Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

She discharges here SO bales cotton.
1910 sacks seed and sundries; adds d
list of Eastern bound cotton and
leaves the elevator at sharp five fol
Cairo and St. Louis, going through
with dispatch. Chris Sharpe, q
clever gentleman, does the honorE
of the office.
The new Arkansas river packet
Katie Hooper, Captain Ed Now
land in command, came in this
morning from Arkansas river with
210 bales cotton, 1904 sacks seed
and sundries and reshipped at the
mouth $50 bales, making a total
out of the river of $40 bales. She
returns tomorrow evening to Ar
kansas river, going through to Lit
tie Rock, carrying the mail and do
ing all way business. Jimmy
Thompson and Billy Nucles, two
clever and accommodating gentle
men, are her clerks.
LOUISVILLE, November Is, 1877.
To the River Editor of the Ledger.
The J. w. Gaff left Cincinnati
Saturday at 6 pm. with a splendid
freight trip, adding literally at all
points to Louisville. Here we
added 1000 plows and, 5000 bundles
of pillow points, besides a large lot
of furniture and miscellaneous
freight. We have also a good pas
senger register. We leave Mem
phis, returning, Friday, November
90, 1877. Yours,
MOORE.
The Phil Allin, Captain Carrot
Huls, came in yesterday afternoon
from Vicksburg with 2S2 bales and
80 bags cotton, 1920 sacks seed,
l450 feet of lumber 80 packages
40 cabin passengers and
large list Of deckers. She re-
turns to Vicksburg this evening,
special attention to all plan
tation business and making direct
connection at Arkopolis with the
Bluff railroad and at Vicks-
burg with the Lee Line of packets
for Yazoo river and the r. E. Lee
for New Orleans. The Allin has
unsurpassed passenger accommoda-
tions, and is a good and safe car
Captain Lee Cummins, an
gentleman, holds forth in
the office, and is ably assisted by
Marlin Jones and Billy Willis.
The superb steamer Thompson
Dean, with Captain James Pepper
in command, will leave this even
ing at 5 o'clock for Napoleon,
Vicksburg, Natchez, New Orleans
and all intermediate points, giving
particular attention to plantation
business. The Dean is one of the
best carriers ahoat and her passen-
ger accommodations cannot be ex-
This splendid packet is
entitled to a large share of patron
age, Captain Pepper having put
her in the Memphis and New Or
leans trade, where she will remain
throughout the season. She will
leave here with all the cotton she
wants, having sufficient engage
ments below to fill her out. Mr..
Beck, her chief clerk, is well
and ~favorably known from one end
of the river to the other, thoroughly
.conversant with his business, and
withal a perfect gentleman. He
has for his assistants Adam Wey-
and Val Entrekin, two clever
and obliging clerks.
The famous and palatial paSsen-
ger steamer Charles Morgan, leaves
the Lee wharfboat tomorrow morn
ing at ten o'clock for New Orleans,
making all principal way landings.
The Morgan enters her fourth sea-
son in the Cincinnati and New Or
leans trade, in which she has been
since December 10Th, 1874,
and during which time she has
made thirty-four trips, handling
60, 900 tons Of freight, and carrying
in round numbers 1000 cabin pas
sengers and $500 deck passengers.
She has been a great success in
every particular, and now enters
her fourth season under even more