Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-14
S GU TIL e r. N p AL A CE,
NO. 332 MAIN STR EET.
part. for New Orleans and the bend. Monday

parts for New Orleans and the bends Monday
evening.
The Marble City is now in port and will de-
part at five pm. to-day for New Madrid,
Cairo and all intermediate landings. She is
the regular packet in that trade. and attends
to all business promptly. Captain Boyd com
mands and S. II. Haines is clerk.
The Carter Line steamer H. NJ. Shreve will
be down to-day to depart at four pm. for
jefferson, Shreveport and all intermediate
landings on Red river and the Mississippi.
She has excellent accommodations for passen-
gers, and is a frst-class steamer in all res
poets. H. S. Carter is master and John A.
| Tatum secretary.
The favorite White river steamer X. P.
Walt, VIM. j. Ashford master, departs at
IN. to-day for Devall's Bluff. Jaeksonport
| and all intermediate landings on White river,
connecting at the former point with the train
for Little Rock, and at the latter with steamers
for the upper White. Black and Little Red
rivers. She is the u. S. mail packet, and
will leave promptly as advertised. W. I.
Butler is purser, and Messrs. John and VIM.
Smither clerks.
$4,000 by the recent steamboat and other
canhagrations.
Capt. l.. Rauleigh. of Paducah, and Robert
Culley have opened a shipyard at Edgefeld,
opposite Nashville. They will soon COM
menee building a new boat for the Newsboy,
and are about contracting with Captain
Graeey, of Clarksville. for two new barges.
The Nile will make a trip to Vicksburg
under the auspices Of the Memphis and st.
Louis Packet Company.
The latest report from the Shark. sunk
above Cairo, states that she is badly listed
over to the larboard, with the water up to her
boilers on the larboard and covering her cap
stan at the bow. The Aid was alongside. If
not made SECURE before the ice came down,
she was probably knocked to pieces.
Our Cincinnati exchanges state that Hon.
Benz. Eegleston had gone TO Washington to
" log roll i" In the interests of steambOatmen.
It is said Of the Thompson Dean that she
had cleared nearly sl2O,OOO since she came
out. two years and two months ago. Her to-
tai cost, alter adding q cabin. was sl5S,OOO,
and she was insured for $4,000.
Intelligence from Keokuk. dated Wednes-
day. says tnat ABOUT D U clOCh Auc Aoo NNhi-
menced to move out in body, breaking first
above the bridge on the opposite side. Failing
to get through the piers on that side. the en-
tire mass was forced over toward the city. and
went through the draw-span, tearing out ten
bents Of the trestle work on the upper side Of
the pivot pier The damage to the bridge is
over 5000. The ice was still moving there.
The latest report from the H. S. Turner is
that she had been raised so that her guards
we're out Of water. The Eokert was still at
work upon her.
The Illinois river is still closed.
Fridays St. Louis Republican says:
The river here is still very low and prospects
of a rise are not very promising; however, II
Is confidently believed that We will have a
snow rise from the upper Mississippi and MIS-
souri rivers, which will amount to SIX or
eight feet Our intelligence rom above indi-
Gated a complete breakup in the ice All the
WAY TO Keokuk, and the river no doubt VIII
soon be open to that port so that business can
resumed.