Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-05

crossed on the ice, two days earlier than
last year. The ferTyboat made its last
| trip on Wednesday, the twenty-seventh;
last year Oh Thursday, the twenty
eighth. On the fifth of December, the
first sleigh passed over.
A meeting of the Steam bOatmen's As
sociation was held in Louisville day be-
fore yesterday, but not word was said
about it in the telegraph reports.
The stern-wheeI steamer Glasgow was
sold at Cairo last Saturday at public auc-
ton, and was purchased by Walker &
Nellis, owners of the dry docks at Cairo,
for the sum of two thousand five hun
dred and seventy-five dollars. This is
the boat that slid from Memphis one
night month or so since.
The Indiana and George G.. Wolf are
due from below.
A heavy fog covered the river last
night.
The steamer Little Rock, sunk in the
Arkansas, originally cost So, 900, and
was valued at the time of the accident
at S15,0 600, and insured in the Cincinnati
Offices, Burnett, Farmers and Manufac-
tuTers, Amazon, Friendship and Eure-
ka, in two of these for $500 each; in
two more for $500 each, and in one for
$1,000; total, $4,000 She was built in
Cincinnati in August, 1870, and is $50
feet long, "a feet beam and 81 feet hold /;
has two boilers 24 feet long, 374 inches
diameter; measurement tonnage, l62,
carrying capacity 800 tons. Her own
ers, the Memphis and Arkansas River
Packet Company, purchased her last
August OF the st. Louis, Arkansas and
White River Packet Company for S12,-
OOO.
The towboat Mary Alice made the run
from New Orleans to Vieksburg in forty
nine hours, the fastest time ever yet
made.
Tuesdays ST. Louis Republican has
the following Information regarding the
boats aground below there: 1.-THE Ex-
porter and barge are hard aground there
and out of the channel. The Belle of
Pike is hard aground at the upper cross
ing, and out of the channel The Cape
Girardeau ferryboat has gone to her as
sistance. The J. n. Kellogg and barges,
and r. A. Babbage and barges, are
above the bar tied up at the bank and
in a safe ice haTbor. The Joe Flemming
has one of her barges of logs tied to the
Missouri bank above the bar, and the
other is hard aground in the middle of
the stream. She broke a log chain and is
leaking badly, and has gone to Cairo for
repairs. The Utah went over the bar
Sunday morning and went to the bank
at woodward, below Minton Point. The
Fannie Lewis double-tripped the bar
and got over all o. K. The crews of the
Babbage and J. n. Kellogg arrived yes
terday. Captain Coll staid there with
the Kellogg. The lower bar is the one
that causes all the trouble, and has only
three feet and half scant in the chan
mel. The Belfast is hard aground in the
channel at Twin Hollow, with her rig
ging all parted and out of fuel. The Mol
lie Mohler and barge Paul, loaded with
coal, in charge of Captain Henry Car
son, went to her assistance yesterday.
The Atlantic got her second barge off
Horse Tail Sunday, and shortly after
grounded herself and was still stuck
there yesterday. The Friendship was
also aground there yesterday. The Mary
E. Poe is of, and lying at the bank at
Quarantine. 1t was reported yesterday
that her fore and aft hog chains had
parted in sparring over, but the truth
of which we were unable to ascer-
tain. The Carondelet transferboat NJ.
d. Munson was aground in the middle
of the stream opposite CarondeIet ever
since last Friday night, but was pulled
off yesterday by the towboat Fisher.
ANOTHER Boat SUNK.-A st. Louis
telegram of the second instant reports
'he sinking of the Keithsburg as fo!-
lows; 1.-The steamer st. Johns grounded
at the chain ten miles above here Satur-
day night. After taking off the st.
Johns passengers and cargo, and as she
was starting for st. Louis she struck a
rock and sunk, losing a large number of
live hogs, a lot of wheat, etc. Her pas
sengers were taken ashore safely. The
new Boston was sent up this afternoon
to save what cargo and other valuables
on board that she could. The Keitsburg
was valued at Sl0O,0 and belonged to
the Keokuk Packet Company. Not in
sured.n