Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-08

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Cheek, leaves for Napoleon and all in
termediate landings this evening at five
o'clock. B. P. Fields and Charley
Sharp are clerks.
The United States mail packet Darda-
nellie, Captain Ed. Rowland leaves this
evening at FIVE o'clock for Pine Bluff,
Little Rock and all points on the Arkan-
sas river. Mr.. John W. Williams is
chief clerk.
From a Little Rock exchange we
learn that few days since coal from
the Spadra mines was tried in the fur
nacos of the Robt. Semple with marked
success. One hundred and forty pounds
Of steam was raised in forty minutes
after the FIRE had been kindled, and the
boat then made run of eight miles up
stream in less than an hour, return
ing in thirty-fve minutes. 1t will cost
steamers but forty cents bushel deliv-
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will soon be mined and sent there.
A Pittsburg telegram states that the
towboat Jim Brown is breaking up the
ice in Pools numbers one and Of the
Monongahela slack-water, and that the
towboats Wild Duck and Rover, with
their barges, are ready to leave as soon
as there is a rise.
Cincinnati papers state that New Or
leans is losing the Red river trade, and
that St. Louis and Cincinnati are getting
it.
The Cincinnati and Memphis Packet
Company held q meeting at Cincinnati
Tuesday and elected the following direc-
tors for 1872: Henry A. Jones, Thomas
Sherlock, Jas. Bugher, Theodore Cook,
j. G. Isham, G. Holterhof, II. Groten-
kemper, James Gaff, VIM. E. Gibson.
1t costs the Chas. Bodman $iO8 so
toll for a round trip through the canal
at Louisville. Too much.
The New York Nautical Gazette says
F" it is of no use to disguise the fact that
a man formerly connected with the
Board of Supervising Inspectors and
now in the pay of the patentees, is doing
his best to defeat the new steamboat
bill"
1t was raining at Cairo and showing at
Chicago this morning.
We have live set Of passenger agents
here to work for steamboats,. Steamboat
captains are well convinced of that fact,
and seldom pass Cairo, coming down, or
Vicksburg, coming up, without tele-
graphing one of the two firms, Hukill &
Hall or Herman & Sayers.
Yesterdays st. Louis Republican has
the following:
We are grati6ed in being able to say
that the steamboat interests are flourish
ing like green bay tree, and for once
we firmly believe the owners OF steam
boat stock are making little money-a
small return for money long invested in
a property that does not usually pay
on the investment. Plenty of
freights offered, and rates still hold firm
at good figures.
A first class April shower fell this
morning.
The rooms fitted up on the Great Re-
public for the Grand Duke have not yet
been changed, but await the arrival of
some other royal visitor.
The Crescent City left Cairo Wednes-
day for New Orleans with eight loaded
barges and two coal barges. Four of
them contained bulk grain loaded there.
This is about the largest amount of
freight ever taken from Cairo by one
boat. The tow contains nearly seven
thousand tons.
The Mississippi is not yet open to Keo-
kuk. a telegram received from Keokuk
says: "Ice still solid between Keokuk
and Warsaw"
The number of hogsheads of tobacco
taken by the James Howard at Paducah
was exactly one thousand and ten. She
took also large quantity of other
freight from the wharfboats. The Jas.
Howard received about 1000 tons of
freight at Cairo and had a splendid trip.
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