Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-25


streams above and below will be given
in our special kilograms. The weather
is damp and cloudy, with a heavy fog
prevailing on the river. A light snow
fell at midnight.
The Fort Gibson is the Monday packet
for Fort Smith and all points on the
Arkansas
The Richmond will be down Tuesday.
The Great Republic last night added
here 965 bales of cotton, seventy-fve
barrels of oil, twenty-six horses and
eighty tons of miscellaneous freight.
The Belfast, from st. Louis, grounded
above here on Thursday. She added
below Cairo 1905 sacks corn, and re-
ported a cargo OF 1000 tons for New Or
leans, and was drawing but seven. feet
SO says her clerk
The Minnie left for st. Louis last night
after adding 1886 bales of cotton. She
had altogether 9sj bales, all Of which
was for st. Louis.
The Belle of Pike got away last night
with G5s bales cotton for St. Louis.
Capt NJ. W. Betshooyer, an old time
steamboatman, has been elected Presi-
dent of the Pittsburg aud birmingham
Passenger Railroad Company.
Nearly 100000 bushels of coal have
arrived at Louisville, reducing the price
from thirty-seven cents to eighteen cents
per bushel.
The Rob Roy came in this morning
from New Orleans, four days out. She
discharged here one hundred tons of
freight, and has three hundred tons for
St. Louis, including eight hundred bales
of cotton which she gets here.
The Julia arrived from St. Louis, four
days out. She discharged here thirty
tons of freight and added fifty tons for
below.
The R. P. Walt brought 1884 bales of
cotton from White river today.
The Geo. W. Cheek came in with 1879
bales of cotton and sos sacks of seed.
The Rob Roy will depart at five p m.
to-day for Cairo and St. Louis. Captain
Ashbury is in command, and Mr.. More
house clerk.
Tie lively G. W. Cheek leaves to-day
at five p m. for Friar Point and all the
coast landings Captain Mark Cheek is
her commander. F. S. Gonterman and
L. W. Briggs are clerks.
The fine passenger steamer r. P.
Walt, Captain William Ashford, leaves
to-day at five pm. for Devall's Bluff,
Jacksonport and all points on White
river. Mr.. L. W. Outlaw, Charles and
Mr.. SmitheFs clerks.
The Indiana leaves to-day at four p. m.
for Vieksburg, New Orleans and all the
coast landings. Captain R. +. Neal
commands, and Messrs. Slut Neal and
James Franklin are her chief secre-
taries,
The fine ligh-draught passenger
steamer Batesville leaves to-day at FIVE
pm. for Devall's Bluff and points on
Little Red and Black rivers. Captain
A. B. Smith is her popular commander.
The steamer Julia, Captain Thomas
Townsend, leaves to-day at five pm. for
vicksburg and all way landings. Mr..
James Thompson holds forth in the
office.
The celebrated Nettie Jones Hesper.
case was argued at
Little Rock yesterday, and submitted to
the United States Court.
The Mary Boyd will be due tomorrow
from the Arkansas. :.
The Tom Jasper, sunk below Cairo,
belonged to the Northwestern. Union
Company. She was valued at si5, 900,
and insured in Cincinnati Offices for
sS6, 900.
The great low-pressure Richmond will
pass down on Monday next. Her ac-
commodations are A No. l.
Yesterdays Louisville Ledger has the
The Weitzel dam, extending from
Sand Island across the river, is sending
such a volume of water down the chute
between Sand Island and the Kentucky
shore that the current sweeps everything
before it, Last night the Morning Star
was forced from her moorings, and coal
boats were swept down the stream like |
chat. The Weitzel dams are great in
stltutions.
We find the following in the Cincin-
natl Times and Chronicle of Wednesday,
which will be read by steamboatmen
with interest:
BALTIMORE, November 20. 1871.
+. Y. Reno. ESQ.,, Secretary Of the Steam !
boatmen's Association, Cincinnati Chio.i
DEAR SIR-I presented the memorial
Of the officers of the National Steam
boatmen's Convention to the Honorable |
Secretary of the Treasury on the 18th |
inst. He said that the steamboat inter- |
est was ably represented before the
Board of Supervising Inspectors at their
last meeting and had failed to show that
the requirements OF law for the better |
security of life wee unnecessary, or
that the rulings Of the board were in
any respect unjust he can do nothing |
for us, but thar orr appeal TO Congress
was step in the right direction.
Very respectfully,
JOSEPH CRAGG.
The Importer had 100 bales Of cotton
on her arrival at Little Rock from Fort
Smith.
STEAMBOATS,.