Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-21


T. II. Allen brought from the Arkansas
us bales of cotton, 773 sacks Of seed
and other freight..-....The Kate Kin
ney from New Orleans, six days out,
passed up for Louisville with light
cargo. ......The Indiana arrived from
Cairo at dark with good trip for New
Orleans. but nothing Of Importance Cor
this city.........The local packets left
with good trips.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Burns left Cincinnati yesterday
for this port. r3s
The water-works on the bluffs changed
owners yesterday. When the Holly
company get their works in operation
the old advertising box on the bluff will
be done away with.
AS was stated in our local columns
yesterday, $4,000 damages was awarded
Fred. Bretzman for false Imprisonment,
at the instigation Of the st. Louis Packet
Company. Fred. wanted $25, 900, enough
TO buy steamboat.
Colonel Merrill, government engineer
in charge Of the Ohio river improve
ments, delivered an address before the
Ohio River Improvement convention at
Cincinnati, yesterday. He sand that the
Ellet plan Of damming the Allegheny
and Monongahela met with little favor
from the engineers who had investigated
it. Mr.. Roberts estimated the cost Of
this plan at $6O,0OO,OO0 not including
incidental damages. He said locks and
dams was the only practicable plan for
the upper end of the river. Chutes could
be made in these dams to allow coal
boats to pass. This plan would be i'm
practicable below the falls at Louisville.
Wing dams were found to answer there
Single. chute dams could be made at q
cost of $34 900 each, while the dams on
the upper Ohio would cost $4,000 each.
He was in favor OF continuing the present
plan of improvement, that is, Of dam
ming one channel at the island, and
wing dams Oh the bars. For lack OF
money he would not be able to do much
on the Ohio river this year. Dredging
he would resort to only in the upper
part of the river Elsewhere he would
leave that work to the current.
The James Howard for Cairo, and the
Chas. Bodmann for Cincinnati left New
Orleans last evening.
Our Cincinnati dispatch to-day says;
"Therc will be three boats for Memphis
this week. Freight plenty for all points
below"
A Little Rock exchange anticipates a
rise out OF the Petit Jean river.
A dispatch from Grand Tower states
that the gorge at Bailey's has broken.
Captain Green f. Shields arrived yes
terday with n crew to take the Lady Lee
to St. Louis, and left at noon to-day for
that port. On her arrival there she will
load at once for Red river.
The wife Of VIM. Dryer, mate of the
steamer Thompson Dean, died in St.
Louis, after lingering illness, leaving
several children. Mr.. Dryer arrived
there few days before his wife S death.
The Cairo Bulletin Of Sunday says:
The towboat Webster, from Pittsburg
has her tow of barges of coal aground
on Grand Chain, and quarter Of u mile
out of the channel She came down
here, and returned with barge to light
en- them off. The Atlantic arrived from
Grand Tower, bringing down two freight
barges. She left two barges at Grand
Tower and returned from there last even
ing. She reported three feet ten inches
in the channel. She left with fiat in
tow drawing four feet. The Mary Ne
| Donald came down from Evansville and
has laid up for the present. Jack An
derson and George Clark were her pilots,
and they reported six feet in the channel
and no ice.
From a Pittsburg exchange we learn
that decision has been rendered by the
local inspectors there, in regard to a re-
cent collision, which revokes the license
of the mate of one of the boats, who was
on watch, because he was in the pilot
house at the time Of the collision. The
law requires the captain or mate, if on
duty, to be on the hurricane deck, and
not in the pilot house. Those interested
should make note Of this, and act ac-
eordingly.