Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-16
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Arkansas q short distance below Little
Rock on her way to this city on Mon
day...A prominent coal firm in this
city offered fifteen thousand dollars for
eorgeAIalone'sd double-breasted gunboat
George w. Cheek, yesterday. The offer,
however, was rejected.---.A Louisville
paper has it that Captain Sellers, of Sell
lers's coal mines, purchased the steamer
Keystone and four barges, which are to
be used in towing coal from his mines
to this market -. But thirty inches Of
water at Skylark bar, above Little Rock.
1.-The Exporter arrived at Little Rock
Tuesday with the steamer Danvilie in
tow, the latter having three hundred
and eighteen bales cotton, obtained from
the Petit Jean river, and which the
Exporter took to New Orleans. The
Exporter only got up as far as Dolly
Warden landing. ..... w hile the City of
Helena was taking on lumber at Vicks-
burg Sunday a gale of wind sent her
heavily against the Trader, and demol-
ished a portion of that boats railing;
also, smashing fiatbOat lying along
side. 49,. Captain Jack Carter purchased
at Cincinnati the other day the big hull
known as the Gaty No. l, which is
three hundred feet pig forty-five feet
beam, and nine and a half feet hold. He
has also purchased of the Anchor
lire the Marble City for fourteen thou
sand dollars, and viii place her cabin
and engines on his new packet. The
engines were new when put in the Mar
ble City, and are twenty-eight inch cyl
iuders, eight feet stroke, and are as good
as new. He expects the old boat will
be complete and ready for business in
ninety days. In the meantime, Captain
Carer viii withdraw from the Anchor
line, and devote his attention to the
completion of his late purchase, which
expects to rank with the James Howard,
Thompson Dean and other like crafts.
- From the Little Rock Gazette we
learn that the Robert Semple arrived at
Little Rock Tuesday night with barge
of ice in tow, which she went after at
RadeII landing, a short distance above
South Bend. After she took the barge
in tow and proceeded bat short dis
tance s. snag made hole in the barge,
so that it was with the utmost difficulty
a sink was prevented, which was done
by the use of the Semple syphons.
About fifty tons of ice were lost..The
water guage at Little Rock must have
been stolen, the observer there has MT
sent a report in a week. The tOwboats
Crescent City, Mohawk and Atlantic
have gone to the bank at st. Louis for
the present..a.At Port Warden's sale at
st. Louis on Saturday, the three boilers
and two mud-drums Of the Confederate
gunboat EastpOrt, brought from Red
river, were disposed Of McCabe bought
two of the boilers for four hundred and
ninety dollars, and Richard Garstang
one for one hundred and eighty dollars.
The machinery and other materials off
the Glasgow, sunk in Red river, were al
so sold, bringingan aggregate of about
S27O0. McCabe bought her two engines
for $500, two shafts for $50, and doctor
$3.50. Garstang got her three boilers for
sS25, and two eapstans and gearing
brought 1857. ID. Campbell bought
sundTy pieces of machinery, and P. p.
Manion secured a lot of hog chains,
etc. The u. S. marshal sold, at
Pittsburg, the other day, the towboat
Iioness to j. C. Brown for 800; the
Storm to Captain ]. P. Smith for
Sll, 600, and the Venture to John T.
Dravo for $500. These boats belonged
to the firm of John V. Mcdonald &
Co., recently failed. THE steamer
Ashland has withdrawn from the
Arkansas river trade for the present,
and goes to Cincinnati from New Or
leans. According to her card, the
Belle Lee was to have left New Or
leans last night for Louisville. Dick
Lightburne. jr., did well yesterday with
his E 1iat-cornet in the boys band that
paraded the streets, advertising the
Christian Brothers festival at the Ex-
position building The Batesvilte has
laid up at Jaeksonport, and the Mays
vile is laying there also, waiting for
her repaired machinery, which goes
around on the Legal Tender Saturday.
.....0 On her next trip cut the Legal Ten
der will extend her trip TO Batesville.