Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-22

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toa. She leaves on Saturday with
return trip for Arkansas river.
The officers of the Mary Boyd report
the lower part of Arkansas river as over
flowing the whole country adjacent to
the river.
Major John D. Adams is Governor
Baxter's chief quartermaster
A new iron hull for snag-boat to cost
nearly $4,000 is being constructed at
Cincinnati.
The Andy Baum, Captain Vinton,
with Charley Woodbury. in the office,
leaves to-morrew evening for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati.
The steamboatmen Of Cincinnati are
getting up petition asking Congress to
repeal the present law regarding the
charge of ten dollars for licenses, and
substituting the law which was in force
before the war, in which a charge Of FIVE
dollars for the license was made, and
one dollar for renewal. Now that wages
have been reduced to what they were
before the war, and the cost of living
higher and few boats in commission, we
think that, in justice to the steamboat
men, the present tax should be repealed
and made the same as before the war.
Quincy, Keokuk, and plumber Of
towns along the upper Mississippi, have
reduced the packet wharfage 81 so from
So.
The Oakland, Simpson Horner and
Alice Brown, with tows Of coal for
Southern markets, passed Eva nsville
yesterday.
The Pat Rogers left Cincinnati last
evening for Memphis.
The Thompson Dean and Nick Long
worth for Cincinnati, Mary Alice and
barges for St. Louis, left New Orleans
last evening.
Freight rates from Cincinnati to New
Orleans are twenty cents per hundred
pounds, sixty cents per barrel on pork
and seventy.fye cents on whisky.
The Amite valley is inundated. The
inhabitants have fled to the high lands,
and many of them are in destitute
condition.
The Hickey crevasse is twelve hun
dred feet wide and passes seven feet Of
water at velocity of eight miles per
hour.
The Grand levee near Baton Rouge
has broken. The crevasse has over
flowed the districts of Lafourche, Terre-
bonnie and Attakapas, destroying the
crops and large amount of property.
John Clinton has resigned the posi-
ton of second clerk on the Ben Frank
lin and becomes a green grocer at Gin
cinnati.
Captain Rusk is about to sell the 81.
S. Turner to Captain w. W. Fenton
and build new boat for the Cincinnati
and New Orleans trade.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
came in this morning with twenty.three
bales of cotton and lot of seed She
leaves this evening with return trip
for Friar's Point and the bends. Capt.
Stack Lee, a courteous and attentive
gentleman, presides in the office.
The officers of the Phil Allin report
the Ievees at Friar's Point and DeSoto
Front as being strengthened and all
o. X. as they passed up.
The superb passenger steamer John
Kilgour, Captain ALI Stein, will leave
the wharf this evening for New Orleans
and the bends. Mr.. Stein, clever gen.
tleman, presides in the Office. James
Sayers wants all the passengers he can
get for her.
Captain Washington has 22O bales of
cotton on the levee awaiting shipment
to New Orleans.
II. c. Chase, Esq, agent of the White
River Line, arrived in the city yesterday
from Little Rock. Captain Chase being
recognized as one of the most popular
agents of Uncle Sam and favorite with
the public generally came here to re-
cruit company for the war at Little
Rock. Jim Hall has rendered his SER
vices as commissary.
The Louisville and Cumberland river
packet Camelia was perforated with a
floating log at Raleigh, on the lower
Ohio, Monday evening at six o'clock,
and Immediately went to pieces and sunk
in forty feet of water. The boat and
cargo are a total loss. No lives lost.
The officers and crew lost all their effects.
The cargo was valued at SEQ, 900, and was
insured in Louisville and Cincinnati
Offices. The boat was owned by Captain
Leon Crane and VIM. Varble, valued at
$4,000, and was uninsured. Protest was
entered at Evansville, and the officers
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