Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-19
BUSINESS.

The Alice, for the 0uaehita, with COO
tons, aud the City Of Alton, loaded to the
guards with New Orleans freight, passed
down during the night. The Thomas
Sherlock also came down and left about
IL pm, with all she could carry. The
Mcdonald, with q tow Of coal and q
wharfboat in tow, passed down at 10
o'clock this morning. The James d.
Parker, from Cincinnati, came down
loaded deep with freight for this city;
she had $50 tens, including 1913 bales Of
hay, PAS sacks Of corn, $50 sacks oats,
and considerable mixed freight.
boats TO LEAVE.
FoR New ORLEANS AND MARDIGRAs.-
The Magnificent Belle Lee, Captain
Frank Hicks, will be up to-day and re-
turns tomorrow, carrying passengers to
New Orleans, and giving them ample
time to see the sights there.
For ST.. LoUIs.-The Marble City,
Captain Balahan, leaves this evening at
o'clock for Cairo and st. Louis.
For CNoEYATI-The Henry Pro-
baseo departs at clock this afternoon
for Cincinnati, and stops at all the towns
and cities below there.
For New 0RLEANs.-The fine and
feet passenger steamer City Of Cairo,
with Captain Charles Schultze on the
roof, leavea this evening clock for
New Orleans and all way landings.
Passengers travelling South will find the
Cairo frst-class in every respect. Mr..
Len S. Miller is chief clerk.
For ARKANSAS RIVER. The Mary
Boyd, Captain r. l.. Haines, departs at
5 o'clock this afternoon for Pine Bluff,
Little Rock and all points on the Arkan-
sas river. Mr.. A. II. 0niell is clerk.
MIscELLAYEOUs.
Night before last the steamer John A.
Gilmore, with two barges in tow, while
passing through the railroad bridge over
the Tennessee river, at GAINESVILLE,
struck the upper rest of the pier Of the
draw, capsizing the draw into the river.
The two bridge-tenders saved themselves
by dropping through the draw into the
outer pier. They remained on the draw
for sometime, but were finally rescued
by the life-boat from the steamer Silver
Thorn. As the river is very high the
rescue was effected with great peril. The
Gilmore was considerably damaged, and
required constant pumping to keep her
ahoat.
Thirty barges were lost by the rise at
Pittsburg,
Yesterday President Grant nominated
David d. Smith as Supervising Inspec-
tor General of steamboats,.
The Henry Ames came down just as
we we're going to press, loaded to the
guards.
Foot passengers were crossing the
Mississippi on the ice at Quincy, Satur-
day morning. The river was rising
slowly. ar
The following is from the St. Louis
Democrat:
As the tributaries Of the Missouri
above St. Charles are rising fast, and
the Illinois and Upper Mississippi
are sure 10 rise speedily, boatmen will
see that the embargo to the South is non
est, and they had better look out for their
spars and wharf boat stages. Let the
people along the Lower Mississippi look
out for a food. See how the Cumber-
land and Tennessee are. The Usage has
risen six feet or over, is free of ice, and
the small steamer Tom Stevens has been
raised from the pebbly bed of that pelu-
cid stream.
On Friday, at Knoxville, the Tennes-
see was thirty feet deep and rising rap
idly. French Broad and Holston and
all other side streams heard from, were
rising rapidly.
There is good water now in the Illinois
at Peoria. 1t had risen on Friday eve
ming to FIVE feet above low water.
Last Sunday three men-Charles Alex
ander, John Mills and Morgan Taylor
we're nearly killed at Little Rock by the
falling of one of the Exporters spars
Ellis Harris and Joe Keith, formerly
clerks in the Anchor Line, have gone
into the bakery business at Ste. Gene
We've, Missouri
The Henry Probasco takes out for the
Ohio river, this evening, between HOO
and 1900 bales of cotton, including the
lot of l57 bales recovered from the Cher
okee.
The railroad iron put out by the Bis
narck is being hauled up the bank to-
lay to keep it out of the water.
The Mary Boyd has enough freight
engaged to load her fat.
When the, Parker's stage plank was
put out this morning, about two hundred
larky laborers made a rush for the mate
If the boat, who came out to distribute
abOr tickets, and in the scramble fer the
tickets some half a dozen darkies got
slightly into the river, much to the amuse-
nent Of the spectators.
The ]. Sharp Mcdonald, on her way
iown this morning. dropped here four
,arges, containing 90, 900 bushels Of coal
or the old gas company. They have
llso on the way here the toWbeat Coal
City. with 26 barges. containing $4,000
,ushels