Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-02

hnue 10 that trade. Three boats ar
rived during the night and to-day. The
Phil Allin brought 42l bales Of cotton
and 1890 sacks Of seed The Geo. W.
Cheek came in with llS bales of cotton
and POP sacks of seed. The weather
continues clear and cool.
The Indiana is reported hard aground
at Reeves.
The Utah is due from below, and the
St. Joseph and Andy Johnson from
above.
The Dardanelle is expected to arrive
to-day from the Arkansas.
The Pat Cleburne, with Capt. Reese
Pritchard in command, vii! leave to-
morrow evening for all points on the
Arkansas.
The r. P. Walt, Captain Ashford, goes
to Jacksonport and all landings on
White river, leaving here Saturday eve
ming.
The St. Joseph, Captain Corbett, is the
regular mail steamer to leave the st.
Louis wharf boat at o clock this evening
for Cairo, st. Louis and all way landings.
Billy Dill is her popular passenger agent.
One thousand and four dollars and
sixty-fve cents wharfage was collected
during the month Of October by our
energetic Wharfmaster, Capt. Robert
Good
Authority was granted the City
Weigher by the Council yesterday to To-
cate the scales, now lying idle, upon the
levee, which he will do at once. This
will greatly facilitate the weighing Of
grain, and should have been done some
time ago.
At last we are to have water gauge;
but not by the grace or energy OF the
City Fathers, but by the grace Of Colo
mel Merrille, of the United States engi-
neers. 1t will be located at the foot of
Jefferson street. The LEDGER was the
first and only paper in the city to advo-
cate this important improvement. and
was the first to advocate the reduction
of the wharfage tax, improvement and
grading of the levee, and all other meas
ures that affect the steamboat interests.
Now the result of our lahors are shown.
The Mohawk and barges are reported
aground at Helena bar, and the M. j.
Wicks at Grand Gulf.
By special telegram we learn that
the convention at Louisville is to take
place on the Sth inst, and not the 18th,
as supposed. The Cincinnati Boat
mems Association appointed Messrs.
Thomas Sherlock, John A, William
son, John N. Skunk, james H. Pepper,
Richard NJ. Wade, John Woodburn,
Samuel J. Hale, James s. Wise, R. S.
semple, David Gibson, Thomas S. John
son. Lewis Hates as delegates, and re-
quest in the dispatch referred to that
Memphis shall send a full list. Nearly
all of our steamboatmen are in the
city now, or are represented here, and
should hold meeting and select suita-
BILE delegates to represent Memphis in
terests
BY the following card it will be seen
that meeting Of the steamboat owners
and river men generally will be held to-
morrow morning, at ten o clock, at the
Chamber of Commerce, 70 form Steam
boatmens Association and elect dele
gates to the Convention at Louisville on
the 9Th inst. All those directly or indi-
rec.ly interested in river matters are in
vited to be present:
MEMPHIS. November 2. 1871.
River Editor Ledger:
Will you be kind enough, in Your
paper to-day, TO call meeting of the
steamboatmen and river men generally
TO be held tomorrow at ten am, ct the
hall Of the Chamber Of Commerce, to
elect delegates to the Convention al
Louisville, and transact such other bust
ness as may be brought before It,
JNo ID. ADAMS,
ELLIOTT & MILLER,
GEo. W. CHEEK,
FLEN CALVERT,
And many others.
The total wharfage collected at St.
Louis during October was $500 IS.
1t is thought that the cold weather
which has prevailed for the past thirty.
six hours extended to Vicksburg, and
will squeleh Bronze John in that vi
cinity.
On Monday the r. E. Lee carried into
New Orleans the largest trip Of the sea
son, having 5000 bales Of cotton and
5000 sacks Of seed.
A telegram from Monroe, Louisiana
states that the Ouaehita at that place
had risen four feet, and dispatches tc
that place from Camden stated that The
river was also rising there.
The following gentlemen were presen
to represent the steamboat interests o
St. Louis at meeting held on Monday
and formed themselves into an associa
ton adopting the bylaws and constitu
ton Of the Cincinnati association; Car
2 tains f. W. Gould, Superintendent, q
4 the Missouri Star Line; John n. Bo6r
a eer, President Of the St, Louis and Me-
. orleans Packet Company; Peter Conrad