Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-13

for points on the Ohio riyer......The MalIie
Ragon brought 5000 sacks of corn from above,
and returns to Evansville with cotton.....Tho
Armadillo took for Cincinnati 800 bales cot
ton and 100 tons Of freisht.....The Groesbeek
gets 1000 bales cotton for the same point.
The A. j. White brought 1917 bales cotton and
1877 sacks Of seed......The Anna. for Cincin
natl, took 1000 baleslof cotton. and tho Cham
pion $50 bales.....The Legal Tender, from
White river, came in with 2S7 bales Of cotton
and q lot Of sundries The Chas. Bodmann
arrived from above at dark. discharging Is
tons OF freight here for reshipment, and laid
over until daylight this morning. She was
eleven days and twenty hours in the gorge at
Columbus.
The arrivals to-day were the st. Joseph,
from New Madrid, with a splendid trip of
corn, and the Allegheny Belle. from Cairo,
with good trip Of grain and produce. The
latter reports the Tom Jasper hard aground
at Island 20.
tae MISCELLANEOUS.
The st. Joseph. Captain Corbitt. leaves this
evening at five o clock for Cairo and the coast
landings. Mr.. Hewitt is purser.
The G. w. Cheek, Captain George Malone,
leaves for Friar's Point and all coast landings
this evening at five o'clock. Messrs. +. ).
Gonterman. Chas. Jackson and L. W. Briggs
are clerks.
The passenger steamer A. j. White, Captain
Mark Cheek. leaves this evening at five clock
for Napoleon and all way landings. Messrs.
b. p. Fields and C. Outlaw are her clerks.
The feet passenger steamer Legal Tender,
Captain Vim. Ashford, leaves tonight at te
o'clock positively, for Devall's Bluff, Jack
sonport and all points on White river. e. @.
Postal. Dan Sullivan and Ed Crowell are her
clerks.
Among the bills introduced in the house Of
representatives at Washington yesterday, was
one relative to the tax imposed upon com
merce by charging tolls for boats passins
through the canal ut Louisville. The bill is
doubtless presented by the Cincinnati mer-
chants. and will, we hope. pass both houses
There is now about twelve million bushels
of coal ready for shipment at Pittsburg.
1t cost the Kate Kinney $1,000 for twenty-five
hours labor of the Allegheny Belle aud
barges to assist the Kate over Bulletin bar.
A number of coal flats were swamped b.
the sudden break in the ice 1t Cincinnati
yesterday, and the steamer Wauanita was
sunk in ten feet of water.
The rise reported at Cincinnati last,night
will sweep all the gorges out of the Ohio
river, so the boats that left here yesterday
will get through without difficulty.
six inch rise is reported at st. Louis.
Nine hundred of the officers and crews OF
the Mississippi towboats have memorialized
a. he aF
pressure below $50 pounds to the square inch
on their boats.
Captain Willoughby's steamer Ida is in tho
hands of the United States Marshal at New
Orleans.
The John Kilgour and Mallie Ragon have
their cargoes engaged for the Ohio river.
BIG PRIcE FOR A SMALL BoAT.-A telegram
from this city to the Cincinnati Commercial
says: 1.-THE Sallie V. sold for Southern
trade here yesterday for $50. OO0, and goes be-
low with 1900 sacks of corn at 40 cents per
sack"
Fridays New Orleans Times gives the fol-
lowing arrivals and cargoes: The Bart Able
from Baton Rouge; Frank Pargoud. from
Fort Adams. and Katie from the bends The
Katie brought in 1916 bales of cotton, 1858
Sacks COTTON seeu anu III hackS OF oli cdhts
The Bart Able brought in l6 bales Of cotton,
1872 hogsheads sugar, 3 sacks seed cotton and
JOG barrels molasses. The Pargoud had BIG
bales of cotton. III sacks cotton seed, 7 sacks
seed cotton, 100 hogsheads sugar and 27s bar
rels molasses.
The 0uachita is rising at Camden and sta
| tionary at Monroe.
The legal Tender will not leave port at the
usual time tonight. but will leave at ten
o'clock pm, thus affording all those who de-
sire chance to witness the great Mardi-Gras.
At the time named she will back out for Jack
sonport and all points on White river.
Sundays St. Louis Times says:
The harbor has been opened to Carondelet
| by the tugs Gartside. Creveling and the Adam
| Jacobs. The ferrybeats were more crowded
yesterday than they have been for the last two
weeks. The Adam Jacobs was busy last
evening cutting the ice from around the boats
| in ice harbors between here and Carondelet.
| after which she cut out a channel over to East
| ST. Louis and brought over supply OF coat
| for the boats, q breakup being expected
| about Monday or Tuesday.
| R~EA AHnnATC