Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-07

trips of cotton. The weather continues
clear and pleasant.
The Indiana passed up this morning
with good trip, and the Julia passed
down well laden.
q George L. johnson, well-known and
highly esteemed steamboat agent of Gin
cinnati, fell dead yesterday morning at
that city Of heart disease.
The R. P. Walt goes out tomorrow
for all points on White river. She car
ries the U. S. mail
The Carter Line Red river steamer H.
N, Shreve. will leave this port at 4 o clock
this evening, for Shreveport, Jefferson,
and all intermediate landings ON Red
and Mississippi rivers Capt. Carter
commands, and H. NJ. Worsham pre-
sides at the desk.
The elegant mail packet Mary Boyd,
has nearly completed loading her cargo,
and will get away this evening, as adver-
tised, for all landings on the Arkansas
river, going through to Little Rock, con-
Meeting with the Durham for VanBuren
ard Fort Smith, and with the stages for
Hot Springs. Rufus Caldwell goes in
command, and Z. W. Outlaw and Bob
Shields are clerks.
The Oil City, Captain Randall, master,
and NJ. W. Quinlin, clerk, leaves this
evening as usual for Shawnee Village
and all intermediate landings
The new and splendid steamer City of
Vicksburg Dan Conway master, and
Messrs. Isaacs and Briggs, clerks, will
pass up at FIVE O'clock this evening for
Cairo and St. Louis
The gay sidewheel packet George W..
Cheek, Mark Cheek, master, gets away
this evening at five o'clock for Helena,
Friar's Point, Napoleon and Eunice, and
being the regular Friday U. S. mail
packet will go well laden. Frank Con
terman, Henry Mather and Lew Briggs
are her gentlemanly secretaries.
The Committee on the Removal Of
DISTINCTIONS from the mouth Of the Mis-
sissippi river. yesterday reported the
following resolutions to the Commercial
Convention now being held at Cincin-
matt:
Resolved, That all distractions to
navigation at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river should be removed at the ex-
pense and under the direction of the
General Government; and that it should
open ship canal from a point on the
left bank of the Mississippi river below
Fort st. Philip to the Gulf of Mexico,
such canal to be constructed and main
tanned at the national cost and admins
tered by the national authority; to be
adequate to the wants OF American COM
merce, and free from any charge or i'm
pediment, and 10 constitute part of
the national highway to the ocean.
Resolved, That special committee,
consisting of one from each of the fol-
lowing cities New Orleans, Vicksburg,
Memphis, Cairo, st. Louis, Keokuk, Du-
buque, St. Paul, Louisville, Cincinnati
and Pittsburg be appointed by the Pres
ident of this convention, whose duty it
shall be to confer with the government
authorities respecting the prosecution Of
the deepening Of the channels of rivers
and their mouths, made by present agen-
cies or other new appliances; the survey
of ship canal, and to awaken an inter
est in this much-needed national work
among the people of the Mississippi
Valley.
Two negroes quarreled on the A. j,
White yesterday evening, when one O.
them name unknown struck the other
named Alexander. with billet of wood
in return for which Alexander cut hin
fearfully with knife, the blade entering
the lungs, after which Alexander flee
and was pursued by his adversary, who
picked mp q stone, and throwing it
struck Alexander on the back of tn
head, causing a split in that individual
skull as wide as that between the Shaw
Smith wings of the Radical party. Thu
pursuer then fell from loss of blood, ant
was carried to the City Hospital, wher,
he died during the night. Alexande
was subs equently arrested. and was to
day bound over to appear for trial.
81 The bridge under process of construc
ton between Cincinnati and Newport i
absorbing the attentions of the cite
and towns ON the Ohio river. A Pitts
burg telegram of the 4th, referring there
to, says: The meeting of citizens to
day to protest against the Newpor
bridge was wen attended, and the feel
ing is that the work according to the
present plans should not be permitted
or tolerated. The whole business com
munity is being aroused on the subject
and river men are very bitter not only
against the Newport bridge, but also the
one at Steubenville. :" A meeting Of
citizens is to be held at Cincinnati to
morrow, when the subject will be furtheI
agitated there. At the Pittsburg meet
ing Cap. W. H. Brown was called upon
for a report, and said that he had with
great difficulty obtained draft Of the
bridge from the railroad company. Ihs
channel span was not placed in the right
place by two hundred feet Il was TOO
near The Ohio shore. They proposed %
put in hundred feet span draW-bridge
on the Kentucky side. The hight Of the
bridge was seveniy-tvO feet, and in high