Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-23

ton. The pnrdaneiie, FOE White river, took
all she wanted. The Mary Miller brought the
cargo Of the sunken steamer r G Gray cos
tens) and 125 tons Of her own freight. which
she Is unloading. The Kate Kinney went up
early, putting out los bales Of cotton and 800
sacks of seed. but added nothing. The Phil
Allin brought 1872 bales Of cotton. 1874 sacks Of
seed the Cheek 1853 bales and 442 sacks of
seed. The Mary e Forsyth laid over until
last night. getting S22 bales Of cotton at 81 rs
az per bale. and had rs or 100 tons of miscel-
laneous freight. The Belle Of Pike laid over
and goes up tonight. The Lawrence. West
| Wind, Arlington and Baum laid up for future
developments. Heavy ice began floating past
the city night before last, and has been run
ming ever since.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
For VIcKsBuRG. The Fannie Lewis will be
down to leave at ten o'clock tomorrow
morning. Captain Cartwright commands.
For WHITE RIVER The Mary Boyd is an
nounced to leave tomorrow.
FoR WHITE RrsSR.-The Batesvile will be
here to leave at five pm tomorrow.
For ST. LoUIs.-The Belle OF Pike, Captain
Rider, leaves as above at Eve o'clock this
evening tOr cairo ana St. Louis.
For FRIAR's PoINT.-The regular United
States mail packet G.. W. Cheek. with Cap
tain George Malone on the roof, leaves this
evening at five o'clock for Friar's Point and
all way landings.
FoR FRIAR's PoIsT.-The gay steamer Phil
Allin. Captain James Lee, leaves this evening
at Eve clock for Helena. Friar's Point and
all business landings in the bends below.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Messrs. Palmer and Covington, of the Gin.
cinnati underwriters, are in town to look after
the cargo Of the r. c. Gray, brought by the
Mary Miller.
The Eckert got her pumps to work at the
Thomas II. Allen Thursday last, but the water
ran in faster than she could draw 1t out. She
will. therefore. take out the Aliens freight
and machinery and then come down and go
back to the st. Marys, and after taking out
her machinery will take what is left of the ii.
Clay Wilson's machinery out.
Captain Reese w. Dugan is in town and
will spend the holidays here.
1t is said that the owners Of the Katie will
permit her sale by the United States Marshal
at New Orleans. and in that way settle all her
old Indebtedness.
About half of the town Of Dardanelle, Ark,
was destroyed by fire Friday night. and con-
siderable cotton that was stored there await
ing rise in the river was burned.
The Peytona and barges passed down yes
erday at noon.
The Baltimore Bridge Company lost $4,000
worth of material by the sinking of the
7. IL. Allen.
The deck crew Of the DardanelIe struck for
sixty dollars month ON Saturday night, COM
polling her to lay over until yesterday. Here
tofors fifty dollars per month was paid.
At Louisville, yesterday. foot passengers
were crossing the river on the ice. The ferry
boats have stopped running, and the boats
laid up there have paid off their crews.
The officers or some one connected with tho
steamer John Tolle have created a nina
ture war between the signal officers at ST,
Louis and this port. On reaching St. Louis,
few days since, they complained to the OBJ
server there that the young prob here
would not give them information as to the
state Of the weather. condition of the river,
ETC., at st. Louis, when in fact they never
called at the signal Office here at all.
The river at Helena was within four inches
Of low water mark few days ago.
j. B. M. would have a signal station estab.
lished at Helena, or have the one here removed
to that burg" He thinks it would benefit
the public more there, where one or two boats
arrive each day, than here, where on Friday
last we had laying at the landing at one time.
seventeen steamers.
The Little Rock Gazette says:
A party was engaged yesterday in endeayor-
ing to get out of the hold of the steamer Tom
Bowlin, sunk just back of the store of Lawson
Il Co., below the Point OF Rocks, in 1884, a lot
of whisky said to have been stored therein at
the time she was sunk. The river being ex-
tremely low, they find little difficulty in
working,