Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-30

vile, Captain Barrett, leaves as above
this evening, rain or shine. Send your
freight down In ample time.
FoR NAroLEoS.-The A. ]. White,
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves this even.
ing for Napoleon and all way stopping
places. Charley Smithers aud Sharpe,
clerks.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Commencing today the steamers A.
J. White and G. W. Cheek will consti.
tute a tri'weekly line from this city to
Napoleon, the White leaving to-day and
the Cheek on Thursday, and thereafter
leaving on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. This new arrangement will
prove Of much value to the planters
below here, as it affords daily line,
now from and to the city, and without
question the owners Of the line will
reap rich harvest for their endeavors
to please and accommodate their friends
below.
The Liberty No. 3 and Milt Atkins
Camelia have frozen to French Island
bar In the Ohio, and will stick to it I'M
til the next rise or until some friendly
craft pulls them of.
The Maude didn't leave New Orleans
Saturday, as the kilograms stated, but
leaves there tonight.
The Anchor line steamer Capital City
lost one Of her wheels by collision with
the towboat Bee, Sunday night, below
Hickman, and is going up in tow Of the
City Of Helena.
The Supervising Inspector-General Of
steamboats, left Washington last night
for Pittsburgh to FIX upon the time for
the steam-boiler experiments at that
city.
The Bossier, says the New Orleans
Herald, has been taken out on the Good
Intent Docks to get the oyster shells
taken off her bottom, having run to
Grand Isle so long they have clogged ON
her.
Captain ]. Slut Neal, who for weeks
has been dangerously i'll at New Or
leans, has so far improved that great
hopes are now entertained Of his early
recovery to health.
The report of the Wawasset Commits
sion, which was forwarded to District
Attorney Fish, will be prepared with an
Endorsement that the report furnishes
no evidence upon which Government
can base suit against the owners or the
officers of the boat.
The money pressure has caused the
withdrawal of the 0uachita Belle from
the New Orleans and Natchez trade.
Henry Busch, mate of the steamer
George c. Wolf, died at his residence in
St. Louis at i've o clock Saturday morn
ing, of fever contracted while watching
the boat here. He leaves wife and
several children to mourn his loss'
On last Friday evening at Columbus,
KY, a woman and her two children, who
came to that place by the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, attempted to board the
steamer Illinois as she was backing from
the wharf boat, and, missing her footing,
the mother and both children fell into
the river and were drowned. Their
names are unknown. Their bodies have
not been recovered.
Sundays St. Louis Globe contains the
sad intelligence of the death Of Lieuten-
ant Woodruff at Shreveport. 1t says:
Many acquaintance in this city and
elsewhere will be panied to learn of the
death of Lieutenant E. A. Woodruff; he
was sent by the Government to clear cut
the Red river raft, which work was, un-
der his superintendent, being thorough
ly done, when the pestilence broke out
at Shreveport Like a noble man, as he
was, he went to that place and has waited
on or nursed the sick until he was strick-
en- down by the terrible plague, aud died
yesterday. His name will be registered
with heroes"
Sundays St. Louis Times puts the
+" situation " before its readers in the
following manner:
Never before nor since the war, when
the river was blockaded by the military,
has business on the levee been as dull
as it was yesterday. There was scarcely
anything doing at all. The 10 Kinney,
which was advertised to leave for Vicks-
burg last evening, failed to secure
trip, and lies over until Tuesday. She
is the regular Anchor Line boat, and
her failure to depart as advertised
in Consequence of the lack of cargo-is
an occurrence which has not taken
place in the line for ten years, at least
to one of the regular boats Up river
packets are at last beginning to feel the
effects of the general stagnatien in bus
mess. The Davenport, which steamer
has been exceedingly well thus far
this season, came in this morning with
a very light trip. Commission mer-
chants both here and elsewhere, are in
structing their correspondents through
out the country to stop all shipments