Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-16
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Ohio is falling and is full Of heavy aoat-
ing ice. The river is still closed between
Cairo and st. Louis. White river is
falling, with o fair stage from Augusta
to the mouth. Arkansas river is rising
at Little Rock, with six feet in the chan
mel. Business on the landing moderate.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Navigation in the Ohio remains sus.
pended.
Clear and cold yesterday at Cincin-
natl and louisville.
Arkansas river is rising again.
The Ashland from New Orleans ar
rived at Little Rock yesterday.
The river at Evansville is full of new
made ice.
The Minneola arrived at Evansville
Sunday night.
The boats at Louisville are still ice
bound.
The Illinois cleared last evening fer
Napoleon with a good trip OF freight and
people.
The Phil Allin for the lower coast and
Mary Ament Cor the upper coast got
away with good trips.
The John F. 1olle and City of Helena
are loading at Cairo for the South.
The Katie will be sold at public auc-
ton at New Orleans on Saturday next.
The City of Vicksbnrg passed up last
evening for Cairo. She put off here $40
bales of cotton, and received at Yicka-
burg 500 bales of Eastern cotton, and
added here 600 bales for the East.
Captain Snodgrass, Of the Submarine
No. Ia, was in the city yesterday. He
reports as having the sunken steamer
St. Francis bulkheaded and thinks he will
have her aaoat in a few days.
The City of Augusta, Captain Basket
in command, came in last night from
Mariana with As bales of cotton, a lot of
seed and a fair list Of people. She leaves
this evening with a return trip for Hell
ena, the bends and Mariana. Mr.. D. p.
Davis does the honors of the office and
has for his aid John Darby.
The regular White river packet Legal
Tender, Captain John Elliott in com.
mand, will be in port to day to receive
for all points on White, Black and Little
Red rivers, and will leave tomorroy.
evening. Charley Smither is her gen.
Francis river.
The Belle Lee will arrive in port this
evening from New Orleans and leave on
Thursday with a return trip for New
Orleans and the bends.
The Mary Boyd left Pine Blsf last
evening for Memphis with a fair list of
cotton.
The Susie Silver, Captain Silver in
command, will leave the elevator to-
morrow at II IN. for Madrid bends and
Cairo, carrying the mail and attending
to all way business. She connects at
Cairo with railroads for all points East
and West.
|, Captain George W. Cheek and Capt
Joseph Elliott, Of the Elliott line, met
J Mr.. Carson Nudge, the patentee of the
stage hosting apparatus, at Captain
George W. Cheeks Office, yesterday af
ternoon, and the above gentlemen, rep
%resenting the two lines, ~smicably agreed
to pay to Mr.. Nudge the royalty of the
patent. Mr.. Nudge will call on the
steamboat owners aud captains to-day
and make arrangements as regards the
patent,
The sldewheel steamer Belle of Texas,
Captain John Woodburn in command, is
the mail packet leaving this evening for
Pine Bluff and all way points on Arkau-
sas river, attending to all way business.
Billy Butler, an affAble gentleman and
efficient officer, presides in the Office.
The Charles Morgan arrived at New
Orleans yesterday.
The Susie Silver, due up this evening,
passed Vieksburg yesterday.
The Paragon arrived at Cairo yester-
day.
The Cherokee left Cairo yesterday for
Cincinnati.
The Evansville and Cincinnati packet
Frank P. Gracey, which has been ice
bound in Dutch Bend, near Evansville
burned Sunday morning, and is a total
loss. The fire caught in the chamber
maids room. The boat was valued at
$4,000, and insured in Eastern offices
for three-fourths Of her value. She was
owned by Wiley Simms, OF Nashville,
and Captain Jack Grammar and others,
of Evansville.
Charley Loaand has become dis.
gusted with Hope6eld and returned to
this side OF the creek.
The YazoO river packet Frank Beck
collapsed a aus while entering Old
river, fifteen miles above V~icksburg,
Saturday night, by which two colored
men, named Bob Emory and Alexander
Ellis, lost there lives. Damage to the
boat, 5000.
The Belle Lee on her way up was
caught in the fog below Vicksburg, and
ran into the bank and damaged her
lower deck guards considerably.
The A, J. White, Captain George
Malone in command, arrived this morn