Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-03


the Elliott 700 bales cotton for Cairo.
The Cheek had rousing trip and the
Glencoe came up after dark The City
of Quincy came down late and laid over.
The towboat Billy Collins passed down
and the Mary Alice and harges went up.
There were several arrivals this morn
ing. The Belfast came up with 600
tons for Cairo. The John Kyle brought
300 tons from New Orleans for this city,
and has 400 tens for points above. The
A. J. White brought l6O bales cotton
and 59i sacks seed. The Glencoe passed
up during the morning, nearly light;
aud the City of Quincy put of consid-
cradle freight
BoA.-s TO LEAVE.
For CrxcISNAr.,,-The Andy Baum
will leave here on Sat qrday for the Ohio,
and goes through to Gin einnati
FoR Arkansas RIVER. VThe Jennie
Howell goes out in the Adams Line on
Saturday for Pine Bluff and L title Rock
and will be the first boat through,
For FRIARs PoHT-The Phil Allin,
Captain James Lee, leaves this evening
at Eve o'clock for Helena, Friar's Point
and all business landings in the bends
below.
For MARIANNE. - The semi.weekly
passenger steamer St. Francis, Captain
Bowman, leaves this evening at five
clock for Helena, Mariana and all
the usual bend landings. Messrs. Paine,
Dean and Franklin are clerks.
FoR NAPOLEON. A. J. White.
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this after
noon at FIVE o'clock for Napoleon and
all the bend landings. Messrs. Fields,
Sharpe and Smithers are her popular
secretaries.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The wrecking boat Salvor No. recov-
cred from the H. NJ. Shreve nearly all
her machinery, including three boilers,
one engine, doctor, shaft, ono wheel. and
small lot of damaged freight in the
hold.
New Orleans will abolish the Office Of
wharfmaster when the wharfage tax is
abolished and that move has already
been started,
Wash Vennum, well known Ohio
river pilot, died suddenly at Wheeling
one day last week
An ice boat propelled by sails is the
sensation at st. Paul. She is built to
carry coal, and has capacity for one
hundred bushels, but tows two seds
with fifty bushels each. She runs eight
miles in half an hour, and handles well.
y 1T is now said that none Of the canal
boat inventions for the Erie canal will
do. Narrow gauge railroads on the canal
banks are now recommended.
Captains Fisher and Bryson, the rep
resentatives of the steamboat interest of
St. Louis, are sanguire that the Western
steamboat interests will receive the con
sideration due them this winter, which
has so long been withheld. The West
and Northwest have now the power in
the national councils to demand their
rights, and, if they do not receive them,
it will be caused by the recreancy ofther
members in Congress.
All OF the officers and crews Of the
Anchor line boats have been ordered to
their steamers.
A Pittsburg telegram says: 1t is ex-
pected there is heavy gorge Of ice be-
tween Brownsville and Greensboro,
which may, when it starts, cut down
many coal boats and barges. The water
at Greensboro is twenty feet and rising.
At Brownsville it is twelve feet and
rising. At Rice's landing, above
the river had raised five
feet in the morning, between and IL
o'clock."
The diver who went down into the hold
Of the General Buell., sunk at Madison,
Indiana, found her badly broken on the
starboard side from near the forward
hatch ~ ohout ono hundred feet aft