Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-27

and stayed there until early this morning.
when she got of.
Pilot Marsh Miller reports but six and half
feet at the upper end Of Reeves. and says the
channel is getting worse, as SO many boats rub
against IT,
The Yaeger and La Barge are due from he
low to-day.
On her downward trip the Mollie Moore got
l24 bales cotton at Helena, the only respecta-
BILE shipment from there this season.
The st. Louis Republican imagines that
Memphis needs a few frst-class funerals to
start her on the road TO progress and pros
perity.
On Monday New Orleans received SIT bales
of cotton by river.
Captain Ray, who built and commanded the
Belle Key, in earlier days of navigation. ac-
companied by his wife. is a passenger on the
II. 9. Gray. coming down the Ohio, en- route
to his home in Mississippi. He has been visit
ing friends in the vicinity of Maysyille, Ky.
Walt writing from Cairo. says the
Shannon's detention in the Ohio was caused
more by broken rigging than by the sandbars.
At Henderson she paid of two cabin watch
men and pantryman, and they circulated
the report that she had laid up and was pay
ing off her crew Captain Skunk is worn out
and almost sick. but the rest which he will get
after leaving this port. sailing in deep water
will restore his energies and improve his
health"
GLEANINGs.
The Western Union and the Atlantic and
Pacific Companies rendered the gratuitous use
Of their lines to the acknowledgements in con
clave at Cleveland &C., The Cleveland Conven-
ton on Wednesday organized national board
of owners and managers of steam vessels.
composed of delegates from each local asso-
citation. and after passing.the usual resolutions
of thanks, adjourned to meet in Philadelphia
on the third Wednesday in September, 1873.
Yesterday the delegates were shown the sights
about Cleveland. The Pargoud on Tuesday
carried from Greenvile 1900 bales of cotton
and 5000 sacks of seed. She got so bales Of cot
ton at Vicksburg, making her the largest trip
of the season from that city,. The Pauline
Carroll goes from Mound City to st. Louis to-
morrow. She loads at the latter point. The
st. Louis City Engineer, United States Engi-
ncer, and part of the City Council, went up
w tunctudy a. AilOH On INC new aLedIntf
Grafton to inspect the improvements on the
harbor...... Captains Pegram. Sheble and seve-
raj other steamboatmen have visited the Great
Republic. now nearing completion ON the
Carondelet marine ways, and all pronounce
her new bow. by Captain Adkins. perfect, and
her model the finest they ever saw.
RIVER PERSONALS.
Capt. G. j. Grammer has been elected a
director of the Steamboat Association of Ev-
ansville. to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Capt, II. T. Dexter. Capt. j. A.
Lemcke has been elected President of the
Board.
The Evansville and New Orleans Packet
Company was organized Wednesday. eecting
as directors Capt. John Gilbert. of GoIconda;
Peter Semonin and James Il. Rankin, Of Ev-
ansville; George W. Thomas, of Mt. Vernon,
and Charles P. Farrow, of Metropolis. John
Gilbert was elected President; Gus Lemcke,
Secretary; Mat Henning, Treasurer; and Gus
Fowler, Superintendent. and master of the
Robert Mitchell. Capt. Gus DuSouehet will
be clerk of the Mitchell.
Capt. Charles Scudder has been appointed
freight agent of the st. Louis and New Orleans
packets.
Capts. Reub Haines, Rufe Caldwell and Pat
Morrison arrived this morning from their sum
mer tour through the swamps and wilds of Ar
kansas.