Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-20

bars of railroad iron for Paducah, and
$50 bars for Helena,
s. B. Packard, United States marshal
at New Orleans has published the fact,
under the head of Mentions" that he
has seized the following steamers: Kate
Kinney, libeled by Macheca 4 Co.; Ida,
by VIM. Burke; Indiana, G. B. Church,
and the Dexter by the United States.
The marshal wants the owners Of all
these steamers to appear in the New Or
leans district court on or before the third
Monday after February 10th, to show
cause, il any they have or can, why the
said steamers should not be condemned
and be sold agreeably to the prayer of
libelants.
The feet passenger steamer Legal
Tender, Captain William Ashford, leaves
this evening at FIVE o'clock for Devall's
Bluff, Jacksonport and all points on
White river.
The G. W. Cheek, Captain George
Malone, leaves this evening at five
o'clock for Friars Point and all way
landings
The passenger steamer A. j. White,
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this evening
at five O'Clock for Napoleon and all way
landings.
The regular United States mail packet
Thomas H. Allen, Captain Eugene
Smith, leaves this evening at five clock
for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all points
on the Arkansas.
The rumor at the levee to-day that the
A. ]. White was tied up below here yes
terday morning, had its origin in the fact
that she was tied up-in the fog and Sc
curcly to the bank. The sell was
good one.
Pilots Miller and Edwards, of the A, j.
White, have patented and will send at
once to the Board of Supervising Inspec-
tors, pair of fog spectacles." They
are expected to do away with I" fog
horns" whistles, bells and all other such
trumpery. They will be adopted" by
the "board," and all pilots will be re-
quired to purchase pair every time
their license is renewed.
Aaoo.J;n. 90 ono &c our r,orn;n0 on.
temporaries we are to have the river inn
provement convention here tomorrow.
The Memphis Freighting company
was, it seems, incorporated by the legis-
lature in 1866, with capital stock Of
100000 mary dollar of which was ever
paid in). They claim the exclusive
right of the entire river front for the
purpose of building elevators, railroad
depots, laying tracks, etc., but have
been idle since 1866, never having made
the first step toward the erection of ele-
vators or depots, and now that the city
has granted the privilege of erecting an
elevator land the building is partly con-
structed by the St. Louis Packet com
pany), the Freighting company" now
file their bill against the city and the
Packet company, as we stated some days
since they would, and endeavor to stop
work on the elevator, throwing forty or
fifty men out of employment. If the
injunction is granted leather medal
should be provided by the river men for
the judge who so far forgets his duty as
to lend his Office TO place a restriction
upon commerce. We see the milk in
the cocoanut, but do not think the
Freighting company" will succeed in
getting ANY BONUS from the Packet COM
pany.
Our Cincinnati telegram, received at
noon today, reads as follows River
falling, with eighteen feet water; con-
siderable ice moving; heavy ice reported
at several points above. The Big Sandy
is reported rising rapidly, and naviga-
ton resumed to all points. The hull Of
the Annie Laurie sunk yesterday, but
was pumped out by the Champion and
raised"