Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-22

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the bends.
The fine steamer Mary Boyd, Captain
John d. Elliott in command, will be
found in port to-day receiving for all
points on White, Black and Little Red
rivers, and will leave tomorrow evening.
carrying the mail and attending to all
way business. Dan Sullivan, a worthy
and efficient officer, has charge OF the
office.
The Phil Allin was launched at Pa
ducah on Saturday. She draws twenty
six inches at the bow and thirty inches
at the stern. She will be hummer
when she turns herself loose.
Captain Nat Green is giving John
Langloes Granger lessons at his rural
home. On Sunday last Captain Green
gave his first readings and experience
in raising cattle.
No efforts have seen made yet to re-
pair the landing.
The rate OF freights from st. Louis 10
Memphis is twenty cents per hundred
and forty cents per barrel on -four.
The packets report only six feet water
at Osceola-bare.
Captain Lew Hates is running the
light draught steamer, Geo. Spangler, in
the upper Ohio.
Captain Nose Gibbs will mate the
Belle Lee this season.
Cotton has matured so rapidly that it
is now generally believed that the entire
crop will be gathered by Christmas.
Picking is going on rapidly aud as long
as the fine weather lasts planters will
not stop to gin bale. The prospective
yield has fallen off greatly within the
past few weeks, and now melody seems
TO anticipate more than one-half to two
thirds of crop.
The Utah. Captain VOORHEES,, came in
last evening from St. Louis with full
cargo of grain and produce. She is the
Anchor Line packet leaving the elevator
this evening for Cairo and St. Louis.
Being light draught she will go through
without detention.
The st. Louis Times of Sunday says:
"There were no New Orleans boats de-
parting yesterday, which was the first
Saturday in this year that no New Or
leans boat has left this port. This is oc-
casioned, not by lack Of freight or tom
mage, but by the unsettled state of affairs
in Louisiana, and the insurance question
relative to risks on barges. The past
week foots up poorly, both as to receipts
and shipments by river, and the pros
pect for the coming days of this week is
not as encouraging as it should be at
this time of the year"
The Behe of Shreveport, with 800
tons Of freight, will pass up this evening
for st. Louis
The Bee and barges are due down this
evening en- route to New Orleans.
The Anchor Line packet Capitol City,
Captain ONeil, will pass down this
evening for Vicksburg and the bends,
carrying the mail and attending to all
way business. Henry DIETRICH, one of
the cleverest gentlemen in the world,
has charge of the Office
Captain William Hardwick leaves this
afternoon for Leavenworth, Indiana, at
which point he is loading two broad
horns with potatoes and produce for the
Southern market, aud will leave there
on the FIRST OF the month. Captain
Hardwick is not only an expert in pilot
ing, but thoroughly understands trading
and knows how to make money outside
Of plotting. We wish him we'll aud hope
he will be as successful as he has been
heretofore.
Our Radical Mayor and negro Wharf
mester are determined to kill our river
commerce The wharf is in deplorabe
condition, yet the Mayor refuses to call
a special session of the Council, although
he has been urgently solicited to do so
by several members of that body. We
regret that we have been so severe on
the Landing Committee, as they were
powerless on account of the obstacles
thrown in their way by the Mayor, and
could not act.
We learn that a movement is on foot
among steamboatmen to resist the pay
ment of the wharfage tax. They have
repeatedly petitioned the Mayor and
General Council to repair the wharf,
and having failed in that, they now pro
pose to protect themselves.