Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-07
WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

evening for Memphis.
The Minneola will arrive tonight from
Cincinnati with q full cargo Of Western
products.
Mr.. Rolston, our efficient and worthy
local inspector, returned home last even
ing from a trip to Cairo, whittier he has
been to inspect several steamers.
The Robert Mitchell will pass down
tonight for New Orleans. She has all
the freight and passengers she wants.
Good enough.
The Paragon left Cincinnati last even
ing for New Orleans.
The Peytona and barges, Mary Alice
and barges, and John Wood and barges,
bound for the Ohio river, passed Vicks-
burg yesterday morning.
The Louisville canal folks now charge
full tolls for boats passing through the
canal.
The General Council has passed a
resolution to make the wharfage on
wharf boats the same as steamboats,.
This was done to overcome the obsti-
macy OF the wharf boatmen who, after
being granted privilege to occupy 400
feet of the best portion Of the levee,
stipulated that they would vacate when
ever the Board so ordained.
What right has the wharf boatmen TO
charge or collect ten dollars frem boats
landing alongside2 The levee is free,
and the wharf boat has no rights where
she lays over any other craft. Turn
her loose. The game of making the
city responsible for her removal is too
thin.
The Grand Tower, Captain Lennox,
is the Anchor Line packet leaving this
evening for Cairo and st. Louis. Billy
Dill will ticket passengers to all points
over the line he so ably represents.
Pittsburg coal was sold in Cincinnati
on Tuesday, aAoat, at &c per bushel, the
cheapest price for many years.
The John Kilgour for New Orleans
and Andy Baum for Memphis, left
Louisville last evening.
The GAINESVILLE, Captain Tom Barrett,
is the regular Saturday packet for
Arkansas river, carrying the United
States mail, taking freights and passen-
gers for all points on Arkansas through
to Fort Smith. Mr.. Holmes is her
purser.
A cut off has been formed in Arkansas
river, which leaves South Bend out in
the cold, three miles distant from the
regular channel.
The st. Francis, Captain Basket,
leaves this evening for Helena, the bends
and all points on st. Francis river, con-
Meeting with the Rhoda at Mariana for
Wittsburg. George Grifing, courteous
gentleman, presides in the Office.
Captain Dick Lightburne will engage
staterooms for those wishing passage
on first .class steamers to attend the New
Orleans Mardi- Gras festivities.
The Arlington, Captain Dan Moore,
leaves this evening for Cairo, Louisville
and Cincinnati, attending to all way
business. Alex. Mcconnell, a clever
gentlemen, does the honors of the office.
The fine steamer Pat Cleburne, Capt.
William Ashford, leaves this evening for
Chicot City and the bends, attending to
all way business. Messrs. Davis, Smither
and Booker are her clerks.
The steamboat passenger agents held
a convention yesterday, and resolved, on
the whole. to send delegation to New
Orleans to attend the carnival.
Freights from St. Louis south are as
follows: To Memphis-Flour, 30 cents;
pork 80 cents; whisky, 81 %; corn,
oats, lard and other stuff 10 cents per
hundred weight, and hay % cents. To
Vicksburg and New 0rleans-Flour, 35
cents; pork, so to 60 cents; whisky,
81 % to l so; hay, 25 cents, and other
freights, III cents.
The st. Bernard Coal Association are
growing in favor with their black dia-
monds among the steamboat fraternity.
They furnish black diamonds cheaper
than anybody.
The excellent steamer City of Augusta,
Captain Milt barry, leaves this evening
for all points on White, Black and Little
Red rivers, carrying the United States
mail and attending to all way business.
Mr.. Butler. an amiable gentleman, pre-
sides in the office, and is ably seconded
by Prince de John Chamberlin.
The Bodmann got 10 cents per sack
on the 1000 sacks Of corn added in the
bends above, which is a slight advance
over former rates.
The Joe Kinney, Captain r. Porter,
is the Anchor Line packet, leaving to-
morrow at 10 am for Vicksburg and
the bends. Joe Dill, genial and clever
gentleman and efficient clerk, has charge
Of the office.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
concurrent resolution asking Congress
to provide the means to repair the
levees of the lower Mississippi river.
The local packets out last evening
had fair trips.
The Clehnrne. leaving here ON Wednes.