Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-19

freight and people.........The Potomac
arrived from below shortly after with 400
tons of Ohio river freight, and full of
people, having done heavy way bust
ness.
There were no arrivals to-day, the
heavy fog prevailing until noon, delay
ing all local packets as well as those due
from other ports
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Kittie Hegler arrived safely at
Cincinnati yesterday from the Kanawha.
A rise of three feet at Pittsburg to-
day would turn loose five million bushels
Of coal.
The st. Luke, Julia and Belle Mem
phis busted themselves at st. Louis yes
terday breaking the ice around them.
The ice is very strong, however, and sew
eral days of warm weather, with rise
of foot or more, will be required to
move it effectually.
The Legal Tender leaves here for
White river tomorrow evening.
A daughter of W. H. Brown, the
Pittsburg coal king, is to be married
this week.
The Friars Point packet, Phil Allin,
was seized upon an attachment at Jones
landing yesterday, and tied up, her pas
sengers coming up on the Thompson
Dean. She was subsequently relieved,
a satisfactory bond having been given.
When the Phil Allin backed out from
Jones landing, after the necessary bonds
had been arranged and she had been re-
leased, some of the villains on shore
opened fire upon her and nearly riddled
her yawl, several shots striking the boat
in other parts.
The Carrie V. Kountz and GAINESVILLE
are between Little Rock and Lewisburg,
trying to crowd their way over sand-bars
to Fort Smith.
The regular United States mail packet
Thos. II. Allen, Captain Eugene Smith,
leaves this evening at FIVE o'clock for
Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all points
on the Arkansas.
The Alice, Captain Cartright, leaves
this evening at five clock for Cairo and
all way landings.
The passenger steamer A. J. White,
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this even
ing at five o clock for Napoleon and all
way landings. Messrs. B. P. Fields and
Chas Sharpe are her clerks.
The Belle Lee leaves here on Wednes-
day next for New Orleans.
The Thos. H. Allen left Little Rock at
noon on Friday for this city with large
trip of cotton and people. The R. C.
Gray Tidal Wave and Pat Cleburne
we're then at the Rock waiting for a rise,
here being but thirteen inches above
Spadra Bluff.
The win S. Hays was libelled here
Saturday by her mate and pilot for wages
lue, and an attachment placed in the
hands Of an officer, who started for the
evee to serve the document, and just as
he arrived at the top Of the bluff, to his
royal disgust, be saw the Hays back out
and make bee line for the Arkansas
shore, where she laid until last night of
Ihe foot Of the bar, trying to get a pilot
10 take her down stream.
Captain Jon Conway arrived at Gin
,innati from Pittsburg last Wednesday
morning to look after the Wauanita. He
vas on board of her, and thinks she is
n no danger of breaking in two, and
IAN be raised. The hole in her hull is
about ten feet long, on her starboard
tide and just abreast the forward end of
her boilers.
A petition to Congress is circulating
1t Pittsburg praying for the wideaing of
he channel-span of the Steubenville
-ailroad bridge.
Saturdays St. Louis Republican says:
Captain Rea represents the railroads
As being greatly embarrassed on account
Of the freight. blockade, caused by the
closed river. The warehouses at Chi
cago, and all along the roads in the in
.erior, are all full, and there is no posi-
Dility Of better state of affairs prevail
ng until the great national highway-the
river-is opened to naviga-
ion. The whole Northwest suffers by
my interruption to the business of the