Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-26

packages eggs, l4l sacks cotton seed,
and 46 bales cotton. The Laura Davis
got her cargo out last night, and is now
loading for Cincinnati, to leave tonight.
The James Howard came down early
this morning. having been detained by
grounding at Osceola. The Jas. How
ard added 20 tons here. The A. j.
White came up this morning with 2O3
balea Of cotton and 5l3 sacks Of seed.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
FoR CNoNSArL--T Laura Davis,
CaptaiR Davis will leave for the Ohio
this evening at FIVE o'clock.
FoR VIoKsBuRG The Colorado leaves
for Vicksburg at ten am. Sunday.
FoR ST. LoUIs.-The Grand Tower
is the regular packet to leave Saturday
at Eve pm. 20.
FoR NAPoLEoS.-The A. j. White,
Captain NJ. Cheek, leaves as above this
afternoon. Robert Wildberger and
CHARLES Sharpe are her clerks.
FoR Arkansas RIvER.-The Clarks-
vile takes her departure at Eve pm. to-
morrow from the wharfboat below the
foot Of Court street.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The City Of Vicksburg had 100 bales
of cotton awaiting her here.
The steamer Henry Probasco has been
got aAoat again at Flint Island, in good
condition, and is moored to the bank.
She will lay up till rise in the river,
and her cargo will be reshipped to its
destination.
The Babbage lost two boats Of coal on
the way down that belonged to Brown b
Jones, and will cost them even $4,000.
Misfortunes never come singly. The
same parties we're depositors in enc of
the suspended banks.
The Maude took the FIRST shipment OF
new cotton from Helena to New Orleans.
0'Sullivan, the jig dancer, lectured on
temperance at Vicksburg the other night
to house crawded with-rats.
Billy Jones, one of the attaches Of the
wharfboat at Vicksburg, is recovering
slowly from an attack of the dengue
fever.
Mr.. Charles Pare, clerk of the steamer
Frank Beck, jr., was united in the holy
bonds of matrimony at Vicksburg on
Tuesday to Mrs. S. F. Dent.
i On the 23d inst. the Vicksburg Board
of Health reported three fatal cases of
yellow jack in that city.
| Captain James Kerr, jr., Of the New
Orleans Herald, was i'll with the dengue
on Monday.
In the St. Louis City Council Friday,
Mr.. Smith introduced an ordinance
amending the harbor law so as to con-
form with the provision of the State law
which exempts from the payment of
wharfage all boats paying tax to the
city.
Mr.. Frank Williams, steamboat car
penter, formerly employed on the City
of Vicksburg, but of late in the employ
of S. Walter, lumber dealer, of Cairo,
died Friday morning of low type of
bilious or typhoid fever. He belonged
to the Masons and Odd Fellows, aud was
unmarried. He had an insurance of
$1,000 on his life.
James D. Saunders having taken levels
of the Ohio river, Friday, reported to
the Evansville Courier that the water
surface of the Ohio river is AZ 60 100
feet below the high water mark of 1867.
1t will, therefore, have to fall 2 CT 100
feet to reach the low water mark of last
summer.
The Arlington's crew are in Cincin-
natl.
The Commissioners on Steam-Boiler
Explosions have prepared a circular
letter containing questions to be settled
by the approaching experiments at
Sandy Hook, and requesting communi-
cations from all who have positive knowl-
edge relating to the causes of such ex-
plosions, to be addressed to George W.
Taylor, Treasury Department. 1t is the
desire of the Commissioners also to de-
termine the best form of construction
and dimensions of safety-valves, in
order that they NAV be made TO onerate