Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-22

with tow of empty coal barges. She
burned her boilers, and lost considerable
time in repairing at Helena.
| The Capitol City is coming down in
place of the City of Helena, in the st.
Louis and Vicksburg trade, and the
CITY OF Helena takes the day of the
Belle Memphis the latter boat having
laid up for repairs.
| The Belle Vernon is at Cincinnati
loading for New Orleans.
The river man of the St. Louis Globe
has peculiar way of advertising first
class enterprise He says 1--WE learn
from a reliable source that Captain Pat
Yore is about to organize new, and no
doubt profitable enterprise. Our in
formant says that he is negotiating for
the purchase of the II. c. Yeager If
he Succeeds he will have the water COM
partments changed to vsts, and will run
her up and down the river where he can
purchase hides, and will have a large
tannery on board. He intends hiring a
large number of skilled Chinese, who
will manufacture the leather into shoes.
He will purchase for fuel nothing but
oak wood with the bark on. The bark
will be used for tanning purpose. Once
in awhile he will take out a stick of ma
pie, which will be used in the manufac-
ture of pegs. No meat will be used on
board except hog meat, the hogs being
purchased on shore the bristles will be
used by the shoemakers. He will also
pull a little wool to make shoe thread.
Captain Yore's well enterprise
guarantees success, and Western manu-
factories should be encouraged"
Dave Campbell will build his leviathan
wrecking boat at st. Louis, and it will
cost $4,000, and when finished will
be large enough to pick up the Rich
mond, or the T. +. Eckert, with her
robust Captain, Irwin Dugan.
The steamer Cherokee came off the
Madison ways on Friday, after being
heightened forty feet and thoroughly
oyerhauled, :, F
Captain Silas f. Miller, who, twenty
years ago, commanded the Robert ].
Ward, one of the fastest steamers that
ever ran in the New Orleans and Louis
vile trade, and who was landlord of the
Gait House for long time, is now build
ing an $4,000 residence in Louisville.
The regular st. Louis and Vicksburg
United States mail packet Belle St.
Louis, Captain William Blake, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Vicks-
brug and ell the bend landings. She
has superior accommodations and fare.
Mr.. John Blake is her chief purser.
The D. G. Lane was sold at Pittsburg
on Saturday to parties in Wheeling, by
Haines & Armstrong, for $4,000.
Signal stations are to be opened on
the upper Monongahela and Allegheny.
Full river and weather reports are ex-
pected from there in few days.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Tuesday
has this itemi
The canal dificultie, will doubtless be
settled this week Colonel Wharton,
United States District Attorney, and
Hon. James Speed, attorney for the
canal, left for Washington yesterday to
bring the case up before one Of the
United States Judges. All documents
pertaining to the case have been pre-
pared, and no delay will be occasioned
after their arrival in Washington, and if
a favorable decision is rendered the work
will be actively prosecuted until the fall
rise. t.HF
Joseph Nimms, Supervising Inspector
General of Steambo boats, is making tour
Of observation, and may visit Memphis,
Louisville, St. Louis, and other large
,ities.
A Steamboatmen' Club is about to be
organized at New Orleans, for the pur-
pose Of having men nominated for
Judges and Justices of the Peace who
will, in their Judgments, give decisions
according to the law and evidence
brought before them. Just as if can
lidate for office would not promise any
hing desired in order to be elected.
The Mary Boyd is the next regular
ure-to-go-through United States mail
teamer for the Arkansas. She leaves
IN Saturday. s
STEAMBOATS,