Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-18


as he makes good time we will have full
trips each way.
The Julia struck rock at the mouth
OF the Ohio river Saturday night, break
ing from twenty to thirty timbers but
was pulled off by a tug and proceeded to
81. Louis without loss of time.
A sprinkling cart is advertised for at
Little Rock to lay the dnst in the bed of
the Arkansas river. The Journal of the
city named throws itself in this manner:
The river still recedes, and has as I'M
RULED face about it as if it was all
right. Talk about the swelling bosom
OF the mighty river" There hain't been
nary swell around these parts in the
mighty Arkansas for some time if not
longer, and what is worse, there's no
sign of an inflammation, or any other
kind Of irritation, to cause it to swell
! since it has taken to courting the sun
with such ardor. If it goes on in the
decline which is affecting it now, much
longer, something will have to be did, or
ITS limpld waves will cease to wash our
shores. AT this present writing, the
water-cure, it appears to us, is about the
only thing that will put new life into the
old thing. Steamboats, don't steam
around here muchly now, and soon the
ferryboat can rest from its labors, as the
creek will be fordable almost any place.
The Little Rock Gazette announces
the arrival of Capt. JEFF Baldwin and
says he is preparing his Aatboat fleet
for the upper river, and will be ready to
receive freight in day or two.
Since leaving Louisville about the LIST
of February last, the John T. Moore has
travelled distance of over twenty
thousand miles, most of which includes
the Red liver. Since coming out not
pump has been used, and no obstacle
has been met with serving in the least
to injure her hull, and when the fall
season opens she will be ready to resume
business in a sound and first class con-
dition. We learn upon seemingly relia-
BILE authority that the above named
steamer will, about October LIST, enter
The New Orleans apd Memphis trade,
leaving New Orleans every alternate
Wednesday and Memphis Tuesday.
Captain Boardman will command, with
Walden and Quicksall in the office.
Sam Smith, mate of the Viola Belle,
ately made the voyage from the wreck
If that boat, in the Missouri, to st.
Louis, in the boats yawl, containing a
ct Of the cabin outfit, consigned to the
Underwriters lie had four men, and
made the run of five hundred miles in
his open boat in five days.
Rule sixty-seven, adopted by the Board
If Inspectors, refers to steam registers,
md says:
All steam registers shall be 80 con-
tructed as to be operated wholly by
he pressure of steam in the boilers to
which said steam registers are attached;
hat their mechanism shall be ineIosed
n metal case, so arranged as to pre-
Jude the possibility of its being inter
cred with from the outside, and be
ecured by a lock or such other device
s the board of supervising inspectors
hall approve; said steam registers shall
le provided with suitable stop-cock to
hut off the steam from the register in
ase of necessity, and said cock-stop
hall be so placed and arranged as to be
ecured or locked by the same device or
ock employed to secure the register
rom the Interference of unauthorized
'ersons The front or face of all regis.
eis shall be of heavy glass, so as to
nable passengers and others TO observe
t all times the pressure of steam. The
lumber of times the working pressure
flowed has been exceeded, and the
ighest point attained, may be registered
lther upon a continuous strip of paper
nder a pencil moved by the variations
! the pressure of steam, or by hands or
ointers, moving over a dial plate or
lates, arranged and graduated for that
1rpOse.