Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-19

The Glasgow, Captain Lamothe, will
back out this evening st FIVE o'clock
for Camden, Beach Hill, Champaign
ole, Trenton, Monroe and all points
on Ouachita river.
The feet passenger steamer Legal
Tender, Captain VIM. Ashford, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Devall's
Bluff, Jacksonport and all points on
White river. 4. c. Postal, Dan Sullivan
and Ed Crowell are clerks.
Another bridge bill was introduced in
the United States Senate yesterday
This time it is TO cross the Missouri at
Nebraska City.
Senator Kellogg yesterday introduced
a resolution in the Senate at Washing
ton to aid in rebuilding the levees on
the Mississippi river, and providing for
the issue of ten-forty bonds at the rate
of $1,000 per mile to the Mississippi
Valley Levee Company to aid in the con-
struction Of leyee from Cape Girar-
deau, Missouri, to Fort jackson, Louis
lana. We hope it may pass, as it will
save annually millions OF dollars.
A display of cautionary signals at
lake ports will begin.April |.
The boiler Of soap and candle fac
tory exploded yesterday at Cincinnati,
killing a number Of people. Had it
been steamboat boiler the entire crew
Of the boat would have been in limbo
ere this.
Charley Weir, agent of the Adams
Express Company at Cincinnati, and
Mr.. Ellison, bridge superintendent, were
the two venturesome gentlemen who
alone had charge Of the engine that
made the first trip over the Cincinnati
and Newport bridge.
The Pauline Carroll is coming ND
with eight hundred tons, mostly railroad
iron.
Louisville collected $l279 80 wharfage
for two weeks ending March 10th, and
lost in commercial point of view ten
times that amount by collecting any
wharfage at all.
1t is reported here that the cause Of
the Gov. Allen being tied to the bank at
New Orleans, with a red flag floating
over her, was on account of her oppo.
sition to the r. E. Lee in the New Or
leans and Vicksburg cotton trade. II
all came of carrying cotton at fifty cents
per bale.
The Elliott added 100 tons of freight
at Louisville, nearly all for White river,
and passed there Sunday evening with
her guards in the water, drawing seven
and half feet.
The Louisville, for passing through
the canal both ways, pays $751; Admit
raj James pays the Canal Company
weekly tax of $500 for mis- Evansville
packets, the Charmer and Bermuda.
Wharfage and the canal tolls will be the
death Of Louisville yet.
st. Louis rates south continue firm at
the following figures: To Memphis
-four SOC, pork SOC, whisky 81 so per
bbl.; hay 40c, corn, oats, bacon and lard
zoe per 100 pounds; to Vicksburg-aour
soc, pork 81 20, whisky 81 per Dbl hay
SOC, corn, oats, bacon and lard 40c per
100 pounds; to New 0rleans-hour SOC,
pork 81 20, whisky 50 per bbl.; hay SOC,
corn, oats, bacon and lard 40c per leo
pounds; by barge line-hour 75c, pork
81 Is per Dbl, hay SOC, corn, oats, ba-
con and lard 379 per 100 pounds.
The general apprehension of a great
food in the Mississippi has reached New
Orleans, and the authorities are looking
out in time to avoid the consequences.
The James Howard left New Orleans
with her cabin full of passengers, and
had on board 2s76 bars Of railroad iron
and other freight.
During the week ending the 18th,
Yazoo river fell two feet.
One week ago to-day while the Lota-
wanna was in Tchula lake, she caught
fire and had to throw twenty-five or
thirty bales of cotton overheard before
it could be extinguished. No other
damage was done.
The river is open to Keokuk, and the
j. H. Johnson arrived there Saturday
from St. Louis.