Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-06
The DardanelIe is duo from tho Arkansas.
The Utah took trip from Little Rock t.
New Orleans

The Utah took trip from Little Rock to
New Orleans.
Yesterdays Louisville Ledger contains the
heftiest (Y) river column we have seen in
many day. II has exactly six lines.
The St. Louis papers give. the barge rates,
via railroad. to New Orleans from Cairo. Do
they mean all rail from Cairo. or rail and
water via MemphisY
Mr.. James Franklin, onr new deputy wharf
master. arrived at six o'clock this morning
from Columbus. having left there at six pm
yesterday. He reports ths, there were no
boats extricated yesterday from the gorge;
that the Kellogg was working yesterday trying
to get the Bodmann out, but did net succeed.
The Bodmann is about fifty yards from the
lower end of the gorge, and nearly every time
the Kellogg made q butt against the ice sho
run her bow on it. her nose being high and
dry, and il was with difficulty she backed
off from the ice. which is from fifteen to
twenty feet deep at that point. 1t
rained all day at Cairo yesterday and a
night turned to sleet. as 1t did here.
and the prospects for the extrication Of
the boats are ne more favorable now than
they were before the rain. The Longworth has
had some of her freight taken to the shore.
over the ice. and entered protest at Column
bus. The Great Republic has also taken some
Of her stock to the Missouri shore-nearly a
mile distant-having cut a passageway
through the huge ice blocks to that side Of the
river. majority Of the steamboatmen who
are ice bound have given up all hopes Of get
ting their boats out unless the weather mod
I'm dax hafo do he iao
cut for feet on each side of the Illinois, and
plenty ofroom given for her to work, but when
steam was raised and she went ahead, not
the slightest impression was made upon the
ice, il being some fifteen feet deep. She lies
about four hundred yards above the Bodmann.
A swift current and an open space Of some
twenty yards is reported between the Repub
lie and the Kentucky shore. but the Republic
lays blocked in the ice nearly hundred and
fifty yards toward the Missouri shore. The
gorge extends from Island No. to Chalk
Bluff, distance of twelve miles. and, as Mr..
Franklin informs us, it was put there to stay
until warmer weather comes than we have yet
had. The boats in the ice are the Longworth,
Illinois, Bodmann, Republic and the transfer
boat st. Louis. The latter had just left the
expended upon her in repairs.
Our Cincinnati dispatch to-day says the
river is rising an the weather quite warm;
break up is anticipated. Considerable anx-
icty is felt for the safety Of boats, Of which
there are quite large number lying there.
At meeting of steamboatmen yesterday it
was resolved to employ tugs to break up ice
alongside Of steamers, and when necessary to
move the boats up to q point below the rail-
road bridge. A committee was appointed t1i
act with committee from the underwriterA
and coal men.
Should the Great Reppblie not reach here
by Tuesday, the ducal party will take the
steamer Belle Lee.
The above appears in the Associated Press
dispatches to the New Orleans papers of the
9Th inst, but is incorrect. The ducal party
have not yet even thought Of chartering or
employing the Belle Lee, although they could
not perhaps make a better selection. The
Belle Lee will cost them $1,000 day, without
freight.
The regular packet Legal Tender. Captain
VIM. Ashford, leaves for Jacksonport. Au-
gusta. and all way points. this afternoon at
five oclock. e. @. Postal, Dan Sullivan and
Ed. Crowell are clerks.
The A. ]. White, Captain Mark Cheek.
leaves this evening at FIVE o clock for NapO-
leon and all way landings. Messrs. b. p.
Fields and Charles Sharpe are her clerks
The passenger stesmer Thomas IL. Allen,
Captain Eugene Smith. leaves this evening at
five o'clock for Pine Bluff. little Rock, and
all points on the Arkansas river, Mr.. Pat
Morrison and Billy Willis are clerks.
The G. w. Cheek, Captain George Malone,
leaves this evening at Eve o'clock for Friar's
Point and all way landings. Z. S. Confer
man and l.. II. Briggs are clerks.