Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Business dull.
No receipts of cotton or cotton-seed BY
river yesterday.
Weather way up about the nineties and
dry powder-mill.
The Rene Macready sailed for st. Francis
with a fair trip yesterday.
Signal service report: River % feet 8
inches; decline inches yesterday.
The City of Alton passed down for New
Orleans yesterday afternoon we'll loaded.
The City of Vicksburg added about Is
tons and left for Vicksburg on time yester-
day.
The City of Greenville left for st. Louis
yesterday morning with fair trip of passen-
gers.
Yesterday was blue day in river circles.
The amount Of freight handled would not
pay days expenses for a ferryboat.
The barge Bart Able was sunk several feet
under water in Cumberland river Friday,
laden with lumber. 1t was chartered by as
Brown, of Paducah.
kilograms were received here yesterday BY
her agent, that the Andy Baum would arrive
from Cincinnati at daylight this morning,
and return this evening.
Charley Postal, chief clerk of the Hard
Cash, arrived by rail yesterday from Devalls
arrive from White river to-day and lay up
for repairs, the Plow Boy taking her place.
All steamers in port wore flags at half
mast in respect to the memory of the late
James Speed, whopo carliex years IL ME were
devoted TO river pursuits. His funeral was
attended by all prominent members of the
river fraternity, some OF whom acted as pail
bearers.
The Amazon is the greatest volume of wa
ter flowing through any country of the world;
but it is but 5000 miles long. The Mississippi,
from Lake Itaska to its junction with the
Missouri, is 2616 miles long; from that point
to the gulf is 1886 miles, total of 1902
miles; the Missouri runs 1908 miles to Join
the Mississippi, and having had given to i,
the length to the sea, 10 4I94 miles long, To
the sacred river, the Nile, must be given the
credit of running through the greatest stretch
OF country. The American Encyclopedia of
1875. from which the previously quoted
figures are taken, says: at is navigable as
far as the district OF Fazogle, about 1900
miles from the Mediterranean. Its approx
mate length throughout all its windings from
the limit of steam navigation above Condo
koro is 5000 miles. The additional length
to Lake Albert N'Yanza can scarcely be less
than 200 miles, and consequently the river
traverses distance of about 400 miles, or
SOC more than the Missouri and Lower Mis-
sissIppl.
A Bostonian, Mr.. John McAdams, has
perfected an arrangement which, he asserts,
will bring any vessel, no matter how large
and fast, steaming, to a dead stop in from
one to ten feet, and will hold her steady as a
rock, with full steam on. The invention he
terms "ship brake" and attached to this
continuance is q self-acting appliance which,
during dark nights or thick or foggy weather,
will render impossible, in his opinion, any
collision with floating bodies, such as boats,
ships, iceberg, or with submerged bodies in
the shape of mudbanks, shoals, rocks or
piers. The device consists of pair of iron
shutters or sims" hinged one on each side of
the stern post OF a vessel, and shutting close
to its side from the stern post forward. The
films" are kept tightly closed by simple
apparatus on deck, which is connected with
the pilo;honse, and when "let go" the stays
connected with the Sins" allow them to open
at right angles with the ship, bringing it at
once to a standstill, and holding it fast as if
anchored