Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-28

| leans ana the bends.
The Mary Mcdonald is the regula
mail steamer, to leave at five PIN. Il
day for Vicksbnrg and the bends.
The Mountaineer will depart at fy
o'clock this evening for Cairo, St. Lon
and all way points.
In our steamboat column to-day wi
be found the card Of Captain Iigh
burne announcing the fleet steamt
Southwestern, Captain Lewis, to leav
at four pm. tomorrow for Vicksburp
Natchez and New Orleans.
The Mary Boyd goes out at 1870 thi
evening as the regular mail steamer 70
Devall's Bluff, Jacksonport aud all point
ON White river.
The Legal Tender enters her regula
trade between here and Jacksonpor
next Tuesday.
The Shreve left at midnight for st
Louis with FIVE hundred and eighteen
bales cotton.
The Strader will add to her cargo her
four hundred and thirty-Gve bales cot
ton. She is expected up tomorrow.
After the adjournment of the meetin,
Of steamboatmen at Pittsburg, Tuesday
q petition was addressed to Genera
Weitzel, superintendent of construction
Of the wing dam on the Indiana side o
the Ohio river at Jacksonville, request
ing that the width of the channel may
be made six hundred feet, instead o
four hundred feet. The petition wai
numerously signed.
Captain Pat Yore made a proposition
on Change at st. Louis few days age
that for $4,000 year he would pledge
himself to keep six foot channel from
St. Louis to Cairo. lie says that there
are but four islands that keep the water
divided to its present depth, and that by
dredging them often a six foot channel
could be had during the low water sea
son" What an excellent opportunity
for the U. s, dredgehoats to prove that
they are worth something. They cost
treble that amount each year.
There is nineteen inches of water at
Dubuque, and the river is rising.
Red river has risen four feet at Shreve'
port. How is that" etc.
Joe Locke, the veteran newsdealer on
the east side of Main, near Jefferson
street. has literature sufficient to load
all the steamers in port.
Yesterdays st. Louis Times has the
following
j. j. Sylvester, of the st. Louis and
Arkansas River Packet Company, re-
turned yesterday from Memphis. While
absent, which was only four days, he
raised the Sioux City, which sanh last
week at Swan lake, in the Arkansas, had
her docked aud started out again before
it ever got in the papers.
The first span of the bridge over the
Missouri river, at Omaha, has been COM
pleted.
The Susie Silver will never be able TO
pass Island 26, if yesterdays St. Louis
Republican has her cargo correctly
stated. II says she left New Orleans
with $4,000 bars of railroad iron and a
cabin full of passengers for that port.
We publish to-day the call of the
committee for Convention Of steam
boatmen to be held at Louisville, KY,
on the 9Th day of November We hope
the steamboatmen of Memphis will be
fully represented. There are many rea-
sons why all those interested in the nav
igation of our inland water courses
should come to a proper understanding
in relation to the great interests Of which
they are the representatives. Let the
steamboatmen of this city not be behind
those of any other place in active efforts
to promote the good cause Of bring
ing the needS of this branch of business
before the country. The following is
the call;
Several gentlemen, interested in the
steamboat navigation Of the country,
having met at Washington City during
the session of the Board of Supervising
Inspectors, npon consultation, thought it
highly important that a convention of
the steamboat interests of the country
should be held at an early day, for the
purpose of considering and discussing
the various matters pertaining TO their
interests, and especially the laws of Con-
gress applicable to them, and appointed
the undersigned a committee to an
nounce the call for a convention, and to
designate the time and place of meeting.
We, therefore, in compliance with such
authority and request, respectfully an
nounee that such convention will be
held at the Gait House, in the city of
Louisville, Ky, GU Wednesday, Noyem-
Der s, 1871,
The representation in said convention
will be upon the basis of one delegate
for every steam vessel navigating the
inland rivers aud lakes of the United
States and every ocean steam vessel
sailing under the authority Of the United
States; and, while it is not expected that
there will be a delegation from every
steam vessel, it is earnestly requested,
in view of the important subjects which
will come before the convention, that
the steamboat interests Of the country
will see that every city and section is
represented in the convention.
Respectfully,
JoHS n. BOFISGER,
RICHARD H. WooLFoLE,
SAN ]. Hale,
Committee.
Cincinnati Octohar % 1871