Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-16

evening at . o'clock for Cairo and
st Louis. Mr.. Gobell does the
honors of the office.
The Carl Schurz, Captain Phil
Harmon, viii leave this evening at
s o'clock, sharp, for Scanlan's Land
ing, attending to all way business.
AS soon as Captain Randall's new
packet for the st. Francis reaches
here the Mark Twain will enter
regularly into the Benefits and
Folks Landing trade.
Captain Reese Rees, who has
served faithfully for some time as
clerk of the Phil Allin, has resigned
his position and is succeeded by
Captain Lee Oummins.
Captain Robert Speed left last
evening for the lower Ohio river
coal mines to make arrangements
to ship coal to this market, the
supply being nearly exhausted.
The Hattie Rowland, Captain
James Il. Rees, is due to-day from
Arkansas river with a good trip of
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cotton and leaves with dispatch for
Little Rock.
The John A. Scudder, Captain
Frank Hicks, will arrive in port
this afternoon and commence re-
ceiving for New Orleans. She leaves
tomorrow evening, making all the
principal way landings. Charles
Dix controls the office.
The Batesville, Capt. Mat Trem.
mel, is the regular mail packet leav-
ing this evening for Benefits and
Folks Landings, doing all way
business. Henry Cooper and Lee
Woolard are her clerks.
The excellent light draught
steamer Mark Twain, Captain J. D.
Randall, leaves this evening for st.
Francis river, connecting at Jeffer-
sonyille with the Anna for Wits
burg. A. L. Banning, a clever
young gentleman, presides at the
desk.
The Hard Cash, Captain Ed
Postal, will arrive tonight from
White river. with the blue ribbon
trip, bringing out of the river over
600 bales of cotton. She returns
to White river tomorrow evening,
going through to Jacksonport and
giving strict attention to all plan
tation business. Captain R.. W.
Lightburne will make engagements
for her, and give all information in
reference to her movements.
The Belle Memphis came in yes
terday afternoon from st. Louis
with $50 pkgs flour, As bbls meal,
96 bbls potatoes, 22S bbls apples,
40 SKIS wheat, 800 SKIS oats, 3O7 SKIS
corn, 81 bales and ~ bags cotton,
Al SKIS seed, 5O57 pkgs mdse, 175
hogs and 20 cattle, aud returned
to st. Louis last night with so bales
of Eastern cotton.
The Mississippi river, during the
last high stage, encroached fully
500 feet on the State Of Illinois, a
short distance above Cairo. At
present the distance across from
that point to the Ohio is not over
one-third Of a mile. Many of our
most reliable pilots say that that
city will soon find herself on an
island, and all admit that the con-
summation of that event is but a
question of time. Mound City will
then be the two cities in one.
The steamboatmen complain of a
scarcity of labor, and good and re-
liable white labor is in demand at
good wages. The steamers are UNI
able to get full full crews of labor.
ers, as large numbers Of the colored
laborers have gone to the cotton
fields to pick cotton. st. Louis,
Cincinnati and Louisville should
send their surplus labor South.
They can get plenty of employment
here and points further south at re-
munerative wages. Send along all
your old tramps or laborers who are
willing to work.
The Phil Allin, Captain Carrot
Huls, arrived last evening from
Vicksburg with lis bales Of cotton,
1850 sacks of seed and sundries
and abig list of people. She leaves
at sharp five this evening for Vicks-
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