Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-16

Stack Lee, leaves this evening at five O'Clock
for Helena, Friar's Point, and all the bend
landings.
For Sr. LoUfs-The elegant steamer Fannie
Lewis is the Anchor Line steamer to leave at
five o'clock this evening for Cairo and st.
Louis. making all business landings in the
bends above.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Mary E. Poe took the cargo Of the City
of Cairo from here Saturday night. and the
Celeste took 200 tons from the Robert Mitchell.
The Fannie Lewis gets 1000 bales OF cotton
for Cairo.
The Exporter during her voyage down struck
her barge against something hard above Cape
Girardeau. and dumped OVERHEARD from It's
deck some fifty barrels of -four, but recovered
twenty-nine of them.
The sternwheeler Glasgow has again changed
hands. She was purchased on Friday at Cairo
by Oyerton and Starle for $3.50. and is to be
used as transfer boat between there and
Hickman.
The citizens of Loudon have projected an
excursion on the r. c. Jackson up the Ten
nessee river TO the Galway estate, which ex-
cursion is designed for the benefit of the Con-
gresham elect from the Third Tennessee dis
trict. the Hon. William Crutchfeld, in order
that he may, by personal observation of the
distractions in said river, be better enabled
to press upon the Congress of the United
States the great importance of an appropria-
ton for the benefit Of the same"
Tom Burns. the well known freight and cot
ton Waterman at the landing, has returned
from an extended trip North.
AT Danbury landing few days ago the Sec
ond mate and negro rouster of the C. b.
Church got into a quarrel, resulting in the lat
ter receiving a severe cut in the shoulder,
whichm ay prove fatal.
typographical error in last Fridays st.
Louis Republican would lead the public to be-
lieye that the river was frozen over and people
crossing on the ice above Vicksburg one day
last week. Pittsburg was doubtless the point
named.
The ferryboat at Rodney, Miss, sunk there
on Wednesday last, and has three feet of
water over her deck.
The Anchor Line is charging 35c on flour
and zoe on pound freight between Cairo and
this city. but change in these rates will
likely be made to-day.
The Board of United States Local Inspectors
at st. Louis have now three cases on hand
which they are trying viz: The collision of
the Lake Superior and Northwestern at Louis
lana, Missouri, in which the barge Frank,
loaded with a cargo, was sunk. The collision
I.t,y tba oil II
at Cairo, in which the former was damaged
5000 worth, and the cause of the burning OF
the II. NJ. Shreve.
The Mary Miller is at Henderson with tho
cargo Of the R. c. Gray on board waiting for
water.
Charles Fitch, engineer of the Tarascon,
drew $3.50 in the Louisville Library drawing.
GENERAL ITENs.-The river gorged on Fri
day below st. Louis at Arsenal Island, but
only remained so three hours. The st. Louis
Globe says: THE Memphis Packet Com
pany are receiving freight per Cairo Short
Line for Memphis at the rate of soc per barrel
and pound freight in proportion" ..Valua-
BILE discoveries are being made daily on ac-
count Of the low water. Cairo has found two
new rocks in the river. and if proper researches
were instituted no doubt the wrecks of u good
many steamers could be found near that city
THE Emile LaBarge loaded at Cairo at zoe
for flour and S719c for pound lots to New Or
leans.....The Salvor No. 2 is wrecking the
Shreve. captain Moody C. Dustin. we'll
known Falls pilot, died at Jacksonville last
Friday. Captain Hicks, of the Belle Lee,
expects to get fifteen or twenty dollars per
bale salvage on the cotton he saved from the
John Howard's cargo.....It is now said that
the II. Clay Wilson sunk while lying at the
bank cleaning boilers. She was lying at ths
shore eight hours previous to the accident.
The Low Water pulled the wreck of the Emma
of Shawneetown bar. and towed her to the
bank last Wednesday. The loss sustained by
the owners of the Emma in her burning will
not exceed $1,000. The hull is as good as new.
The chimneys are still erect as when first put
up, and the wheel remains intact with the ex-
ception of one or two buckets being burned.
All the books. papers and money of the boat
were burnt. A passenger lost sl75 he had in
his trunk, and another gold watch worth
$50. The hull will be towed back to Evans
vile and her cabin rebuilt by the insurance
company.