Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-06

. ne IL satisfied, as are prouninen, hus,r...
men OF New Orleans, that Mr.. wayue i
In no way to blame for the failure.
On wednesday last, at Dunharton tho
Trader lost two Of her colored crew II
seems that the string of the safety valve
broke, causing the steam to escape,
which SO terrified one Of the fremen
and rouster as to cause them to jump
overheard and drown themselves. ~
A runaway couple from Kentucky
were united in the holy bonds of mafri-
mony, on board the fairy boat " Cairo
Thursday last, while the boat laid at
Birds Point, Mo.
The Henry s. Turner went down this
morning fully laden, adding some small
lots of freight here.
Mr.. John Guyer, submarine diver for
the Cincinnati Wrecking Company, has
gone to Madison, Ind, and recommended
work on the wreck of the America.
Saturdays Picayune has this: I've
learn that the John 7. Moore is at the
mouth of Red river waiting for the Bos-
sier, which steamer leaves to-day, TO
help her carry her freight up the river.
Red river has fallen 80 fast that the
Moore was unable to go to Shreveport
with her immense load.
The Pauline Carroll is coming up with
five hundred tons of railroad iron.
The latest Geographic advices from
Red river is from Jefferson, and reports
four feet of water in the lake and eight
feet in the bayou.
Bohlen, Huse & Co. furnish all the
steamers coming to this port with the
best lake ice and charge but one dollar
per hundred pounds delivered to the
boat.
A Louisville telegram of the Sd says:
The Canal Company contemplate
serving an injunction, through the
Chancery Court, on Sheeham Loles,
contractors, to stop their working on the
canal. They had commenced dumping
dirt at the foot of Ninth street, to build
a Golfer dam. 1t was held in allegiance
till Monday, to give General Weitzel
time to hear from the Secretary of War,
at Washington -
The reliable passenger packet Darda-
nellie, in command Of Captain Ed Now
land, leaves this afternoon at FIVE o'clock
for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all the
usual way landings. John Williams
and Billy Willis are her clerks.
Wash. Floyd, for long time second
clerk on the Great Republic, is now
filling the same position on the Belle
Vernon.
The decision Of the local inspectors,
Devinney and Fisher, in the collision
between the Fleetwood and Wildwood
which occurred on the 18th Of last month
at California, fifteen miles above Cincin-
matt, in which the Wildwood was undam-
aged and the Fleetwood lost her wheel
house and had her machinery damaged,
was given on the second and revoked
the license of Pilot John Henderson of
the Wildwood to act as pilot from date
Mr.. Henderson is going to take an ap-
peal.
The tri-weekly passenger steamer st.
Francis, Captain T. r. Bowman, leaves
as above this evening at FIVE o'clock for
Helena, Mariana and all the usual way
landings. Captain Sam Paine is her
chief secretary.
The United States mail packet Julia,
in command of Captain Boyd, leaves
this evening at FIVE o'clock for St. Louis
and all the bend landings. She has SUI
perior accommodations and fare. Col.
James Thompson is her prime minister.
In decorating handsome bulletin
board in front of the new steamboat
agency OF No. 10 Madison street yester-
day, lately opened by Captain Sam
Shock, the painter had put in fantastic
colors the word Cairo" but unfortu-
nately in reading it from the copy, he
spelled it Kayro. Several steamboat
agents, standing near, corrected the
error, and made inquiry as to the
of the nearest schoolmas-
Ter and the price of spelling books.