Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-15


LouIsvrLLE. December 5.-River fall
ling slowly. with three feet ten inches
scant in the canal, and twenty-five, inchel
on the falls. Weather clear and cold
Arrived yesterday; Lawrence. Cincln
natl; Robert Burns, Memphis; Charmer
Cincinnati. Departed; Lawrence an'
Burns, Cincinnati. .s
New ORLEANS, December TO- ARRIVED
yesterday. Nick Longworth, Louisville
Departed; Seminole, White river Ocean
us, st. Louis.
EVANSVILLE, December l5.-Weathel
clear, cold aud freezing hard. HiVel
falling.
NASHVILLE, December l5.-Weathei
fair and cold. River falling, with seven
teen inches on Harpeth shoals.
VIcKsBURG, December l5.-Down yes
terday: GAINESVILLE, 4 am. Down; Mol,
lie Ebert, am. Weather cool and
clear. River falling.
CAIRO, December l5.-Arrived yester'
day: Ada Heilman, Evansville, and de-
parted for Memphis 4 pm, One inch
rise. Weather clear and colds
The A. J. White will not arrive in
time to leave at her usual hour to-
day; but will be here during the night
to leave at four pm. tomorrow Ship
pers must have their freight on board in
time.
Our dispatches from Washington to-
day contain some interesting news to
steamboatmen. A bill is to be present
ed to-day to make boiler makers re-
sponsible for explosions from defective
boilers.
Our Cincinnati telegram to-day an
nounces an advance on Memphis freights
to soc on pound freight; -four 81;
pork 81 %; whiskey 81 so.
The popular passenger and freight
steamer st. Joseph Captain Corbett
will leave at five pm. to-day for Bel
mont and Cairo.
The Julia, boat popular for her at
tentive officers, sumptuous fare and
splendid accommodations, will be down
tomorrow to leave at ten a. m. for Vicks-
burg and the bends.
The excellent steamer Emma Floyd,
Capt. Robt. S. Wise, will leave for Gin
cinnati this evening at five o'clock,
taking freight and passengers through to
all points on the Ohio.
The Walt goes out tomorrow for White
river.
On Tuesday last large iron hammer
weighing 25O0 pounds, used by Captain
Dodge in driving piles for the new ele-
vator at the foot of Besl street, was lost,
by the pile on which it struck having
been placed upon portion Of a wreck.
The hammer is now in thirty feet Of
water, but another has been ordered and
will be here to-day or tomorrow.
Captain Smiths popular packet Bates
vile is announced to leave for White
river tomorrow.
We learn upon good authority that
Barney Barinds, well-known river
clerk, will in few days announce him
self as candidate for Wharfmaster.
By the time the election takes place
there will be about two dozen candidates
for the position.
On her last trip to New Orleans the
Robert e. Lee carried 400 bales of
cotton, 1863 sacks OF cotton seed, $50
sacks of oil-cake, fifty barrels of oil,
seventy-fve sacks of -four, thirty-6ye
sacks of oil meal, and fifty head of cat
tie. The above receipts placed in bulk
are equivalent to 5000 bales of the staple.
The Mary Miller continues stuck hard
and fast, out of the channel, about sixty
miles above here. She is nearly high
and dry, considerably kinked. and will
be likely to stay where she is until the
next rise.
The Belle Vernon, six days out from
New Orleans, passed up this morning
for the Ohio with four hundred tons Of
freight
The Kate Putnam and E. Henseley
passed down early this morning without
adding anything here.
The Dardanelle came off the docks
this morning and the Pat Cleburne was
taken on.
The Alaska is over Reeves safely.
The G. B. Church passed up for the
Ohio this morning FIVE days out from
New Orleans. She discharged twenty
tons here and had FIVE hundred tons for
above, including three hundred tons of
railroad iron.
Mr.. D. D. Walton, of Jefferson, Texas,
telegraphs Captain Joseph A. Aiken, Of
New Orleans, that there are but three
and half feet of water in the bayou and
the river is falling.
Yesterdays Louisville Ledger has the
following:
The Champion has succeeded in pump
ing out the basin, and will return to Gin
cinnati the champion pumper of the
Ohio river. The way she can sling water
about is truly astonishing. Her grand
success leads us to conclude that if she
could get at Lake Erie right, she could
pump enough of it into the Ohio to make
It navigable at all seasons.
The Evansville Courier says
Having two or three Memphis pack
cts owned and controlled in this city,
we think 1t the duty of our merchants
and shippers to sustain them. The Mem
phisItrade is a very important part of our
river interests, and we suggest the pro-
priety of sustaining our own shipping
interests.
Referring to the above, the Louisville
Ledger adds:
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