Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-20

Colorado. Captain Nickers, will be found
at the elevator tomorrow morning, and
departs at 10 o'clock for Vieksburg and
intermediate points.
FoR CINCINNATI. - Tho Arlington
Captain Dan Moone, is the Saturday
packet from Walkers wharf boat.
Fon WHirE RivrR.-Thc City Of Au
gustit is the regular Saturday mail linz
boat
| FDR ARKANSAS RIvgR.-Captain Rees'
Prii chard backs out the Anna on satur
day evening.
FoR Nrw ORLEANs.-The good sieame
Co mmonwealih takes .Ner departure To-
New Orleans to-day at I've pm. D. >
Sedan commands. with Ed y, Miller an'
d. G. Sedan in the office. .Silly hAA
well Is her caterer.
For NEw ORLEANS. To depart " lou
pm. the great champion Of We. YER
waters. Ii. 4. Lee, Captain Cannon, v u
be found at the landing ready to leav,
at the above named hour for Viclisburg,
Natchez and New Orleans. Mr.. John
Mossop, an accomplished gentleman and
clerk, occupies the cashiers desk, with
the popular Oscar Haynes as secretary,
makes a roster that is hard to beat. To
say anything Of the boat would be super
auous, as her praises have been sounded
throughout the nation. She is just q
floating palace in the fullest sense of the
word. Step on board and look at her.
For New ORLEANS The large, fast
running and beautiful steamer Belle
Lee, Captain Frank Hicks. is now at the
landing, and will depart at exactly FIVE
o clock this evening for New Orleans.
Passengers taking this magnificent boat
will be under charge Of that genial and
whole souled gentleman Captain John S.
Sullivan, who is chief clerk, and we
guarantee that when you reach your des-
tinat;on, your only regret will be that
you did not have longer to stay with
him. Her passenger accommodations
are superb. State-rooms fitted up in
regal style, and her table furnished with
every luxury of the season.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Steamboatmen want different portions
of the landing assigned to local and
transient boats. Were the Wharfmaster
to assign TO each line separate and
distinct landing it would save much |
annoyance.
The Anna and Dardanelle exchanged
trips at Pine Bluff.
Work on the railroad bridge over the |
Arkansas ct Little Rock has been COM
menced.
/. The Ratesyille will lay over until to-
morrow evening on account of her nu-
merous freight engagements, and then
will leave for White river.
In our editorial columns to-day APP
pears few comments upon the Arkan-
sas civil rights question, which is
mighty interesting reading" to river
men.
The Rob Roy, the first boat from Keo
kuk this season, arrived at Ste Louis
yesterday:
The following additional coal tows
have left Pittsburg; For Cincinnati,
John F. Drayo, $4,000 csal, and $4,000
coke; total, 10000. Louisville, Tom
Rees, 10000; Tom Rees No. 2, l5l, 900;
Tiger, 77,0OOi Charley Brown, $4,000
coal, $4,000 coke; Samuel Miller no.
900; A. Baker, 100000; total, s2l 900.
St. Louis, R. A. Babbage, $4,000.
The Thompson Dean left New Orleans
last night for St. Louis.
The City of Alton, City of Quincy and
the Marble City are due up.
The Oakland, John A. Wood, Ajax
and Joseph Bigley left Louisville day |
before yesterday with coal tows for the !
south. The Alice Brown brings the
tow brought to Louisville by the Sam
Brown,
Hart, the former passenger agent at
St. Louis, to whom $4,000 is left by his
father in New Jersey, was a car.driyer
in Detroit eighteen months ago.
The Cincinnati Commercial Of Tues
day says:
The Little Kyle, the new steamer /
built by James Mack for the Cincinnati
Underwriters WreekinG Company, has
been dropped down to the foot Ludlow
street, to receive the machinery of the
Spray. The hull Is one hundred and
eighty feet long, thirty-four feet wide and
four and a half feet deep. She will
receive two new double hue boilers
twenty.six feet long and forty inches in
diameter, and will be supplied With q
sixteen inch pump, canahle Of throwing
one hundred hsgrels Of water per min
ute. The steamer will be used as q
vreeker on the upper Ohio and tribu
taries, under the superintendence of
Captain r. W. Dugan, Of the wrecker
I. +. Eckert, but will also be used for
carrying freight during low water in
some of the packet trades, as she has a
capacity of 500 tons.
The Oddly, burned at Trenton, was
insured in Cincinnati for $1,000
The Arlington, Cincinnati to Mem
phis, received 1900 plows and 60 tons of
miscellaneous freight at Louisville,
Captain James Lee, now of the Phil