Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29

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eighty-seven days. The food of 1858
lasted ninety-fve days at Memphis and
one hundred and twenty-nine days at
Vicksburg.
William Brown will again assume
charge Of the office of the John Kyle.
The Indiana viii be sold by the United
States Marshal, at Evansville, on the
1th Of May.
The Great Republic is due tomorrow
from New Orleans en- route for St. Louis.
She left New Orleans with the following
items of freight: 600 boxes and 200
casks wine, 947 hogsheads and 400 boxes
sugar, 34OO boxes oranges and lemons,
$50 barrels molasses, $40 barrels pota-
toes, $50 barrels rice, 200 cases paste, 25
bales hides and 100 bales moss.
The loss of stock in the neighborhood
of Chicot City is estimated at $4,000.
The water is over foot deep in the
houses on Levee street at Paducah.
The City of Chester, Captain Zeigler,
is the Thursday Anchor Line packet for
Cairo and st. Louis. She will be found
at the elevator this evening.
Dan Rice, with his circus boat Tyrone,
has surmounted all his troubles, and ar
rived at st. Louis.
The John F. Tolle passed up last night
for St. Louis. She has the following
items of freight: 1900 sacks salt, 100
tons pig iron, $50 boxes and 800 hhds of
sugar, and $50 tons of sundries.
The splendid steamer Exporter, Capt.
Williams, will be found in port to-mor-
row morning to receive for New Orleans
and the bends, and will leave at two p. m.
She is safe carrier and in charge of
competent officers. Messrs. Jas. Reese
and Wash Floyd, two courteous and
attentive gentlemen, have charge Of the
office.
The James Howard will pass down on
Friday for New Orleans.
The banks of the Arkansas are re-
ported to have caved faster this season
than was ever before known.
Messrs. Ely, Harvey & Richardson
generously gave Captain Mark Cheek, of
the A. J. White, twenty-five barrels of
-four and meal yesterday to be distrib-
uted to the sufferers from the overflow.
These benevolent gentlemen did not
wait for an invitation to aid the sufferers,
but quietly made the donation.
Sharkey, the assorter of freights on
the elevator at Vicksburg, has challenged
the Memphis elevator assorter on trial
for one hundred dollars as to which can
assert and flag the most freight in a
given time.
The Phil Allin, Captain James Lee,
arrived this morning from the lower
coast with thirty-three bales of cotton
aud lot of seed. She leaves this even
ing with a return trip for Friar's Point
and the bends. Stack Lee is her prime
minister.
The splendid steamer Jas. D. Parker,
Captain Bob Wise, leaves tomorrow
evening for Cairo, Louisville and Gin
cinnati, tieketing passengers through to
New York for twenty-nine dollars and
fifty cents, Baltimore and Washington
twenty-five dollars and fifty cents, in
Guiding meals and state rooms. Billy
Mcintyre, gentleman who is noted for
his courtesy and uniform kindness, has
charge of the Office.
Captain Yves Jacobs will continue in
command of the Henry Ames.
The Paragon has gone to st. Louis to
load for New Orleans in the Kountz
line.
On the 0uachita river, from Monroe,
La, down, the entire country is sub
merged. The stock is on RATS, families
on house tops and RATS, and the river
still rising.
The John Howard is due to-day at
Little Rock from New Orleans.
H. L. Smith has reassumed the con.
troll of the wet end department of the
Register.
Captain Elem Calvert was elected
Mayor of GAINESVILLE, Missouri, last
week. The Captain will make a good
executive officer.
Captain John n Harden, Of the Mem
phis and Arkansas packet Fort Gibson,
notified the relief committee for the suf-
ferers by the overflow by letter this
morning that his boat would leave on
Saturday for Arkansas river, and would
carry all supplies for the sufferers free
Of charge.
The St. Francis, Captain Basket, will
be repaired in time to leave on Saturday.
She leaves Saturday evening for Helena
and Madison, Arkansas, connecting
there with the Little Rock railroad.
Freight for all stations on the Little