Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-09

three hundred tons Of sugar for Belcher' 5
refinery, at st. Louis.
Colonel Merrill, of the engineer corps,
is in the city. He will erect water
gauge at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Captain Keiser, of the St. Louis Packet
Company, is guest of Captain Elem
Calvert.
On Monday last the Belle Lee passed
Vicksburg for New Orleans with three
thousand nine hundred and twenty. seven
bales Of cotton,
The City of Chester, Captain Ziegler
is the regular packet for St. Louis at five
o'clock this evening.
Captain Mark Cheek returned yester-
day from New Orleans, having gone
there few days since to examine the
steamer Bradish Johnson, with view Of
putting her in the trade between Mem
phis and Greenville, with other boats
that are-witb the aid of our merchants
to form a semi-weekly line. We men
toned this fact some days ago, and
again urge our business men to render
all the aid possible in order TO secure
the valuable trade of the bends.
The Batesville, Captain A. B. Smith,
will leave at five clock this evening for
all points on White, Little Red and
Black rivers.
The Cincinnati and New Orleans
Packet Company's wharfboat will be let
into the water at Cincinnati this week.
The Cincinnati Times and Chronicle
has the following; Captain Lawrence
Carter and Captain Bachelor were out
hunting, back of Newport, Saturday last,
and by accident Captain Bachelor re-
ceived the contents of Captain Carter's
shotgun in his leg"
The Geo. W. Cheek, Captain Mark
Cheek, leaves to-day ut five pm for Hell
ena, Friar Point and all way landings
The st. Francis, Captain 4. X. Bow.
man, will he in port to leave at five
o'clock this evening for Helena and st.
Francis river Sam C. Paine and w.
b. Berry are clerks.
The Glasgow will be the regular mail
line steamer, to leave at FIVE p. m. to-day
for Vicksburg and the bends. Billy Dill
is her passenger agent.
The corporation of Columbus, Ky,
should infict a monthly wharfage tax of
$500 upon the wharfboat of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad Company, if the fol-
lowing telegram taken from an exchange
is authentic. 1t says; "Mr. G. C.
Rushing, Vice-President of the NJ. and
o. r. R., has telegraphed to W. J, Rudd,
agent at Columbus, Ky, as follows;
Don't allow boats TO land goods for the
town on our whariboat, but conGne the
business exclusively to that Of the rail-
road. "
Captain Caldwell was out yesterday
with his matched team. If there is
more handsome turnout IN town we
have yet to see it.
The Mary Boyd goes ont tomorrow
for the Arkansas.
The K. P. Walt is the regular mail
steamer for White RIVER, to leave Satur-
day.
This mornings Avnl,nehe recarr;ng
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10 the new OrieahA |onilierciai Dulie-
tins dig, says:
An article copied in this column a few
DAYS since from the New Orleans Bulle-
tin appeared as a paid advertisement.
Il was intended to give proper credit. but
il was entirely an oversight. The Bulle-
tin reporter, whose column is always
very newsy, should not feel bad about
il. He played the same game some
time since in publishing an account from
the Avalanche Of the destruction of the
steamer Virginia.
From a langthv ronor, in tho Nosb-
m p,,.n pO'' ' ~
Ville nePuoneah banner we laks the
following relating to Colonel Albert
survey of the Cumberland.
The deepest pool or hole Of water dis
covered was at Hunters Point. 1t is
called Kings Eddy. Ii is forty Eve feet
in depth. Pilots have heretofore sup
posed it 10 be as deep as seventy-fiye
feet The next deepest hole IA nj Coles
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