Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-02

LOCAL OBSERVATIONS YESTERDAY.
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NASHVILLE, June 1.--River falling, with
feet on the shoals.
CAIRO, June Moon. - Weather clear
and warm. .Night-Wea clear. Their
mometer 50 deg. River Is feet 10 inches, and
falling.
LOUISVILLE, June River falling, with
feet 6 inches in the canal. Weather clear
and warm. Departed: Mary Houston, Gin
cinnati.
New ORLEANS, June WEATHER clear.
Thermometer 80 deg. Arrived: Thomas
Sherlock, Cincinnati. Departed: John A.
Scudder, st. Louis.
PORT EADs, June 1.-Arrived: Steamship
New Orleans, New York City; New York,
Vera Cruz. Sailed: Steamship Agia Sofia,
Liverpool; ship Margarita. Rotterdam.
PITTsBURG, June 1-Noon.-Riyer feet
6 inches, and rising slowly. Weather clear
and pleasant. .Night-River feet IL inch
VIcKsBURe, June WEATHER clear and
8 inches. Up: Gold Dust, IL last night;
Capitol City, II am. Down: U. P. Schenck,
Bpm.
EVANSVILLE, June Weather clear and
warm. Thermometer So to Sc deg. River
10 40 feet large by the gauge. Down:
Robert Mitchell, II pm. Up: James d.
Parker, 10 pm.
CINCINNATI, June L. Noon - Weather
clear. River falling. :. .Night:-River u
Memphis Departed: Cons Millar, Memphis;
A. z. Donnally, New Orleans.
ST. LOUIS, June River fallen l inch,
and is now % feet inches above low-water
mark. Weather cloudy and very warm.
Arrived: City of Alton, New Orleans. De-
parted City of Vicksburg, Vicksburg; Belle
Memphis, Memphis; John Dippold, New
Orleans; Commonwealth, New Orleans.
Movements at the Levee.
ARRIVALS.
A. J. White, Arkansas City; James How
ard, st. Louis.
Katie Hooper, Arkansas river; A. J. White,
Arkansas City.
James Howard, Coahoma.
BOATS DUE.
Dopn-West Wind, Colorado, Andy
Baum, Robt. Mitchell.
Up-Charles Morgan, John B. Maude,
Mark Twain, Geo. w. Cheek Illinois, Gold
Dust Hattie Rowland, Kate Kinney.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
C1NcINNATI-Charles Morgan, Alf. Stein,
master, eight am.
VIcKsBURG Colorado, Sam M'Pheeters,
master, ten am.
NEW ORLEANs-James Howard, James
O'Neal, master, ten am.
ST. LoUIs-John B. Maude, w. H. Blake,
master, five pm.
BOATS LEAVING MONDAY.
FRIARs PoINT-Coahoma, Stack Lee, mas
ter, five pm.
JoHNsoN's LANDING-West Wind, ]. G.
Andrews, master, five pm.
New ORLEANs-Robert Mitchell, Dan
Moore, master. five pm.
RECEIPTS.
A. J. Whites bales cotton, 2 bags seed
cotton, Is head cattle, "a pkgs sundries.
Levee Paragraphs.
Business moderate.
The A. ]. White departed for Arkansas
The Katie Hooper departed last evening
for Arkansas river with fair trip.
Captain William Norwegian of the steam
er Charles P. Chouteau, is in the city.
The Robert Mitchell is due down, en- route
for New Orleans, tomorrow evening.
The John Porter and barges arrived from
below yesterday, and lay here all day clean
ing out.
The Colorado, Captain Sam M'Pheeters, is
the Anchor line packet at ten o'clock this
for Vlcksburg.
The John B. Maude, Captain w. H.
Blake, is thet Anchor line packet this evening
al five o'clock for st. Louis. William Gobel
is her clerk.
The West Wind is the packet tomorrow
evening for Johnson's Landing and all way
points. j. G. Andrews commands, and B. o.
Michel is her clerk.
The James Howard arrived here yesterday
from St. Louis with big trip. She adds
here about 500 tons freight, and leaves at ten
o'clock for New Orleans.
The Charles Morgan, Captain ALT Stems
passes up early this morning for all points
clerk, assisted by Adam Wayland and Val
Entriken.
The New COahOma.
OF course, everybody that ever saw the
Mississippi river has seen that pretty little
lower coast packet, the Coahoma, and Com
modore James Lee, her owner and COM
mander-the oldest in experience and years
but the youngest In spirit of all the marines
now afoat. She was built entirely new not
quite two years ago, and went into commits
sion in the Memphis and Friars Point trade
last November year ago, and Immediately
became the favorite of all the packets run
ming into the port of Memphis, and of course
was kept full of business, never losing,a trip.
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first came off the ways. Well, we propose
to tell about how Commodore Lee has had
her overhauled from stem to stern and made
into really better boat than she ever was,
and all the work, we take occasion to say.
being done at Memphis, except what had to
be done on the ways at Mound City. The
FIRST and most important feature of repairs
done will strike the reader as the best
evidence of her safety and the careful
interest her owners take in making
her secure, especially as passenger
packet, and that is every one of the bottom
sheets in her boilers have been removed and
replaced with new ones, not because such
change was thought to be necessary, but to
make explosion beyond possibility. Her en-
gines are OF the best pattern of low-pressure,
enabling her to carry greater power with
less steam, which Is another feature in the
way of security as well as of economy. After
the repairs to her hull were completed on the
ways the Coahoma returned to Memphis, and
under the Immediate supervision of Com
modoTe Lee our home mechanics were put to
work on her, and every inch of her cabin
and upper works have been carefully in
spected and repaired to the minutest particu-
lar. The painters have done an excellent
job in frightening her up, and as she sits on
the bosom of the Mississippi she is too pretty
to look at. Her cabins have been re-
furnished, the. furniture of the L.
dies cabin being especially attract
i've in the pure white linen covers. An
elegant upright piano is one of the features
of the ladies' cabin. New carpets, new table
damasks, new chandeliers, new everything
wherever the eyes may turn, make the Goa
homa's cabins as inviting as the parlors OF a |
palace. Her staterooms also have been pro-
vided with entirely new outfits of beds and |
bedding, and otherwise thoroughly repaired, |
20 that In every particular the Coahoma is |
now second to no packet ahoat in point of |
comfortable, even luxurious appointments |
We have MT space to go into further par
ticulars, save to add that her culinary de- |
partment Is the best appointed, best fur
nished and most complete to be found on any |
packet In fresh water, and, besides that, is /
presided over by George Antoine who ia a /