Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-25

"a ~yNSo ~ " @Af'0'. "O-''I uVWh yfetcr-
day without landing. 1.-THE Belle
Memphis took 74o bars rail iron as a
return cargo for ST. Louis........The
City Of Cairo, downward bound. had
1900 tons....... The Robt. Mitchell had
full cargo........The Bell st. Louis put
out 100 tons here and had 500 tons for
| Vicksburg. ........T The Turner went up for
the Ohio well freighted and with fair
list of people.........The T. H. Allen
brought 800 sacks seed and a miscella-
neous freight of respectable proportions
from the Arkansas. ........ The Shamrock
for Cincinnati left with $50 bales cotton.
MISCELLANEOUS. -
The r. G. Gray was loading at Cincin-
natl week ago for the Arkansas river.
Now she is at Louisville under the same
advertisement. 1t takes our local Ar
kansas river packets just two days to
get load, and Cincinnati as well as
Louisville merchants save money in
freights by shipping on the Dean Line
or Memphis packets, consigning freight
to the Arkansas River Packet Company
here % A''s4
The Imperial and barges went up Sun
day, and the Joe Fleming came from
above with three bargss (250O tons) of
ice for Bohlen, Huse & Co., who are per-
haps the largest ice dealers in the South.
The Crescent City went south yester-
day morning with tow of barges.
The Ella Hughes is at GAINESVILLE with
broken eylinder-head.
The river fraternity were well repre-
scented at the Masonic picnic yesterday
and last evening. aL
The Emma c. Elliott has been char
tered by number Of gentlemen repre-
senting nearly all branches of business,
bankers, merchants, etc., for select ex-
curSion on Thursday evening. She is
just the boat for such trip, and those
who are fortunate enough to receive an
invitation should go. tai.1t
The feet passenger steamer st. Fran
els, Captain I. p. Bowman, leaves this
evening at five o'clock for Helena, Ma
riana, Wittsburg, and all the usual way
landings. Sam Paine and Billy Dean
are clerks.
The Thomas II. Allen is the regular
United States Mail steamer to leave for
Little Rock at five I'm. to-day, and takes
freight and passengers to all points on
the Arkansas. Captain Eugene Smith
commands and Pat Morrison is chief
clerk.
The elegant steamer Colorado, Capt.
Luker master, will be up to leave at five
pm. to-day for Belmont, Cairo and St.
Louis, connecting at all points with the
railroads for the North and East.
General Ranney says the June rise
won't come until the latter part of July,
as it did in 1858. 1}
The Pauline Carroll is coming up
with 500 tons, and the Gladiola is fol-
lowing. The latter goes to Cincinnati
to be cut in two and heightened forty
feet The Indiana is also on her way
up for Louisville, light. The Mary
Houston left New Orleans Saturday with
good trip of people.
ITENs.-The steamer Alaska, Captain
Cakes; Charles B. Church. Captain Eo-
ris; new Emma Floyd, Captain Wise,
will, on the opening of navigation next
fall, enter the Cincinnati and Red river
trade, boat leaving Cincinnati every
week. All they ask is business. The
Thompson Dean refused to load at the
present rates of 30 cents for flour and
liz cents per hundred pound freight,
st. Louis to New Orleans, and it is said
that all the other boats of the two New
Orleans lines will sustain her, and rates
will have to advance. Forty cents for
Hour and 3Oc for pound freight are the
figures asked. The Houston gunboat
Hesper is to run between New Orleans
and Minden. The H. Clay Wilson and
barges went from Louisville to New Or
leans in six days and eight hours, the
quickest trip of the season.. The Andy
Baum will add yard or two to her
and repair before she comes
down again. A letter dated the 10th
says the transfer-boat North Missouri,
sunk in White river, lies in bad posi-
ton, and it is feared that aid cannot raise
her. Six cars and six trucks had been
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