TWC = Tri-Weekly Commercial (Frankfort, Ky.)

Early References to Check

• The Navigator, by Zadok Cramer, Philadelphia 1811

• Glenn - steamers manufactured in Frankfort included: Clinton, Argo, Eagle, Plowboy, Locust Lexington (built for southern ‘market’)... quotes letter from Ebennezer H. Stedman, 1781 [sic believed to be 1817] mentioning the steamer Sylph.

ñ...In the Spring, Some Time in april, I Sent a load paper to Frankfort intending to Ship it to Louisville on a Steam Boat. So the Next day I Went down to frankfort & found the watter So low That the little Steamer ñSylphî Could not Come further than Burns landing. But Capt. Burns was at Frankfort with his Keel Boat & told me he woold take my paper on his Keel Boat & Ship it on Bord the Steam Boat at his landing.

• Glenn reference Frankfort State Journal article sometime in 1965.

• Glenn reference Frankfort State Journal article Oct. 3, 1936

• Glenn reference Argo first steamer to pass through Lock #4 in 1840....

• Glenn reference Sam Sanders resided on Ann street, Capt. and builder of Dove; Sylph and three I

• Glenn reference Capt Harry Innes Todd - piloted three Blue Wings

• Capt John Armstrong piloted Argo I through Lock #4 first time; later Argo II, John Armstrong and Ocean.

• Glenn reference duelling on board the “Bob Letcher”

• “Roaring Jack” John W. Russell steamer Empress.. rescue of steamer General Brown Novemebr 1838... New Orleans Times Democrat Mar 2, 1927; Frankfort State Journal June 9, 1968

• Glenn reference Frankfort State Journal Oct 15, 1965 Annie Pierce Stegers... Steamship [sic] Manufacturers

TWC = Tri-Weekly Commercial (Frankfort, Ky.)

FRAB = Frankfort Roundabout

Yeoman = Yeoman (Frankfort, Ky.)

1852

TWC Aug. 2, 1852 - Accident. - As the Blue Wing No. 2 was ascending the Kentucky river on Wednesday night she struck a flatboat that was floating at the time, laden with staves, her guard raking the top of the boat and crushing to death a man named Scott, from Franklin county, who was asleep on the flat, and badly injuring another man. - Louisville Times, 31st.

TWC Aug. 4, 1852 - Advertisement - ironically on same page as story of Jenny Lind’s marriage....

Frankfort and Cincinnati Packet

the fine steamer

Jenny Lind

George W. Triplett, Master, will take the place of the Diana for the present, and make her regular trips —

Leaving Frankfort on Mondays and Fridays, at 9 o’clock a.m.

Leaving Cincinnati on Sundays and Wednesdays, at 12 m.

The boat has been well fitted up, and passengers and freighters will find every attention given to their wants. Apply on board July 29, 1852 [this Jenny Lind not in Ways?]

TWC Sep. 6, 1852 - Advertisements

Frankfort and Cincinnati Packet

the fine steamer

Diana

George W. Triplett, Master, will make her regular trips —

Leaving Frankfort on Mondays and Fridays, at 9 o’clock a.m.

Leaving Cincinnati on Sundays and Wednesdays, at 12 m.

The boat has been well fitted up, and passengers and freighters will find every attention given to their wants. Apply on board Sept. 6, 1852

TWC Nov. 1, 1852 - Advertisements

Louisville and N. Orleans Packet.

The steamer Eclipse, Sturgeon, master, leaves for New Orleans on Saturday November 20. For freight or passage, apply to

WH Watson, Agent

Frankfort, Nov. 12 [Ways 1688 - big write-up]

TWC Nov. 17, 1852 - Marietta, Ohio, Nov. 13. - The mail packet Buckeye Bell exploded both her boilers 12 miles above here. No ladies were injured. Amond the killed are John Barbour, of Pittsburgh, James Daniels, engineer; John, West, of Coal Run; C. S. Butler, Ed. Atherton, of Beverly; Wm. Stull, and 10 others.

Injured - Capt. Hahn, arm broken and badly scalded; Whiscon, clerk, leg broken and both feet and ankles smashed - probably will die; Calvin Steele; Senator C. C. Corny, leg broken; E. Buckmar, and many others whose names are unknown. The boat was torn to pieces and every flue collapsed in one boiler. The other can’t be found. The accident is attributed to gross recklessness of the engineers, one of whom, at the time of the explosion, was on the safety valve.

TWC Dec. 10, 1852 - The Explosion of the Geneva. - The telegraph has already informed us of the explosion of the steamer Geneva. The following from the St. Louis News gives the details of the disaster. Capt. Perry, the commander of the Geneva, who, it is feared, cannot survive the injuries sustained, was Captain of the Telegraph No. 1 when she first came out:

The stern wheel steamer Geneva, commanded by Capt. J. Perry, left this city last evening, bound for the Illinois river, and while at the shore, nearly opposite the mouth of the Missouri, she blew up, and afterwards burnt to the water’s edge. The accident occurred while the boat was lying at the shore, wooding, and while the greater portion of the crew were on shore, or the list of killed and wounded would have embraced, perhaps, nearly every soul belonging to the boat.

In a few moments after the terrible accident the steamer Hibernia No. 2 came up, and rendered every assistance to get the living as well as the dead from the burning wreck. So far as can be ascertained, the Geneva had over eighteen or twenty persons on board, of whom four were killed and missing, and a number severely injured. The Hibernia landed all taken form the wreck at Alton, and they were brought down to the city this morning by the Amazonia. Mr. Smith, clerk of the boat, has furnished us with a list of all brought to this city. They were as follows: Capt. Perry, dangerously injured; Wm. Hemly, mate, slightly hurt; Geo. Fulton, first, and Alexander Kelsey, second engineer, severely injured; Wm. Gall, pilot, severely injured; the stewart, two cooks, and a cabin boy, names not known, more or less bruised and injured; five or six deck hands and firemen were also brought down, none of whom are seriously hurt; three deck hands or firemen were taken from the wreck to a house in the neighborhood, one of whom has an arm broken, and other severe injuries.

The killed and missing are Capt. Chas. Deane, of this city, and of the firm of Carson & Deane, commission and produce merchants; his body has not been found, and it is presumed to have been consumed with the wreck. When last seen, he and Mr. Johnson were in the forward part of the boat, and near the clerk’s office. Captain Deane is believed to have been the only passenger on the boat, on his way to the Illinois river, for the purpose of attending the shipment of produce by the boat.

Willis C. Johnson, first clerk, was taken from the wreck in a dying condition, and survived less than an hour, during which time he was unable to speak. The second clerk, a brother of the deceased, was on shore at the time and escaped unhurt. The barkeeper and watchman, whose names we could not learn, are missing. These four are all the killed and missing known up to the present time.

Capt. Perry, who was on the hurricane deck at the time is dangerously wounded. He was brought to this city on the Amazonia, and has been taken to the hospital. His injuries are of a serious nature, and there is very little hope for his recovery. Both of the engineers were seriously hurt; one was on duty and the other asleep at the time.

The explosion was apparently from the top of the boilers, blowing directly upward and tearing all the forward part of the boat to shreds. In an instant the wreck was on fire and burnt to the waters edge. The persons injured do not appear to have been scalded, but burnt, as if seared with a hot iron. We are told there was a want of water in the boilers, and they went off as if filled with powder. The report was heard for a considerable distance and resembled the sound of a heavy cannon.

The boat was owned by Captain Perry and the first clerk Mr. Johnson. She has been out three or four years, and formerly ran on the Ohio during low stages of that river. They purchased her last summer and have made several trips to the upper Mississippi.

TWC Dec. 24, 1852 - Departure of the Eclipse - ... still delayed ...now Dec. 29th

TWC Dec. 27, 1852 - Life Preservers. - The new steamboat law requires steamboats to be provided with life preservers, but as the kind of preserver is not specified by the steamboat men are providing themselves with whatever their ingenuity may suggest. Some have tin boxes, and others tin cases fastened to the bottoms of their chairs, and other regular life preservers.

Capt. DeHart, one of the oldest and most experienced boatmen in the West, suggests that the cotton or upper mattrasses of boats be covered with gum or rubber cloth, “which is impervious to water, and will prove the most beneficial life preservers that can be used. Loops or handles can be attached to the mattress to hold on to, and if occasion require, it would float two or three persons. These mattrasses are always useful and needed for the berths, and will involve but little extra expense, and take up no extra room, but be always at hand, in case a boat should sink in the night, and the passengers are abed, all they would have to do, would be to grasp their mattrass and trust themselves to the water.

Hugh Wilkins, the upholsterer on Wall st., has invented a life preserver in the shape of a pillow with a water proof cover, and loop handles at either end - Lou. Cour.

TWC Dec. 27, 1852 - From the Cincinnati Gazette, 22d Dec.

Arrest of Parties Concerned in the Burning of the Martha Washington.

since writing the article in yesterday’s Gazette, we have learned the following additional particulars from the Atlas of last evening.

At the usual hour of Change on Monday, Mr. Wm. Kissane, once clerk for Pugh & Alvord, now of the firm of Smith & Kissane, Soap and Star Candle Factors, on Canal and Vine streets, having finished his business with the merchants, stepped out of College Hall, when he was tapped upon the shoulder by an officer and requested to enter a carriage, he was driven immediately to the depot of the L.M. Railroad.

Lorenzo Chapin, of the boot and shoe Manufactory of J. S. Cheney, over Clayton’s Jewelry Store, corner of Sycamore and Columbia, was arrested about the same time, as he came down stairs, going to dinner. Amassa Chapin, his brother, was arrested at the foot of the stairs, as he was returning from dinner.

James W. Chandler, of Covington, Ky., was arrested near the same hour by a preconcerted arrangement of the others, who had decoyed him to that point for simultaneous arrest, at the corner of Sycamore and Third streets.

The prisoners were separately conveyed by carriage to the depot, and confronted each other as the cars were about starting.

The developments of this strange affair shows that some time in the month of December of last year, certain parties bought the steamer Martha Washington, of James McGregor, of this city. J. N. Cumings became Captain, J. G. Nicholson, Clerk, and W. H. Holland, Mate. The boat was loaded by different parties of this city, and left our wharf in January, and on the 14th of that month, in the neighborhood of island No. 65, on the Mississippi river, the boat was burned - boat and cargo total loss.

The charge against the parties arrested, is that they by collusion with officers of the boat, with fraudulent bills of lading and false oaths there to, obtain insurance in the following offices, when in reality there were few or no goods shipped.

James Chandler had secured $1,200 insurance on pistols in the “National” in this city, when the supposition is that none were shipped. The office refused to pay. Chandler sued.

Capt. Cummings secured $4,500 insurance on the freight list of the boat in the Fireman’s and Mechanics’ of Madison, W. B. Cassily agent in this city, promptly paid it.

Lyman Cole secured $8,000 insurance in the Fireman’s Insurance Company of this city on Boots, Shoes and Kossuth Hats, said also to have been shipped. The sum was paid by Josiah Lawrence, Esq., before he died.

G. P. Stevens insured $3,869 on an invoice of boots and shoes, bought of Lyman Cole, in the Protection Agency of this city. He also insured in the Etna Agency $4,874 on goods purported to have been bought of John Edwards. Lyman Cole insured $5,500 on boots and shoes in the Cincinnati Agency of the Detroit Insurance Co. Cole sued the Company, and this has had a long examination in the Courts of Detroit.

Capt. Cummings effected an insurance through an innocent person, of $4,500 in A. S. Chew’s Agency of the Phoenix, of St. Louis. - Also, a large amount in the Charleston Company, which is in suit.

The Union Mutual, of New York, had $10,000 - $4,800 on 1,600 doz. sheepskins, and 5,200 on 26,000 white sole leather, said to have been shipped.

Chas. Lane & Co., of Boston, innocent parties, advanced Kissane $4,800 on the 9th of January, on a policy in the Equitable Insurance Company, of Boston, of $5,934, on 300 packages said to have been shipped on the Martha Washington.

James Lee, of Boston, innocent party is insured to protect drafts, for $5,980, on 167 barrels of pork, said to be shipped by Cole, and 83 barrels of pork and 100 tierces of lard, by Kissane.

Adam Chapin effected, as the boat passed Louisville, insurance with the Louisville agency of the Maidson Insurance Company, for $4,200 on 200 cases of boots and shoes, said to have been shipped by said Chapin, in Cincinnati. This case was sued for by Kissane.

A thousand rumors are current in reference to every point of this case. The drayman who hauled the goods has acknowledged the perjury. The Mr. Cheney makes his revelations. Mr. Filley, partner of the Chapins, is reported to have been opposed to the scheme, and to avoid the threats of parties to leave the city, to have secreted himself in Illinois to escape violence, that on his dying between the 24th of last October he charged these parties with conspiracy.

There where other insurances besides those noted, swelling the pretended amount of shipment to an aggregate beyond the reasonableness of ordinary shipments.

Mr. Kissane is of Irish extraction, a Canadian by birth, unmarried, but having an aged and deeply afflicted mother.

The two Chapins have been for several years, with two other brothers, extensive shoe dealers and manufactured in this city. Having some time since failed, the establishment was conducted under the style and name of J. S. Cheney.

Mr. Chandler, a resident of Covington, was we believe, a candidate for City Marshal.

Capt. Cummings and Holland, the mate, are at present up Red River.

Mr. Lyman Cole, brother of Horace Cole, and formerly merchant of Pearl street, was no doubt arrested at Oxford, yesterday.

TWC Dec. 27, 1852 - Particulars of the Loss of the Steamer Western World.

We copy the following from the St. Louis News of 22d inst:

Capt. Fulton, who was in charge of the boat at the time of the accident, returned on the Lady Pike this morning, from the mouth of the Ohio, where they were landed by the Hill. The officers and the crew, with many of the passengers, who lost their baggage, and were unable to proceed on their trip downward, returned. They bring full particulars of the disaster.

The accident occurred at Princeton Bar, about one hundred miles above Vicksburg, at 4 1/2 o’clock in the morning. There was no fog, but it was very dark, and one or both boats mistook the signals which were rang by the bells. The Hill was ascending at the time, and struck the Western World just forward of the boilers, cutting her down so that the water rushed in, causing her to careen so much, that she completely capsized, in less than twenty minutes after the collision.

There were on board 65 deck and 33 cabin passengers. Of the former, 13 were drowned, and one of the crew, a negro man belonging to Mr. Grundy, of Ballard county, Kentucky.

Of the deck passengers, Mr. Rice and family, came on board at St. Louis, and were emigrating to Texas. There were nice persons in the family, five of whom were drowned.

Mr. Jones, and family, eleven persons came on board at Hickman, Ky. All lost except Mr. Jones.

Mr. Sullivan, wife, and infant, of St. Louis, going to New Orleans, all three lost; making fourteen persons who are known, to have perished.

None of the cabin passengers or officers were drowned, but all of them lost their baggage. A Southern mail on board was also lost. The Hill took off those who were saved from the wreck, and landed them at Cairo. Some of the passengers who were bound South, got off at different places to await boats that were bound down.

Capt. Alex. Norton is sole owner of the boat. He was not on board at the time, having got off at Memphis and returned to this city to attend to some business. He left the boat in charge of Mr. Fulton, the first clerk. She left port on the 10th inst., with a fair cargo, which was full by the time she reached Memphis. Mr. Dubbs, her agent, has a list of her freight, as follows: 3,000 bbls. flour, 30 hhd tobacco, 160 boxes tobacco, 200 bbls. whiskey, 100 hhds. bacon, 15 kegs shot, 50 kegs and 75 tierces lard, 50 tierces beef, 40 coils rope, 3,000 sacks corn; 500 sacks bran, 350 sacks oats, 83 head of cattle, and 150 bbls. pork.

The Western World was about five years old; but she was lengthened and completely repaired about three years since.

The boat was valued at $24,000. There is an insurance on her to the amount of $16,000, all in offices of this city. All her books and papers, except the passenger register and freight book, are lost. The captain estimates her freight from $40,000 to $50,000 in value, nearly all of which is insured in this city. The freight list was not insured, and besides this loss to her owner, there was nearly $1,000 in the iron safe, which went down with the boat. The total loss of boat and cargo may be set down at $65,000 to $70,000, of which perhaps $55,000 to $60,000 falls upon the offices of this city.

1856

Frankfort Commonwealth, Mar. 18, 1856 - The steamer Henry Lewis, from Cincinnati for New Orleans, was run into by the E. Howard, near Troy, Ind., about four o’clock on Saturday morning last, and immediately sunk. - Several lives were lost. Those known were a gentleman named Finney, two gentlemen from Portsmouth, Wm. Jacob, a second steward, David McCutcheon, cabin boy, and an Irish woman and two children. Peggy, the fugitive slave woman who was recently arrested at Cincinnati, and who murdered one of her children there, was on board, and her only surviving child was drowned. She is said to have shown only delight at the event.

Frankfort Commonwealth, Mar. 26, 1856 - BIGAMY. - Two Wives and a Sweetheart. - Marshall F. Moore, a steamboat man from Louisville, was before the police court yesterday, charged with bigamy. He married a girl in Shelby county, Ky., and afterwards one in Louisville. Two weeks after the last marriage, the first wife came to Louisville, whereupon Moore left. This was last January, and he had not been heard of since, till a few days ago, when his Louisville wife, who was visiting friends here, unexpectedly met him. He was courting a girl near this city, and a very affectionate letter to her was found in his pocket when arrested. The case will be tried to-day. - Cin.-Gaz.

1870

FC Feb. 25, 1870 - The steamer Emma No. 3, while passing the chute at Island 35, on the Mississippi, struck, a snag and careened, upsetting a stove in the cabin and entirely consuming the boat. Twenty or thirty lives are reported as having been lost, among them Mrs. Lewis and aunt from Covington, Ky., and James Scholey from Lexington, Ky. The water was intensely cold and the life boat was swamped by those rushing into it. Some died from exposure after being rescued.

FC May 6, 1870 - Kentucky River Navigation Company

At the annual meeting of this Company in this City, on Monday, the following officers were elected to serve the next year:

Moreau Brown, G. S. Shanklin, Jessamine county; Thomas P. Porter, Woodford county; Philip Swigert, Franklin county; C. J. Spillman, Garrard county; J. R. Bryant, Mercer county; Squire Turner, Madison county; Thomas Bradley, John Mason Brown, Fayette county; W. B. Belknap, Louisville, were elected Directors.

Isaac Smith elected a Director by the County Court of Clark county.

The Directors having organized, Moreau Brown was unanimously re-elected President, and James W. Batchelor, of Louisville, was elected Secretary.

The office of assistant Secretary having been established, P. Swigert was elected to the same and also reelected Treasurer.

The Board adjourned to meet on Monday next in the city of Lexington.

We learn there is a large force now engaged in the erection of lock and dam No. 6.

Yeoman Apr. 9, 1870 - River Matters. - The Blue Wing returned from the mouth of Hickman, on Thursday, P.M., with 800 barrels of whisky consigned to parties in Louisville. She left for that city 8 o’clock yesterday, A.M. The Dove will leave for Cincinnati this morning at 10 o’clock. The tow-boat Valid arrived from the mouth yesterday with several barges of coal for the merchants of this city. The river is falling slowly.

The last rise in the Kentucky river will bring to this market about twelve thousand saw logs. Three thousand have been purchased by Ray & Connell, of Louisville; the rest, will be purchased by Dudley & Bro., and other lumber merchants of this city.

FC Apr. 15, 1870 - Story about the Boden Double Steam Valve - ... 187 explosions in the past 20 years on navigable waters.

FC May 20, 1870 - It is with regret that we learn that Mr. Sanford D. McBrayer, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Harrodsburg, Ky., was burned up in the terrific fire that recently consumed the steamer War Eagle and other property at La Crosse, Wisconsin. The fire which originated from a single barrel of oil was most rapid in its progress, and with its blinding smoke and flaming heat prevented the escape of Mr. McBrayer, who was on board the boat. His sudden and violent death is received by his fellow-citizens with deepest pain.

FC July 8, 1870 - The Great Boat Race. - The race between two steam boats, the R. E. Lee a Louisville built boat, and the Natches [sic] built in Cincinnati, from New Orleans to Cairo, says the Lexington Gazette, came off last week, amidst the greater excitement all along the river. Betting ran high and the interest was unabated so long as the contest lasted. The Lee won by one hour and four minutes, making the entire distance of one thousand miles in three days and half an hour. No accident happened to either boat, which is the best thing we could say on the subject. The Natchez had frequently bantered the Lee, and the old Captain of the latter could stand it no longer, so he gave him a race with the result indicated.

FC Aug. 12, 1870 - The steamer Silver Spray exploded her boilers in the Mississippi on Monday last destroying a large number of lives. The boat was utterly destroyed.

FC Nov. 18, 1870 - Mississippi Pilots. - The pilot-house of the Mississippi steamer is about thirty feet from the water. It commands a view on all sides, and affords the best outlook. Here one gets a better idea of the way a boat is managed than anywhere else. The wheel is ten feet in diameter, for the pilot must have a great power over the rudder; in threading the shifting, tortuous channel, this wheel is scarcely at rest for a moment. When in a hurry the pilot uses both hands and feet in setting it over, and often the rudder requires the aid of a reversed engine in order to turn the boat with sufficient rapidity. The boat has two engines, and at each is an engineer, ever on the look out for the order to back, to stop, to go ahead slow, and to go ahead strong. The pilot has two sets of bells for each engine. One set is used for stopping and starting only, the other set is used for conveying signals as to backing and going ahead. When the boat is in a difficult channel, and has to make numerous changes of her course, a stranger to a Mississippi steamer might suppose the pilot mad as a March hare. he puts his wheel to port and then to starboard, and is always in headlong haste; he rings one bell after another, with a quick, nervous touch of the rope; one wheel backs and the other goes ahead, and then vice versa; sometimes they turn slow and sometimes fast; you wonder whether the constant tinkling of bells down in the engine room won’t distract the engineers, and whether they can keep up their orders. - The pilot seems to have his hands more than full, but he never makes a mistake. At his feet is a spring, and when he sets his foot upon it a whistle, which is more like the cry of a lost soul, or the war-whoop of a hundred Commanches than like a steam whistle -announces that the Northwestern is coming. I have always wondered how these pilots could guide their boats through the intricate channels of the upper Mississippi in the night. Their pay is $250 per month. It requires an apprenticeship of several years before a certificate can be obtained.

FC Nov. 25, 1870 - The steamers Norman, Pine Bluff, and City of Evansville were burned at the wharf at Evansville on Tuesday last. The total loss is estimated at $200,000. A lady passenger, Mrs. Nora Wood, of Newsburg, was burned to death on the Norman.

FC Dec. 9, 1870 - Navigation has opened on the Kentucky river, the Dove No. 2, Capt. Sanders, with Marsh Woods, as clerk, arrived on Wednesday last and proceeded to Shaker Ferry. She leaves for Louisville to-day at 8 o’clock.

[No Yeoman papers were microfilmed on this roll for the year 1871-72]

1871

FC Feb. 3, 1871 - The steamer W. R. Arthur, from New Orleans to Louisville, exploded her boilers near Memphis, on the 28th, tearing away the forward cabin and texas. The boat then took fire and burned until the bow sunk. The night was very dark, and in the confusion and terror that followed, about eighty lives were lost. The frequency of these steamboat disasters demands investigation and some precautionary measures that will better protect human life in the future. - Hardly a week has passed in the last four months, that boats have not been destroyed and lives and property lost. Humanity and reason demands that these alarming and distressing casualties be reduced in number by all the means at the command of the authorities and the people.

1873

Yeoman Jan. 2, 1872 [sic 73] - The Steamer Gen. Buell’s hull was punctured by ice at Madison, Ind., last week, and sunk in four feet of water.

Yeoman Jan. 4, 1873 - Reopening of Navigation. - The Blue Wing Coming. - We are pleased to learn from that noted, most reliable and most popular steamboatman, Mr. Marsh Woods, that, as the rivers are now all rising, and as all the ice-gorges between Pittsburg and Louisville have been swept away by the recent thaw, navigation will now at least be resumed on the Ohio and its tributaries.

Mr. Woods also informs us, that the Blue Wing No. 3, will leave Louisville for this port, and Shaker’s Ferry, next Monday morning, and will arrive here the next evening.

The announcement of the reopening of navigation on the Kentucky river, after so long a suspension - a suspension, indeed, almost unprecedented in its duration - will be hailed with unusual satisfaction by the entire public of Central Kentucky, as well as by the merchants of Louisville and Cincinnati.

Yeoman Jan. 4 1873 - Steamboat Disasters of 1872.

Steamboat owners and river men generally will long remember 1872, as, financially, one of the most disastrous years they have ever gone through. Few have a credit on the right side of the ledger. The late opening of navigation in the upper rivers was ominous. An enormous crop that was to be moved gave bright hopes to steamboatmen, but early in the season low water set in and has continued. The larger boats had to lie up early in the summer and have continued in idleness since; or, in attempting to run, have done so at a loss. Notwithstanding the elements were against them, the past year has been noted as one in which the fiercest competition among steamers has taken place. On the Ohio, Lower Mississippi, and from St. Louis “opposition” has been rampant and many thousands of dollars have thus been lost.

Without estimating the destruction of boats at Cincinnati, by the breaking up of an ice-gorge, on the last days of the old year, the steamboat disasters by flood and fire on the Western rivers, during 1872, are thus summed up with their causes:

CAUSES OF DISASTER. NO.

By striking hidden obstructions..... 26

By striking rocks (on rapids or elsewhere) 10

By striking snags or logs 20

By explosion 6

By fire -- steamers lost 14

By collision 16

By improper or overloading 3

By striking “a pile” of logs -- boat sunk 1

By collision of steamers with bridges 5

By running into the bank 1

By steamers or barges running on sand bar 5

Spring leak 7

Steamer run into by a raft of lumber and sunk 1

Steamers sunk by ice 25

By running on old steamboat wrecks 2

Property Lost On The Western Rivers During 1872.

On Ohio river $1,052,700

Upper Mississippi (above Cairo) 577,500

Lower Mississippi (below Cairo) 601,350

Arkansas river 163,000

Red river 104,150

White river 70,000

Missouri river 19,100

Illinois river 1,500

Black creek, Miss... 10,000

Ouachita river 8,000

Tennessee river 5,600

Kentucky river 4,000

West (?) river 2,000

Ft. Francis 3,000

Total 2,621,900

Loss of coal barges and coal principally

in the Ohio (estimated).. 300,000

Loss by miner steamboat and barge

accidents (estimated) 250,000

Loss of lumber rafts by bridges and floods 200,000

Grand total 3,371,900

Lives Lost On The Western Rivers During 1872

By explosion 58

By movements of ice 2

By sinking of boats 4

By apparatus’ of boat breaking while aground 1

By boat striking an obstruction 1

By falling overboard (low estimate) 365

Total 431

Yeoman Jan. 9, 1873 - River News. - The Blue Wing No. 3, Capt. Sanders, arrived at this port last evening at 6 o’clock; and, after a stay of two and a half hours, discharging and receiving freight, left at 8 1/2 o’clock for Shaker Ferry. The Blue Wing is the first boat of the season, after an almost unprecedented suspension of navigation, and she has been since Monday working her way through the ice from Louisville to this port.

Yeoman Jan. 9, 1873 - Death at Confirmation. - On Christmas Day, in Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia, Bishop Beckwith administered the rite of confirmation, in a class of ten, to Miss Lizzie Spencer, a most estimable young lady of that city, aged sixteen, and the daughter of Capt. W. H. Spencer, of the steam pilot service. Immediately after confirmation, Miss Spencer was stricken down in the church by heart disease, and died in the vestibule before she could be conveyed to her home. A few months before her mother died suddenly of the same disease.....

[The Yeoman was a tri-weekly paper until the Legislature met, during that period of time it became a daily paper]

Yeoman Jan. 10, 1873 - The Blue Wing No. 3, returned from Shaker Ferry yesterday, and owing to the rapid accumulation of ice in the river, consequent upon the intensily cold snap that set in night before last, was compelled to tie up here and await another thaw.

Yeoman Jan. 15, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is 5 feet in the channel, by the pier-mark and on a stand.

The Blue Wing No. 3, leaves to-day for Louisville. Returning she will leave that city on Thursday evening, and will probably arrive here on Friday afternoon, on route for Shaker Ferry.

The Dove No. 2, from Cincinnati, is expected to be in the trade between that city and this, in a few days.

Yeoman Jan. 16, 1873 - River News. - Unprecedented Trip. - The sternwheel tow-boat, Billy Parsons, arrived at this port yesterday from Parkersburg, West Virginia, en route for Red River Iron Works, having left the former place on the 1st November - two months and a half ago. The Billy Parsons is going to Red River Iron Works for the purpose of towing iron boats from that landing to Muddy Creek landing on Kentucky river.

The Blue Wing No. 3, left yesterday morning, at 8 o’clock, for Louisville.

The river at this point - half filled yesterday with floating ice - is still on a stand, with 5 feet in the channel by the mark on the bridge pillar.

Yeoman Jan. 17, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is 6 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier mark and at a stand.

The Blue Wing is, of course, still here, ice-bound. Intelligence was received here on yesterday, from both above and below, stating that all the locks were frozen up hard and fast. At Gratz, and other points below, people were crossing the river on the ice on foot and on horseback.

Yeoman Jan. 18, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point has risen eight or ten inches in the past two days. last night at dark it was six feet in the channel by the bridge pillar mark, and slowly rising.

The Dove, No. 2, from Cincinnati, which passed this city day before yesterday, on route for Shaker Ferry, had not, at 9 o’clock, returned though momentarily expected. Nor, at the same hour, had the Blue Wing returned from Louisville though several hours overdue.

Yeoman Jan. 20, 1873 - River News. - Up to 6 o’clock, Saturday afternoon, the river at this point was six and a half feet in the channel, and slowly rising.

The Blue Wing No. 3 arrived here from Louisville on Saturday morning, having been detained by a broken shaft.

Yeoman Jan. 21, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point last evening, at dark, was scant 6 feet in the channel, and slowly falling.

The Dove. No. 2 left yesterday morning for Cincinnati.

The Blue Wing No. 3 was still lying at our wharf last night at 9 o’clock waiting for her shaft which had been sent by mail to a Louisville foundry for repairs.

Yeoman Jan. 22, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is still on a stand, with 6 feet in the channel by the pier-mark. The Blue Wing’s shaft, it is now ascertained, will hardly be ready for use before next Saturday or Monday. A large tow of coal barges, from the Ohio river, is expected to arrive here by the last of the present week, or the first of next.

Yeoman Jan. 25, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is six and a half feet in the channel, and at a stand.

Yesterday, at 12 M., the tow-boat Tiger arrived from Cincinnati with two barges of Pittsburg coal, for Black & Chinn.

At the same hour the steamer Daniel Boone, from Cincinnati, arrived, and after discharging her freight, left about 3 P.M., on her return trip.

George B. Macklin & Co. expect to receive a tow of coal barges between this and Monday.

Yeoman Jan. 25, 1873 - The tow boat Tiger arrived to-day with two barges of Coal for Black & Chinn, and returned to the mouth of the river for two more barges for the same firm.

Yeoman Jan. 25, 1873 - The passenger [boat] Daniel Boone arrived to-day from Cincinnati. We hear she will be permanently in the Kentucky river trade. She landed below the railroad bridge, as she could not lower her chimnies.

Yeoman Jan. 28, 1873 - River News. - The river is on a stand with 7 feet in the channel by the pier-mark. The Blue Wing having received her shaft, and put it in, left last evening for Oregon Landing, and will return from there this evening, and leave here on Wednesday morning for Louisville. Returning she will leave Louisville on Thursday evening, for this place and Shaker Ferry.

The tow-boat Tiger arrived last evening with two barges Pittsburg coal for Black & Chinn.

The tow-boat Longfellow, was looked for hourly last evening, with a tow of coal for Geo. B. Macklin, and presume she will be found at the coal landing this morning.

Yeoman Jan. 29, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point at dark last evening was 6 1/2 feet in the channel by the bridge-mark, and slowly falling. Six ribs of Lock No. 3 - the lower lock gate - were broken yesterday by the pressure of the water, which will prevent any boats passing until the lock is repaired, and this will take probably three or four days.

Yeoman Jan. 30, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point last evening, at dark, was a little over 7 feet in the channel by the bridge-mark. It was frozen over, but not so thick that the boats could not make their way through it; though if the cold then prevailing continues, everything is likely to be frozen up by this evening.

The Blue Wing came down yesterday, with a good freight from Shaker Ferry, but concluded to tie up here until Lock No. 3, below, is repaired. The tow boat Longfellow, with a lot of hands to work on said lock, left here yesterday.

Yeoman Jan. 31, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point was less than 6 feet in the channel at dark last evening, and slowly falling. As however, the weather is moderating, and a thaw probable in a few days, we may hope for another rise in a short time.

Yeoman Feb. 4, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point last evening at dark, was 6 feet in the channel by the bridge-mark, and slowly swelling. No further intelligence from the repairs going on at Lock No. 3, though it is believed that boats will be able to pass through to-day; in which event the Blue Wing No. 3, so long detained here by the breaking of the Lock, will leave at once for Louisville.

Yeoman Feb. 5, 1873 - River News. - The river is now on a stand with 6 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier-mark. The ice has entirely disappeared, and navigation is now open to the mouth of the Kentucky river. The lock gate at No. 3 has been repaired, and is now in good order for the passage of boats. The tow boat Longfellow left for the mouth of Kentucky river on Monday for a tow of coal barges for this city, and will be back probably late this evening or early to-morrow.

The Blue Wing No. 3, in command of Capt. Sam. Sanders, with Geo. M. Woods in the office, will leave for Louisville this morning at 8 o’clock. Returning, she will leave Louisville on Thursday evening, for this city and all way landings.

From the Carrollton Democrat we learn that quite a number of steamers took refuge in the mouth of the Kentucky from the ice in the Ohio river, early last week, where they remained the rest of the week. So soon as the Ohio opens the Democrat says the shipments of tobacco from that county will be very active.

Yeoman Feb. 6, 1873 - River News. - The river is on a stand, with 6 1/4 feet in channel, by the pier-mark. The Blue Wing No. 3, departed for Louisville yesterday morning, at 8 o’clock. The Dove No. 2, with Capt. Robert Humphrey in command and William Larling in the office, will leave for Cincinnati and all way landings on Friday morning at 8 o’clock, A.M. The Dove has permanently entered in the Cincinnati trade, and will in the future, make regular trips. She will leave Cincinnati on Monday evening for Shaker Ferry and all way landings.

Yeoman Feb. 6, 1873 - The Ohio river is open to navigation from Pittsburg to Cairo, and the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans.

Yeoman Feb. 12, 1873 - River News. - The river is on a stand with 6 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Dove No. 2 arrived at 4 o’clock last evening and departed for Shaker Ferry. The Dove will leave for Cincinnati this evening in command of Capt. Robt. Humphrey, with Wm. Darling in the office. The Blue Wing arrived from Louisville last evening at 6 o’clock, and left at 8 o’clock for Shaker Ferry. She will return from Shaker Ferry and leave for Louisville on Thursday evening, at 4 o’clock.

The tow-boat Longfellow arrived last evening with a tow of Pittsburg coal for G. B. Macklin.

Yeoman Feb. 13, 1873 - River News. - The river is rising slowly, with 6 3/4 feet in the channel by the pier mark.

The tow-boat Longfellow arrived yesterday from Carrolton with a tow of Pittsburg coal for G. B. Macklin.

The Blue Wing No. 3, in command of Capt. Samuel Sanders, with G. M. Woods in the office, will be found (D. V.) at the wharf this morning, and will leave for Louisville at 4 o’clock this evening. The Blue Wing will, in future, leave on her regular days of Tuesday and Friday morning, at 8 o’clock, for Louisville, and will arrive from Louisville every Thursday and Sunday evenings.

Yeoman Feb. 14, 1873 - River News. - The river is rising slowly, with full 7 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

From the officers of the Blue Wing No. 3, we learn that the river is rising slowly at Shaker Ferry, and will probably swell the river here some two or three feet more.

The Dove. No. 2 arrived on yesterday morning early from Shaker Ferry, and after having discharged several hundred sacks of wheat here for the Valley Mills, left at 9 o’clock for Cincinnati. The Blue Wing arrived at noon on yesterday, from Shaker Ferry, and after discharging a lot of whisky and what for for the Valley Mills, left at 4 o’clock for Louisville.

The tow-boat Longfellow left early yesterday morning with a tow of six flat boats, containing about six hundred tons of pig iron from the Red River Iron Works, for Messrs. Geo. s. Moon & co., of Louisville . Capt. Claxton of the Longfellow, expects to arrive at Louisville on Saturday morning and will return to Carrollton for a tow of cannel coal for Messrs. Black & Chinn, and Geo. B. Macklin, of this city.

Yeoman Feb. 18, 1873 - Flood in the Ohio. - Dispatches received here of yesterday from Cincinnati and Louisville, indicate an extraordinary flood in the Ohio. At 10 A.M., there was a depth of 42 feet in the channel at Cincinnati, and the river was still rising rapidly. Great damage has already been done to coal fleets on the upper Ohio, and extensive destruction to property throughout the whole valley of the Ohio and its tributaries, was considered imminent.

Yeoman Feb. 18, 1873 - River News. - The river commenced falling yesterday morning and up to 6 o’clock last evening had fallen near 2 feet, leaving 12 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Dove No. 2, that left Cincinnati on Saturday evening, and the Blue Wing No. 3, which left Louisville on the same evening, and both of which were due here on Sunday evening had not arrived at dark last evening. It is supposed they cannot pass through Cedar Lock, and there is not sufficient water to pass over the dam. The tow-boat Longfellow arrived at Louisville on Sunday morning safely, with her tow of six boats of pig iron, and is now at Carrollton, waiting for the river to fall in order to bring a tow of cannel coal to this place.

Yeoman Feb. 18, 1873 - Wreck of Flat-Boat or Barge. - Yesterday morning, the wreck of a flat-boat or barge passed down the river by this city, which was supposed to be the wreck of one of the barges used in the transportation of pig-iron from the works above to this city and Louisville.

Yeoman Feb. 19, 1873 - River News. - The river, at this point, at 6 o’clock last evening, was falling slowly, with scant 11 feet in the channel by the pier mark.

The Blue Wing, Capt. Sanders, with Marsh Woods in the office, and the Dove, Capt. Humphreys, with W. Darling in the office, both arrived here last evening about 6 o’clock, with good trips; and after discharging freight for this city, left during the night for Shaker Ferry. They were detained below at Lock No. 2, two days by the high water. Returning, the Blue Wing will leave Frankfort on Thursday, at 2 P.M., for Louisville. The Dove will leave this city on the same day, at 1 p.m., for Cincinnati.

Yeoman Feb. 19, 1873 - Disaster Caused By The Freshet At Pittsburg. - During the heavy rise in the Monongahela at Pittsburg, on Monday last, several coal fleets broke loose and were swept away to sudden destruction - knocking to pieces several fine tow-boats before they went down. Over a hundred coal boats were lost; and the dispatches say, that altogether, it is the heaviest river disaster ever experienced at Pittsburg. Only three lives were lost.

Yeoman Feb. 19, 1873 - The steamer Henry A. Jones, plying between Galveston and Houston, Texas, was burned at Redfish Bar, last Thursday with 48 persons on board, only 27 were saved.

Yeoman Feb. 21, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point, last evening, at dark, had but 9 feet of water in the channel by the pier-mark, and was still falling - having receded a foot and a half in the preceding 24 hours. It will not probably have more than 8 feet by noon to-day.

The Blue Wing arrived from Shaker Ferry yesterday with a good freight list of wheat, &c.; and left at 2 P.M., for Louisville.

The Dove extended her trip above Shaker Ferry, to Munday’s Landing for a lot of 700 sacks red wheat for the Valley Mills of this city, and in consequence of this detention had not arrived here at 8 o’clock last evening. She will probably arrive during the night, and leave for Cincinnati early in the morning.

Yeoman Feb. 22, 1873 - Sinking of the Steamer Dove No. 2, In Kentucky River. - On Thursday evening the 20th inst., about 7 o’clock, as the Dove No. 2, Capt. Humphreys was descending the river from Shaker Ferry to this city, with a heavy cargo of wheat and other freight, when about one mile below Lock No. 5, she struck a snag on the starboard side of her hull, forward of the boilers, and the current being very strong at that point, she swung around to the north bank of the river, and there settled to the bottom, with the water over her cabin guards on the larboard side, while on the starboard side next to the bank, there are about three feet of water over the main guards. The boat careened considerably, but it is thought that, when the water falls, she can be raised. Her cargo consisted in part of 1,700 sacks of wheat, for Sibley, French & Co., of Cincinnati, and 700 sacks for J. W. Hunt Reynolds & Son, of the Valley Mills, of this city - all of which will, of course, be damaged, as nearly all of it was under water.

The Dove is a Cincinnati and Kentucky river packet, and is fully insured in that city, while a part of her cargo is insured in this city; the remainder in Cincinnati offices. No lives were lost. The Captain and crew remained at the boat in order to save all they possibly could. The boat was valued at $15,000.

Yeoman Feb. 26, 1873 - River News. - The river is falling slowly, with 8 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Blue Wing arrived yesterday at noon from Shaker Ferry, with a full cargo, and left for Louisville at 4 o’clock in the evening.

The officers of the Blue Wing report no change in the condition of the Dove, but think that after the water falls a little more, the boat can be raised without a great deal of trouble. So soon as the water falls sufficiently, efforts will be made to raise her.

Yeoman Feb. 27, 1873 - Old John Robinson’s Great Traveling World’s Exhibition, now at Cincinnati, is coming by a special fleet of steamers built for the purpose, up the Kentucky river on a special visit to Frankfort, sometime during the coming circus and menagerie season. Of course, both the circus and menagerie of Old Johannes are the greatest and best of their kind in the world.

Yeoman Feb. 27, 1873 - River News. - The river is falling slowly with 6 3/4 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The tow-boat, Longfellow, arrived last evening from the sunken boat, Dove, and reports that the diver has stopped the hole in the hull, and only awaits pumping out to raise her. The syphons of the Longfellow were of not sufficient capacity to pump her out, and a large 10 inch marine pump has been telegraphed for at Cincinnati, and as soon as it arrives, the tow-boat will return to the Dove and endeavor to pump her out. Capt. Richards and the diver, Mr. Burriss, think that the boat can be raised as soon as the pump arrives and is put in operation.

The Blue Wing left Louisville for this place last evening, and will return from here this evening or in the morning, as Capt. Sanders telegraphed that he would make a short trip.

Yeoman Feb. 27, 1873 - River News. - The river is about on a stand with 7 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The tow-boat Longfellow left yesterday morning for the sunken steamer Dove with Captain Dan Richards, the celebrated boat-wrecker, and Mr. Burriss, the submarine diver, for the purpose of attempting to raise the boat, which they think they can do if the river does not rise too fast on them. They took men and sufficient material for al their operations, and we hope to hear soon of their complete success.

Yeoman Mar. 5, 1873 - River News. - The river is falling slowly, with scant 5 feet 9 inches in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Blue Wing arrived last evening at 6 o’clock, with a fair freight, and after having transferred a marine pump to the tow-boat Longfellow, left for Shaker Ferry, at 8 o’clock. She will return from Shaker Ferry and leave for Louisville on to-morrow (Thursday), at 2 P.M.

the tow-boat Longfellow, after receiving a large ten inch steam marine pump, that will throw two 10 inch streams of water at a time, with Capt. Cassius Claxon in command, and Capt. Dan’l Richards to superintend the work, together with a large number of hands and material, left at 7 1/2 o’clock last evening for the sunken steamer Dove, for the purpose of attempting to pump her out, and set her afloat again, which they hope to accomplish to-day. We wish them success.

Yeoman Mar. 6, 1873 - River News. - The river here is 5 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier-mark. The Daniel Boone, from Cincinnati, arrived last night at 8 o’clock, and will leave this morning for Shaker Ferry at 7. No further news from the Dove; but it is presumed, that she will be successfully raised to-day or to-morrow, as the stage of water is favorable, and an ample force is at work.

Yeoman Mar. 7, 1873 - Yesterday, though still cool, was not so wintry as other of the five preceding days of this, so far, mere normal spring month of March. The winter of ‘72-’73, having appropriated the whole of the last month of autumn, but laid violent hands on the first month of spring. In a word, we can never cease to wonder at the extraordinary severity of the winter with which we have now been afflicted nearly four months and a half, until the heavy headed old monster dies and is buried out of sight.

Yeoman Mar. 7, 1873 - River News. - The river is still falling slowly, with 5 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Blue Wing arrived from Oregon Landing Wednesday night, with a fair freight list, and left on yesterday evening, at 2o’clock, for Louisville. She will leave Louisville on Saturday evening and arrive here on Sunday.

The tow-boat Longfellow arrived on Wednesday night from the sunken boat Dove, and we learn from Capt. Claxon that he pumped her out with the big marine pump in a short time after he got ready, and then attempted to pull her off the bank, but was unable to do so, as there were some logs laying outside the hull of the Dove that prevented. He thinks that as all the wheat has been taken out of the hold, as soon as the river rises three or four feet, the boat can be set afloat.

Yeoman Mar. 10, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point on Saturday evening at dark was at a stand, with 5 1/2 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Daniel Boone arrived in the forenoon of Saturday from Shaker Ferry, and left soon afterwards for Cincinnati. She was loaded down to the guards with a cargo of wheat for Sibley, French & Co. of that city.

Yeoman Mar. 19, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is still at a stand, with six feet in the channel by the pier mark.

The Blue Wing left for Louisville yesterday morning with a good freight.

We are glad to be able to announce that Capt. Robert Humphrey and Capt. Dan. Richards have at last succeeded in raising the Dove No. 2, which was snagged and sunk on the 19th February, about twelve miles above this city. She was towed down by the Blue Wing yesterday morning, and now lies at our wharf looking but little the worse for her four weeks semi-submersion. So soon as an engineer arrives, steam will be raised, and she will be taken to Madison, hauled out on the marine ways, and put in good order again.

Yeoman Mar. 20, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is still at a stand, with about 6 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Dove No. 2, having received her engineer, night before last, got up steam yesterday morning and left about 10 o’clock, for Madison, Ind., where she will be immediately placed on the marine ways for the repair of her hull.

Yeoman Apr. 1, 1873 - A Valuable Invention. - We have had the pleasure of meeting in this city Mr. G. W. Parsons, of Ceredo, in West Virginia, near the mouth of the Big Sandy, who has visited Frankfort for the purpose of bringing to the attention of the members of the Legislature and our practical business men, a very valuable improvement invented by him in slack-water navigation. It consists of a self-acting patent lock, by means of which boats pass with far greater ease and rapidity than through the ordinary locks such as are in use on the Kentucky river. The cost of the lock is far less than the old one, and the water being let in on the _____ gate principle, there is no danger of the lock chamber ever being obstructed with ______. Mr. Parsons proposes to give an exhibition of the working of his model to-day, at 11 o’clock, in the branch just above the barge at the Devil’s Elbow. Mr. Parsons has a small model steam-boat, such as was on exhibition at the Louisville Exposition last fall and will be able to show the practical working of his invention, and the exhibition will be very interesting as well as instructive.

Yeoman Apr. 16, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point was at a stand last evening at dark, with 6 feet 9 inches in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Blue Wing No. 3, left yesterday morning for Louisville, at her regular hour.

The tow-boat Longfellow, which brought up the day before from Carrollton 3 barges of coal for Black & Chinn, and 2 for G. B. Macklin, also left on her return trip to Carrollton yesterday morning.

Yeoman Apr. 16, 1873 - Bloody Affray in Henry County - The K. K. Outlaws Get The Worst of it at Guestville. - We learn from the officers of the steamers Blue Wing and Longfellow, that on last Friday night a band of some eight or ten masked outlaws visited the house of Mr. Richard Williams, at Buestville, on the Kentucky river, in Henry county, for the purpose of punishing him and his nephew, Mr. George Frederick, for refusing to obey their orders previously communicated to them in Ku-Klux form, not to engage in certain lines of business at that place - the first as a grocery keeper, and the other as a teacher. It was subsequently ascertained that the leader of the gang himself a school master, and one of his men a grocery keeper in the vicinity.....

Yeoman Apr. 17, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point at dark last evening, was 6 feet 3 inches in the channel by the pier-mark, and slowly falling. There were no arrivals or departures of streamers at this port yesterday.

Yeoman Apr. 18, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point is still slowly falling with barely 6 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The Blue Wing No. 3, Captain Sanders, with Mash Woods in the office, arrived from Louisville yesterday morning. She will leave on her regular trip this morning at her usual hour - 8 o’clock.

Yeoman Apr. 19, 1873 - River News. - The river here is at a stand with six feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

The little stern-wheel Billy Parsons, arrived here yesterday morning from Red River Iron Works, where she has been employed all winter. The Parsons is probably the smallest stern-wheeler afloat. It is neither as long nor as broad, by many feet, as one of Macklin’s ordinary coal-barges lying by it yesterday. The Parsons is en route for Carrollton at the mouth of the river.

Yeoman Apr. 22, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point has but 5 feet 9 inches in the channel by the pier-mark and is still slowly falling.

The Blue Wing No. 3, returned from Louisville on Sunday and extended her trip to Shaker Ferry from which place she returned to this city yesterday afternoon. She will leave this morning for Louisville at her usual hour.

Yeoman Apr. 26, 1873 - River News. - River is 5 3/4 feet in the channel by pier-mark. The Blue Wing left yesterday morning for Louisville on her regular semi-weekly trip.

Yeoman Apr. 29, 1873 - River News. - River last evening still at a stand with a little less than 6 feet in the channel by the pier-mark.

As however, the rains of the preceding 24 hours were heavy, and apparently general, we may look for considerable rise before our next issue.

The Blue Wing No. 3 in command of Capt. Sanders and Mr. Marsh Woods, in the office, arrived last evening from Shaker Ferry, and will leave this morning for Louisville at her usual hour - 8 o’clock.

Yeoman May 1, 1873 - River News. - There has been a slight rise in the river since our last report; it had about 7 feet in the channel last evening at dark, and was still slowly rising.

The Billy Parsons leaves for the mouth of the river and Pittsburg to-day. The Longfellow arrived with a tow of coal for Black & Chinn on Tuesday. There being at present no Pittsburg coal at Cincinnati, the Longfellow will not return to that port until intelligence of a further arrival of coal there from Pittsburg is telegraphed.

Yeoman May 6, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point last evening at dark was nine feet three inches in the channel by the pier-mark, and apparently at a stand.

The Blue Wing 3 arrived yesterday from Shaker Ferry and will leave this morning at 8 o’clock on her regular Tuesday trip to Louisville.

Yeoman May 8, 1873 - River News. - ...river at 7 1/2 feet...no arrivals or departures at his port yesterday.

Yeoman May 10, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point rose to the figure “X” on the bridge pillar yesterday at noon; but, during the afternoon, receded about three inches, leaving at dark about nine feet nine inches in the channel.

Yesterday and the day before five barges of Kentucky coal arrived here from above, and will probably be retailed by the owners --the bargemen---quite a number of whom were on the streets last evening. A good many rafts of saw-logs have also come down the river within the last five or six days, and the raftsmen and barge-men together have made the upper part of Main street quite lively for the last day or two. Frankfort is always glad to see them, and the more the merrier.

Yeoman May 13, 1873 - River News. - During Saturday and Sunday the river at this point continued to rise until it reached the figure “XI” (feet) on the bridge pillar, but subsequently began to recede slowly, and, up to dark last evening, had fallen to a little below 10 feet in the channel by the same mark, and was still slowly falling.

Up to the time of writing this - 8 o’clock, last evening, the steamer Blue Wing had not returned from her usual weekly trip to Shaker Ferry. She will probably arrive during the night, and leave on her regular trip to Louisville some time to-day.

Yeoman May 17, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point, last evening at dark, was 6 3/4 feet in the channel by the pier-mark, and falling slowly.

The Blue Wing left yesterday morning for Louisville on her regular Friday trip.

The tow-boat, Longfellow, arrived yesterday, from Cincinnati with five coal barges in tow for Black and Chinn, Berry & Co., and other consignees.

Yeoman May 20, 1873 - Shad In The Kentucky River. - On Sunday morning, as the steamer Blue Wing was coming through Lock No. 2, a number of real Potomac Shad were caught by some of the officers and employees of the boat. At first it was not known what kind of fish it was until it was recognized by the steward, who formerly lived in Washington City, as the genuine Potomac Shad. To Marsh Woods, the clever clerk, we are indebted for a specimen, and having enjoyed it for breakfast yesterday, are enabled to give our own testimony to the fact that there are shad in the Kentucky River. It is possible that the roe of an imported shad may have found its way into the river and thus have originated the stock, as we have never heard of any systematic effort to introduce the fish in our Western waters, and it is hardly probable that they could have found their way up from the sea. It was announced this spring, that shad had been caught at the Falls at Louisville, and we hope this additional discovery is evidence that our rivers are to be fully equipped with this excellent article of food.

Yeoman May 20, 1873 - River News. - The river at this point, last evening at dark, was about 6 feet in channel by the pier-mark, and at a stand.

The Blue Wing will leave on her regular Tuesday trip to Louisville this morning, at 8 o’clock.

The Richmond Register, of the 16th inst., says: The recent heavy rains have so swollen the Kentucky River as to cause an excellent boating tide for two or three weeks past. The people in the mountain counties have been much benefitted and large quantities of coal, lumber and iron have been carried below. The returning boatmen have passed this place, and report a safe landing of all their barges, with scarcely a single accident.

Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen of this city accompanied Capt. Sanders on the Blue Wing’s last trip up the river on a pleasant excursion to Shaker Ferry, returning last evening.