Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-17

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New Orleans for Cincinnati, is hard
aground at Cottonwood bar, out of the
channei.
The Mary Houston lays up at Louis
vile on her arriyalthere this trip.
A trunk containing valuables to the
amount of $500 was stolen on the Jno.
7. Moore, last down trip. Captain
Boardman telegraphed to the New Or
leans police to come aboard Immediately
on arrival at Carrollton. The instruc-
tons were followed, and four men we're
arrested
The Henry Ames, for New Orleans,
leaves st. Louis to-day in the Kountz
Line. The Mollie Moore follows her.
The government nagboats s. II. Long
and DeRussey are at St. Louis.
The hull of the Liberty No. 2 is off
the Mound City ways, and will be towed
to Bayou Sara (La.) in few days,
where she is to be used as wharfboat.
The Nick Longworth is now on the ways
receiving general repairing.
The Phil Allin and City Of Helena
were the only boats in portthis morning.
The Minneola has two barges in tow
and had 800 tons freight when she left
Cincinnati.
The new steamer City of Augusta and
Henry c. Yeager will be due from above
this evening.
A st. Louis exchange says that Capt.
W. G. Postal of our city, is connected
with the st. Louis and Cairo narrow
gauge railroad.
The Louisville Ledger Of the 18th
says: General Weitzel left last evening
to attend the meeting of United States
civil engineers at Lacrosse, Wisconsin,
on the 18th instant The controversy
in regard to the completion of the canal
is now in the hands of the attorney gen.
eral, and the matter will remain in statu
quo until it is settled by him. The
General thinks that the work will be
before the fall rise. The $780,
900 left from last years appropriation
will be expended to complete last sea-
sons contracts, and part of the $36O,OO0
will be used to finish the work on the
dams at the head and foot of the canal.
The contractors have gone to great ex-
pense in preparing everything to COM
mence the work, and should the work be
stopped this season they will sue the
government for breach Of contract.
The people of Rome, Georgia, are agi-
tatiug the enterprise of an East Tonnes
see and North Georgia canal. The pro-
ject is the digging of canal from the
Tennessee river, to connect with the
waters of the 0cokee, Connasauga,
Etowah and 0ostenaula rivers. A COM
municatiou from Rome to the City
Council of Knoxville Tennessee, says:
The citizens of Rome believe that
the canal referred to by General Hardy
can be cut at a comparatively small
cost, and that channel of communica-
ton can then be opened by a line of
steamboats, between Rome and Knox
vile, which will pass through a section
of country that is unsurpassed in the
richness and fertility of soil and salu-
brity of climate, and rich in minerals of
all kinds, which will not only prove to be
of incalculable benefit to the citizens of
those counties through which it will pass,
but to your city as well as ours. The
distractions in the Coosa river will be
removed by the Government before
great while, so as to admit large boats
to ply between this city and Mobile at
all seasons of the year. The survey has
been made, and an appropriation will be
recommended to the next Congress.
There will be no difficulty in getting an
appropriation to remove the obstruc-
tons in the rivers between here and
your city, and for cutting the canal, if
all the parties interested will unite their
efforts and influence and work to that
point. When that is done land | see no
reason why it could not be done at an
early day if all parties will act promptly
it will give you water communication
with the Gulf, and cheap transporta-
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