Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-08

brought in from st. Louis this morning
full cargo Of grain and produce She
leaves the elevator this morning for
Cairo and st. Louis, connecting at st.
Louis with the Northern Line packets
and railroads for St. Paul and all points
East. The Grand Tower has good pas
senger accommodations, and Billy Dill,
passenger agent of the line, will see that
every person is comfortably slowed away.
The Quickstep, Captain Milt Harry in
command, leaves this evening for all
points on White, Black and Little Red
rivers, carrying the mail and attending
to all way business, connecting at the
mouth of the river with the Pargoud for
New Orleans and at Devall's Bluff with
the railroad for Little Rock and the Hot
Springs Messrs. Ed Postal and John
Chamberlin are her gentlemanly clerks.
The Cherokee from Cincinnati arrived
at New Orleans yesterday.
Rates of freight from St. Louis to New
Orleans are thirty cents on -four and
fifteen cents per hundred pounds.
The Fl. G. Yaeger is due up for St.
Louis with 400 sacks salt and 300 tons
of miscellaneous freight.
The steamboatman were eager for the
fray last night, but not being properly
organized, we're unable to go to Somer.
vile to win glory and fame.
The towboat Samuel Roberts exploded
her boilers at ten o'clock Thursday
morning at Wyandotte on the upper
Ohio, killing Dudley Holland, the watch.
man. and severely scalding David Will
hanson, pilot; Captain Daniel DeWolf
Healy DeWolf, clerk; Charles Anderson,
mate; Jacob bunker, first mate; j. w.
Thompson, steward; George Conine,
cook, and Samuel Fitch, deck hand.
The Ella Hughes, Captain Drinkwa-
ter leaves this evening for Helena, the
bends, and all points on Arkansas river
through to Little Rock, attending to all
way business. The Ella Hughes is a
staunch boat has Cooper's certificate,
which is the best in the world, and is a
safe carrier and in charge of efficient
officers. Billy HARE is her supercargo.
The Tom Jasper is still laying at the
wharf patching her boilers. Her repairs
will be finished in time for her to leave
this afternoon for st. Louis.
The negroes on the levee this morning
were singing Mother, is the battle
over.
The new and splendid freight and
passenger steamer Vint Shinkle, in com
mand of Captain Remission, an expert
enced officer, leaves this evening 70:
Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati, attend
ing to all way business. Billy Mcintyre,
gentleman noted for urbanity and
kindness, is her clerk. Parties wishing
safe and pleasant journey up the Ohio
should take the Shinkle.
The thirty tried and true came out of
their holes under the bluff last night
and held themselves in readiness to bat
tie for their friends.
The Ella Hughes leaving this evening
for Little Rock, is of light-draught and
will 90 through without detention.
The Thompson Dean will pass down
tomorrow for New Orleans.
Captain Mark Cheek stopped off the
A. j. White this trip, and mate Tom
Caldwell went out in command.
Ed Carroll, well known river man,
was elected School Trustee at Vicksburg
at the late election.
The Minneola for Memphis and Indi-
ana for New Orleans leave Cincinnati
this evening.
The Carrie V. Koyhtz passed up this
morning for St Louis with 500 tons Of
freight, principally sugar She put of
here 100 sacks sal. and 100 packages Of
other freight.
The Julia, Captain VIM. Blake, is the
Anchor Line packet leaving the elevator
tomorrow morning at ten o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis Chris. Sharpe is
her attentive purser.
Captain George Cheek has gone up
the country 10 rusticate few days.
The Robert Simple is reported
aground between Pine Bluff and Little
Rock.
The John. Kyle leaves St. Louis this
evening for New Orleans.
H. n. Frisbee, United States Com
missioner at New Orleans, has been in
dicted by the Grand Jury Of that city
for extorting money from steamboatmen
under color of Office.
The City Of vicksburg, Captain Bob
Riley, is the Anchor Line packet leaving
to morrow morning at ten O'Clock for
Cairo and St. Louis, connecting at St.
Louis with the Northern Line packets