Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-10
river. The depth at Reeves bar is six feet
The weather is clear and pleasant.

The weather is clear and pleasant.
PORT NEWS.
The A. J. White. Dardanelle and st. Fran
| cis got off last evening we'll laden......The
Emma Elliott. from White river. arrived
during the evening with 2O5 bales cotton and
400 sacks seed.
The Champion arrived from Red river this
morning with $50 sacks seed...... But little was
done this morning.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Associated Press dispatches in one of
our merning contemporaries announce the de-
parture from Nashville of the Indiana for
Cairo. When did she get there?
The Toe moved from the Evansville barber
yesterday. and at all the upstream points
thaw Is reported. A general breakup is ex-
peeted during the coming week.
No boats have as yet been released from the
gorge above Columbus. but heavy ice is re-
ported running as far down as Island 30 and
viii pass here to-day. which confirms the re-
port that several boats are at work breaking
the ice at the lower end Of the gorge.
The Illinois is reported lying at Cottonwood
Point with broken shaft, She added to her
cargo eleven hundred bales cotton at Helena.
Captain Billy Dill returned TO the city yes
terday from a trip to his plantation, near
Dyersburg.
The james Howard laid up at Dougherty's
and will reach Vicksburg to-day.
The Emma Floyd. Captain Wise, leaves
this evening at five o'clock. for Cincinnati
and all way landings.
The @. w. Cheek, Captain George Malone,
/ nj anIo for Eria
Point and all way landings. f. s. Confer
| man and L. III. Briggs are clerks.
The new and elegant passenger steamer
Emma G. Elliott leaves this afternoon at five
o'clock for Jacksonport, taking in all the way
landings between this and that port. Captain
John d. Elliott. Walker Outlaw and Arthur
Fields are her clerks.
Woodson, the old wharfmaster at Vicks-
burg. and Broadwaters, the present incum-
bent, went to law to see whether the governor
had the power to remove the former and APP
point the latter. The decision Of the judge
concludes as follows: These views bring
me TO tho conclusion that the action Of the
governor, in removing W. and appointing B.
to the office Of wharf and harbor master, was
warranted by law"
D
ice has not moved an inch at this point. No
people were on the ice to-day, every one sem
sibly preferring to pay ferryage rather than
| risk their lives"
A dispatch received from Washington says
THE house commerce committee had under
consideration the revised steamboat bin.
There seems to be little doubt that the mem
bers Of the committee. with perhaps one OF
two exceptions. are strongly in favor Of the
| BILL and that it will be reported with slight
notifications Another telegram says
1.-THE committee on commerce have rejected
the amendment proposed to the new bill by
the steamboatmen, by which certain restric-
tions in packing. receiving and storing hemp,
oils and such imfammable materials were
removed. They have agreed to the proposed
amendment regulating the capacity Of fire
pumps"
| A prominent Radical official of Arkansas
is charged with jobbing s44, 600 in lsvee bonds.
The Tom Jasper after working for several
hours at the gorge gave up the job, and began
loading with corn for New Orleans.
The owners Of the Inflated Maggie Hays.
which boat exploded her boilers and burned
on the 10th of February, 1870. have been sued
by man named Christopher Damutz, resi-
dent of Hamilton county, Ohio, for sS,l3S 90
worth of wearing apparel which, lis alleged.
was destroyed by the disaster. He had an ex-
tensive wardrobe.
1t is stated that Howard & Co., Of Jeffer-
sonville, have commenced building on their
own account new boat similar to the City Of
Helena. Rumor says she will go to st. Louis
Yesterdays Louisville Ledger has for n
river department half column of double
and twisted poetry. Sure the editor Of that
column is genius.
An up river exchange says:
Lambert, the Rock Island ice king, has
packed 1000 tons as clear and solid ice as ever
| was tickled with straw or mated with a
| lemon peel. ra.rt