Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-29


Captain HERMAN heohtlsn yesterday
sold the steamer Lady Pike TO Captains
Shean and Loler for $1,000. Her pur-
chasers will use her on the Ohio river in
carrying supplies, they having the con-
tract for the building of the unfinished
walls Of the Louisville canal.--iSt Louis
Republican, 27th.
Referring to Captain VIM. HambIeton.
the Mound City Journal says; The
Democrats and Liberals are united on
having the jolly mariner run for the
State Senate The Ladies Magazine, Of
St. Louis, will support his claims for any
position"
The st. Louis Democrat says Silver
thorn, of the Evansville Journal, who
recently visited that city, saw many
things which pleased him-Shaw's Gar
den, the jail. wharf, etc.
Capt George Cheek has returned
from swayne's Springs.
Captain Cranes favorite Monday
packet, the Belle Memphis, is now at the
wharfboat, and will leave at five o'clock
this eveningfor Belmont, Cairo and st.
Louis, making direct connections with
all the railroads and packets for the up
per Mississippi and Missouri.
The regular st. Louis and Vicksburg
United States mail packet Belle st.
Louis, Capt Aft. Grissom, leaves this
evening at five o'clock for Vicksburg
and all the bend landings. She has SUI
perior accommodations and fare. Mr..
John Blake is her chief purser.
A letter to prominent citizen from
Lockport, New York. states that Mahan
& Emerson's steam canal boat Port
Byron was there on her last trip, and
had up to that time made four miles an
hour with cargo of 200 tons. The let
Ter also states that three miles per hour
was the best time made by competing
boats, and that Buffalo merchants were
jubilant over the Memphis patent, and
that it would doubtless take the 100000
cash prize.
GENERAL ITENs.--AS Little Rock
paper heads its river news current
items. What term will be used when
the Arkansas dries up? The Cairo Bull
letin man says the Maggie P. is about
the size of bar of soap after a hard
day s washing. The Thayer goes up the
Arkansas, where she will operate for the
next six months, and then retire to the
ouachita to stay couple of months
more. The Eckert raised the lumber
barge sunk at Belmont last night a week
by the Crescent City in two and quar-
ter hours time Some sharper at New
Orleans has issued forged labor tickets
for laborers on the leyee and sold them.
There is no knowing to what extent the
business has been carried on. A man
on the steamboat City of Quincy was
arrested for presenting one of these
frauds. The safety valve on the steamer
0uachita Belle gave way at New Orleans
last Monday, passengers and deck
hands making narrow escape from
being soalded.
The Grand Tower came in this morn
ing with six hundred tons of produce,
and will return tonight.
The Cheek brought up from Chieot
and Helena to-day fair trip of freight
and quite number of people.
The Cincinnati Chronicle is respon-
sible for the following:
A private letter received from New
Orleans announces the failure of G. G.
Wayne q Co., steamboat agents. The
news created the greatest excitement
among steamboatmen, as several of cur
boats are interested in a total sum Of
something like $4,000. The Louisville
comes in for $500 or $4,000; the Poto-
mac for $500 and the Mitchell for
$4,000. The Longworth is also inter-
learn. The Church, Bodmann, Kilgour,
Alaska, and one or two others, had pre-
viously taken precautions, expecting a
failure, and consequently escaped. 1t
is said the failure was brought about by
Captain Waynes son, who made false
entries in the books, and appropriated
not belonging to himself, which
he spent in gambling and high living.
Captain Wanye offers in the ways of as
sets house and lot, valued at $l3 900,
over which mortgage hangs, on which
$4,000 has been paid. Capt. Eugene
Bowers, chief clerk of the Longworth,
leaves for New Orleans in the interest of