Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-16

| tons freight and fair list of people. She is
receiving literally for her return this evening.
! The Baum's prospects are fair for a good
/ trip out for the Ohio.
| The Gold Dust spent seven hours here
! cleaning out her boilers as she passed up yes
terday for st. Louis.
The Mark Twain, Captain J. D. Randall,
Is the st. Francis river packet, leaving at
FIVE o'clock this evening
The Illinois, Captain John Darragh, sails
for Vicksburg at the usual hour this evening.
She makes all the bend landings.
The Hattie Rowland will be taken to
Mound CITY to be overhauled in time TO begin
with the fall business in Arkansas river.
Captain Nj 'Elroy's new packet, the new st.
John, built for the New Orleans and Donald
sonviile trade, was launched at Jacksonville
Saturday afternoon.
The government snagbca' G.. G. Wagner
was coahng and taking on supplies yesterday
morning, and is now getting ally to leave
for cruise in Red river
The veteran Arkausas steanboatman, Cap
tain Rees Pritchard, came around on tie
Maumelle. He is receiving a warm welcome
from his numerous friends.
The officers of the Illinois report meeting a
''hoater" this side of Moons Landing, whose
skull appeared to be crushed in, but, owing
to decomposition, are unable to say whether
the corpse was white or black.
The short-line Anchor-li liners to-day are the
Belle Memphis, for st. Louis, at five o'clock
afternoon; and the City of VIcksburg, for
Vicksburg, at ten o'clock forenoon. See
Captain Storm at the Lee wharf boat for par
ticulars.
The st. Louis and New Orleans Anchor
Liner Commonwealth is On the bills for New
Orleans at five o'clock this afternoon. Cap
tain Storm, the Memphis superintendent, or
Captain Washington, at the Lee wharfboat,
will do to apply to for particulars.
The Maumelle, the low water packet,
leaves for Arkansas river In place of the Hat
tie Rowland, at five o'clock this afternoon.
Captain Tom Darragh commands, with Chas.
Musselman chief clerk The MaumelIe has
recently been repaired, and looks as good as
new.
Captain Washington has the Golden Rule,
Captain O. P Shlnkle, w. r. Shaw, clerk,
advertised to leave the r. +. Lee whartboat
for Cincinnati and way points at eight O'Clock
this morning-in the cool of the day, so that
persons contemplating al trip up the river
need not get up much of persplration get
ting down to her.
Steamboatmen and steamboat agents pay
US for advertising their packets, and we en-
deavor to encourage them to advertise uber-
ally by keeping the public posted as to their
movements. The best way for new enter
prise to get the APPEAL river editors atten-
ton Is to advertise, and then ne promises to
ventilate thoroughly all that is promised In
that advertisement
A st. Louis telegram of Sunday announced
The following steamboat and barge sales: The
steamers, barges and wharf boats of the Mis-
souri, river packet company were sold yester.
day at trustees sale and purchased by the
Memphis packet company. There was scarcely
any competition. The steamer Joe Kinney
brought $4,000. the Fannie Lewis $500. two
barges $1,000 and the wharf boat $780,
The Andy Ba IN, the old reliable Ohio
river packet, Captain Vinton in command,
with Captain M. M. Deems clerk, sails for
Cincinnati and way points at five o'clock this
evening. The Baum makes a specially of
through rates to all points east, and being
first class packet, IN command of clever gen
tlemen, affords an elegant opportunity for the
contemplative summer tourist to enjoy
pleasant excursion up the salubrious Ohio,
giving free transportation at Cincinnati to
the various depots.
Vicksburg Herald, Saturday: Messrs
Dabuey and Polk, civil engineers, volunteered
their services to make soundings in the har
Dor and report its present condition, COM
pared with that of last summer to the board
of mayor and aldermen, without cost to the
city except fer such laborers as they would
have to employ. They began work on Thurs
day morning, and will finish this evening,
and we will probably be able to give full
results on Sunday morning. They found the
deepest water four hundred yards out from
the wharf boat wentS-seven feet with thir
ty-tbree and half on the gauge-so that
when the water falls to seven feet by the
gauge, the bottom of the lake will show clear
across, from the wharf boat to the island,
with the exec, ton of a puddle here and there.
This is about the sage of the water from the
elevator to the wbarfboat In front of
French mill there will be four and a half
feet at low water, and above there the lake
deepens rapidly until there is plenty of
water"