Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-28

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here ITO tons freight, and has 500 toni
for above, IAN IA NOsl
ri MISCELLANEOUS.
The Kate Kearney, which sunk a
Island 50, was insured for $4,000 in Gin
cinrati companies, and for $4,000 II
Wheeling companies. I'D Nf iU ll
The Tom Reese and barges have beer
tied up at Salt river by the United
States Marshal at the instance Of thu
Louisville insurance companies for run
ming into and sinking the barge Anna
Beaver at New Orleans some time since
The regular tri-weekly passenger
packet G W. Cheek, Capt Geo. Malone
leaves to-day at five pm. for Friar.
Point and all way landings. Lew II.
Briggs has charge Of the office.
The r. p Walt is the regular mai
steamer for White river on Saturday.
The Pat Cleburne goes out on Satur
day for the Arkansas.
The Belle Lee will leave here on
Wednesday, February 7th, TO arrive al
New Orleans for the Mardi Gras fes
tiyities,
The Emma Elliott lays over until next
Wednesday to enter the New Orleans
trade regularly, on opposite days to the
Belle Lee.
Two or three more candidates for
Wharfmaster will doubtless make their
bow before the day Of election There
are now about twenty-five, all told,
among them two colored individuals,
and all are positive Of being elected.
The Mary Boyd is due from the Ar
kansas.
President Grant yesterday approved
the act passed before the holiday recess
of Congress, relating to the steam pres
sure Of towing and freight boats on the
Mississippi and its tributaries.
The City of Cairo and Bismarck are
both over Reeves This morning there
were no boats aground at that point.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has de-
cided that vessels leaving one inspection
dis.ric; and going to another for the pur-
pose Of being inspected, render them
selves liable to a penalty Of $500, under
section first of the act of Congress relat-
ing to steamboats,, approved February
%, 1871. Steamboat owners, masters
and others interested will find it to their
advantage to act accordingly.
The following additional particulars
of the America, we take from the Madi-
son Ind) Free Press of Monday
Owing to the lateness of the hour on
Saturday, we we're unable to give de-
tailed account of the sinking Of the
steamer America, opposite this city, on
the afternoon Of that day. The America
is good sized sternwheel boat, owned
by the Nashville Packet Company, but
at the time of the accident was under
charter by the Cincinnati and Memphis
Packet Company. She was on her way
from the former city to Memphis, and
had only asri sd this far when she was
frozen up ia the river on Wednesday
last. Her captain, Z. Pierce headed
his boat up stream, and endeavored
to make a landing on the Kentucky
side, under the bar, opposite the foot
Of Broadway. In this he did not entire
ly succeed; he got her within forty or
fifty yards of the shore, but some dis
lance below the bar. On Saturday the
captain got up steam and tried to force
his way through to safer harbor next
the shore, and Immediately under the
shelter of the bar, but in doing this her
timbers must have been strained, for
slight leak three feet below the ice line
became large one, and she commenced
filling rapidly Every effort was made
by officers and crew to save her. but
without avail She gradually filled, and
sunk in about two hours up to her boiler
deck. The boat lies in a very preea-
rious position. She is badly hogged in
the center, and as the ice is moving, it
IS expected every moment that she will
go to pieces. Her cargo is valuable
one Of miscellaneous character, CON
sisting Of dry goods, groceries, etc +,
which is being removed as rapidly as pos
sible. 1t is not expected that much OF it
will be saved The America is FIVE years
old, and valued at $4,000. The boat
and cargo are insured in Cincinnati of
fees, but it is not ascertained whether or
not she had a policy which covered risks
from ice. Among the passengers were
four ladies, who acted very courageously.
The baggage of officers and passengers
were saved As communication between
the city and the boat was impossible
yesterday afternoon, and the condition
of the boat could be distinctly seen With
telescopes, the scene was an exciting
one. Fortunately no one was injured,
but as the boat has not been abandoned,
we don know what may yet happen"
There are twenty-one steamboats, lying
between st. Louis and Cairo, waiting for
the ice barriers to soften and the water
to rise sufficiently to allow them to pass
down to Cairo.
Yesterdays St. Louis Republican
gives the following condition of the river
above and the location Of boats
There is gorge at Big Eddy, below
Grand Tower, extending from shore to
shore and about half a mile up and
down stream, The Tom Jasper and the
Sioux City got caught in this gorge and
are now fast in the ice, the Sioux City
a little above the Jasper, and both about
twenty yards from shore. They are di-
rectly il he channel, and there is plenty
OF water. Just below this gorge are the
Lockwood and Kate Robinson, bound up
stream, and the Capitol City, bound
down. lies at the bank, close by.
" At Liberty Island there are the fol-
lowing boats, bound down stream, lying
quietly at the bank, waiting for the ice
to break up or melt and float away, viz:
W. ]. Lewis, Fannie Lewis, Alice,
Huntsville, Esperanto and City of Quin-
cy. The steamer Commonwealth, hav-
ing sunk the barge W. B. Dance, is "
ing at the bank at Aliens landing with
the freight of the barge all safely slowed
on board. The Mountaineer, NJ. j.
Wicks and Minnie are all at Grand Tow
err The s. s. Merrill and Mary E. Poe,
bound out from this port, are also CO.
bound or ssnd-bar-bound, somewhere
between here and the ice gorge at Big
Eddy. Precisely where these last-named
boats are we cannot tell The little
jim Reese has been chartered to break
the ice from Wizards landing up to
Grand Tower"