Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-05

the trade above here, in connection
with the Frank Forrest.
The Susie Silver is fast and hard
aground at HarkelrOads, thirty miles
below, and will have 10 wait for the
Ohio rise to get oft.
The Emile LaBarge left during the
night or this morning to take the Sill
ver's trip to New Orleans.
The Great Republic offered 10 butt the
st. Louis harbOr clear of ice for three
thousand dollars.
The Kanawha rose seven feet in
twenty-fOur hours at Charleston Friday,
and then had sixteen feet of water.
The steamer Emma Graham was sunk
by the ice at Middleport, Ohio, Friday.
Loss with cargo, nine thousand dollars
A sudden rise in the Muskingum on
the same day, threw Granger's hour
mill, located on thesOppOsite side Of the
river, from its foundation and demOl-
ished it.
In anticipation of food, the mer-
chants of Cincinnati who have stored
and have stores on Front street and
Public Landing, are moving up hill.
The river there will have to rise forty
feet however, before it reaches the
buildings on Front street, and in case it
does, the Spencer House will be aecessi-
BILE by boat only. About ten years ago,
If our memory serves us right, we saw
the lines of a steamer made fast to the
curbing in front of the Spencer House.
Captain James MchIanus, who, as ru-
NOR says, was paralyzed week since,
lost the use of one eye yesterday by the
terrible stroke.
Heavy ice from the gorges above the
mouth of the Cumberland passed Padu-
cah yesterday.
A Pittsburg telegram, received yester-
day, announces the loss on the steamer
PetrOlia at six Thousand dollars. No in
surance. The same dispatch reports the
Allegheny closed at Oil City, and no
immediate prospect of breakup.
Heavy ice commenced moving out of
the Licking, opposite Cincinnati, yes
terday noon, at which time there had
been no additional injury TO boats there.
A huge gorge is expected tomorrow,
however.
Half d dozen eOal-boats fioated over
the falls at Louisville, yesterday, safely,
and were perhaps caught below there.
-Ail sorts of rumOrs were circulated at
the landing yesterday regarding a COM
promise between two packet companies,
and one that occupied the attention of
business men most was that a line was
to be established between here and
Greenville or Chieot City, and another
to extend up the river to OsceOla, with
a well known and competent steamboat
man at its head, and one who recently
has occupied a prominent position on
another line. If one boat were placed
in the upper trade and one or two in the
Chicot trade, money could be made if
they were well managed, nOtRithstand-
ing the Anchor Line now monopOliZe q
great portion of the business. Memphis
will be benefited greatly by the forma-
ton Of such line, and we trust it will
be done.
A st. Louis telegram received early
yesterday morning, says a rise in the
River Des Prizes, undermined an abut-
ment of the Iron Mountain railroad
over that stream, and let the bridge into
the river.
On Friday, the steamer r. C.. Gray
sunk below Shawneetown, with her
stern in twenty feet water and her head
on the bank.
Night before last, the ferryboat
McHarry was carried eight miles below
New Albany by the ice, and in trying
TO load caught N tree that nearly de-
mOlished her. One wheel was torn off,
the pilot-hOuse and ehimneys thrown
overheard, and also steam pipes. She
was, nevertheless, takOn to the bank
and her passengers all escaped in safety.
The wrecks of the Laura and the
wharfboat that lay inside, have nearly
disappeared, the water and wreckers
having hid both nearly from view. The
r. P. Walt has not fallen over yet. The
West Wind has been taken to the mouth
of Wolf river, and the Augusta lays at
the foot of Jefferson street TO be re-
paired. The Excelsior has hole in her
only as large as a mans hand, and can
be easily pumped out. The Cleburne
was seriously injured.
Matt Reynolds, the barber on the
Phil Allin, is the leader of the band
that discOurses such sweet music from
that boat every time she comes in. He
has fine band, and his music compares
favorably with the uptown Organiza-
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