Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-16

at five o'clock for Natchez and all the
usual landings. Passengers will find
the Belle st. Louis frst-class. ALI.
Grissom does the honors of the office
A telegram from Cincinnati last night
says:
The Major Sanders a government survey
| boat. was cut down just below the suspension
bridge, and sank this afternoon. Her cabin
Is half full Of water. A dozen or more coal
barges. Just below the, bridge, broke loose,
and two or three were lost. The Belle Yer
non has been turned over TO the underwriters,
who are wrecking her. Freight is being re-
moved from the Nashville.
The Wauanita will probably be total
wreck, as the chances of raising her are
very slim. She will doubtless break in
two.
Wednesdays Cincinnati Enquirer esti-
mates the loss there by the breakup at
$25 900, and says:
Mr.. S. W. Bard and Messrs. James Reese
and John Conway are the largest losers. The
formers loss is on barges, and is estimated at
sons is on the steamer Wauanita. which was
in the Seventeenth ward. She was valued at
| SIS, 900. About twelve empty coal flats were
| broken loose and demolished by the ice.
-Four were on the other side Of the river, and
| the rest on this side. Captain John Barrett
lost a barge at the foot Of Fifth street partially
loaded with nut coal. The sand-boat Enter
| prise was sunk just opposite the Seyenteeth
ward. She lies with her larboard side in the
water up to her boiler deck.
1t is reported at Cincinnati that the
upper works of the towboat Viola, which
boat was recently sunk at Portsmouth by
the ice, have been cut away Her own
ers expect to save her machinery, raise
her hull, and build another boat.
A telegram from Pittsburg says there
is tremendous iee-gorge in the Ohio
river between Sewickly and Dufrs bar.
The ice is said to be piled twelve feet
high. Towboats have been butting at Il.
but, so far, Intellectually The towboats
Charley Brown and D. T. Lane are lying
Immediately below the gorge in great
peril.
Our telegraphic column contains addi
tional particulars Of the loss of the Nash
vile and Belle Vernon, at Cincinnati.
On Tuesday the Pike carried to New
Orleans 1861 bales cotton, 95 head cat
tie, and cabin full of people The
Strader brought ZIG bales cotton; the
Lottawanna 65l bales cotton and 1859
sacks seed, and the Kate Kinney fine
trip of assorted Western freight.
The 0uachita is stationary at Cam
den, with eleven feet Of water in the
channel
The river gauge man at Helena is
either i'll or went to the New Orleans
Mardi. Gras.
The Cincinnati Chronicle says:
II is understood that the wharfmaster's
books were closed when the ice embargo be-
gan, and that there will be no wharf charges
made against boats that have been tied up at
the city wharf while the river was closed by
ice.
We learn that the same course was
pursued here by Wharfmaster Light
burn and Deputy Morrison.
1esterday d. Louis hepuDhcan says
of the situation there:
River covered with solid ice. Boats all
fast-bound to their wharyes and the banks
whore they are lying, No prospects. Of o
break up very soon. Mercury at ten o'clock
yesterday 23' below the freezing point.
The Glasgow is at Belmont, loading
for New Orleans at the following rates:
Flour, 81 %; hay, 75c.; whisky, So, and
pound freights at IS cents per 100
The Dexter re-ships her st. Louis
freight by rail at Belmont, and goes to
Cairo, where she loads for New Orleans
What are the snag-boats doing down
the river2 asks the editor of the Little
Rock Republican, to which the reply is
made You don't always write the
truth, and the snaggers are lying to"