Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20

a SUN OF money TO be appropriated for
the Improvement Of navigation IN the
Ohio river, aud urging the State Legis-
latures in the States bordering on that
river to use their endeavors to have such
appropriations made.
The S. s. Merrill, which burned at
Warsaw, ILL.,. Wednesday evening, was
valued at $50 900, and insured in Cincn.
matt Offices for $4,000
Our friend Rhode, alias "0ld Prob,
says clear weather to-day for Southern
States east of the Mississippi.
Now that business is opening rapidly
a good light draught boat would find lu-
crative employment in the trade between
this city and Haile's Point.
The Anchor Line boats, southwark
bound, will leave here tri-weekly, viz:
On Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
ten am. This is the new card agreed
upon.
The City of Alton left St, Louis,
drawing FIVE feet and over, and is towing
barge. She had also fifty passengers.
Sturgeon, the boy murderer, was
brought down on the City of Chester
yesterday, and is now in limbo.
The wrecker Aid is on Che ways at St.
Louis, and is to have trestle built in
each hull to strengthen them; also
thwartship deck placed between the
bulls forward, to haul logs on, and
derrick forty feet high, on each hull.
with boom thirty feet long, for the
handling of logs. She is also TO be
thoroughly caulked, and will be off the
ways in about twenty days. Congress
has appropriated $l50,000 for the SER
vice which she is intended for, and with
the buying and repairing OF the boat
will last about two years. Captain Tom
Rogers, formerly OF the Savannah, Com
monwealth, and other steamers, has
been placed in command of her.
Rates from Evansville to Cairo have
advanced to forty cents per hundred on
pound freight.
An Evansville dispatch says: "The
Nashville has been aground five days at
French Island, and opened good chan
mel. The Camella was aground all night
on Henderson, and got off this morning.
The Glasgow is aground on Shawnee
town. The Florence Lee has laid up.
The Shannon has given up her trip.
The Signal Bureau now have at the
levee and the different hotels, boxes with
glass fronts in which are posted daily
the river and weather reports sent by
telegraph.
About four months ago a negro named
Carter got into row with the deck crew
of the r. P. Walt when she was at Hell
ena and got pretty rough handling. He
was then, through the kindness of Capt.
Ashford, sent ashore for medical treat
ment, and subsequently,, by the advice
of some heightened Radical officials,
brought suit against the boat, laying his
damages at $4,000. The boat was sub
libeled and bonded, and on
Tuesday last the Federal Court gave
him $3.50. Helena is sweet little town
for the negro, and we learn that ma
jority Of the public offices there are filled
by them.
GLEANINGs.
The coolest city reported this morning
was Louisville, where the mercury was
47' at 6 a.m.........A Davenport ex-
change says the Dubuque was slightly
bruised on the draw.pier of the old bridge
Sunday. yesterday st. Louis
Republican: Commodore E. H. Dur
fee arrived yesterday from Sioux City,
and returns to-day. His steamers, the
Sioux City, Western and Silver Lake.
will be en- route here after making few
trips more above. The government sup
plies have all been forwarded, and he is
now sending the Indian supplies, which
will all soon be transported" .........The
Glasgow was forty hours trying to get
over the bar at Shawneetown, and gave
it up........The Aids original cost was
$40, 900.