Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-24
GENERAL NEWS
Business fair.

Weather too moist for comfort.
Receipts yesterday, 2 bales cotton and 2O5
sacks of cotton-seed.
Signal Service report: River Is feet s
inches-decline inches yesterday.
The John Gilmore and barges from st.
Louis TO New Orleans, passed south at noon
yesterday.
The City of Baton Rouge passed up last
night for st. Louis, over days out, having
cleaned out below here.
The Pillow Boy left for Arkansas river yes
terdsy evening in place of the Katie Hooper,
which had to be Withdrawn on account of
the low stage of water.
The City of Greenville is to 90 into the
New Orleans trade and the Commonwealth
will take her place in the Vicksburg trade.
The Commonwealth has been made a new
boat
Captain Ed Postal took the Katie Hooper
out for White river yesterday, in place of
the Hard Cash, with good trip on. Cap
tain Postal will not let his friends suffer
when there is good boat in sight to be had
regardless OF expense.
1t is rumored that Captain Thomas L.
Davidson's Centennial will be assigned day
in the New Orleans Anchor-Line trade. She
has been heightened and otherwise enlarged
since she ran down this way, and has capacity
almost, if not quite, equal to the biggest in
the line.
So far as known Josh Harrison, one of the
best side-wheel mates aaoat, will have charge
of the forecastle of the new Will HAYS, and
Frank Carrel and William Underwood will
be her pilots. The new craft, under Captain
Tichenor's command, will run 4 crack crew
all through.
Captain Clarence Hall, the Anchor-Line's
hos
his trip 10 Canada and the Northwest. He
was delighted with the excursion, and has
rich fund of adventures with which he re-
gales his friends. He says that the trip
down the rapids of the st. Lawrence river
was a regular hair-raiser.
The Josie Harry arrived from Paducah
yesterday all furnished up as pretty as a
speckled pig and thoroughly overhauled to
as staunch a condition as she ever was
Captain MiIt Harry is mighty proud of his
pretty boat. The Harry will begin receiving
forthwith for her first trip of the season up
White river, lesving Saturday evening as
usual. We are going TO inspect her first.
AT Nashville. Sunday morning. an assault
was made on the life of Captain Joseph Am
brose, an old steamboatman on the Ohio and
Cumberland rivers. The assault was made
by one Frank Tyler. Joseph Ambrose, Jr.,
seeing his father in danger, came TO the res
cue and shot the would-be murderer. The
verdict OF the coroner's jury was justifable
homicide. Frank Tyler was a desperate.
Joseph Ambrose, Jr., has been mate on the
Ohio river.
Cincinnati Gazette, Tuesday: captain W.
G. Tichenor will take temporary command of
the Cons Millar upon arrival, on account of
the illness of Captain c. B. Russell. The
Evansville Journal says: Captain c. B. Rus
sell, commander of the Millar, was very sick,
and has been since leaving Memphis. In
deed he was complaining on his way down.
DR.. A. NJ. Owen was called 10 see him upon
the arrival of the Millsr, and pronounces
his disease typhoid fever, and says that he
is very sick man, but thinks he will wrestle
through it successfully"
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has an i'm
portant communication, which refers to gov
erment steamers on the Ohio river as well as
on the Mississippi river. 1t is little case of
red tape that will soon reach an end. The
communication is az follows: 'In CONVEX
sation with number of steamboatmen /
have heard great complaint about the Off
GERS in charge OF government works employ
ing unlicensed men officers of the govern
ment steamers. 1t is said that the govern
ment engineers claim the privilege of hiring
who they please to act as either captain,
mate, engineer or pilot on vessel employed
by them, as it il said that the license law
does not apply to government steamers. If
this is so it should be remedied at once by an
appeal to the secretary of war. 1t is clear
that when two steamers are meeting they are
equally in danger if the officers OF one of
them are Ignorant, even il the officers of one
other are the most careful and skillful on
the river. And in this we do not believe
that Congress has made any distinction, nor
has any power been delegated to United
States engineers, or those under them, to en-
ploy unlicensed men, nor has she granted to
inspectors the power to grant permits 10 fill
either of the positions of captain, mate, en-
gineer or pilot on the navigable waters of the
United States, and if such violation of the
steamboat law is or has been committed,
ste ps should be taken at once to stop IL"