Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-01

and this will place them in position thstwill
| give them complete control Of Red river from
the West and Northwest.
Captain 81 Hemminway has completed his
$1,000 job Of cleaning out Current river, and
will no doubt do the same for Black river from
the Missouri line to Jacksonport. Arkansas.
Captain +. J. Inman is now building light
draft boat to run on Black river.
The Norfolk, Virginia, Manufacturing Com
pany have built two canal boats to. compete
for the New York State prize of 100000. Both
boats are constructed to hinge together. bow
and stern. by patent process, the latter por-
ton of which will carry the motive power.
which consists Of screw propeller and engine
Of forty horse power.p
The Shannon. Dexter, John Kyle and City
Of Alton arc the next boats due from below
There were a dozen boats at the landing at
one time yesterday.
The j. II. johnson was libeled and seized by
the United States Marshal at St. Louis last
Thursday. on the complaint of the crew and Of
her creditors. The claims presented amounted
TO over 5000; others, no doubt. will come in.
The steamer s.. S. Merrill was insured in
Cincinnati for $4,000. A good sale for the
Commodore. Pittsburg Commercial
You're not good authority on the subject
You never saw the Merrill.-H. Louis Demo
crdt.
The river reporter of the Pittsburg CONNER
cal is an ass - YdzOo Contemplated.
You're not good authority on the subject
You never saw the animal.-H. Louis Demo-
craft W. tNH
ALI of the above paragraphs we're written by
gentlemen Of the highest social Standing
Omaha CdHtdepresdidiOuteur.
A correspondent of the Vicksburg Times,
who came up on the City of Vicksburg. says
the Arkansas river looks considerably down in
the mouth.
GLEAYINGs.
The Undine passed the Celeste hard aground
ut Pecan Point, forty-fye miles aboye here,
Sunday. The Mohawk stuck at Bulletin bar
several hours on her way down.....The City Of
Quincy took 500 bbls lime, 9Oi bbls -four. 800
bbls apples, and large lot of miscellaneous
freight at Cairo Saturdays tornado ex-
tended from Arkansas to Lake Erie...-.Fear-
full disasters to vessels at sea by the late
equinoctal storm are reported by the cable
1.-The rains above st. Louis will, it is ex-
pected, swell the river to depth of ten feet
between there and Cairo. The mountain coal
towboat L. N. Phillips was sold Saturday at
Nashville to Captain John and Frank Gill
more, Of Pittsburg, for the sum of $500, half
cash. and the balance in four months......
The Belfast, when she left st. Louis,
had 80 cabin passengers and 100 dsckers......
Walt" writes from Cairo: Immense num-
bers Of squirrels are said to be migrating to
Illinois across the Ohio river, near Caledonia.
and the country round about is alive with
them......The red flags which have warned pi-
lots of the distractions in the main channel
span of Newport bridge are removed, the OBJ
structions having been cleared. A ship canal
across the Peninsula of Florida is proposed....
There is three feet over the worst bars be-
tween Cairo and Evansville. On French
Island there is about forty inches of water
The Mohawk had to patch one of her boilers
at Cairo, which detained her twenty-four
hours......V icksburg papers deny that Captain
Parisot wants two light draught steamers for
the Yazoo trade. Captain X. E. Neal, of the
steamer Indiana, offers for sale at New Or
leans frst-class sternwheel boat of $50 tons
capacity - The Dexter has 500 tons iron and
go tons sugar for ST. Louis. The City of Alton
has 500 sacks salt.
RIVER PERSONALS.
On Saturday Capt. Sam B. Adams was at St.
Louis. arranging for the repairs to the Clarks-
vile.
Messrs. j. G. Harris, J. X. Booker and Jas.
Chamberlain go out this evening as clerks Of
the Cleburne