Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-27
night before last sunk eleven barres a

night before last sunk eleven barges q
coal for ]. W. Bigley. Loss, $22, 1000.
The Colossal will be due up tonight.
According to the kilograms the Charles
Bodmann makes this her terminal point
on her present down trip.
The ]. Il. Gilmore arrived yesterday
With tow Of coal for Brown 4 Jones,
and the Smoky City left part OF her tow
here for H. B. Packer & Co., and took
the remainder to Arkansas City and
Natchez. She had in all 3l3, 900 bushels.
Our coal dealers have all very good
supply.
Recent advices from st. Joseph and
other points below there on the Missouri
report that stream bank full and rising.
Mondays Evansville COURIER says:
The Tom Jasper was attached yester-
day, at the suit of several negro deck
hands, who, as we are informed, shipped
for the round trip and demanded their
wages at this port. Captain Burke very
properly refused to pay them their full
amount of wages unless they agreed to
help unload the boat, which they refused
to do, and thereupon entered suit against
the boat for the amount they pretended
to claim was due them. This is another
case of hardship, which calls loudly for
justice. We are reliably informed that
the crew had an easy time of it on their
way up, having nothing to dc"
The Jefferson Times of the 2lst men
tons head rise in the bayou which, in
addition to the rise from backwater, will
make total rise of ten inches.
The citizens of Jefferson sent COM
mittee down to Shreveport to invite Tom
Scott and Dodge up to buy their town.
They went.
The Colossal is taking 400 tons of rail
iron from New Orleans to White river.
On the Goth, Red river at Shreveport
rose three inches and was nine feet two
inches below the highest water of the
season. There is now water enough in
the lakes for large boats, and the water
coming out is very red.
The Dardanelle goes out tomorrow
for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all points
on the Arkansas.
ITEMs.-The old tubular boilers of the
Cheek are on the landing and for sale.
The water gauge at Leavenworth is
down. The old Rubicon is to be wrecked
al st. Louis. The A. j. Baker went
down last night for Baton Rouge with
coal A towboat and barge excursion is
talked Of at st. Louise Captain John
Fitzgerald and John p. Keiser should
be here to-day from st. Louis. The La
Belle has gone up the Ohio river to be
heightened 20 feet. She is now 1870 feet
long, 80 feet beam, g. feet hold, with
cylinders 2Og inches, 81 feet stroke.
The steamer John Howard has laid up
at New Albany to repaint. Twenty
eight thousand nine hundred and fifty
four dollars and seventy cents in gold
was the duty paid to the surveyor at
Evansville on the cargoes of iron by the
Howard and Jasper. The Ohio is fall
ing seven inches day at Cairo. The
La Barge reshipped her Jefferson freight
at Shreveport.
Commencing to-day, the George W.
Cheek will resume her trips in the
Helena and Friars Point trade and run
regularly as a tri-weekly packet, leaving
on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
She has just been overhauled and has
an entirely new outfit, and will be gladly
welcomed by her old friends in the
bends. Her leaving time is sharp FIVE
o'clock, and George Malone will back
her out at that hour.
The Julia, in command of Captain
Boyd, departs this afternoon at FIVE
o'clock for Vicksburg and all the usual
way landings. Mr.. James Thompson is
her chief purser.
The City of Chester, Captain Zeigler,
departs this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo, st. Louis and all way landings.
Mr.. @. Hewitt ia chief clerk.