Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-21

The fine steamer City of Chester leaves
to-day at ) pm. as above. Captain Zeig
Ter is her commander.
The lively G. W. Cheek leaves to-day
at pm. for Friar's Point and all th'
coast landings Captain Mark Cheek il
her commander.
The fine and elegant steamer st. Fran
els, Captain R. T. Bowman, leaves to
day at 6 pm. for Helena, Mariana ant
all points on the St. Francis. Sam. G.
Payne and Ed. Crowley are her clerks
We understand that several of the
transient steamboat lines whose boats
derive more or less patronage from Mem
phis, contemplate change in theil
agencies here.
The Carrie V. Kountz has gone to Fl
Smith.
The Mary Miller has been extricatet
from her position on the bar above Vicks
burg and passed that city yesterday.
The Louisville canal will be opened
this evening for boats that can pass th'
old locks.
The passenger agency business here
during the coming season promises well
and to those boats who desire energetic
workers, we recommend Messrs. Kier-
nan, Sayers, Hall and Hukill as the
best in the world.
Rates from Louisville to New Orleans
Bacon 4Oc, pork 81, apples and onions
75c, whisky 81, hay $l2 per ton, horses
and mules s. to 10.
The st. Louis Packet Company are
carrying to Cairo and st. Louis large
amount of cotton that at this time last
year was taken to Evansville, New AL.
bany and Cincinnati by the Dean line.
The splendid passenger steamer Legal
Tender, Capt. John Washington, leaves
to-day at five pm. for DevalIs Bluff
Jacksonport and all way landings Ed
C. Postal and Dan Sullivan are her
clerks.
Those contemplating pleasure or
business trip to New Orleans had better
wait for the Richmond. She will go
down on Monday or Tuesday next, and
is the only boat we can recommend as a
No. in every respect.
Will p. Walker goes as second clerk
Of the Charles Bodmann this season.
Colonel Cox, who recently made a
survey of 0uachita river, says that five
dams and locks, at an average cost Of
sl2O,0 900, will secure good navigation to
Camden at the lowest stage Of water.
These improvements he thinks should
be located at Catahoula Shoals, Taylor s
Bar, Rock Row, Juder Island and Buff
falo Flats, each dam to be fourteen feet
high. The Colonel and party returned to
Monroe on Tuesday last, having COM
pleted their difficult and laborious I'M
dertaking of determining the rise and
fall of water in the river, distance be-
tween Trinity and Camden and between
all intermediate points, and all such
other facts as are necessary to fix the
cost of making the 0uachita navigable
the year round.
The Pauline Carroll came in from
above this morning, four days out, draw
ing seven feet, She discharged here 200
barrels -four and left before noon.
The Marble City departed this morn
ing with 5l9 bales cotton for St. Louis
The City of Chester came in from
above, with good trips of grain and pro-
duce.
The Legal Tender came off the docks
at noon to-day,
Capt John T. McCord is to be the
purser Of the Richmond.
The machinery, ETC., from the wreck
of the Virginia will be sold next week at
Cairo.
There are seven or eight boats now
preparing to enter the trade between
Cincinnati and New Orleans, and Gin
cinnati and the Red river.
The Emma Elliott, one Of the finest
packets ever built for the White river
trade, cost $55,OOO
A st. Louis exchange says that the
Richmond's Headlight is to be resus-
citated, and again made to shine.
The tug launched at Pittsburg few
days since for Brown & Jones is seventy
five feet long and sixteen feet wide, and
is to be employed in towing coal in this
harbor.
A Pittsburg telegram says;
The unexpected departure Of such a
large number of steamers lately has
caused a scarcity Of crews, particularly
deck-hands and firemen. Bumpers on
coal barges are asking 50 per day Pr
lots are also becoming very scarce. 1t is
asserted that notwithstanding about 81
000, 900 bushels Of coal have left on the
present water, there are fully that many
bushels remaining here There has not
been such an accumulation Of coal for
years, it ever
Stanly Ryland, recently river circum-
navigator of the St. Louis Journal Of
Commerce, goes on the Quaehita packet
Illinois as Sc ond clerk He is thor
oughly posted in the business.
A New Orleans exchange tells the
following;
The United States Commissioner at
New Orleans was recently unable to
reach conclusion in the case of a
roustabout VS.. the Belle Lee until Cap
tain Frank Hicks removed his hat. The
hat being removed, the official rendered
his judgment in favor Of plaintiff for
$l3 %, with costs.
The Fort Smith lark Herald Of the
l4th says;
The river is full and in good order
and capable Of accommodating any boat
that may come. The steady and heavy
/ rafnu thot hova lafalv fallan will taar the