Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-13

hny popular commander, and
% Is IN every way fitted for the position.
II Inc towboats Shannon and Wild Cat
collided Sunday, near Rising Sun
2 Indiana, and barge loaded with iron
4 ore, belonging to the latter, was sunk
The Julia went down this morning
: after discharging four hundred tons
here. She has three hundred tons fol
Vicksburg.
The Boyd came in this morning witt
large cargo of grain and produce fol
this city.
The Shamrock, loaded with freight
for Memphis, grounded on the reefs be-
low the new locks at Louisville Sunday,
and lies in helpless condition.
The City of Cairo has laid up at
Cairo.
Captain Billy Pittman, a well-known
and highly esteemed pilot, is lying quite
i'll at his home in this city.
Captain John Stevens, an old steam
boatman, was beaten to death al Carson
vile, near st. Louis, Wednesday night,
by party of roughs. He lived but
few moments after being picked up.
He was carried home, where his wife
and large family of little ones were
driven nearly frantic by the horrible
sight of the beaten and mangled corpse.
Captain Bob Patterson, formerly a
member of the Nashville Board of AL
dermen, was few days since elected
jailer in the Nashville district, by the
entire steamboatmen's vote being cast
for him, he having rendered them val
liable services in securing a reduction Of
the wharfage tax while member of the
city Board.
There is but eight feet of water in the
channel between Cairo and st. Louis.
A decline of foot more will expose
many ragged places in the bottom of
the Father of Waters"
The Mallie Ragon took on at Louis
vile Friday 1000 barrels of potatoes for
New Orleans at sixty cents per barrel.
She reships at Cairo.
Cyrus Armstrong has libelled the Ada
Heilman at Evansville for 1858 50.
Captain John A. Robinson, Superin-
tendent of the Green and Barren River
Packet Company, is in Evansville try
ing to have the wharfage tax on his
packets reduced to the same as the
Louisville, Cairo and other LEGAL com
panies running there.
A Laselle (Ill) dispatch reports but
two feet six inches of water at Kickapoo
bar.
Competition has reduced the fare from
St. Louis to St. Paul to FIVE dollars.
1t was formerly eighteen dollars. What
the fare will be to Helena and Friars
Point when the season fairly opens here,
is question now being considered by
several steamboat lines in that trade.
For ST. LoUIs.-Of the Anchor line
of steamers, the splendid sidewheel
packet, City of Vicksburg, will leave the
elevator at pm. to-day. Passengers
will find the accommodations No. l, and
the fare unexcelled. Captain Carter is
in command, and Garrett Hulls in the
office.
o. A. McGinness and others from
Texas have purchased at Cincinnati the
Bette Gilbert for $4,000, for the Natchez
river trade.
Eight thousand dollars was the price
Captain John A. Williamson received
for the Anna. Her purchasers are
Eichels Dawson and Davis, who will
put her in the Cincinnati and Marietta
trade.
Tom Hill, late second mate of the
Belle Memphis, is now first mate of the
Mary Boyd. George Robirds and Jim
Norman are her pilots.
The Evansville Journal reports FIVE
feet scant on French Island bar. That's
all the Petrol No. 2 could find, and she
was COlupCllcu W ACdNC bhO DUtSSS Vi
salt above the bar, and one of her barges
drawing FIVE feet ten inches rubbed hard
but came over.
Navigation is completely suspended
at Pittsburg.
Pilots report three feet six inches on
Guyan bar, and four feet on Twelve Pole.
The tri-weekly passenger steamer st.
Francis, Captain T. r. Bowman, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Helena,
Mariana and all the usual way land
ings. Captain Sam Paine is her chief
The regular United States mail packet
in command of Captain
Sam Adams, leaves this evening at five
clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock, and
all points on the Arkansas river Cap
tain John Hardin holds forth at the