Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-02
The Port of Memphis.

the muu On the ie't' ""o 80
and sticky as usual after rainy night
The following are the arrivals ana de-
partures since our last:
Arrivals.
Baltic, New Orleans.
Bell (tow.boat), New Orleans -
Marble City, St. Louis;
Linnie Drown, Pine Bluff. .
Albert Pearce, St Louis.
Departures.
Baltic, St. Louis.
Bell TOW boat, St. Louis.
Southerner, ST. Louis.
J. S. McCune, St Louis.
Darling, Cincinnati
Celeste, Little Rock y
Mollie Hambleton, 81. Francis river
Boats in Port.
Marble City, St. Patrick, Gaidon, Lin
ME Drown, Albert Pearce, Anna, Flora,
Centralia.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
The fur-famed Marble City, in charge
of Capt. Jim Tschudi, leaves this even:
inc at 8 o'clock for Cairo and st Louis.
This is a splendid boat and is one OF the
hest of the ST. Louis Packet Company
steamers. Tickets can be obtained al
the Union ticket office, No, 3 Jefferson
street
The gay packet known as the 81
Patrick leaves for Vicksburg this even
ING at o clock. She is commanded by
Can't. Lee, and Capt. Geo. o. Hart pre-
sides ut her desk, which is guarantee
that the comfort of passengers Will pt
well looked after.
The superb and elegant steamer Lao
erty No. 2, one of the swiftest boats thai
ever floated, and commanded by the vet
eran Capt Archer, is expected to Dc
here in time to leave for Cairo and Lonis
vile this evening Passengers bound W
stream should remember the Liberty, fol
she lives we'll, runs fast and carries I'D
Judge in the office, and he is noted fol
making every passenger feel as safe anG
comfortable as if they were in their owl
home
The Linnie Drown leaves for Pint
Bluff this evening at FIVE o'clock, Capt
| Claycombe in command.
Can't. Shingles steamer Anna ieaVe
for Cinci snuti this evening.
Albert Pearce leaves for White rive
this evening in charge of Capt JAIME
| p. Luken.
Miscellaneous.
The storm last night caused the non
arrival of several boats that we're due thi
morning. Among the number thus dc
tanned is the Liberty No. 2.
Captain Dan Able and Ed. Hart hav
formed a consolidation of the Vicksbur
packets They will put for good pact
cts in the trade. Ed. Hart puts IN tn
ANDY johnson and St Patrick. The S
Patrick will be fully repaired when the
nut 10 the other packets. Dan Able put
in the Des Are, and will purchase ne
steamer. suitable for the trade. Th
enterprise will prove beneficial TO III
people between here and Vieksburg.
A deck hand on the Liberty shot
comrade on her last trip up, and stole I'll
yawl and went ashore. In going in
get the yawl the Liberty grounded an
was detained several hours /t
An Atlanta dispatch says the sieam'
Oak. which was destroyed by FIRE O
Monday night, had on board carg
consisting of 500 bales cotton, 3 bali
wool. and large lot of merchandise.
two minutes after the discovery of Il
fire she was enveloped in flames. 81
had Twenty-Five persons on board, nit
of whom persisted in the flames or we
drowned, among whom we're the pile
engineer, steward, cabin boy, four dec
hands and negro girl. All the papers
the boat aud letters were consumed; 81
was owned by Col j B Pressbee al
insured for $4,000
A St. Louis paper of yesterday repor
an improvement in business and that Il
4 rivers are all on the decline.
Just before the steamer Southern
D lef, ST. Louis on her last trip light-h
cered gent picked the lock and reliev
!. the money drawer Of about $3.50, to I
astonishment of Larry Entler, who h
Just stepped out of the office for f
minutes.
The following are the names of /
officers and crew of the City of Me
: ,,his, with the extent of injuries, if an
sustained by them;
Capt VIM. Thompson, uninjured;
bert Clark. LIST clerk, uniniured; Geor
T Barnett. I'd clerk, left baud slight
=, bruised; Thomas Nordyke, mate, uni
iured: Samuel Harris, second mate, ]
+ broken; Nicholas Burns, engineer, AMI
broken: VIM. Phillips, second engine'
uninjured; H. Smith, third engine'
slightly scalded; NJ Boyco, carpent'
! nniniured Thomas Richmond, stewaT
slightly sealded; Frank Perdu, pill
killed; George Britain, pilot kllle
e George Hanger, steersman, killed; Th'
n Dowiiug. barkeeper, slightly scalde
II George Hamilton, second steward, klllt
r James Robertson, killed; Henri Cls
&c psatryman, Sanford Young, berlin