Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-07

ably about as low as IL Will De thls
season"
Thirty-seYen hundred bales Of cotton
have been shipped from Helena during
the present season.
Captain Sam Houston, Supervising
Inspector, is in the city, or was, yester-
day.
The rates south from St Louis are as
follows: To Memphis and Vicksburg,
per Memphis packet: Flour, Zoe; hay,
4Oc; pork, 81 10, and pound freight 4Oc
per 100 to Memphis Flour 81; hay 60ci
pork, 81 so, and pound freight SOC per
100 to vicksburg. To New Orleans, per
barge line: Flour, Soc; hay, 55c; pork,
81 30, and pound freight 45c per 100.
1t is said that the rates of toll in the
Louisville and Portland canal, when
completed, will be fully forty cents less
per ton than charged by the old company.
General Weitzel has requested that
the members of the committee which
visited Washington last winter in the in
terest of the Louisville and Portland ca
nal, visit the canal on Thursday, the 9th,
for the purpose of examining that work,
in connection with the Steamboat Con-
yention which will be in session at Lou
isville at that time, and the members Of
Congress representing the territory more
Immediately interested in the progress
Of that work.
A letter from a prominent Steamboat
man in St. Louis, says that our City
Fathers are beautifully blessed by
every steamboatman arriving from below
for the miserable condition Of the land
ing. One captain asserted that sugar,
molasses, etc., had to be rolled up hill
at an angle of forty-five degrees, and
that it required seven men to handle a
hogshead of sugar and three to roll up a
barrel of molasses.
The Cairo Bulletin man thinks the
sound of the whistles of the Belle Mem
phis, Grand Tower, and other boats of
our st. Louis Packet Company, would
make him feel glad enough to strike his
grandmother.
During the month of October there
were two hundred and seyenty-one
steamboat arrivals at Cairo.
We publish the following circular from
the owners Of steam vessels at New
York, for the information and benefit OF
the doubling Thomasses of the river fra
ternity, who are lacking in faith as to
the unity of steamboatmen over the en-
tire country, East and West, in the mat
ter Of the convention at Louisville, to
obtain a modification Of the laws:
NEw YORK. November !, ISL.
TIC the owners Of Steam Vessels:
A convention of the steamboat inter-
ests in the United States is to be held at
the city of Louisville on the Sth of No
vember next, to which delegates are in
vited from all sections of the country to
take part in its deliberations and pro
ceedings. Already have delegates been
appointed to represent the interests OF
the Western rivers and the great lakes.
The main object Of this convention is to
take into consideration the provisions
and operations of the present steamboat
law, and to endeavor TO secure, through
the action Of Congress at its next ses-
sion, such notifications and amend
ments as. that while it shall give Sc
curity to life and property, shall, at the
same time, relieve steamboat owners
from the many burdensome exactions
now imposed upon them, and which add
in no respect 10 the safety Of steamboat
navigation, but simply further individual
ends. The steam navigation OF the sea
board and the Eastern section Of the coun
try differ, in many important respects
from the navigation of the Western river'
and the lakes, and that the interests 0
this navigation may be properly pro
tected and secured, in the proposed mod
ifcation and amendment Of the law, i
is highly important that delegates b,
sent to this convention TO effect these oh
jects, end at the same time TO unite witt
the Western delegates in their efforts t
effect the needed reform in the steam
boat law and its administration. Fo
the attainment Of these objects, you arr
urgently requested to attend meeting
Of steam vessel owners TO be held at the
Insurance Buildings. No. 81 Wall street
on Monday, November 6, at ] o'clocl
pm, and take part in the proceedings
Very respectfully, etc.,
RUSSELL STUR0Is,
LIVINGSTON, Fox & Co.,
murray, FARRIs 4 Co,
ALLAN McLASE, Pacific S. S. Co.
.. @. H. MALLORY 4 Co.,
/ II, b. CRoNwEII & Co.,
/ w. p. CLYDE,
Gao. W. QUiSTARD.
The following is correct list Of tn
boats lying inactive at the bank at Gin
einnat: At Crawfsh-Crescent City
Nightingale and Dixie; at Hambleton'
ship yard-J. F. Baum, Juniata, Thomp
son Dean, St Charles and Telegraph a
and below Marine Railway Dry Docks
i J. W. Garrett, Liberty No. 4, Bostona
John Kilgour, Major Anderson, Genera
Buell., Wauanita, Kate Robinson, Cham
piOn, Ohio No. 4, St. James, Fleetwood
]. H. GrOesbeek, MinneOla, ST. Mary
4 Robert Burns, Armadillo, Kate Putnam
Silver Moon, Alice Dean, Sam J. Hal
}, and Belle Vernon; at COvingtOn-A
+ mads, Commercial, Bermuda, c. 7. ID
q mont Lawrence and Chas BodmAnH
! AZ Mi creek-Generai Lytleand Texa,