Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-07-22


H. Allen at Eve o clock this evening for
all points on White. river through to
Jacksonport. Ed Outlaw is purser.
Capt. Marsh Miller, who has been i'll
for the past week, is, we are glad to
learn, rapidly recovering.
The Emma Floyd, Capt. R. W. Wise
master, will get away at five o'clock this
evening for Cairo, Evansville, Louisville
and Cincinnati.
Joe Locke, the live newsdealer on
Main, near Jefferson street, has all the
latest dailies, weeklics and full stock
of miscellaneous reading matter
The Mary L. Poe leaves st. Louis to-
day for Red river, in place of the
Lockwood. fl
The outside pilots in the Ohio river
have arranged boxes atall the necessary
points and obligated themselves to re-
port all changes and distractions in
navigation, and now have the same ia
cilities for keeping themselves posted as
members of the association.
Capt. G. M. Blodgett, of the towboat
J, G. Carlisle, suddenly disappeared at
Cincinnati on Thursday, and his body
was found floating in the river the next
day.
James Howard & Co., Of Jefferson
vile, have on the stocks the new steamer
City of Helena. She is frst-cass
packet, built for the St. Louis and Mem
phis Packet Company, and of the fol-
lowing dimensions: 270 feet long, AZ
feet beam, feet hold, with 26-inch cyl
inders, 81 feet stroke. She is being
built on the style of the Grand Tower,
City of Vicksburg and City of Chester,
and when completed is expected to sur
pass them all She will be launched in
about ten days, and completed in Sep
tember
The work of deepening the Illinois
and Michigan canal, etc., so as to pass
the waters of the lake into the Illinois
river, has been in progress over five
years, and cost over three million dol
lars.
The Toledo Commercial says:
Barges have only recently come into
use, to any extent upon the lakes; but
they are fast superseding sail vessels.
They are almost exclusively used in the
lumber trade, and are becoming popu-
lar in transporting grain. There are,
this season, one hundred and twenty
eight barges, with an aggregate capacity
of 49, tons, custom-house measure
ment, and worth over one hundred
thousand dollars, engaged in carrying
to the market the product of the forests,
the mines and the farms Besides, not
far from fifty steam barges and tugs are
engaged in towing these, with a carry
ing capacity of 5000 tons, and repre-
senting capital of say FIVE hundred
thousand dollars. Employment is given
by this new system to fully three thou
sand men.
An effort was made at st. Louis to
charge to the editor of the Railway
Record the origin of the suggestions to
the promoted clerks mentioned yester-
day as well as the following. "B. Aitch,"
however, denies all knowledge Of their
authorship, and says he doesn't confne
himself to such light matter"
If any passenger presumes to sass
back at the cabin boys, you will put him
Immediately off on some island, or any
one disputing the porter right to charge
exhorbitant prices on baggage, will at
once be bucked and gagged and thrown
overheard and his baggage cOnfscated.
All combustible articles, such as pow
der, petroleum, nitro glycerine, etc,
will be well aired near the boilers or
some other warm spot to prevent damage
by dampness.
You will assist the steward in carving
at meals and black the boots Of cabin
boys each morning. This rule is i'm
perative and must be observed
On coming to landing the first clerk
of through boat is not expected to hail
the express agent with the question,
Have you any Express2" Such a
course will be considered as exceeding
powers, and the agent so addressed may,
and is hereby authorized, to pay no at
tention whatever to such hail.
In case of fire you viii Immediately
take up your position in the gangway
and take up all the tickets, after which
please get ashore as the company will
wish 10 interview you concerning the
cause thereof. While passengers are at
meals you will take charge of all hats,
/ III ~ otbarxyico