Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-15

OOfc1uOI NdIldLu, OckGA at L ltlc-
burg, was completed at Cincinnati, and
brought to this port by Captain Bowlin
| and crew employed specially for the
purpose. AS soon ~ she arrived here,
however, Captain Ell Rowland took
command Of her, and placei on her the
following crew: Walker Outlaw and
Joe Boyd, clerks; Captain Z b. Smith
and Mat Downs, pilots; Henry Powers,
mate; William Short and Charles Dare,
engineers; James Duncan, carpenter;
Elisha Cannon, liquid comforter; and
John Wesley " are, steward. All OF
these people have been with Captain
Rowland since the year De,.and are
well known all along the line between
this port and the hesd-wAters of Arkan-
sas river. Particularly Is this the case
with nWes." Ware, the steward, whose
Falstatfian proportions and immense old
Virginia feasts have made him and his
department the special wonder among
Arkansas riverians. OF Captain Now
land, her commander, it is hardly neces.
sary for us to speak, for he is so well
known in the Arkansas trade that his
name has become as familiar as house.
hold words. Captain NOwIand's expe-
Renee as river man may be estimated
from The fact that he has commanded
IN Arkansas river alone q number of
steamers, and can boast as successful q
career as any stesmboatman of the
fresh-water persue sion. We can nov re-
call the names of the Fort
Gibson, Legal Tender, Ella,
and City of Augusta, of the steamers he
hes pulled the big bell.rope on, and now
he gOl cut on the pretty Governor Gar
land, which experienced marines pro-
nounce the best adapted and most ele-
CANT sternwheel packet ever built for
the Arkansas river trade. We wish
Captains Rowland and Hardin sbund-
ant success and a long, useful and profit
able career between Memphis and Ar
kansas river with their pride of the
western waters.
Marine Miracles.
River rising slowly.
A heavy shower yesterday afternoon.
The A. J. Baker, for the Ohio, passed
up yesterday afternoon.
The G. w. Cheek, for Friars FONT,
left with moderate trip.
The Ruth, Captain Milt Harry in
command, is the regular White river
packet leaving this evening.
Captain Mlt Harry says he will have
two fine packets to do his mail business
in White river next season.
The Future City and bsrges passed up
in the forenoon bound for st. Louis.
She left an empty barge at the elevator,
to be loaded for HeW Orleans.
The Phil Allin, Captain Stack Lee in
command, leaves Il is evening for
Greenville and all way landings. Jimmy
Thompson presides at the desk,
The Vint Shinkle departed last even
ing for the Ohio river with So bales cot
ton, 26 bales rags, 500 brls oil, 85 beer-kegs,
Is bundles of sacks and As cabin psssen-
gers.
The new Memphis and Cincinnati
packet, James w. Gaff, makes her trial
trip next Tuesday. Steam has been
raised on her, and it is said that her ma
chinery works like clock.
st. Louis Republican, Thursday: "The
E. o. Stanard left here Tuesday night
for New Orleans but lay up at Caronde-
let, and was still there yesterday. There
is something the matter with her boiler
or machinery"
Newport, La, July IA: Weather
clear; thermometer $50. The upper riv-
er at Fulton has risen one foot and seven
inches in the last twenty-four hours and
is now out of its banks, threatening all
the crops with destruction in the upper
river valley.
By reference to the advertisement of /
the Cheek line OF packets, it will be
seen that the Illinois goes out in her
regular Memphis and Vicksburg trade
| next Tuesday; also that the A J. White
will take the place of the George w.
Cheek in the Memphis and Friar's
Point trade Monday, the latter packet
laying up for repairs, both to herself and
her hefty commander.
Arkansas river is on a regular tars.
A number of the levees are reported
broken and crops damaged to q consid-
cradle extent. Among the plantations
overlooked are a part of DR.. Brons0n's,
just below New Gsscony; DIR. Bryan's,
at Richland; Bells and Spellmsn's, at
Racine; Baker JOnes's and the Spring
field place, just above Auburn; J. II.
Dupree, at Oakley, and several other
plantations in the neighbOrhood OF PEN
dleton and Red Fork.
Fellow marines, look out for sturgeon.
See here what South Carolina paper
SAYS happened to y steamboat: 1.-THE
| machinery OF the steamer Douglass,
| which took party of excursionists to
the Blacklist grounds on the fourth,
came to a deadlock when in the
neighborhoOd Of Big Island, and it was
| q subject of wonder for some time what
could be the matter. The mystery was
| finally unravelled by the discovery fan
enormous sturgeon, which had become
wedged in between the wheel and sterE.
post"
Vioksburg Herald, Thursday: "From
all appearances the cotton boats have a
goodiseason In prospect. The cotton
crop all along the valley is reported to
| be very fine, and the acreage planted
| equally as large as any previous season.
| II there should no unlocked for blight
fall upon the crop the boats will have
pretty much ali the freight they can
handle during the season, and il the
| planters can only get reasonable price
for the staple, business will be good and
times will be better than for many
years. -.a-
Little Rock Gazette, Thursday: "The
river is rising slowly, and yesterday
evening the gauge marked twenty-four
feet, which indicated rise of one foot
during tue previous twenty.four hours.
Parties who came in on the Fort
Smith train report the liver to be rising
all the way down, and a private letter
from Fort Smith states that the water
has commenced to MAKE grand spread
over the IoWlands in that vicinity,
much to Che CONSERVATION OF the farm.
ers. We learn that along the river in
that portion of Pulaski county above
this city, about one-third of the corn
aud one-eighth of the cotton planted
has been DESTROYED by the overflow.
The bank on the Argenta side has made
several Dad 'cavesr during the past day
OF two, much TO the fright and annoy
ance OF people occupying river-front lots.
So far the part of only one house has
been carried away by the food, that
being q room belonging to Mr.. Bra
mant.n