Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-22

cot, and all bend landings. b. Z. Fields,
william smIthers and Charles Sharpe
are her popular secretaries.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The river fraternity was we'll repre-
sented at the Fair yesterday.
Warren Stowe, the clerk who fred the
FIRST shot at the strikers, on Thursday.
at New Orleans, has been arrested
charged with being accessory to the
murder of steamboatman Barnes.
Yesterdays St. Louis Globe gives the
following encouraging account Of busi-
ness there:
Business will, no doubt, be very act
i've this week. The New Orleans packet
companies are sending out FIVE boats per
week, and there will be some loaded
outside this week. All gil up rapidly
and at full rates. The demand for tom
mage has increased so much on. the
Memphis Packet Company that they are
forced to send out an extra boat to-day,
and. we presume, will send out two more
during the week. There is great want
of tonnage on the upper Mississippi, and
a large amount of produce will have to
be kept over during this winter, or seek
a market by rail.
Yesterdays freights from New Or
leans TO Red river were advanced to five
card rates. This is owing to the low
condition Of the river and the extraordi-
nary high prices of labor. We have no
doubt that boats in other trades will
also be obliged to raise their tariff Of
freights.
Ned Outlaw has returned from st.
Louis, where he went to visit an old
friend.
Another advance in freight rates from
St. Louis to New Orleans occurred yes
terday. Now -four is taken at 75c per
barrel.
The f. w. Strader, Glasgow, E. H.
Durfee and Mary E. Poe load and leave
St. Louis this week for New Orleans.
Yesterdays St. Louis Democrat says:
The Government raft-breaking steam
er Aid Captain Tom Rogers, will leave
in three days for upper Red river. The
Aid will be long time on her voyage;
but rise will occur to aid the Aid in
reaching her destination.
The pilots of the Eddyville report the
water in the lower Ohio as follows:
Found thirty inches at Cottonwood;
came by the way of Smithland; found
thirty inches up the chute; found three
feet at Friar's Island; three feet water
scant at CaseyvilIe; thirty inches at
Shawneetown; three feet scant at Raj
eigh three feet at Diamond Island;
found twenty-six inches on Henderson
bar"
We copy the following important item
from Sundays New Orleans Picayune
1--WE understand that on account of the
high prices of labor, our coal merchants
have suspended work, and will not after
Monday be able to supply the demand to
steamboats,.
According to the statistics published,
the number of lives lost in the United
States by steamboat accidents during the
four years ending December 81, 1871,
was l,477. During the same time the
number of lives lost by railroad acci-
dents was 4,323. The loss of life on
railroads in 1871 alone numbered l,26l
persons. Steamboats, need few more
steam gauges and ether clap-trap con-
trivances to bring the standard up to
that Of the railroads.
GLEANINGs.
The Belle of Shreveport probably cost
S65, 900. The John H. Maude will cost
about the same........Unless the Ohio
raises general suspension of work at
the nail mills at Wheeling and Pittsburg
will be the result. The coal men at
Pittsburg are anxiously waiting for wa
ter. but the prospects are not very
bright.