Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-09
wilI doubtless presen. Thomas tith

will doubtless present Thomas with a
steamboat to travel about on.
The Louisville Canal Company will
not permit the government to dump
stone upon the canal banks, but refuse
! point blank anything that locks like an
absorption of the property by the Gov
| eminent. General Weitzel, in his cor
respondence, agrees with the canal d.
rectors that the government has no right
to fix the tolls, but insisted upon going
ahead with the work, to which the canal
company, through their President, reply
as follows: "If there is any unused re-
mainder of previous appropriations, the
company would not object to its use.
But no part of the 100000 appropria-
ton in the act of the 10th of June, 1872,
can be expended on the canal, either
upon old contracts or new ones" The
correspondence occupies one column of
yesterdays Louisville Courier.
j. Pinckney Smith, wealthy mer-
chant of New Orleans, has paid all the
debts Of the celebrated steamer Katie,
and is sole and full owner. She has not
been in "hock day for some weeks,
and in September will resume packet
business in the Greeneville and New Or
leans trade.
The locomotives recently sunk in
White river have been raised, and the
Cambridge will be raised this week.
The project by Evansville men to
build $4,000 boat for the Evansville
and Memphis trade, is apparently a
failure. So thinketh the man of the st.
Louis Democrat, but see how the Evans
vile Courier drives his ideas to smoke.
An Independent boat was to be built at
cost of $4,000 for the Memphis trade.
" Then" says the Courier, some Of the
stockholders Of the Evansville and Cairo
packets got wind of the movement on
foot and went to work to undermine the
work already done toward building the
boat, promising to put in one them
selves, and threatening, if an irldepend
ent boat was put in, they would force
her out, and, if necessary to do so, they
would get one of the st. Louis Packet
Company's boats to run from here for
that purpose. 1t remains to be seen
whether these men will put in boat as
promised. Some of the friends of the
independent enterprise now predict that
there will be no boat putin by the stock
holders Of the Evansville and Cairo
packets, as it is not to their interest to
have one in the Memphis trade, and the
subscribers to the independent boat will
hold the Evansville and Cairo line re-
sponsible for the failure Of the enter
prise"
The reliable passenger packet Thomas
H. Allen, in command of Captain Eu-
gene Smith, leaves this evening at five
o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all the usual way landings. Colonel
Pat Morrison and Bob Gillespie are her
clerks.
The feet passenger steamer st. Fran
els, Captain T. B. Bowman, leaves this
evening at FIVE o'clock for Helena, Mari
ana, Wittsburg, and all the usual way
landings. Sam Paine and Billy Dean
are her clerks. .so
After giving an account occupying a
column, of the excursion and good time
generally enjoyed by the Helenians on
the City of Helena and City of Vicks-
burg, the Helena Clarion winds up its
article as follows: Thus ended one of
the grandest affairs of the kind which it
has ever been our pleasure to witness.
The memery of Captain Mckee and the
officers of the City of Helena, and Cap
tain Carter of the Vicksburg, also the
Company which they represent, will
ever remain fresh in the hearts of the
Helenians for their inequalities on this
occasion"
The NJ. ]. Wicks and Henry Ames,
for St. Louis, and Louisville, for Cincin-
natl, will be due up tomorrow The
Wicks has 1904 tons of railroad iron.
The James Howard comes up with
HOO barrels and 800 hogsheads Of sugar,
and is full of people. The Ames has
100 hogsheads of sugar, 22O tierces of
sugar, 1000 sacks of salt and 200 tons
of miscellaneous freight. She also has
Is passengers. i8I