Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-29


light shower fell this morning.
BUSINESS.
The Grand Tower came down late
Saturday night and returned to St.
Louis at sunrise yesterday morning.
TIE Mary L. Poo went up early, but
didn't land, as she had no physicians on
board. The Glencoe, after wallowing
about on the bars and in the narrow
channels this aide Of Cairo for few
days, went down at noon towing fuel
and freight barge.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
FoR ST. Louis. The Belle Memphis,
in command of Captain Crane, will
leave as above, this evening at Eve
o'clock for Cairo, St. Louis and all the
usual way landings. Mr.. W. Blenker is
clerk.
MIscELLANEUUs.
The Maude left New Orleans Satur-
day night, and will be here Thursday
morning to start in the Memphis and
New Orleans trade.
Cairo has had eight cases of the gen
uine yellow, bilio-gastric malarial; they
didn't like to acknowledge it at FIRST, but
have at last done so.
The pilots Of the Henderson packets
report twenty-five inches on French
Island bar in the Ohio.
Captain John T. Washington left the
city for brief visit to Kentucky.
The Cleburne's crew jumped her night
before last.
A colored waiter fell overheard from
the City Of Augusta on her last trip up
White river and drowned.
Never before in the history ofSt. Louis,
says the Dispatch, were river items so
scarce as at present Business outside
Of the local packets is almost entirely
suspended, owing to the dead low water
and unsettled condition of the South,
caused by the yellow fever and the money
panic. New Orleans freights are de-
creasing daily, and unless there is some
revivifying influence soon several more
boats will be compelled to lie up.
The Tom Jasper and several other
boats that are "banked at St. Louis
will stay there until the New Orleans
rates on -four are advanced to seventy
cents a barrel and more of it is offered
for shipment.
The new South American steamer is
on her way down the Ohio, but won't get
here in week unless that river rises.
There wasn't the first departure from
St. Louis yesterday.
A New Orleans exchange says.
A new plan is proposed to deepen the
bar at the mouth of the Mississippi by
building dykes, and the whole work it is
estimated, will not cost beyond $1,000
600. The plan, it is said, could be rap
idly executed, as the most of the dyke
would be in shallow water, not affected
by the waves, and eighteen months
would see the work completed. Mr.. r.
s. Elliott, who suggests the idea, writes:
Il propose to construct wooden caisssons
or arks up the river, fill them with logs
and brush, rocks and bags of sand, float
them to the spot and sink them in line,
beginning at the termination of the left
bank and extending toward the gulf,
about on the line as marked with red ink
on the chart at the Exchange. These
arks onght to be thirty or more feet in
width, as general rule, and eighty, one
hundred or one hundred and twenty feet
in length. They could be made of
green timber, and even coal.barges, to
be bought cheap at New Orleans, might
be used at the beginning of the
work. The rocks and sand bags would
be put in to cause the structure to sink,
and if necessary the mass OF timber and
brush could be bound together by iron
rods. By mixing hydraulic cement with
the sand, each bag would, / think, have
the consistency of rock under water
The arks, having broad-bearing sur
face, would not sink deeply into the
mud, and when required one could be
sunk on another to complete the work.
No note is taken OF the mudlump
phenomena, as the mud-lumps could, in
any event, only raise up the dyke, and
it could not float or blow away; but if it
did, the lump would supply its place"
A majority of the wealthy river digni-
taries of this city have removed their
families to interior points. The poorer
cusses are, however, compelled to re-
main and face the music.
Regarding the crisis there, and its
effect upon ship-building, Jefferson
vile, Indiana, dispatch says: The
ship.yards of Ames, Howard & Co., who
employ heavy force of men, succeeded
in securing limited amount of curren-
~ here and there, to pay two thirds Of
The wages due employees. A deduction
Of the force has been made, and several
boats now on the stocks will be finished,
the stringency of cur
rency. The effect of the panic is also
ielt at the ship-yard of B. B. Moore, but
no reduction of the force is made.