Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-26

"Paducah Is reported TO have stock
of over 10000 hogsheads Of tobacco on
hand awaiting Southern shipment. '-Er.
change.
That is too thin. Paducah must raise
money in some other way than throw
ing out such bites to get wharfage from
boats.
The Quickstep and Arkansas Belle
have abandoned the restaurant system
and returned to the old regulations
regular fare and regular feed.
George M. Mowbray has purchased
the Petersburg packet Fanny from Capt
Appleton for $4,000, for the Maysville
and Cincinnati trade. The Fanny was
formerly the United States survey
steamer Major Sanders.
The Omaha Tribune of Saturday says:
"The river is steadily rising. 1t is be-
lieved that the June rise of 1872 will be
unparalleled. The mountains hold a
weight Of snow equal to the combined
accumulations of several previous years,
and the lateness Of the season being
also considered, the melting snow will
come down in torrents, and Council
Bluffs will be buried many feet below
the surface of the swelling waters"
The wharfmaster at Bradenburg de-
MES, in a card published in the Courier
Journal, that he gobbled the dollar for
the dispatch left by Captain Lew Hates,
and charges the telegraph operator with
an attempt to smuggle the dollar with
out sending the dispatch.
The Illinois river is falling rapidly at
Peoria, and fears are entertained that
large boats cannot navigate that stream
much longer.
The Belle st. Louis will pass down to-
morrow evening for Vicksburg.
The Mary Boyd takes for our Mr.:
BOUCHER about hundred game and
choice fowls for Pine Bluff and Little
Rock, instead of Skif & Gaylord's min
strels, as reported by morning cotem-
porary.
John A. Scudder and William Thorn
berg, who have been in the city several
days, will take passage on the Boyd to-
day for the Arkansas Hot Springs.
Pink Varble made from $500 to $1,000
last Saturday plotting boats over the
falls at Louisville.
A Louisville correspondent writing
upon manufacturing and steamboat
building, says: The bodybuilding in
terests are somewhat checked by the
high prices and advancing tendency of
materials, particularly iron. Engines
with cylinders of twenty-eight inches
could not now be made under an ad
vance of $4,000 over prices last season.
The James Howard on Tuesday dis
charged 1886 packages of freight at
New Orleans.
On Wednesday the steamers at Nash
vile displayed their colors at half-mast,
in respect to the memory of Captain
Jack Smith, who died 10 North Nashville
the day previous in the eighty-second
year of his age. He was the Oldest
boatman on the Cumberland, and many
years ago was pilot in the Nashville
and New Orleans trade.
The decline in the river to-day will be
nearly three inches.
The Cincinnati Times says: Cap
tain Summers spells the name of his
new South American steamer with the
Spanish Colombia. She is steamer
Of remarkable build and strength. Cap
tain Summers pays Cincinnati mechan-
les the compliment of building one of
the finest and staanchest crafts that has
yet hoated on Magdalena river"
The Kate Kinney received at Louis
vile for New Orleans, 2l5 hogsheads Of
tobacco, 100 tierces of hams and 70 tons
of miscellaneous freight. The Com
monwealth received 900 tons at Evans
v;1Ia for Naw 0rlaanc
Captain r. NJ. Wade, of the Robert
Mitchell, has fully recovered from his
recent severe illness. He expects to
assume command of the Mitchell next
trip. Captain Wade and Captain Stein,
of the Kilgour, are the oldest command
ers left in the New Orleans trade. The
latter has followed the river for thirty
three years, and is now in his prime.
The work of wrecking the Falls City
will be resumed in a few days should the
Ohio river continue to decline
Coal is selling at Vicksburg for eighty
FIVE cents per box, and wood above there
is 81 so per cord.
The Thompson Dean has 600 tons Of
freight and 80 through passengers. She
goes up tomorrow morning.