Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-28

New Orleans. So. Captain ALI STEMS
new boat, Charles Morgan, win make q
trial trip at Cincinnati to-day. The
Cherokee, from Cincinnati, has fifty
passengers aud six hundred tons OF
freight, one item being three thousand
! chairs. She has the largsst trip of
| freight that has left Cincinnal for a
long while. VIM. Attenborough and
Thee. Tatum are her pilhis She
twill be followed by 1fhe Ex-
|sp0rter, Captain Conway ,uommand-
ing; James Rees, jr,, clerk. s,... The
Warner and barges, with CRetaia Mart
Fisher in command, leaves gf1elanati
to-day for this port. The Kittie
Hegler leaves Cincinnati To-day for the
Arkansas river-....... Lew Shoag and
John Carroll are at the wheel OF the
Minneola, en- route from Cincinnati to
this port. Charles Nichols and Joe
Gray are plotting the Kittie Hegler......
The second mate Of the Colossal, brother
Of Captain Nose Hall, was severely in
jured by falling off Of that boat st st.
Louis Wednesday 1.-The Shannon,
under command Of Captain DeHunt, Is
to enter the Louisville and Tennessee
river trade. ....... Captain Gould will take
the MOuntaineer to Jacksonville next
week, where her upper works will be
transferred to a new hull. She will run
in the Missouri river next year......The
insurance men of Louisville now refuse
to give policies on boats and their
cargOes over the falls. Cincinnati is
rejoiced because the Ohio now has lit
tie less than five feet, and the Cincin-
natl Eh9uirer, OF Thursday, says:
yesterday the land wore an old
time appearance, with boats depart
ing for Pittsburg, New Orleans,
and intermediate landings" ........
The st. Louis Republicdn Of Thursday
says rates south we're firm at the figures
of the previous day, sac and 274c heing
the figures on -four and pound freight.
Captain James M'Cord, who for twenty
years was identified with the steamboat
interests of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, died at st. Louis last Wednes-
day. The st. Louis Republican, in
speaking Of him, says: captain M Cord
was born at Pittsburg, and was for many
years engaged in river pursuits. He
came to st. Louis over twenty-fi i've years
ago, and was for many years part owner
in \ foundry and machine shop on the
levee, at the foot of Spruce street. Cap
tain M'COrd was for q number of years
boiler inspector at this port. At the time
of his death he held the office of secre-
taTy of the boat-owners' association, and
had the respect of every river man in
this community. The following Gin
cinnsti and New Orleans boats have en-
gagged their pilots for the season: Ex-
porter, Wash. FINLEY and Frank Carroll;
Thomas Sherlock, Bryce and Marion
Purcell; Charles Bodmann, Charles Ow-
ems and Joe Purcell; Cherokee, William
AttenborOugh and Theo. TatmAn; Louis
vile, Ed. M'Fall Warner, Eugene
Hanlon and Mart. Estes. -. From
the Louisville Courier Journal of
Thursday: "Fhe river was still rising
at Pittsburg yesterday, and number of
towbosts with toWs of coal left for this
port and Cincinnati. As the trade is
pretty well supplied with coal from here
to New Orleans at present, 1t is more
than probable that the bulk of the pres
ent run of coal will be stopped here and
at Cincinnati. We will have 'coal to
SELF this winter