Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-21

Stamps ~.... ............. IS % 80 IS 26 80
nryaln :,,;,,'.'' 10 10 70 % 70 q N
henderson s.................. ~ W " 10 10 ~
Natchez ............--.~...... 10 81 30 10 81 10
The Lee reports having exhausted her
fuel at Bayou Sara, and that she en-
countered heavy head winds from Col
lege Point to Natehez. The Lees for
mer time to Carrollton was 274 minutes;
Hills, one hour and thirty seconds; Red
Church, one hour and thirty-nine min
utes; Bonnie Care, two hours and thirty
eight minutes; College Point, three
hours and fifty and a half minutes;
Donaldsonville, four hours and fifty-nine
minutes; Plaquemine, seven hours and
five and half minutes; Baton Rouge,
eight hours and twenty-five minutes;
Bayou Sara, ten hours and twenty.six
minutes; Red river, twelve hours and
fifty-six minutes; Stamps thirteen hours
and ffty-six minutes Bryans', fifteen
hoars and ffty-one and half minutes;
Henderson sixteen hours and twenty
nine minutes; Natchez, seventeen hours
and eleven minutes.
The R. P. Walt'is Che regular United
States mail steamer for all points on
White river, tomorrow. She leaves at
five pm. -'aA'.
The elegant steamer Bismarck, Cap
tain Thompson, will arrive from above,
and departs at FIVE pm. this day for
Vicksburg and New Orleans. . John
Spane is clerk, and Captain J. 7. Wash
ington, agent.
The Celeste will not leave for the Ar
kansas to-day, as has been announced.
The Pat Cleburne goes out tomorrow
evening in her place.
The swif-sailing mail packet Geo. W.
Cheek, Mark Cheek, master, backs out
at five O'Clock this evening for Helena,
Friar's Point, Napoleon and Eunice.
Frank Gonterman is her cashier, and
Lou. Briggs, clerk,
Capt, Raadalfs popular little packet,
the Oil City, will leave as usual at
four pm. to-day, for Shawnee Village
aud all way points. NJ. W. Quinlin, an
agreeable officer presides at the desk.
The st. Francis came in this morning
with good list of people, rs bales Of
cotton, and 1859 sacks cotton-seed.
We learn that the Arthur got aground
last night at the foot of Presidents
Island but was soon pulled off by the
White.
The Julia passed down this morning.
The new steamer City of Vicksburg,
Dan Conway, master, will pass up at five
pm. to-day, for Cairo and st, Louis,
Andy Isaacs is her chief secretary.
The elegant steamer st. Francis, Cap
tain Bowman, master, and our obliging
friends, Messrs. Sam c. Paine, Berry
and Banks, clerks, will 90 out at five
0 clock this evening for all points on the
St. Francis, making all intermediate
landings. This magnificent packet has
already gained q lasting reputation in
the trade, and is a No. | steamer in
every respect. I
The Indiana is ossing down with one
hundred Chinese hborers for Baton
Rouge.
The Kate Kinney haA h IS said, been
purchased by Cincinnati parties,
Hicks King and ALI Croxall are nego-
tiating for the purchase of the P. W.
Strader.
AT Lacrosse, in the case Of Mary Nc
Cue, administrator, VS.. the Northwestern
Union Packet Company, action drought
% recover damages, oecasioned by the
leath of Patrick McCue on the War
Eagle, in July, 1868, charged to have
'een caused by the negligence Of the
,ficers of the said defendants steam
BOAT, verdict of $4,000 was given to the
plaintiff.
Capt. Tennyson, who recently made a
Iurvey of Black river from Jacksonport
o .Pocahontas, reports that il will take
wo hundred dollats nethalle on an aver
'ge, to clear out all distractions. He
ays it will never require any further out.
ay, and will make this one of the best
iavigable rivers in the world-a perfect
anal Gen, W. +. Reynolds, chief Of
Western river improvements, with head
quarters at St. Louis, has charge Of the
urveys and improvements to be made
IN White river and its tributaries. There
$ at the present time one United States
mag boat, the DeRussey, at work on
White river, and several more will soon
be put to york.
1t is reported on good authority that
New Orleans steamboat agent undertook
10 avoid the Galveston quarantine regu-
Iations by sending boats up twenty miles