Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

Malone, is the regular Friday pack
ct for New Madrid and the bends.
She viii be found in port this after
noon, ready to receive freight. Mr..
Holmes and Plat Rhodes, two
clever gentlemen, have charge Of
the office.
The Jas. W. Gaff, Captain Bob
Wise, is due from Cincinnati this
evening with a cargo of Western
products and leaves tomorrow eve.
ming with a return trip. Mr.. Moore
is her prime minister. Captain R.
W. Lightburne is making engage
ments for her.
Bya telegram received this morn
ing from Cincinnati we learn that
the Cincinnati and New Orleans
pool line have made arrangements
with the R. E. Lee Wharfboat Com
pany, of which Capt. ]. T. Wash
ington is the leading spirit, to do
business on the Lee wharfbo this
season and act as their agents here.
The staunch and elegant passen-
ger and freight steamer Katie
Hooper, Capt. Ed Rowland in COM
mapd, leaves this evening for Little
Rock and all points on Arkansas
river, carrying the mail, doing all
way business and connecting at
Little Rock with the Maumelle for
Fort Smith. Jimmy Thompson
and Billy Nucles do the honors of
the Office.
The Katie P. Kountz, Captain
James F. Luker, arrived last night
from st. Louis with a fair cargo,
including 200 tons for Arkansas
river. She discharged here 991
bbls. -four and meal, 215 half bbls.
flour, 1909 sacks grain, 179 bales
hay, and 500 packages merchandise.
She win leave Glenn's wharf boat
this evening at 5 o'clock, sharp, for
Little Rock and all points on the
Arkansas, through to Fort Smith.
She will load in the Arkansas for
New Orleans, and will continue in
that trade throughout the season.
The City of Helena, Captain
Mckee, will be the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator to-mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock for
V%icksburg and the bends, carrying
the mail, doing all way business,
and connecting with the Pine Bluff
railroad at Arkopolis and the New
Orleans and Yazoo river packets.
The affable George Walton holds
forth in the Office.
The Geo. W. Cheek, Capt. Mark
R. Cheek, brought in from the
lower coast 6S bales and 80 bags of
cotton and 80 sacks seed. She re-
turns this evening to Friar's Point,
giving special attention to all plan
tation business. Captain James
Roland is her top clerk, assisted by
Hal Aydlett and Thomas Hughes.
The Phil Allin, Captain Garrett
Huls, leaves this evening at sharp
five o'clock for Arkopolis, Green
vile and the bends, doing all way
business and connecting at Arkop-
oils with the Pine Bluff railroad.
The Allin is a safe carrier and has
unsurpassed passenger accommoda-
tons. Captain Lee Cuumins con-
trolls the Office and has for assistants
Marlin Jones and Billy Willis, two
clever and accommodating gentle
men.
Eads' new iron dredge-boat, cost
ing 100000, for use at South Pass
and en- route from Pittsburg to
the j%etties, has reached Cincinnati
and has created considerable inter-
est and curiosity there. She some
what resembles a gunboat, her hull,
deck and bulk-heads all being built
of iron. In the center Of the boat
are three hopper-shaped tanks, each
about 20 feet square, in which the
mud is pumped up and deposited,
and when full the boat will be taken
out to sea and discharge them. Her
pump is an immense affair, and is
worked by two cylinders 20 by &c
inches, set in the hull of the boat
between the cylinders for p%ropelling
the boat. She has fifteen engines
in all on board.