Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-06

z passengers. The St. Francis arrived be
r fore noon, with forty-seVen bales Of cot
/ ton, and one hundred and eighty-seveI
I sacks of seed, and went back tC
| the St. Francis river soon after dark
} well laden. The Bismarck came down
: during the morning from q three days
stay at Point Pleasant, bat was more
anxious to get to her destination than
she was 10 take freight, and left drawing
: fully six feet four inches of water. The
: Tyrone laid over until nearly dark, get
! ting thereby two hundred bales of cot
ton, additional, and making her a cargo
of one thousand bales for Evansville.
4 The Legal Tender came up from Vieks-
. burg with thirty-six bales of cotton
which she put out ard laid up, az
freights are getting as thin as is the wa
ter on the crossings above and below.
The Mayfiower brought nearly hum
dIed tons, and lays over.
Boats Gefng To-day. IL
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Friars Point and all way landings. w.
P. Gray is chief clerk.
The United States mail packet G.. w.
Cheek leaves this evening at fiveO'cloek
for FIiars Point and all the way land
ings. Captain Malone commands and
Robert Wildberger is clerk.
The Frank Forrest is the regular pack
! ct to leave at five o'clock this afternoon
/ for Fulton and intermediate landings.
o. K. Joplin is chief purser.
The United States mail steamer A. ].
White, Captain Mark Cheek, leaves
this afternoon at five O'Clock for Napo-
leon and all the bend landings. Messrs.
B. P Fields, Charley Sharpe and VIM.
Smither are her popular secretaries.
The fine passenger steamer May
flower with Captain James Carlton on
the roof, leaves this afternoon at three
o'clock for New Orleans and all the way
landings. Passengers travelling south
will find her accommodations first-cIass
in all respects. Mr.. Wildbank is her
secretary, and is assisted by our clever
friend Phelps.
The elegant passenger steamer Sam.
J. Hale, Captain Skunk, viii be here to
leave at six o'clock this evening for
Cairo, Louisville, Cincinnati, and all
business landings on the Ohio. We can
almost assure Captain Skunk that his
popular boat will leave here with a full
trip.
Miscellaneous.
One more boat is reported sunk.
A telegram from Cincinnati SAYS
that the steamer Grey Eagle sunk
at James Landing, on Wednes-
day night. She had a barge in
tow, and struck a stump one hundred
yards from the Indiana shore, and sunk
in twenty minutes. She was valued at
sixty-five thousand dollars; was insured
for forty thousand dollars, principally in
Louisville offices. Another telegram
states that she can be easily raised, that
no freight was damaged or lives lost.
The Indiana reports but six feet Of
water at Reeves, and hardly that depth
at Fox Burns, below there. The officers
of the Alaytiower report Helena and
MonteZuma bars much worse than they
have been this season, and state that
since they went down, the channel at
| both places have changed very much.
The Bismarck lost three days at Point
| Pleasant, where she unlOaded and dou-
/ ble-tripped it over, and left there Tues
/ day, when the Glencoe and Andy John
| son were there, and the Celeste, at work
/ lightering one of them over. When she
came down, the Carrie Y. KOuntZ had
been dOuble-tripping over Island Twen-
/ ty-siX, and was then about to load her
| freight and come down. The KOuntz
had also been aground there. The Bis
marck was drawing six feet and four
! inches, and rubbed hard at half dozen
/ places this side of Point Pleasant, and
her officers think it impossible for up
ward bound boats to get even TO Point
/ Pleasant, where they are drawing over
six feet of water.
On Tuesday night last, as the Frank
| Forrest was backing out from Lookout
! landing, she ran on a log that raised her
some eighteen inches, and caused her
| detention for eight hours in trying to
get of, but fortunately she was not in
| jured severely.
The MayfiOwer at dark last night had
eight hundred bales of cotton engaged
for New Orleans, half of which was
taken at one dollar and seyenty-fve
cents per bale, and will probably get
fifteen hundred bales before she goes out
tonight.
Irwin DUgan, master of the Eckert,
came down yesterday to attend to the
disposition of some cotton recovered
from the st. Marys, and perhaps went
back last night.
The little steamer RhOda, recently
sunk in the st. Francis river, mas been
bulkheaded, and will, it is thought, be
raised to-day.
Twenty inches of water is the stage
now reported over Little Island in
White river.
The engineer of the H. Clay
Wilson came up from Vieksburg to the
wreck of his boat, on the Mayfiower.
When she passed her the Wilson was in
about the same position as when she
went down.
Captains John WOodburne and Andy
Robinson are, it is said, looking for a
boat to take the place of the st. Marys.
Had the Jennie Howell not met with
the accident at Ashley's she would have
made two thousand dollars on her last
trip to White river.
The Dardanelle goes to White river
and the Cherokee to the Arkansas to-
morrow evening.
Inspectors Clark and Aston left for
Cairo yesterday to examine q few steam
boats now laid up there.
On Tuesday the r. <. Lee carried into
New Orleans four thousand three hun
dred and thirty-two bales of cotton and
two thousand sacks of seed.
The Continental, Kilgour and City of
Cairo got big trips of sugar at New Or
leans.
1t cost the Arkansas Belle twenty-five
hundred dollars to sink produce boat
in the lower Ohio few days since.
The Lady Lee came near being de
stroyed by fire about nine o'clock on
Sunday night last. When approaching
Bankstout's landing, near Paw-Paw, a
fire broke out in the roof, catching from
the stOvepipe of the ladies' cabin, burn
ing hole about twelve feet square. A
terrible gale was blowing at the time,
and but for the prompt exertions of the
officers and the crew, who soon got the
hose to work, the boat would undOubt-
edly have burned to the waters edge, |
and the loss of life would have been ter
rible.