Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-19

Ihe Phil Allin, for st. Francis river,
had q good trip Of railroad people out
last night. She landed at Madison this
morning at $40, and will put her pas
sezgers in Little Rock at IL m. to day.
The Cons Millar, for Cincinnati, had
4l6 bales Of cotton, 300 barrels of pota-
toes, 800 barrels of oil, a lot OF old iron
and rags and 80 cabin passengers.
The Vint Shinkle, Captain Remission,
will arrive to-day from the Ohio river
with a fair cargo of Western products
and leaves on Friday for Cincinnati.
Owing to the high stage of water and
dull business in White river, the City Of
Augusta has laid up.
The fine steamer Robert Mitchell,
Captain Frank Paul, will leave Glenn's
wharfboat this afternoon for New Or
leans, making all principal way land
ings. Captain Frank Stein is her prime
minister.
The Geo. W. Cheek, Capt. Nat Green,
brought in this morning from the lower
coast a fair list Of cotton and people.
She returns to Friar's Point and the
bends this evening, paying strict atten,
ton to all way business. Messrs. D. P.
Davis and John Lsnglois, two clever and
accommodating gentlemen. have charge
of the office.
The City of Alton passed up at noon
to-day for St. Louis. She put off here a
lot of sugar and other staff.
The Ashland leaves Cincinnati on
Friday for Arkansas river.
The steamer D. A. Mcdonald collided
with the bridge at Keokuk and sunk in
twenty feet of water. No lives were lost.
Ths Cincinnati Commercial Of yester-
day says; Captain W. G. Harry, formerly
of the boat store of Harry, Davidson &
Co., and father Of Captain NJ. R. Harry,
Of the White River Packet Line, goes to
Memphis, where he will spend some
time, having retired from the life of q
granger.
The 0sceola Belle has not yet been re-
lieved from her precarious condition at
Bradley's. The City of Alton took up
another barge to her this morning.
The Anchor Line packet Capitol City
is the regular Vicksburg packet leaving
the elevator Friday morning at 10
o'clock.
The levee at Delta One, half a mile
above Frisr's Point, broke Monday even
ing. The brake is one hundred yards
wide. The water flows through the
Yazoo pass and is overlooking the plan
tations on Moon lake and near Friar's
Point, and thence takes in Cold Water
and ~Tallahatchie, emptying into Yazoo
river.
Captain Washington, agent Of the new
steamer Grand Republic, received a dis.
patch this morning stating that she.
would be here this evening and leave at
6 o'clock for New Orleans. The new
steamer is n Of the grandest floating
palaces that ever piled the Western wa
ters. She is commanded by Captain
VIM. Thorwegsn, an experienced officer,
and is ably seconded in the office by
Captains Philo Young and Jake Sedan.
The following are her dimensions:
Hull $50 feet in length, l0l feet in
width, beam Sc feet 8 inches, 81 feet 6
inches floor; hull l03 feet deep in the
clear, bottom plank Al inches, floor III
by Al inches, binding Streaks 8 by 10
inches; deck 3 inches, entire deck frame,
outriggers and beams, oak; all butts are
plated and double bolted; frame is double
fastened With and inch square bolts;
knuckle nelson's IL by l6 inches, main
kelson IL by "a inches. The fore and aft
bulkheRd is diagonal braced to form a
bridge truss, with solid 3-inch bulkhead
on each side; has flush ollie deck
guards, stationary tenders; every seam
caulked with nine threads of oakum, all
seams, spike-hesds and butts, white
loaded and puttied. The main stairway
leading from the main to the boiler or
cabin deck, a distance of III feet, is
very elaborate, geoEetrical open banis-
ter, with scroll work and mouldings, with
very heavy double hand rails. The boiler
deck is 30 feet long, with 20 feet prom
enading guards on each side and outside
Of the cabin. The main or saloon cabin
is go feet in length, 80 feet width, Is
feet hight; has so ten foot rooms, and 2
6fteen.foot bridal chambers; the cabin is
very handsome, gothic style; orna-
mented With columns, scroll-work, etc.;
thoroughly ventilated with extra high
skylights, with many passage ways from
the cabin to the main and upper decks.
The texas, or upper deck cabin, is large
and roomy, has accommodations for 100
passengers, and will be thoroughly fur
nished for our colored friends. Pilot
house is large, light, and handsomely
decorated with stained glass, scrolLwork,
ETC.; cupola on top, tipped with gilt de.
sign; has all the modern improvements
aud inventions - fire alarms, sounding
and speaking trumpets, wire tiller-ropes,
wire bell cords, and complete steering
outfit. The bar, barbershop, storeroom
and blacksmithshop are on the larboard
guard; pantry, cookhouse and messroom
on the starboard guard, all large and
roomy. The engines are Hartupee com.
pound engines. The two large cylinders
are so inches, the smaller ones are e
inches diameter, with ten-foot stroke
connected to them are two of G. F. Blake
& Co.'S BOSTON, improved air pumps
which are IL by % by 30 inches. These
pumps, ln case of accident, can be used
to take water from the hull, and are
capable CT throwing 5000 gallons pei
minutei throwing a 20 inch solid stream