Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-30

: the river for Anumbsr Of years, the last
boat upon which he was engaged being
the Mayhower
The r. L. Lee will resume her trips
in the vicksburg and New Orleans trade
one week from Friday next.
1t is estimated that the amount of
coal that will come below Louisville on
this rise will be between five and six mill
ion bushels.
The Blue Lodge, the last of the coal
fleet, arrived at Louisville Sunday with
full tow.
Hiram Hill, the submarine diver, with
his armor, left Louisville Sunday to re-
cover the iron portion of the Paducah
and Elizabethtown railroad bridge, which
was knocked down during the late high
water. 1t is about twenty miles above
the mouth of the Tennessee river, ard
lies in twenty feet water.
The Carrie V. Kountz, now being
elongated fifty feet on the Carondelet
ways, will be completed in about one
week She will carry 1900 tons when
ready for business.
Sundays St. Louis Republican has
the following: "Silas Adkins will ex
hibt on Change Monday model of
new canal boat, which is to compete for
the prize of 100000 in the Erie canal.
The patent is an invention of poor
man who wishes to dispose of part of
it. Captain Adkins says it is the best
invention that has come under his no
tice, and that he has very little doubts
but that it will come out the successful
competitor" To come out the sue
cessful competitor she will have to carey
over seven thousand bushels of corn
and make over four and quarter miles
per hour. Mahan and Emersons boat
Port Byron" referred to above, did
that.
The Cincinnati Marine ways are build
ing the hull of new towboat for the
Valley Transportation Com
pany, which will be completed in about
two weeks.
The Mississippi Valley Transporta-
ton Company have purchased the NJ. j.
Wicks from Captain William Barnes
one.half and Mitchell & Tansey one
half, for $4,000. Her new owners in
tend placing her between St. Louis and
New Orleans in carrying way freight
The st. Francis will hereafter make
two trips week, leaving this port every
Tuesday and Thursday for Helena and
Mariana The low water IN the st.
Francis will prevent her going above the
last named point. She leaves here on
her first trip to-day. Sam Paine is her
secretary.
The regular semi-weekly coast packet
G. W. Cheek, Captain George Malone,
leaves this afternoon at five o'clock for
Chicot and all way landings.
Robert Fl. Wildberger and Chas. Sharpe =
are her popular clerks.
The. United States mail and passenger
packet Dardanelle, in command of Capt.
Eugene Smith, leaves this afternoon, at
FIVE clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and the usual way landings Colonel
John Hardin and Billy Willis are her
clerks.
The Colorado, Captain Luker, leaves
this evening at five O'Clock for Cairo and
St. Louis. H. Diedrck is clerk.
Buffalo and Lockport On, Y papers
speak highly of Mahan and Emerson's
steam canal boat Port Byron. She is
ninetyeight feet long by seventeen feet
four inches breadth of beam. The bow
is funnel-shaped, and waterway TWEEN
ty-four inches wide by twelve inches in
hight passes from it through the entire
length of the boat The wheel is a YER
iical paddle, the invention of Captain
Emerson, and is placed in recess in
he stern of the boat at the end of the
water way; the buckets are arranged in
Iuch a manner that they smooth the
water when leaving it, which, added
o the fact of the water being
lrawn through from the bow of the boat,
ldmits of its motion at any attainable
ate of speed with no perceptible swell.
The motive power is furnished by two
ngines, twelve inch cylinder and twenty
our inch stroke, working at right angles
IN the wheel crank. She will carry a
aptsin and four men, and is calculated
o consume one ton of hard coal in
hours, and to run from three
o FIVE miles per hour.