Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-07
from New Madrid. came in with large trip
Of corn......The Sic ux CITY reports the Kate
Kinney hard agroun d at Horn Lake.

from new Mauflut chme IN Win large trlp
Of corn......The sioux CITY reports the Kate
Kinney hard agrour at Horn Lake.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Arkansas rose three inches yesterday.
There is not the slightest prospect for n re-
sumption Of navigation. in any Of the streams
above this city. and Memphis continues to be
the head Of navigation.
Our new deputy wharfmaster. James Frank
lin. assumed the duties Of his Office to-day.
First clerks will mako a note Of this, and
shape their course accordingly. Jim will be
on hand at all times, and will not be BLAIR
neyed into any reduction Of the ten per
centum.
A large number Of the best state rooms of
the Belle Lee have been engaged for the round
trip. Mr.. Kennedy, her agent. will doubt
less have all engaged by the time this meets
the eye Of the reader.
Quite number of passengers for the Mard
Gras festivities arrived hepe by rail to-day
from Louisville and Cincinnati and took pas
sage on the Belle Lee.
The ducal contract with the Great Republic
read as follows: IF the boat is delayed ten
hours otherwise than by the orders of tho
duke. he will be at liberty to give her up
paying only for the time used"
The United States supervising inspectors,
now in session in Washington city, have re-
solved that all steam-recording gauges. as
also fire extinguishers, must be guaranteed
BY the agents or makers thereof, for one year.
and IL they are unwilling TO do so, the local
inspectors are not required to place them on
board Of steamers.
The value of the boats and cargoes in the
gorge at Columbus is estimated at from two
and a half to i've millions of dollars.
The ducal party left here at 10; 80 this morn
ing on the James Howard, accompanied by
several Of our leading citizens and party of
ladies and gentlemen from Louisville. II
costs his highness something like $1,000 day
for his boat ride.
The fine passenger steamer Thomas IL. Al
len, Captain Eugene Smith, leaves this even
ing at Eve o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and all way points on the Arkansas river.
Mr.. Pat Morrison and Billy Willis are clerks.
The fine and feet passenger steamer Belle
Lee, in command Of j. f, Hicks. leaves this
evening at four o'clock. positively, for New
Orleans and all way landings. The Belle Lee
has always been q favorite in the trade, hav"
ing large and splendid staterooms, with her
tables always supplied with all the delicaeies
that the market affords. John S. Sullivan is
her chief secretary.
But one weeks supply of coal remains in
the yards.
In the house of representatives at Washing
ton, yesterday, bill was introduced for the
construction of bridge across the Mississippi
from St. Clair county, Illinois. to South st.
Louis.
Our Washington special to-day says that
the following substitute for rule Sc in general
rules has been adopted by the committee on
commerce:
Every steamer running on daylight route
only shall have one first officer of each grade
/ pilot and engineer, together with crew sum
Gent to perform the ordinary duties oil the
boat.
Yesterdays Little Rock Gazette says:
Yesterday was warm and cloudy. About
O'Clock in the evening slow rain commenced
falling. and continued up TO the ho1r Oh g9 el
| 10 press. The river is on a stand. Three feet
| out; eighteen inches above. The y: v. gray,
| Captain X. 5. Yerkes. arrived with part oil
her cargo from Cincinnati Sunday evening,
and left fST par sIo nor New
leans, arrived after being detained at Fourene
bar twenty four hours. She lighted over after
a barge coming to her assistance.
Yesterdays st. Louis Republican despaira
of all hope of an early resumption Of naviga-
ton. and says:
The canal through the ice-gorge. by which
communication with East st. Louis and IT,
ten railroad lines is kept up, was occupied by
the ferryboats East St. Louis and G. ii. Null
ken, which crafts made regular trips durin}
the day, transferring hundreds Of wagons and
perhaps thousands of people. The effort t.
clear the harbor of ice has been abandoned
for the present. Much apprehension is fell
| among the steamboatmen for the safety OF
their property when the gorge begins t'
move.