Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-28

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The Glencoe passed up last evening
for st. Louis with 500 tons of freight.
The Belle of Texas, Captain John
WOODBURY., will leave this afternoon al
four o'clock for Arkansas river and al
way points She was delayed on &C
count of the weather. Mr.. Cummings
presides in the Office.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee /:
the regular Wednesday Friar's Point
and bends packet, leaving at five o'clock
attending to all way business. Captain
Stack Lee is her prime minister.
The Commonwealth, Captain Shields
arrived last night from st. Louis and laiC
over here TO ELL out with cotton for New
Orleans. Owen Gates, worthy gentle
man, is her purser.
The Ben Franklin will arrive tonight
from Cincinnati with a full cargo of
Western products.
Freight rates from St. Louis for New
Orleans have declined to forty cents per
barrel on -four and twenty cents per cwt.
The Little Rock railroad ferry boat
Nellie Thomas is on her way from Ar
kansas river to Cairo to lay up. Her
services at that point are no longer
needed, as the railroad bridge has been
completed.
The Cairo and Evansville packets
have reduced roustets' wages to twenty
five dollars per month.
The Andy Baum, Captain Vinton,
leaves tomorrow evening for Cincinnati.
She has unsurpassed passenger accom-
modations. Charley Woodbury. is her
gentlemaDly clerk.
The Nashville, Captain Ross, arrived
last night from Arkansas with fair
trip, and leaves on Saturday with re-
turn trip for Little Rock and Fort Smith
The City Of Helena left St. Louis yes
terday for Vicksburg.
The Kittie Hegler left Little Rock
yesterday for Fort Smith.
The Nick Longworth, for New Or.
leans, passed Evansville yesterday morn
ing.
The Pat Rogers, for Memphis, and
Allegheny Belle, for New Orleans, left
Cincinnati yesterday.
One-ffth of the steamer Richmond,
owned by Stillwell, Powell & Co., is to
be sold to-day in st. Louis at public out
cry.
The Shannon for Cincinnati left New
Orleans yesterday.
The Exporter and Louisville en- route
for Cincinnati passed Vicksburg yester-
day.
The c. B. Church laid over to gil out
with cotton for New Orleans. She gets
away this afternoon.
The Mary Boyd, Captain Rube
Haines, leaves promptly this evening at
five o'clock for all points Oh Arkansas
river through to Fort Smith. John
O'Neal is her purser.
Joseph Osborne, second clerk of the
City of Vicksburg, and John Blake, of
the Julia, have gone East on bridal
tours.
The Frank Forest, Captain Sexton, is
the regular packet for Fulton and the
upper coast. Mr.. Joplin presides at
the desk.
The Colorado, Captain George NJ.
Boyd, is the Anchor Line packet, leaving |
this evening for Cair and St. Louis.
The splendid steamer Pat Cleburne,
Captain William Ashford, is the regular
packet, leaving this evening for Chicot
City and the bends, connecting with the
Katie for New Orleans and the Pine
Bluff railroad. Messrs. Davis, Smither
and Booker run the clerical department.
The Utah, from New Orleans for Ar
kansas river, has 1900 sacks salt, and
he Mary Miller, for White river, has
1000 sacks salt.
The Ashland left for Arkansas river
asst evening with light trip.
The 100000 Erie canal prize is likely
% be awarded to the Baxter, steam
,anal boat which ran eighteen hours on
$50 pounds of hard coal, and less than
,ne-ifth of the amount used by any of
Ter rivals. The boat is fat bottoned or
COW built, and has pair of twenty-five
lorse power engines, and two three
,laded screws, four and half feet in
.iameter, with a pitch of four feet
Captain Alex. Zeigler, late of the
hester, has retired from the river.
captain David Asbury, formerly Of the ;
Il. Louis and Keokuk packet line, is
low in command Of the Chester.
The magnificent and swift passenger
teamer Belle Lee, Captain Frank Hicks
2 command, leaves tomorrow evening
or New Orleans and the bends, and will
continue in the trade during the re- !
nainder Of the season. The Belle has al
yays been a favorite with the shipping Z
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