Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-25

JMCtn oilO SAONA NANJ'
Captain Phil Anshutz'S new
sternwheel steamer the Calumet was
launched at Madison on Thursday
afternoon. She was built for the
st. Louis and Pittsburg trade.
The Garrett and barges will pass
down to-day for New Orleans.
The rates on freights from st.
Louis to New Orleans rule at SOC.
per bile. on -four and Csc. per hun
bred. An advance in freights is
anticipated next week.
The Maumelle, Captain Wood
ruff, will arrive tomorrow from Ar
kansas river with a big trip of
cotton and other freight and will
leave on Monday with a return trip.
The Governor Garland left Pine
Bluff last evening for Memphis
with q good list Of cotton.
Captain Kehoe and Ed Dorsey
Will continue the soundings to-day
at the foot Of Jefferson street.
The Osceola Belle, Captain An
drews, is the regular packet leaving
this evening for AshpOrt and all
way landings on the upper coast,
giving strict attention to all way
business. Capt. 0. K. Joplin does
the honors of the Office.
The St. Gencvieve, Capt. Sam
McPheeters, came in from St. Louis
with a full cargo of grain and pro-
duce and a good list of people. She
returns to st. Louis this evening,
doing all bend business and con-
Meeting with the principal railroads
for all points East and West.
The John B. Maude is the
Anchor Line packet leaving the
elevator tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock for Vicksburg and the
bends, carrying the mail and doing
all way business.
The James D. Parker, Captain
William Ticbenor, leaves this even
ing for Cairo, Louisville and Gin
clnnati, sending passengers through
to all points East at reduced rates.
She is an excellent carrier and has
good and comfortable passenger ac-
commodations. Messrs. Colbert
and Russell, two clever gentlemen,
have charge Of the Office.
The Charles Morgan, Captain
Charles Stein, leaves Glenn's wharf
boat tomorrow morning at seven
o'clock for all points on the Ohio
river. Freight and baggage will
be received on the wharf boat for
her. Harry Stein is her purser.
The Charles Morgan, bound up
tomorrow morning Tor Cincinnati,
has the following items of freight
495 hhds. sugar, $50 bblF. molasses,
686 bbls. rice, las bags of coffee, 90
bales cotton, 70 bales paper stock,
200 bbls. oranges, 20 hhds, cocoa.
nuts and 300 packages sundries, 4C
cabin and 20 deck passengers.
A Cincinnati exchange say
white labor is plenty on the leyet
there, owing to the arrival of I
large number Of seamen from thr
, Northern lakes, working their way
South. A large number offered t
work their way on the Sherlock t.
New Orleans. There is plenty o.
work here and at the lower port
for good white men, at from $40 t
{ $50 per month. The negro laborei
is worthless and unreliable, AM
steamboatmen have much troubl,
with them, and they would gladl,
3 employ white labor.
Pittsburg kilograms Of the 23d
IN speaking Of the coal run, says
But few accidents have occurred t,
: the coal feet as yet. The Johl
Hammer collided with one of tn.
: piers Of the Smithfeld street bridge
r sinking one barge and grounding
two others, one Of which was sub
S sequently cotton of. The Goa
: Hill and Tiger departed this even
ing with tows Of coal aud coke
t The Granite State reports that tn,
river banks we're almost lined witt
: towboats last night, from Liyorpoo
r up. The night being dark the
nn,rlv all tooL - A. 1T