Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-08

tain Lolen's new job boat Dolphin made
a satisfactory trial trip to-dry.
EVANSVILLE, May Weather cloudy
and warm. Mercury 599 to 70o. Heavy
rain this evening. River risen feet al
this port. Down: w. H. Brown and
barges, PM; Victory and barges, II
am; Mary Ament and Grey Eagle, ]
pm; IdlewiId, pm. Robert Mitchell,
Sp.m.; Silverthorn, 8 am; Fayette,
George Roberts, II pm. Business pull.
Colonel John w. Foster, minister to
Mexico, left the city this evening for
his official postaecompanied by his FAM
lily. He went on the steamer Robert
Mitchell to New Orleans.
CAIRO, May River stationary.
1t has been raining since pm, Ar
rived-City of Helena, from St. Louis
| Savannah, Cincinnati , KIttie Hegler.
Arkansas river; La Belle, Red river;
W. II. Brown, Pomeroy; Quiekstep,
Evansville. Departed-Marble CITY.
for st. Louis; Kittie Hegler, Cincinna-
I'll; La Belle, st. Louis.
Noon = arrived: Pauline Carroll, st.
Louis, pm; Chas. Bodmann, Cincin-
natl, pm; Arkansas Belle, Evans
vile, 8 pm; Glencoe, New Orleans, 2
asE4s OCGAtC 1AOWClA1 4NCH OIlCauS, 4
pm; James Howard, st. Louis, 5:
Belle Memphis. 5; Crescent CITY, Or
! leans; Marble City, Vicksburg. Departed: ::
Pat Rogers, Memphis, 9 pm; City Of
Chester, Memphis, 10 pm: Arkansas
Belle, Evansville, 10 pm; Charles Bod
man, New Orleans, l pm; Glencoe, st.
Louis, am; Jennie Howell, st. Louis.
am; Belle Memphis, am; Pauline
Carroll, New Orleans, am. Rained
last night; weather cloudy and mild.
Current Items.
that the old pill-tank on the
engine and shanty on the leVee are soon
to be torn down, and the street-sprink-
ling firm are to procure their water from
the Holly company; and the sooner it is
done the better for the boats and ship
pers. The stables must go too: it will
not do, you know, to rent city property
for stable purposes. Notwithstanding
the weather there was not the first
fight or anything else of a news char
acter at the landing yesterday to
make even a second-elass item
The Mary Houston was billed to leave
Louisville for New Orleans last evening.
Cincinnati rates to New Orleans
twelve and a half cents per hundred,
and whisky thirty-seven and a half
cents per barrel. Wilson is at
Cincinnati, Micawber-like, waiting for
something to turn up...... Mr.. James Du-
gan, engineer of the Covington water
works, has resigned, and viii go on Cap
tain kyle's new wrecking-bOat.. Cap-
tain Isaac Bryson has been appointed to
the command Of the new wrecking-
steamer, and entered upon the discharge
of his duties. She will be ready for busi-
ness by the middle of the present month. |
THE work of dredging at the old
draw-bridge continues. Among the |
matter dipped up by the dredge during
the week was a cast-iron anvil, a |
wise, steam-gauge, and an assortment |
of cooking utensils. These are supposed |
to have belonged to the Grey Eagle, |
which struck the pier in 1861. She had |
her guards, cOok-house, smith-shOp,
wheel, etc., torn off, careened over on
her side, fiOated down a short distance
and sunk. A number of passengers per-
ished in the water, among them an insane
man, chained to the lower deck, who
was being taken to the lunatic asylum
at Jacksonville. The Effie Alton, on
her way up in 1855, also struck the pier.
caught fire and was burned. She set fire
TO the bridge, burning the draw-span,
and floated down to the head of Credit
sland, where the remains sunk. The
present stage of the river is about ten
eet above low water mark. All the
piers between the island and the draw
nave been taken out to the proper depth,
md, the next work of the dredge will be
N the piers on the Davenport side. This
work is being done by Mr.. Williams for
he Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
ailroad company, at the rate of seven
iollars per cubic yard. A force of men
5 also at work on the old draw pier,
caring down the timbers and lOosening
he rock, preparatory to taking them
....."J Judge Arthur's decision," says
Vicksburg Herald, Gin the ,
ivil rights case, so displeased the Afri-
an element that they met together
,urpose of holding an Indignation
Meeting. The judge, in his decision,
declared the law unconstitutional. 49,.
The popular packet Pauline Carroll
caves this evening for New Orleans ,
nd way landings. Captain Yore COM
hands, and E. Ross Powell is clerk.
ays Sundays st. Louis Republican,:
Captain Prime Emerson Yesterday \
laced on Change the model of the IA
lous Alton packet, Altoona, built at
'ort Pickering, below Memphis, by him,
une l, 1850, for Gaty, McCune & Co,
nd Joseph Brown, of st. Louis, and the
Wise Bros, of Alton. The hull was
nished here, Gaty, McCune & Co. fur
ishing the machinery-five boilers with r.
We fiues each, twenty-six feet long,
inches diameter; two cylinders
Tenty-six inches diameter, eight feet
-rOke. The hull was two hundred and :
'rty feet long, thirty-two feet beam .,
nd six feet hold. She was commanded
y Captain Joseph Brown, the present
layOr Of this city, and cost about fifty
dollars. In '52 she made the
III from here to Alton, a distance
twenty-five miles, in one hour
nd thirty-tive minutes, which time
as never been beaten since. She
IN but a short time over two
ears, when she sunk in Sawyer's
end and proved total loss. Her ma
llnery was taken out and put into the
t. Louis and Galena packet, Michigan.
aptain Robert HI. Reilly, now dead.
his steamer was finally torn up and
er machinery was placed in the first
ellie Memphis, which was sunk by the
e in 1856, and the wreck now lies, with
and all on her, opposite the
ctional docks" Nathan Potts.
hose license was revoked by the in
ectOrs for causing the collision between Z
e New State and Eagle, says he had =
} chance before the examining board
get in the testimony that he wanted,
I'd which he was satisfied would clear r
10 of any blame in the matter. .......
hen the Ohio falls sufficiently the
recker Eckert viii go to the sunken
)llier. After that craft is raised or
recked she will pay her compliments
the wrecks in the harbor at Evans
lie, provided the authorities there
'em their removal of any Importance to N
e commercial interests of the town..
young cub bear got away from 2,
e steamer Emma, at Vicksburg, Al
e other day, and rushing down the to
age-plank, made for the Herold's ou
ater-poet, frightening him so bad his :
.ir turned nearly to a skim-milk color q