Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-15

appropriations, will be required before
the work is completed
The Picayune learns from the officers
of the Carrie Converse that there is
scant thirty inches in Red river from
Shreveport down, and that every steamer
that goes or comes is experiencing hard
and rough times. The Lulu D. was met
by the Converse at Coushatta thirteen
days out. The Era No. and Right
Way were at Shreveport. The Converse
took about eighty head of cattle from the
Tidal Wave to tighten that boat up.
She reports the Rapids aground in Old
River.
A young newspaper boy was drowned from
the whart-boat yesterday VicksbHr0 Times,
If the lad had been wrapped in a copy
of the Times he would have aoated to
the Gulf
We find the following in the New Or
leans Commercial Bulletin of Tuesday:
We heal. of a great many complaints among
our steamDoatmen against the telegraph lines
respecting the delay in getting their dispatches
through on time, and the Red river steamboat
men think 1t very strange that the report of
the n, .iyals and departures of steamboats, Mt
Shreveport cannot be sent through on the lines
the same as they arc from Memphis Vicks-
burg and other points, and the only hope
that is at present offered them is the compile
ton of the new lines now in process of cree
ton, and which will soon be completed to
this point.
The amount of duties collected on
imports and hospitals and tonnage fees
collected at the port of Louisville for
the fiscal year ending June s30th 1871,
according to the books at the Treasury
Department at Washington, was $780,
O97. The amount from the same sources
in Cincinnati, for the year, was $4G7, 844.
The following are additional rules
adopted by the Board of Inspectors at
Washington:
RULE 81. Every life preserver adjustable to
the body Of a person, and that shall be used
or required by law upon any steamer, shall be
made of good. sound cork blocks, with belts
and shoulder-straps attached, so as to pre-
elude the possibility of its being accidentally
detached from the body; and every such life
preseryer shall be so constructed as to place
the cork underneath the shoulders and around
the body OF the person wearing it; and it
shall be the duty of the inspectors to SEQ by
actual examination that every such life pre-
server contains at least six pounds of good
sound corks. All life preseryers that are not
strictly in accordance with this rule shall be
condemned by the inspectors.
RULE 81. Safety valves, attached to the
boilers of all steam vessels hereafter built,
shall have an area of not less than twenty
square inches for five hundred feet of effective
heating surface (half the fue and all other
heating surface being taken as etfectiye), and
shall be SO arranged that each boiler on tho
steamer shall have one separate safety valve,
unless the arrangement is such as to preclude
the possibility of shutting off tho communion
ton of any boiler with the safety valve or
valves employed. This arrangement shall
also apply to lookup safety valves when they
are employed.
RUIZ 49, One or more of said safety valves
may be taken wholly from the control of all
persons engaged in navigating such vessels
and secured by the inspectors, that said safety
valves for the boilers of the smallest vessels
shall in no case be less than two inches in di-
ameter. and for larger vessels shall be of such
dimensions as shall be deemed by the super
ylslng inspector Of the district necessary and
proper for the boilers of such vessels, pro-
yided that in no case shall the lookup safety
valves have an area of less than fifteen square
inches for every five hundred feet of effective
heating surface.
RULE 80. The lookup safety valves herein
provided for shall. in their mechanism, en-
ploy but one lever or n sDring loaded valve.
and must be provided with means to relieve
the valve of its pressure iloin the outside, and
that the valves, valve seats, valve chambers.
pits, and guides to the spindle of the valves,
shall be made Of com position composed of
copper and tin, and tnat the valve shall be
guided to its seat both above and below, and
that the ease shall be so constructed as to pre-
elude the possibility Of obstructing the work
ing of either from the interior or exterior of
the boilers, one or more of which kind of
valves shall be attached to the boilers of all
steamers hereafter constructed.