Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-10

lHt i9Ohru VI DlrectOfS OF the Louis
vile and Arkansas River Packet Line
held meeting at Louisville day or two
since. and decided not to send out any
more boats until business viii justify it.
From this action we are led to believe
that the enterprise has not proved sue
cessful.
The Nick Longworth has abandoned
her contemplated trip to New Orleans,
and laid up.
The following is from yesterdays
Cour.er-Journal:
"The Pink Varble was formally turned
over to her new purchasers yesterday,
and is now the property of the Louisville
and Arkansas Packet Company, who
will start her out, in connection with the
R. G. Gray and Glasgow, as soon as bust
ness will justify"
Lieut.. Adams, acting under the in
structions of Gen. Weitzel, will start this
week with surveying party to make an
examination of the French, Broad and
Holston rivers. Referring to the above,
the Chattanooga Times says: 1t will
be good idea to improve those rivers,
but it will be found necessary to improve
the Tennessee between here and Knox
vile"
Between now and the middle Of Sep
TENDER the following new boats will be
completed at Louisville, viz: Cheek &
Malone's steamer A. j. White, for the
Memphis and Friars Point trade; Capt.
Thornton Jacobs boat Southwestern, for
the New Orleans and Red river trade;
Capt. Hodges boat Bertha, for the New
Orleans and Red river trade; Capt. Trim
dads boat New iberia, for the Bayou
Teche trade; City of Chester, for the st.
Louis Packet Company, and Capt. Red
mons boat Lightest, for the New Orleans
and Red river trade The A. j. White
and Southwestern viii raise steam this
week. The "Lightest" was launched
Saturday and taken to the wharf for
completion. She is very appropriately
named, only drawing IL inches with 200
tons of freight.
The negro porter, with the barber Of
the steamer Gen. Lyle, went through
the Office of that boat few days since,
getting $l75 and gold watch. The
money, watch and other articles were
subsequently, found in the hunks occu-
pied by the thieves, and they were ar
| rested.
A letter to the LEDGER from one Of the
| survivors of the Silver Spray disaster,
giving an account of the treatment they
received while on their way home, will
be found in our local columns.
Five feet is the stage of waterreported
between Cairo and st. Louis.
| A rumor prevailed at st. Louis, Mon
day, that the City of Cairo had sunk the
barge of the Susie Silver, at Devils
Island, as she passed down.
The Usage makes her first trip to-day
in the Clarendon and Devall's Bluff trade,
in connection with the Little Rock rail-
| road.
The merchants and steamboatmcn of
Cincinnati are taking active measures to
have a convention composed Of mer-
chants-business men from all the towns
along the Ohio above the falls-cslled
for the purpose of taking steps to secure
the abolition of tolls on the canal at
Louisville The present rate is fifty
cents per ton.
A negro deck hand was frightfilly cut
on the Wauanita Thursday night, while
that boat was at Evansville, by another
darkey.
In addition to the losses already re-
ported to the last coal run, the Coal City
sunk FIVE Of her barges at Manchester
Island. All of them are supposed to be
a total loss.
The recent freshet in Red river filed
the canal above Shreveport with drift to
such an extent that the Navigation Com
pany will have to open the canal higher
up the river. This will probably be done
in time for the fall trade The freshet
has passed off without doing the damage
which was feared at one time.