Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-21

The City of Helena passed down last
evening for Vicksburg with good freight
trip.
The Ben Franklin for Memphis, and
John Kilgour for New Orleans, passed
Evansville yesterday morning,
The City of Chester left St. Louis last
evening for Memphis.
The Thompson Dean, Paragon, Nick
Longworth, Charles Bodmann and
Pauline Carroll arrived at New Orleans
yesterday.
The Belle of Texas, Captain John
WOODBURY., leaves this evening for Pine
Bluff and all intermediate landings.
Frank Buskirk and Billy Willis, two
clever gentlemen have charge of the
office.
The George w. Cheek will not leave
this evening for White river She lays
over until next week to repair her wheel
house.
The Lady Lee having been purchased
by the Illinois River Packet Company,
has been withdrawn from the Red river
trade and placed in the Illinois river
trade
Captain John P. Keiser, of the Anchor
Line Packet Company, arrived last
evening on the City of Helena, and will
remain in the city few days, Captain
AID Storm has taken him under his pa
ternal wing and will entertain him while
in the city.
The Minneola, Captain Skunk, leaves
this evening for Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati, ticketing passengers through
to New York at twenty dollars, in
Guiding meals and staterooms.
Captain William Hardwick, with his
two corn boats, is wind bound at Colum-
bus, Ky.
The St. Francis, Captain Basket,
leaves this evening for Helena, the
bends, Mariana and Wittsburg. Messrs.
D. P. Davis and Jim Franklin are her
clever aud accommodating clerks.
James T. Shannon, an old steamboat
engineer, died at Jacksonville, Indiana,
on Wednesday last.
The H. G. Yaeger, Future City and
barges are due from St. Louis en- route
to New Orleans.
The Fannie Lewis passed up this
morning from Red river bound for st.
Louis.
The John A. Scudder is due tomorrow
from New Orleans. She has one or two
stables aboard that come here to attend
the races.
There is considerable distress in the
bends and along the lower portion of
White, Arkansas and the lower rivers,
which are overAowed. The people have
all been driven to the high lands by the
water, and stock of every description is
starving to death or drowning. Starva-
ton is staring the people of the over.
flowed country in the face, and their dis
tress is heart-rending.
The Belle Yazoo, in command Of Cap
tain Carlton, has entered tho Vicksburg
and mouth of White river trade.
The A. J. White, Captain Mark Cheek,
leaves this evening for Napoleon and
the bends, attending to all way business.
Bob Wildberger and Charley Sharpe are
her gentlemanly clerks.
Freights at St. Louis and along the
Ohio for the South continue scarce.
Merchants are holding back their ship
menis on account of the overflow.
The Smoky City burnt her boilers at
Diamond Island, and has returned to
Evansville for repairs.
The elegant steamer Fort Gibson,
Captain Ed Rowland, leaves this even
ing for Little Rock and Fort Smith and
all points on Arkansas river, carrying
the United States. Jim Hardin and W.
T. Butler, two courteous gentlemen,
have charge of the Office.
The Mary Boyd is due to-day from
Arkansas river.
Commodore Ed Cobb and Major Brad
ford, agents of the Minneola, will send
her out this evening with HOO bales Of
cotton and lot of old iron and rags.
The c. B. Church, Captain John Pat
terson, leaves this evening for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati. Mr. Deems
is her purser.
The City of Quincy will pass down to-
morrow for New Orleans.
We much fear that the river below
here will overflow all the levees that
have thus far stood the ireshet this sea
son, and if so there will be no extent to
the suffering. The planters below the
mouth OF Arkansas river say the river is
higher from the mouth of the Arkansas
to Vicksburg than it has ever been be-
fore.
The c. B. Church arrived this morn
ing from New Orleans with 200 tons of