Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-16

Tail Bend, which knocked consider.
able hole in her bottom, causing her 10
take water pretty freely"
There is but six and half feet &c
water at Greenleaf's above Cairo ana
nine feet between there and this ci,v
Island 10 is the worst place above here
as the channel is changeable and d;m.
cult to locate. Even with the water do.
clining there will be better state of
affairs in a week, as the channel will
have cut out by that time.
The La Belle, from Cincinnati to New
Orleans, has been fast on the bar at
Island l6 for several days.
The young man who rolled overheard
from the wharfboat doy before yesterday
was named Stark, and came from Sa-
lem, Ind.
The Charles Mcdonald and a tow of
empty barges, and another boat, name
unknown, went up yesterday fer the
Ohio.
Captain Mont Pepper, a young man
well-known along the river, died at the
Worsham House at half-past seven
o'clock last night His remains will be
followed to their last resting place this
afternoon by large circle of bereaved
friends.
The Attorney General of the United
States has given an opinion that the
rights of the Louisville and Portland
Canal Company in respect to the collec-
ton of tolls, at the old rate, will not be
affected by the use of the money appro-
priated by Congress at the last session,
in continuing the work on the canal. 1t
is to be hoped that the company will
now permit the work to go on.
Captain John Bugher's will has been
probated at Cincinnati. His estate
to 100000.
C. 7. Dumont has purchased the
boilers of the j. H. Groesbeck.. The
rest of her machinery is offered for sale.
The father of Major j. F. Byrne,
General Freight Agent of the Cincin-
natl and Louisville United States Mail
Line, and formerly agent of the Short
Line here, was buried at Cincinnati on
Tuesday.
The Savannah river is being improved
by the cutting of channel thirty feet
wide, eleven hundred feet long and ten
feet deep at low tide. This canal turns
the flow of the water into the main
channel. The wrecks in the river, which
interrupt the free navigation, are to be
removed, and the channel is to be deep
ened so as to admit at all seasons YES
sells drawing from sixteen to seventeen
feet of water.
A Cairo dispatch of the 18th says
" The LaBelle is taking about eight hun
dred tons. She had about two hundred
tons on arrival here, and is to add fifty
hogsheads of tobacco at Columbus and
two thousand sacks of corn in the
bends. Her short visit to the North has
improved her appearance wonderfully,
and her usefulness as steamboat in
The propeller Sea Gull will be sold at
United States Marshals sale next Mon
day morning, at the Marine Railway
Docks, Cincinnati.
We learn by special dispatch to Capt
Washington that the Carter Line Red
river steamer, Fontanelle, Capt. John
Shaw, will be down early tomorrow
to leave at 10 o'clock a. M, for
Vicksburg and all Red river landings
direct
The Mary Boyd leaves for the Arkan-
sas river tomorrow.
The Colorado is the United States
mail packet for VIeksburg on tomorrow.
The regular st. Leuis and Vicksburg
United States mail packet, Belle st.
Louis, Captain William Blake, leaves
his evening at FIVE clock for St. Louis
md all the bend landings. She has SUI
,erior accommodations and fare. Mr.. :
John Blake is her purser.
The City of Chester did not get I'M
oaded until this morning, when she left
9TH moderate cargo for st. Louis.