Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-13

The Thompson Deans officers report
heavy fog above here. night before last. COM
pelling them to lay up all night
The Salvor No. 2 is now at work at the
wreck of the Kate Kearney. above Vicksburg.
There is but little cotton along the banks
below here, but just now there are few hun
dred bales awaiting shipment here.
The towboats Dick Fulton No. and BoaE,
for New Orleans. and Storm No. 8. for Cairo.
left Louisville night before last, and the A. j.
Baker. with eight coal boats and four barges.
!sst daring the day for New Orleans.
Adam Wayland. the Secretary ofthe Steam
boatmen's Association Of Louisville. has been
requested to ask Captain Voolfolk to call
meeting of the association for the purpose of
taking some action with regard to questions
of vital importance to those who own and ran
steamboats, to and from that village.
The Great Republic left Cairo for New Or
leans loaded fat. and full Of stock and peo-
pie. She got fifty cents for -four. She will
not want anything but passengers here.
Sol Silver has been re-appointed passenger
agent at Cairo for the Memphis and st. Louis
Packet Company for 1872. He will be sinner
(shinnef) among the craft there.
Yesterdays st. Louis Times has a lengthy
account fthe reception given the Helenians
by the steamer City Of Helena, and an accu-
rate report of the speech of the orator. Cen
ersl Ranhey, upon the occasion. a synopsis
of which was in the Republican of last
Tuesday.
The Cincinnati Commercial of Thursday
says:
Captain LATE sickles was found dead in his
bedroom at his residence, at Portsmouth, last
chair. 1t is supposed he had got out 81 bed
in the night, and died suddenly. The de-
ceased was about thirty years old. and leaves
a wife and several children.
The demand for vegetables, fresh meat. fish,
oysters, confectioneries, etc., has been very
inactive at Helena since Monday last. Sew
eral failures in the lines Of trade mentioned
are reported. An up-riyer exchange attrib-
utes the dearth Of trade to the fact that the
Helenians got full enough Of the good things
of the City of Helena to last them month.
The officers of the Ella Belle. which boat
arrived at vicksburg on the 5th, report diff
Guilty as having occurred on board Of the boat
at Sherry's Landing. Sunhower river. on the
10Th ult.. between two men by the name of
Martin Fay and S. Hogan, resulting in the
shooting and killing of the former. The muir
derer escaped,
Captain Dryden denies the rumor attributed
to him that the cause of the sinking Of the
Sam. j. Hale was that Captain 7. B. HANDLE
ton, her commander, had misrepresented to
him the depth of water the boat was drawing.
The Grand Duke Alexis and suit have con
tractad with the owners of the Great Repub-
lie for transportation South. The time set for
the trip is the 18th, or Immediately on his re-
turn from the buffalo hunt.
Captain Pepper and Secretary Fowler, Of
the Thompson Dean, have our thanks for ap-
preciated favors.
The Silver Moon goes out on Tuesday next
for Cincinnati. E. d. Cobb is her agent.
The regular passenger steamer Thomas II.
Allen, Capt. Eugene Smith, leaves this even
ing at FIVE o'clock for Pine Bluff. Little Rcck
and all points on the Arkansas river. Pat
Morrison is chief purser.
The new and elegant passenger steamer
Emma C. Elliott slips her cable this afternoon
at five o'clock for Jaeksonport. taking in all
the way landings between this and that port.
The sumptuous passenger accommodations Of
the Elliott. the obliging disposition of her OH
GERS and her well known speed, make this the
golden opportunity Of travellers AMI shippers.
Captain John D. Elliott commands, and
Messrs. Joe Elliott, Walker Outlaw and Ar
thur Fields are her clerks.
The G. w. Cheek. Captain G. Malone,
leaves for Helena and Friar's Point this after
noon at five o'clock. Frank Gonterman clerk.