Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-25

Fon ST. Louis The City Of Chester
leaves as above at five o'clock for Cairo
and 81. Louis. Captain zeigler com.
mands.
foR VlcKanURG. Tho Pat Cleburne,
Captain Ashford. will DO down to leave
at ten o'clock Friday morning Tor
Vicksburg. ID. p. Davis is clerk.
FoR Arkansas RvER-The Clarks-
VILE is edyerdsed to leave on Saturday.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Rnsl National Bank closed ia
doors this morning.
Joe 7. Oldham. well.known White
river pilot, died yesterday Of the yellow
fever, and vas buried at nine o'clock
this morning. lie leaves wife aud one
child, besides large circle Of friends,
TO mourn his loss.
The Vicksburg Herald says: "When
the City Council meets in regular ses-
sion again, which viii be next Monday n
week. II some Of the river men would
present a little petition or something Of
that sort, some little appropriation from
the wharfage fund might be made for the
Improvement Of the leyee. As It ia at
present, our levee is not calculated to
inspire pedestrians with an extravagant
idea Of its beauty and loveliness Win
ter is fast approaching, and when the
heavy rains set in that levee will be just
next to impossible. A little labor put
where it would do the most good would
soon improve our leyee wonderfully"
The Arlington has laid up at Shawnee
town to await a rise.
The Louisville and Henderson packet
lines have advanced their rates Of
freight.
The following personal" appeared
in yesterdays CourerJournal; Amy
amount Of steamboat pilots are to be
found on the levee daily, with nothing
to do but to play pitch seven-up for
drinks. Those who are mere piously in
clined employ their time in fishing for
tooth herring and bass. Mr.. George
Mcbride and Captain William Varble
caught at the wharf boat yesterday
morning about twenty Of the former
species. " ii-K
The piling above the wharf boat at
| vicksburg is above the water, and boats
may land there in safety.
We were informed yesterday that Cap
tain j. r. Paul, owner of the steamer
Mary Miller, sold his boat to certain par
ties in this city and agreed to deliver her
at a specified time ana on specified terms,
but owing to additional exaetions byCapt.
Paul, not embraced in the original con-
tract, the transfer was not consummated.
As the parties who claimed to have pur-
chased her are about to assert their
rights by a claim for damages in the
courts, few days will settle any ques-
ton that may be pertinent to the case.
-Comier-J Journal, 24th.
A general agreement has been entered
into at Washington by Congressman of
the Mississippi and Missouri river val
legs to use their efforts in securing an
appropriation for the st. Philip canal at
the outlet Of the Mississippi river. 1t is
expected that $l2 100000 will be neces-
sary to make ship canal which will en-
able ocean vessels of the greatest bur-
den to reach New Orleans without being
INSTRUCTED by the bars. Some of the
Western members state that the people
of the Mississippi valley seek solution
of the transportation question mainly in
that direction.
We copy the following from the Cairo
Bulletin of the 23d: Yesterday morn
ing, while coming down the Mississippi,
towing four barges, the R. A. Babbage
lost two of them. She came on to Cairo,
where she left the balance of her tow,
and returned to fetch out those that she
had left behind. The James Howard is
still at our wharf. She will take most
of her damaged freight to New Orleans,
where it will be disposed Of. She has
large quantity of damaged -four, much
of it that is worth little or nothing, that
she may possibly dispose of here. She
also has considerable corn that is all
more or less damaged"
Mr.. Lawrence Mckee, assistant wharf
master at Cairo, is dangerously i'll at his
fathers house in that city