Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-22

The G. W. Cheek, Captain George Ma
lone, leaves this evening at FIVE o clock
for Friar's Point and all way landings.
F. S. Gonterman and L. H. Briggs are
clerks.
The fine and feet passenger steamer
Belle Lee, in command of j. F.
Hicks, leaves this evening at four
o'clock, positively, for New Orleans and
all way landings. The Belle Lee has
always been favori:e in the trade, hav-
ing large and splendid state rooms, with
her tables always supplied with all the
delicacies that the market affords. John
s. Sullivan is her chief secretary.
There are nearly 100 bales of south
ward bound cotton on the levee.
The parties who attached the Phil
Allin disclaim malice against either the
boat its owner or officers, and say the
course pursued was deemed the best to
bring the matter to a speedy trial.
The Susie Bigley saved 1900 barrels
of coal from the boats recently swamped
at Island 40 by the Dick Fulton.
Our New Orleans special to-day gives
the following as the port list for the past
twenty-four hours: Arrived yesterday
John Kilgour, Memphis; Katie P.
Kountz, Cairo; Nick Longworth, Ohio
river. Departed-Liberty, Ohio river;
R. P. Walt Memphis; John Kilgour,
MEX LoHgworth, Louisville; Common
wealth, Katie P. Kountz, ST. Louis.
1t cost ten cents bar to unload the
Bismarck's cargo of railroad iron at Pa
ducah.
A motion for new trial in the case OF
Bretzman VS.. the St. Louis Packet COM
pany will be made.
An Albany On. W exchange says
"The committee appointed by the legis'
lature of New York to award prize OF
$780, 900 for improvements in the motive
power OF canal boats made report to
the assembly yesterday. No decision
has been reached, nor any project APP
parently yet developed of practical
value"
The Evansville Journal says that
Captain Tom Hunt has sold the Pink
Varble conditionally to parties in Mem
phis for $4,000. 1t is possible, however,
that parties solicitous for the interests OF
the estate of Captain Porter, the princi-
pal owner, may thwart this sensible
method of doing business"
The Greenwood recording steam gauge
has been approved by the supervising
board of Inspectors, and General Bel
KNAPP has authorized its use on steamers.
A commission of engineers of the
war department arrived at st. Louis on
Tuesday TO examine the harbor. Gen.
Warren is one of the party.
St. Louis rates to Southern points are
to Memphis: Pork 81, whisky 81 So
-four Coo, bacon 35c., and groceries 4Oc.
To Vicksburg: pork 81 20, whisky g.
hay Coo, -four So, bacon and groceries
Acc
Saturday New Orleans Times has the
following:
We noticed last evening in the ladies
cabin of the steamer Belle Lee very
handsome fruit stand with bouquet
holder at the summit. This fruit stand
was awarded by the Mission fair recently
held at Odd Fellows Hall, in this city, tC
the steamer Belle Lee, as the most pOpu
lar packet.
A Cairo letter says
The old Mary Z. Forsyth is at las
doomed to die. Her health has beer
failing for some time past, but since her
retirement from active service her de
cline has been alarmingly rapid. Dis
ease seems to have entered every creVic'
of her frame, destroying her One
slightly proportions, aud drawing anC
twisting her up until she is painful II
, look upon. Yesterday she was pur
chased by Captain VIM. Hambleton, o
Mound City, who will probably wrecl
her where she lies, as do not think sh