Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-02

her wheels. she also met the C0lOraQO |
at Fox Island going down, and the Oil |
City at Cat Island.
Quite q number of wheelbindeTs of the /
Belle Lee We're broken when she got /
into the heavy ice night before last, and /
when she got here her wheels were /
badly broken, there being hardly a |
whole bucket left on either of them. |
She left Vicksburg on Wednesday and |
met the first ice Just above there, and at 1
Napoleon the river was nearly full.
The last heard from the Legal Tender |
she was at the mouth of White river /
waiting for the ice to clear out so she |
could come up.
The Mary Boyd will lay over until
Tuesday next.
The ice was too heavy yesterday for
any of our local packets to venture into
the river. Several of them were receiv-
ing freight, however.
The Phil Allin has a new rudder
nearly completed.
The usual number of spectators were
on the bluffs yesterday viewing the
mighty Mississippi in its shrOud Office.
To-day there Will be something less than
ten thousand people out to see the boats
work their way through the heavy ice
fields.
The attention of shippers is called to
the card of Capt. Noel which will be
| found on our first page under the head
of "new advertisements
! A Washington telegram says that the
! Senate has rejected the nomination of
| Joseph Nimms as Supervisor and In
spectOr- General of Steamboats,. 1t
seems that Congress is disposed to deal
! Justly with steambOatmen, and confer
/ the commission on a man Judged com
petent TO perform bis every duty.
Among the names next 10 be presented
| for that much coveted and lucrative pO-
sition are Thomas Sherlock, Captain
James H. Pepper, Captain f. Y. Batch
elOr and Captain John X. Booth, Of
Cincinnati; Captain Z. w. Gould, Cap |
tain John n. Bofinger, Captain james
GOrmly and Captain Ben. Hutchinson, |
of st. Louis; Captain j. r. St0ekdale |
and Captain w. ]. Kountz, of Pitts /
burg; Captain J. V. Throop, of Evans
vile; Captain Ben. +. Egan, OF Nash 1
vile, and Captain r. B. Leathers, of
New Orleans. They are all first-class /
men, having built, owned, and /
successfully commanded many first !
class steamers, bat it seems that c. w. |
Copeland, of New York, or Mr.. Bur- /
receive the appointment.
Commodore ROllingpin was formerly |
steamboat pastry cook, and wrote his /
first contribution for the press when |
holding that position on the famous /
steamer Gen. Quitman, in 1858. The /
"Bear's Head" a humorous kitchen |
scene, in which the Quitman chez dc
cuisine was the principal character, was /.
extensively copied.
The Fort Smith Ark NetU Era of |
Friday says: ''The Fort Gibson, after an
absence of over five months, again made
its appearance at our wharf, being the
first boat since the twentieth of last Au-
gust that came up this far. OF course she
was hailed with great JOY by our citizens
on her own account, and as the forerun-
ner of other boats"
Captain ]. J. O'Connor has resigned
his position as freight agent of the United
States Mail line at Louisville.
Charley J. Cotton, for many years
river, city and chief editor of the New
Albany Ledger, is about to start a new
paper, associated with his brother, John
I. Cotton, at New Albany, to be called
the Southern Indiana Reporter. 1t viii
be a weekly, and Charley Cotton will
be the editor.
United States Marshal Packard, with
the inquisitive turn of mind for which
he is becoming famous, wants interested
parties to appear at New Orleans the
third Monday in February, and show
cause why the steamer Henry Ames
should not be sold to satisfy claim of
Biddle, Coleman & Co.
The customhOuse measurement of the
Great Republic since her enlargement
is in leugth three hundred and fifty feet,
beam five feet six inches, depth of hold
three feet three inches. Measurement
tonnage two thousand and fifty-fiye
tons, an increase of three hundred tons
over the old measurement.
A telegram from Monroe, Louisiana,
states that the steamer Ouachita Belle
left there, few days ago, with thirteen
hundred bales of cotton.
A telegram from Camden, dated
January 10Th, says that there were but
three feet on the shoals, six inches of
snow and the weather extremely cold.
The Florence Lee after q forty days
siege, arrived at Evansville one day last
week.
The Lawrence was thirty days MAX
ing the trip from Louisville to this city
and return.
The H. C. Yaeger is laying three miles
above Mount Vernon, ice-bOund.
w. S. Bowman and John e. Massen-
gale, owners of the iIl-fated West Wind,
have returned to first principles, and
are now employed as clerks, one nthe
Ella Hughes and the other ON the John
Lumsden. They sold their boat, or what
was left Of it, to parties here for two
thousand dollars.
The Nashville onion says: "Lang, of
Pawpaw Hollow, and PeckerwOOd, Lord
PalmerstOn's French cook, are about to
open a restaurant on the wharf at Nash
vile, where, at all hours, will be served
hot meals-crackers and peppersauce."
A Wheeling exchange says:
''The steamboat Emperor arrived here
en- route from st. Louis to
The Emperor left the first
named city last August, and has been
all the intervening time in making the
journey thus far. We don't know much
about the profits of steamboating, but il
occurs to us that very little clear cash
will be realized from this trip of the EN-
peror."
Cincinnati collected one hundred and
twenty dollars and fifty cents wharfage
last week. Il
In the United States District
Court at Cincinnati, the other !
day, the case of Henry J.
et dl., against the steamer {
Nashville, involving claim for salvage
In the recovery of the cargo of that boat,
was decided in favor of the libellants. .
Instead of allowing percentage, Judge :
Swing granted gross sum of one
hundred and twenty-five dollars, this !
to be divided among the leaders of gangs :
according to the value of the property j
saved by them, and by them to be dis
tributed ia pro rata shares to their men.
The I" situation " at st. Louis is given
as follows by the st. Louis Republican,
Of Friday last: "The Andy Johnson
dropped down from above the bridge
abutments, and is taking on freight at
the Northern Line wharfboat for New
Orleans. The Pauline Carroll is load
ing at the Merchants Southern wharf,
boat, and the Carrie v. Kountz at the
KOuntz wharfboat, and all three boats
will leave for the Crescent City as soon
as the weather noderates. The Glasgow {
is loading for Red river ports at the foot
Of Plum street, and will get away
soon. The wharfboats of the White Col :
lar and KeOkuk lines rest easy on the
bank, but the wharfboat Of the New Or
leans Packet Company has sunk in the
center and is badly twisted. The Adam !
Jacobs was hailed from the Great Re