Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-18

with fourteen feet to Little Rock. White
river has seven feet to Jacksonport, and
lis declining. The telegraphic report
above gives the condition OF other
streams. The weather is dry and hot
r. PORT NEWS. r0s
The I. H. Allen arrived last evening
with fair trip from the Arkansas, and
the John Howard from the same stream,
went up without landing .........The City
of Helena came down in the evening
with 200 tons Of reshipping freight for
this point, and had as much more for
Vicksburg, besides good passenger list
........The Belle Memphis leftwith fair
way trip, and had as passengers thirty
six Choctaw Indian ball players, who 90
to st. Louis to show their skill then
make tour OF the Western States.
teh MISCELLANEOUS.
The Charley Mcdonald left for the
Ohio last night with tow of empty coal
barges.
A number of coal barges were put
through the canal at Louisville yester
day.
The Cheek was advertised to leave
Louisville yesterday.
Captain Strader, brother of the late
Jacob Strader, of Cincinnati, died sud
denly at Madison, Indiana, Saturday
morning. The deceased was about
sixty-three years old, and was pioneer
steamboat commander.
The L. +. Eckert raised the barge OF
lumber sunk on Grand Chain and towed
il to Cairo Saturday morning; then went
to Birds Slough, back of Cairo, raised
barge of Walnut logs which sunk from
open seams, but 1t sank again in shallow
water after being landed. 1t belongs to
l.. w. Miller, of this city.
The James Howard left New Orleans
Saturday night with an immense trip.
Her rooms were full, while the chief
item on her freight list was 7l46 bars Of
heavy railroad iron. Among the pas
sengers of the Howard were Colonel
Scott and others Of many Of the North
ern railroads, who were destined for the
Red river country. A New Orleans ex
change says her cargo of iron was
loaded in twenty-six working hours by
Messrs. Latourette and Seguin. Fast
work, that
r The fleet passenger steamer Thomas
II. Allen, in command of Captain Eu-
gene Smith, leaves this evening at five
O o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all the usual way landings. Messrs.
Morrison and Gillespie are her clerks.
General Weitzel has requested the Di-
rectors to close the Louisville canal for
three weeks from the 10Th of July, and
keep the new locks closed for seven
weeks from that time. Contracts for
completing the improvements we're given
out on Monday.
The Emile LaBarge went down this
morning fully laden. ru
The Kate Kinney is bringing up 1923
bars of railroad iron for the Arkansas
Central railway at Helena, and has
fair trip for the Ohio. Captain Sibley,
of the Sabine, is passenger.
The John Overton has been inspected,
and is 20. K. for the moonlight ex-
cursion tomorrow evening.
The John Kyle, coming up on leaving
New Orleans Saturday, had all of her
rooms engaged, and has, in freight 1855
boxes of Havana sugar, 100 sacks of
salt, 30 tons scrap iron, and $50 tons of
miscellaneous freight The Jas. How
ard for the Ohio river, was full Of pas
sengers, and had, in freight, TAG bars OF
railroad iron for Evansville. The Poto-
mac had, for the Ohio river, 300 tons of
freight, including 500 barrels of pork
and IS passengers. Day
The great Republic is loaded fat
The swift and elegant steamer Belle
st. Louis will leave at ten a m to-mor-
row for Cairo and st. Louis. Passen
gers will find her accommodations and
fares of the best, while Captains Blake
and Grissom will do all they can for the
comfort of her guests 1t is a treat to
travel with them and on their fine boat.
Mr.. George Tod, the wellknown caterer,
has charge Of the tables of the Belle.
The feet passenger steamer st. Fran
els, Captain L. r. Bowman, leaves this
evening at FIVE clock for Helena, Ma
riana, Wittsburg and all the usual way
landings. Sam Paine and Billy Dean
ITEMs-The Kilgour got IS tons of
Southern freight at Louisville. The
Edinburg will De sold at Cincinnati at
auction on the 10th. The Longworth
got 225 hogsheads of tobacco and 1000
barrels of cement for the South. The
Indiana got SUI tons at Shawneetown.
At Shreveport, on the the Sd inst, at a
point a mile above town, opposite the
residence of Captain George Allen, a
large, fine mule came down to the river
to drink, when a large alligator seized
him by the nose, dragged him into the
river and there beat the poor mule to
death with his tail. N B. Hatcher,
clerk of the Tom Jasper, came up by
rail from Vicksburg and will join the
boat here A Fort Benton telegram of
the 10Th says: River 10 better stage
than it has been for the last three years,
but not having the usual spring rains we
are not having the high water that was
anticipated A st Louis exchange
says the sternwheel steamer Minnie was
sold by the St. Louis and Arkansas River
Packet Company to Anthony Sauer, of
Kansas City, for sSOO0 She is to run
between Lexington and Kansas City,
carrying ties in connection with the rail-