Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-20

came in from St. Francis river with a
good trip Of freight and people. She is
receiving for q return trip, and leaves
on Thursday mex. for St. Francis river.
Jim Hall is her attentive purser.
The Geo. W. Cheek, Captain Nat
Green, is receiving at the foot of Court
street for Napoleon and the bends, and
leaves this evening, paying strict atten-
ton to all way business, Captain A.
L. Cummins has charge of the Office.
The Julia, Captain Blake, is the
Anchor Line packe. leaving the elevator
to- mOrrow morning at ten o'clock for
Cairo and St. Louis, connecting with the
principal railroads for ell points East
and West. Mr.. Gobel controls the office.
The Vint Shinkle, Captain Remission
in command, will pass up this evening
for Cincinnati. Billy Mcintyre is her
purser.
Tbs steamboatmen swap tobacco and
spin yarns to while away the dull times.
The famous passenger steamer Charles
Morgan will be down Thursday morning
for New Orleans. She is a safe and ex.
cellent steamer to travel on. R. P.
Glenn will make engagements for her.
Captain James S. Wise, of Cincinnati,
wants to be County Treasurer, We hope
be will get it.
The Ruth did not leave New Orleans
Until last evening.
Captain 0. P. Shinkle, formerly OF the
Charles Bodmann, has closed the CON
tract with the Marine Ways for building
the hull Of his new sternwheel steamer
for the Cincinnati and New Orleans
trade. The new boat will be about the
dimensions ofthe Cherokee, only a little
longer. 1t will be $50 feet long, 38 feet
beam, with 6 feet hold, and will be pro-
vided with new machinery, consisting Of
three boilers 46 inches in diameter and
"A feet long, containing 9inch aues, the
cylinders being II inches in diameter,
with feet stroke. The new steamer
will be completed by the Ist of October.
Ed CroWell, the popular and worthy
clerk of the Quickstep, left today for
the Mammoth Cave on a pleasure excur-
sion. He returns on Friday to assume
the duties Of clerk Of the new White
packet Ruth. We wish Ed lots of
fun, a pleasant trip and a safe return.
The Fort Gibson, en- route from Mem
phis to Little Rock, passed Pine Bluf
). She leaves Little Rock to.
day on a return trip to this port.
The Arch Green has been chartered
to the Government to work on Cumber-
land river improvements. Charter
price S37 per day.1ni 1aila a6'm
Captain Charlie Miller has abandoned
the excursion trip to St. Paul with the
Houston from Louisville, owing to
the low water in the upper Mississippi.
Captain Rogers, of St. Louis, has re-
Information of the death of Mr..
Phil Shaw at Pennington, Missouri. Mr..
Shaw was well known to steamboatmen
of the Mississippi as a boat store proprie-
in New Orleans some years since.
Captain Charles P. Truslow and
Charles Drown have contracted with
Dan Morton, at Madison, for a new
steamer for the New Orleans and Red
trade, to be ready for the fall trade.
The hull will be l6O feet long, 81 feet
beam, with 4 feet hold. The machinery
Of the 18th Era, now on the way to Mad
icon on the Vint Shinkle, will be placed
IN the new boat.
Officers Of steamboats, and railroads
will, by refusing to grant all favors in
the name of the LEDGER, and notifying
ne Of the same, greatly oblige ea,ls4e
38I u. WHITMoRE,