Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-07

Deyalrs Bluff, aud other lower creeks
are in about the same condition. The
weather is clear aud warm.
BUSINESS
The freight movement is so light just
now that bare mention OF the boats
trips is only necessary, without itemizing
their cargoes, and even that mention is
enough TO brighten the boat owners
when they consider that at the present
low rates Of freight they can scarcely
make both ends meet, though their
boats be loaded down. The City Of
Chester came down during the night
with 400 tons, and the Clarksville
brought a =" fly time" trip from the Ar
kansas below Pine Bluff. only going to
that point.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
FoR Arkansas RIVER The Clarks-
vile leaves on Saturday evening and is
the regular mail packet.
FoR ST. LoUIs.-Ths City OF Chester,
Captain Zeigler, departs at five o'clock
this evening for Cairo aud St. Louis.
Mr.. Thomas Withledge is chief purser,
and in addition to furnishing elegant
apartments for those who ride on his
boat, will supply tickets to any point in
the North or East.
FoR VIcKsBURo- Captain Blake's
public favorite. the steamer Julia, is the
Vieksburg packet for this evening. The
calling attention TO her twice of depar-
ture is enough to insure full cargo of
freight and a register full of people.
John Blake is the custodian Of her keys
and exchequer.
FoR NEw ORLEANS. -The unsurpassed
and more than elegant passenger and
freight steamer Henry Ames will be
here to leave at precisely four o'clock
this afternoon for New Orleans and ell
intermediate points.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain Abe Hutchinson, of the John
Kyle, returned to the city night before
last, and at noon yesterday started North
on the Louisville railroad.
The steamer Right Way left Shreve-
port yesterday for Louisville, to go
through course Of repairs and paint.
Nashville had one arrival yesterday.
That was a dug.out, fully laden with oak
chips, from GAINESVILLE.
Mausford, at the corner of Second
and Monroe streets, has all the river
papers, including those published at
every point between New Orleans and
St. Paul or Pittsburg.
Wharfmaster Lightburne collected
last month eighteen hundred and fifty
one dollars wharfage, and it wasn't a
good month Tor collections either.
The Bismarck is due up with 600 tons
of sugar and 400 tons of miscellaneous
freight at the advanced rates of 20 cents
per hundred She also has forty pas
sengers.
Captain King is building at Madison
a new steamer named the Eureka. She
is 1870 feet long, q feet beam, 8 feet
hold. She will draw but II inches light
and carry 400 tons on p feet During
low water she will ply in the Kentucky
river, and in the winter season will run
as an Arkansas river packet between
Memphis and Fort Smith.
The st. Louis Globe of yesterday says:
" Captain t. P. Perkins, the gentle
manly clerk of the Belle Lacrosse, has
resigned his position, and is succeeded
by our young friend Henry 81. Meredith,
lately of the Illinois. We hope to see
Captain Perkins on one of our fine
steamers in a short time. Mr.. ALT Cut
ting, the Egyptian boat builder, was on
Change yesterday. The renowned John
Kyle follows the Pauline Carroll for
New Orleans in the Combination"
DRIFTwOoD.
Marine hospital expenditures last
month were $l63. Six patients were ad-
mitted to the hospital during the month,
four were discharged, two died and four
remain. INST. Louis collected $5l20
for wharfage last month.........The Ar
madillo is to be dismantled at Cinein-
natl, and her machinery transferred to
the new steamer Cherokee ......... The
Mary 4. Poe, on her way to Red river
rom st. Louis, deeply lsdened, when
about thirty miles below this city, last
Friday night, at IL o'clock, broke the
wrist Of her stsrboard engine and run
through herself, throwing her shaft into
he river. She proceeded to Vicksburg,
where she viii remain for repairs........,
The James d. Parker will be here to-
morrow from Cincinnati....... Says yes
erday's st. Louis Democrat: Ship
,ers we're readily shipping to New Or
cans by the Baker-Carroll line at 20
ents per 100. and so cents for -four,
lble the barge rates are ia cents and
5 cents only. The Kountz lines rates,
lhatever they are, seem to be satisfac-
Dry to shippers, as the Henry Yaeger is
oading pretty fast........Captain David
White, "Old Enterprise" is spending
he summer with his family at Fruitport,
Iichigan....,.".The hull of the old Com
lercial is being converted into a barge
/ Evansville.