Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-05
Gil, are her clerks, and Billy Din her

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Gil, are her clerks. and Billy Dill her
passenger agent.
The Minneola, Captain VIM. Miller
commanding, will leave port to-day at
five pm for Cairo, Louisville and Gin
cinnati. Her agent Mr.. Cobb, has en-
gagged nearly full trip for her.
The Belle St. Louis, with Captain
Blake commanding, leaves at five clock
this evening for vicksburg and the usual
landings. Passengers will find the
Belle St. Louis, frst-class in every re-
spect. ALI. Grissom is her secretary, as
sisted by Mr.. Thomas.
Among other items of the Minneolas
freight yesterday, she had 579 pieces of
bulk meat, 100 barrels, of pork, 600
grindstones, 300 boxes of glassware, rs
tons of machinery, 1900 packages of
furniture, 400 kegs of tar, 500 barrels of
whisky, 200 kegs of lard, 400 kegs of
nails, Is horses and large miscellaneous
lots.
A telegram from the Sallie says her
cabin has careened badly. She is settling
fast. and will be total loss. Captain
Barnard, agent of the underwriters, with
diver, left st. Louis for the wreck yes
terday.
Over fifty steamers and barges left St.
Louis last week for the South, carrying
about 30, 900 tons freight.
A rumor current to-day is that the
Emma Elliott will soon enter the Mem
phis and Cincinnati trade, and that the
Walt will take her place.
A dispatch from Fort Madison, Iowa
announces the river open at that point
A year ago to-day the river here was
rising rapidly and was but two feet six
inches below the high water of 1867.
Yesterday Ed Chapman, well-known
pilot, died at Cincinnati of typhoid
fever. Exactly year ago Captain p
X. Barclay died at the same place of
internal hemorrhage.
The Big SunAower was sold by the
United States Marshal, at Vicksburg,
last Saturday, and brought $4,000, the
Mississippi Valley Bank being the pur-
chaser.
The letter of the Secretary of the
Treasury in answer to a resolution of
the United State House of Representa-
tives, and dated February 18th, gives
the following reorganization of statistics
for the year 1871, in reference to steam
vessels on waters flowing into the Gulf
of Mexico: Casualties by fire, So; by
explosion, %; by collision, 81; by sink
ing, 1877 by wreck, 2. Number of lives
lost, sos; value of property destroyed,
Sc, O23,65O.
Large fields of ice Aoated past Quincy
all day Sunday.
The Belle Ida has been libeled in
New Orleans, at the instance of G. W.
Radabaugh. We should not be surprised
to hear of some libeling of foreign boats
here during the week.
The St. Joseph Herald says: A cor
respondent from the upper Missouri
warns us not to- be surprised if one of
the largest floods ever known is witnessed
in the Missouri the present spring.
Mr.. Niles Caspar, an old and we'll
known Ouachita river pilot, died at his
residence in New Orleans on Friday
last, Of pneumonia, and was buried the
following day, the steamers flying their
flags at half mast.
The Vicksburg Herald of the 10Th
ult says:
Mr.. VIM. Kinds, mate of the Natchez,
got into another difficulty yesterday with
negro. The black scamp, it seems,
annoyed Kinds not little about cot
ton hook, which he knew nothing Of
He then struck Kinds in the face, while
his attention was attracted in another
direction, with the butt end of pistol
staggering him against bale of cotton,
and swapping several caps at him. Upon
recovering his equilibrium, Kinds let
loose the contents of repeater at Mr..
Mig, which served to hump" the young
gents stumps quite lively, SO much
so as to cause him to throw his pistol
overheard to facilitate his progress.
Both parties were arraigned before Judge
Barnett, who discharged Kinds and put
the negro in Jail, in default of hundred
dollars bond.