Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-11

way business. Messrs Lee Cummings
and Charley Sharpe, two courteous and
attentive gentlemen have charge of the
office.
The Atlantic and barges are due down
this evening for New Orleans with 5000
tons of freight
The Frank Pargoud is on the docks at
New Orleans.
The Coal Hill collided with the R. W.
Dugan at Captina on Tuesday night.
One of the Coal Hills barges was sunk,
but no other damage was done.
The Thompson Dean passed down last
evening for New Orleans we'll laden.
She added here at the big wharfboat 500
sacks oil cake and some other stuff.
The unsurpassed passenger steamer
John Kyle, Captain Abe Hutchinson in
command, leaves the wharf boat to-mor.
row evening for New Orleans and bends,
attending to all way business. Mr.
Brown, a courteous and attentive gentle
man, presides in the office.
The steamboatmen took great interest
in the convention to-day.
Captain Lew Hates has chartered the
George Spangler for sixty days, and will
run her in the Kentucky river trade.
The Robert Mitchell leaves St. Louis
to morrow for New Orleans.
The Fort Gibson, Captain Ed Now.
land, Is due to-day from Arkansas river.
Captain Rowland is having lighter
built here to aid the Gibson in getting
over the bars in Arkansas river during
low water.
The Smoky City is due to-day from
the Ohio river with a tow of coal
White labor on the levee at New Or
leans is superceding the negro laberers,
who have become too insolent under the
influence of the civil rights bill.
The Durfee has Withdrawn from the
New Orleans and Red river trade
The J. d. Parker leaves Cincinnati to-
morrow for Memphis.
The wharfage ordinance still rests in
the pocket of great Alderman.
The steamer Commonwealth, on the
way up, made narrow escape of being
consumed by fire.
The Indiana for New Orleans and Min
nicola for Memphis are due tomorrow
from Cincinnati
Harry Graham, a steamboat engineer,
has invented new style of pantaloons
for idle steamboatmen. They have a
copper seat, sheet-iron knees riveted
down in the seams and water proof peck.
cts to hold extra lager.
Captain Rusk, of the Indiana, has de.
cided to carry white deck crew instead
Of black. He says that white men are
the best for steamboats, to carry on deck,
as the laws at New Orleans don't give a
white man such chance TO get boat
into trouble with the courts as it does
the niger.
The Bee and barges passed up this
morning for St. Louis.
The Belle of Shreveport passed down
this morning for New Orleans well laden.
The Il. C. Yaeger is due up from New
Orleans, en- route to St. Louis.
The towboat Falls Pilot, with eight
barges containing 100000 bushels of St.
Bernard COAL arrived last evening and
returns this evening for another tow of
coal for the St. Bernard Coal Company.
We are glad to learn that Walter Dill,
who was paralyzed at St. Louis few
days since, is getting better, and as soon
as he is able to travel his brother, Cap.
tain Billy Dill, will go to st. Louis and
take him to the Hot Springs for treat
ment.
We have received long article from
the st. Paul Press, which does not speak
of Commodore Davidson in very com
plimentary terms,
There will be some fun at Austin,
Mississippi, tonight, as a lot of the boys
who know how to teach the negroes
to shoot have left on a special boat for
the scene of action
Murray Hicks and Jake Fox, both
well known river men, were active to-
day in recruiting a company of home
guards.
The negroes have taken possession of
o. X. Landing and fortified it.
Austin, Mississippi, is besieged by the
negroes, and the women and children
have been removed
The Shamrock was pumping the water
out of her hull yesterday. and fixing to
leave for Hillman's Iron Works, on the
Cumberland river, after she comes of
the docks. She carries the hull half full
OF water when the river is low, so that
when she comes to low place she lets
out and floats over on it, Any chap
that would throw rock at her would
have no respect for old age. Take her