Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-17

heartrendlng thing he ever saw, The
cries of the victims could be plainly
heard, and the devouring flames seen
from his place, which is only a short
distance from the place OF the accident.
He had no means of rendering any
assistance or he would have done so, old
as he is.
A Vicksburg exchange agitates the
yellow fever bugaboo again.
Major John d. Adams returned on
Wednesday evening from his plantation
above Little Rock, and was somewhat
surprised upon going to his Office on the
wharf boat to find Captain Reese Pritch-
ard entertaining select crowd Of ten or
fifteen gentlemen with choice yarns
that make him so popular everywhere.
The Mary Boyd will take out tonight
300 barrels salt, half of which will be
reshipped at Little Rock for Van Buren,.
Rain is falling to-day at st. Louis,
Louisville and Cincinnati.
Barge rates, from st. Louis to New
Orleans, are again reduced as follows
Flour, 4Oc; pork, 60c, and pound freights
zoe.
The Colossal is loading at Belmont for
White river. Considerable Wabash pro-
duce (hoop-poles) is shipped from that
point.
Deputy Marshal Irwin seized the Lucy
Bertram for debt, and tied her up Satur-
day at the Wheeling wharf.
A bill has passed Congress making an
appropriation for survey and clean
ing out of the st. Francis river, in order
to make it navigable.
The Missouri river is now bridged over
at Omaha, St. Joseph, Leavenworth,
Kansas City and St. Charles, and char
ters have been issued for bridges at Ne
braska City, Brownsville and Boonsville,
which will make eight bridges across the
Missouri between st. Charles and Omaha,
several of which are bad distractions
to navigation.
The big Exporter got at Evansville 100
hogsheads of tobacco, 100 casks of meat,
5000 barrels of -four, 1000 sacks of corn
and 300 sacks of oats for New Orleans.
Wright, the Chief Engineer of the
Leavenworth bridge, says that concern
is fully up to the requirements of the
act of Congress, authorizing its con-
structien. He says that the channel
spans are 33ll feet in the clear, and the
bottom line of the bridge is 5l4 feet
above high water line, and doubts Capt.
Crapster's statement. If Wright is right,
Crapster must be wrong.
Yesterday St. Louis Democrat has
the following:
1.-THE danger of food is not past A
big river is expected at st. Paul, and
freshets in the small streams below. The
Missouri river trade continues dull on
account of-railroads. Rates to New
Orleans were forced down by the advent
of the Belle Lee. Those who profess to
know say the Richmond goes out with
the Belle Lee to-day, and the Great Re-
public with the Robert E. Lee next
Thursday. Lively this, if not lucrative
The Richmond will pass down to-mor-
row.
The passenger steamer A. j. White,
Captain Mark Cheek in charge, leaves this
evening at five o'clock<for Napoleon,
Chicot City and all way landings. B. F.
Fields and Charles Sharp are her clerks.
The U. S. mail and passenger steamer
Mary Boyd, Captain r. l.. Haines, departs
at o'clock this evening, for Pine Bluff,
Little hOck, ana all POlnJS ON tne ar
kansas river. E. w. Outlaw and Bob
Shields are her clerks.
The passenger steamer Julia leaves at
FIVE o'clock this evening for Cairo and
st. Louis. Captain Boyd commands,
and Jimmy Thompson, Esq, is her prime
minister
The New Orleans Republican an
nounces the withdrawal of another well
known Red river packet from the mo-
nopoly, and adds: 1.-THE combination
will lose in the long run, as by their
workings they will succeed in driving
away the business from New Orleans.