Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-13

The Charles Morgan for Cincinnati
and Grand Lake and barges for st.
Louis left New Orleans last evening.
The Robert E. Lee left New Orleans
last evening for Louisville, where she
will be disnantled and her machinery
placed in the new Bob Lee.
The Thompson Dean leaves Cincin-
natl tomorrow for New Orleans.
The Grand Republic is loading at St.
Louis for New Orleans, at ten cents per
hundred and twenty cents per barrel on
-four.
The rates on freights from Cincinnati
to New Orleans this week are fifteen
cents per hundred for bacon, twenty-five
cents per barrel on -four, thirty.fve cents
per barrel on pork. and whiskey fifty
cents per barrel.
The Osceola Belle, Captain Andrews,
is receiving at the foot Of Madison street
for Haile's Point and way landings on
the upper coast, and leaves to morrow
evening. Captain o. K, Joplin is her
prime minister.
The Anchor Line packet City Of Hell
ena, Captain Mckee, leaves the elevator
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for
V~icksburg and the bends, carrying the
mail and doing all way business. Geo.
Walton is her prime minister. Freight
will be received for her at all times at
the elevator.
The Susie Silver, Captain D. H.. Silver,
leaves Glenn's wharfboat this evening
for New Orleans, making all principal
way landings. Captain R. P. Glenn
will make engagements for her.
The Legal Tender, Captain Ed Now
laud, will arrive tomorrow from Arkan.
sas river and leave on Saturday for Lit
tie Rock.
The IdleWild is the regular Saturday
mail packet for Arkansas City aud the
bends.
A barge of ice belonging to Huse.
Loomis 4 Co, sunk at the bridge at st.
Louis Tuesday evening.
The Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company are loading a barge of tobacco
at Padueah for New Orleans.
Captain George W. Neare, while in St.
Louis, surveyed the Carondelet, est.
mating her damages by the recent storm
at $l7OO, which he settled in favor of the
Underwriters.
Captain Blake has concluded to wreck
the Julia and sell her in pieces at st.
Louis.
Captain B. c. Levi, steamboat agent,
Of Louisville, has made an assignment.
Captain Dick Smith, a well known
Yazoo river pilot, is quite ill at Vicks-
burg, and is not expected to live.
Captain Hicks is at Vicksburg look
ing after the wreck of the Mary Bell.
The James d. Parker, Captain Bob
Wise, arrived in port at Doon from
Cincinnati with fair cargo of Western
products and a good list of passengers
as usual. She leaves to-morrowing even.
ing with a return trip. Mr.. Russell has
charge of the office.
The Capitol City, Captain O'Neal, is
the Anchor Line packet, leaving the ele-
vator tomorrow morning at ten o'clock
for Cairo and st. Louis, making close
connection with the railroads for all
points East and West. Henry Deadrick
does the honors of the Office.
The Ella, Captain VIM. Elliott, arrived
last evening from st. Francis river with
htty-hye bales of csIton and a big list Of
people. She leaves this evening with a
return trip for Madison and all points on
St. Francis river, making direct connec-
ton with the Little Rock railroad. Cap
tain Less Ware holds forth in the Office,
and is ably assisted by Vim. Elliott jr.,
and jim Franklin.
The popular lower coast packet A. j.
White, Captain George Malone in com.
msnd, came in this morning from below
with 81 bales of cotton, a lot of seed and
sundries and a good list of people. She
returns to Napoleon and the bends this
evening, paying strict attention to all
way business. The White combines
comfort and speed and is in charge Of
the most careful and experienced Off
GERS. Captain Lee Cummins, a gentle
man with whom it is a pleasure to travel
and do business, controls the office and
is ably assisted by Billy Smithers and
John Cheek. Morris Herman, who has
no superior as a steward, will make the
guests Of the White comfortable and feed
them s%umptuously. Morris knows how
to cater to the wants of the inner man.
The levee at Buck Ridge Landing, on
the Mississippi side, two hundred and
ten miles below here and one mile above
Bolivar Landing, broke Monday night at
IL o'clock. The break is two hundred
yards wide and overaows the bottom