Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-16

IIn1nEnnIlaIuuIalIl1nun
this evening for Cairo and st. Louis.
Mr.. Tom Withledge is pIifser.
FoR ST.. LOUISVILLE Pat cleburne,
Captain WIN. Ashford, leaves at Eve
o'clock this afternoon for Cairo, St.
Louis, and all coast landings. d. P.
Davis is chief clerk.
For ARKANSAS RIVER. The Fort
Gibson wiz leave at sharp FIVE o'clock
this evening for Pine Bluff, Little Rock.
aud all points on the Arkansas riyer.
Captain Rawlin commands, aud Mr..
Holmes is clerk.
Fox VIcKsBuRG. The elegant steamer
Colorado, G, W. Boyd master and Col.
Dedrich purser, is the Anchor Line
steamer for Vicksburg, TO leave the
elevator at FIVE p. m. to-day.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The new Alabama river steamer Mary
made trial trip yesterday at Louisville
and worked satisfactorily. She leaves
there for New Orleans and Mobile to-day.
No more slang in this paper from this
date. -[Yicksburg Herald llth Can il
be that Sullivan has been dscharged2-
avalanche, 10th. No; but be limits his
toddies now to seven per day, and ex.
poets to get down to two or three day
It's the benzine that makes him so funny
and prompts him to use so much slang.
The bntting" between the Nashville
and City of Vieksburg below Cairo Sun
day will cost the former 800 in repairs.
+. d, Cobb, the "Old Reliable" Gin
cinnati line agent, is home again, after
a health invigorating trip East.
All the boats in port hung their colors
at half mast yesterday in respect to the
memory Of Captain Stanley, whose re-
mains we're followed to their last resting
place by large circle of friends.
The John F. Tolle has the hull of the
Fontenelle in tow.
The channel has deserted the Govern
ment warehouse at Yankton, and boats
now cannot get within mile Of it.
Five thousand dollars, the remainder
of the appropriation for the completion
of the dyke across Alton slough, will be
expended this fall.
Government freight is now beginning
to pour into the warehouse at Yankton,
and lively times are apprehended for
the steamboats, the remainder of the
season.
Captain H. L. Vinton will expend
$4,000 in improving the Andy Baum
for the Cincinnati and Memphis trade.
She will receive new shafts, wheels, and
new doctor, and be reprinted through
out.
The local inspectors at Evansville
have received from Supervising Inspec-
tor Colonel Carr his decision in the case
of the Morning Star and Mary Ament.
He fully sustains the decision of the
local board.
Hall, the combination.lock safe man.
ufacturer, Of Cincinnati, was engaged
on the river in early days. He steam
boated several years with John J. Rape,
and others of the old stock. In fact,
Hall attributes his success in great
measure to his river experience.
The United States snagboat D. H.
Long has been ordered to the chute of
Cumberland Island to dredge out the
channel. The gap in the dam there has
been filled up, and all boats must now
go via Smithland or the Kentucky chute.
The channel is between the wreck of the
Robert Moore and the towhead.
Says yesterdays Courier Journal
I" The Henry Probasco went into the
canal Saturday evening about six o clock
bound for New Orleans. After passing
through the lower locks and just below
the mouth of the canal, she struck ON
the rocks aud lost about twelve hours.
She was got ahoat at twelve o'clock yes
terday, when she proceeded on her way
rejoicing"
The Mississippi river between Cairo
and st. Louis is said by steamboat pilots
to be in worse condition than it has
been for many years previous. The
channel is constantly changing, and the
river on all sides is full of snags rocks,
etc. Pilots say that it is a wonder that
serious accidents to boats have not
taken place.