ply upon the
navigable portion of these rivers; and
that the committee also report upon the
proper course to be pursued to obtain the
necessary aid of the United States Gov
eminent for the speedy accomplishment
Of this great national enterprise
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial " writes up" shippers in a
sensible as well as humorous style. We
make the following extracts from his
letter: 60 Dev'lish glad you've got home.
When's the river going to rise? When
will your boat be out2 Had a HI of a
time this summer trying to ship; no
railroads for me; tifty-siX cents a
hundred to Memphis and freight out
thirty-three days and not heard from
yet such, my beloved, was the salu-
tation that greeted me on Change to-
day. Now, my gushing friend is a
fellow, mighty clever fellow, but
you know that he is the very same
cuss who last year, and the year before,
and the year before that, got me down
TO fifteen cents a pound to Memphis,
8 because the railroad, you know, and
the difference IN insurance, you know
ETC., and when we got the thing
slmmered down to fifteen cents he
waded through the mud down to my
boat n day to know whether
couldn't do it for twelve and a half, be-
cause the railroad, you know Now,
next week, or the week after, or the
week after that, when the river rises,
and l get my little old stern-wheel boat
to the wharf, anxious to earn my daily
hash, ana enough over it to pay brother
for such patents as this sum-
ner's hatch may have brought forth, do
you know that my genial friend will be
among the very first to inquire if I can't
do 1t for a little less, because the rail-
road, you know I remember that
once, when l was younger than l am
now, a Cincinnati and Memphis packet
Inc was organized, with four hundred
thousand dollars capital, everything
lovely and the goose at an astonishing
slevatiOn-with grief I record the mel
anchOly fact that that packet line is nix.
and marry dollar in the drawer
candidate for the pOorhouse has
got the stars painted on its chimneys
md waiting for a RISE ! 'shmile all
NIT mine self i'm authorization of
Is nrst interview with my friend, who
VII be down to inquire whether the
Stars can't do it "a little less, because
he railroad, you know A steady and
.heerfully paid rate of thirty-five or
orty cents during all these years would
AVE encouraged the building of new
'oats and a low water marine to keep
p the trade during the dull season, but
ne wisdom of our shippers wOuldnithaVe
so, n thus we have 'fifty-six cents
'er hundred, thirty-three DAYS out, and
lot heard from yet One Of these days,
our town is finished, and fenced in,
nd Whitewashed, and deeently buried.
ct US give her a tombstone and an epi-
-aph: Can't you do it a little less, be-
ause the railroad, you knOwPn
y meeting OF steamboat captains
owners was held at St. Louis
londay night, at which it was re-
Owed TO re0Tganize the Steamboat
Benevolent Association. and
committee was appointed 10 re-
Use a constitution and report
I a subsequent meeting. It was
$50 resolved to send delegates to the ,
teambOat Owners and Captains Con-
ention, to be held at Cairo on the
Welfth Of November, at which the gem 4
raj interests Of owners and captains Z
MI be discussed, aud especially will ]
be an effort made to harmonic
interests of railroads and steamboat I
running on parallel routes, and
gree upon rates Of freight which will
e remunerative to both. 7
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
a preliminary measure to sup
ly the steamboat inspection service !
1th machines for testing boiler plate. I
nder the provisions of section thirty
x OF the act Of February 2S, 1871, it is
that these machines shall be
apable of a~scertaining the tensile
lrength and tOughness of boiler iron as
as the cOmpressive strain which it
III Withstand. Thescale manufacturers
T the country are invited to albmit :
and specifications for the above
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The COlrieT-Jotgnol Of Monday saws: ;
The Secretary of the Treasury has no. !
fled the Collector of this port that Cap Il
in William j. KOuntz, President of q
le 2 KOuntz Line of steamers having
the necessary bond as a COM :
ION carrier, is duly authorized to trans
1rt dutiable, ~unappraised merchandise
ON the port of New Orleans to the \
,rts of st. Louis, Memphis, Evansville,
o~uisviile, Cincinnati and Pittsburg,
the act Of July IA, 1870, and o
nendments thereto, and regulations Of
Ie Treasury Department made Ia par- I
ance thereof, III the following steamers +
the Company, Whiohrunupt the Missis-
and Ohio rivers between these U
'rts, namely: Carrie v. KOuntz, NOllie
oore, Kate 2. Kountz, Paninah, An 4
Ackley and May LOwery. This L
axes two lines Of steamers between
ew Qrleansand Louisville, which are
ithorized to carry goods in bond with Q.