Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-01

"Hu o"c Gu' 0uuSV ohu chBdSo paosaeS
The Head Centre of Mississippi steam
ers, the st. Patrick, leaves for Vicksbur.
tomorrow evening Travellers bounC
South should sail with Capts. Lee ant
Hart, for they know how to treat folks
we'll
Miscellaneous.
From ST. Louis papers of yesterday
we learn that business was moderate
and the river still on the decline, with g
prospect Of hearing in a few days Of
some boat sticking in the mud" between
that point and Cairo.
STILL ANOTHER. One more OF those
terrible disasters that make ones blood
run cold to contemplate, occurred few
miles below the city yesterday-fuH par
ticulars of which will be found in our
local columns The City of Memphis,
belonging to the Atlantic and Mississippi
Steamship Co.'S line Of river packets,
exploded one of her boilers, and de-
stroyed some sixty or eighty precious
lives, besides naming for life great
many others. A morning contemporary
learns that the boilers Of this steamer
were twenty years old, and that the off.
GERS of the boat themselves considered
them unsafe, etc, and yet these same
officers advertised and run this boat as a
safe, first class passenger packet, and
thus cnticed eighty or ninety persons to
entrust their lives aboard Of her The
same paper says that there has been
more steamboat disasters on the Missis-
sippi river during the past eight months,
than in all other parts OF the United
States together This is lamentably
true. 1t is also true that a large, a cery
large, proportion of these disasters on
the '' Father of Waters have occurred
among The boats run by the Atlantic an d
Mississippi Steamship Company If we
mistake not, this is the ninth boat be-
longing to this company that has been
blown up within the past six or eight
months. The total number of lives lost
in these nine disasters, sum up 20 some
thing over thousand. Just think of it.
Nine boats blown to pieces and a thou.
sand souls sen, TO eternity by one line Of
steamers within the short space Of eight
months Ii We do not accuse the At
laniic and Mississippi Steamship Com
pany Of palpable carelessness and reck-
lessness, it is simply because il is not
our province 10 do so We woull ask
our readers who may intend travelling
by river, to think of this: Is it safe, is it
right. Ia trust your lives, and the lives
o. those under your protection to a
steamboat company that has blown up
more persons and property than all the
otter lines of boats on the Mississippi
river2
The splendid passenger packet St.
Patrick came in last evening from Vicks-
burg with good trip, bringing in the
survivors, wounded and dead, from the
mob lines Inflated steamer, City of
Memphis. The St Patrick is a first
class passenger packet, owned and run
by Memphis men, and identified with the
interes. of our people. 1t is, therefore,
with pleasure that we publish the follow
ing cards of thanks" from the passen-
gers and crew Of the City of Memphis
and from the passengers of the St
Patrick, to the officers and crew of the
latter boat:
We, the undersigned, passengers and
crew of the Inflated steamer Cityof Mem
phis, desire, by this means, to express to
the officers and crew of the steamer ST.
Patrick, our gratitude and thanks for
their assistance and kindness to the sur
vivors. Nothing was left undone on their
part to alleviate the suiferings Of the
scalded and burnt. and to accommodate
the unfortunate few who escaped unhurt
And to DIR. C. B. Blackburn. who was
untiring in his efforts to ease the suffer
ings of the unfortunate, we are unable to
express our thanks.