Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-01

over 100 cabin passengers, and ablg
list of deckers.
An item of the steamer Nash.
Wills cargo ont of the Tennessee
river was 2915 bags of peanuts.
The Iron Mountain leaves Pitts.
burg to-day for New Orleans,
The steamboats, in port at st.
Louis keep up steem and are kept
in readiness to move with the ice
when it breaks up, which is likely
to occur to-day or tomorrow.
The following are the dimensions
of Captain Porter's new st. Francis
river packet built at Helena
Length, 100 feet; % foot beam,
with 4 foot hold.
The Coahoma, Captain Stacker
Lee, is the regular Friday mail
packet for Friar's Point.
The Ruth, Captain VIM. Ashford,
is the regular Saturday White river
mail packet. She will arrive in
port tomorrow.
Captain Hart, of the A, G. Don
nally, speaks in glowing terms of
the hospitality and kind treatment
he received from the citizens Of
Helena while ice-bound there.
The Phil Allin, Captain George
Malone in command, came in this
morning with lis bales and 10 bags
OF cotton, and 144S sacks seed and
sundries, together with a big list Of
people. She returns this evening
at 5 o'clock to Arkansas City, car
rying the mail and paying strict
attention to all way business.
Captain Lee Cummins does the
honors of the Office, assisted by
Billy Smither and Zee Woolard.
The towboat Lizzie Gardner was
sold by the United States marshal
at Evansville on Tuesday. Stevens
& Ware of Cincinnati, were the
lucky purchasers-price, $500.
The favorite Memphis and Gin
cinnati packet Jas. W. Gaff, Capt.
Bob Wise in command, will arrive
in port this afternoon with 500
tons of miscellaneous freight, and
will leave tomorrow evening with
a return trip for Cincinnati, ticket
ing passengers through to all points
East. The Gaff has unsurpassed
passenger accommodations. Mr..
Moore, an afable gentleman, Off
ciates in the Office.
Mr.. Mitchell, proprietor of the
Theater Comique at st. Louis,
which has become so notorious by
two recent murders, was a steam
boat clerk some years ago in the
office Of the David White. Subse-
quently he was a wholesale grocery
merchant in New Orleans, and in
Chicago at the time of the great
fire.
The Anchor Line packet Grand
Tower, Capt. Lsnnox, leaves the
elevator this evening at 8 O'Clock
for Vicksburg and the bends, carry
ing the mail and doing all way
business. Tom White presides at
the desk.
The iron steamer Carond elct,
Capt. Frank Hicks, leaves this
evening for New Orleans. Capt
ALI Grissom is her chief scribe.
She gets here over 1000 bales Of
cotton, a lot of oil and meal, and
has engagements at Helena and
points south of there sufficient to
give her a good trip.
The A. ]. White, Captain Nat
Green, brought in this morning
from the lower coast 50 bales and
6 bags Of cotton, 19l sacks seed
and sundrivs, and had u good list
Of people, She returns to Friars
Point this evening at five o'clock,
giving special attention to all way
business. Charley Smither, John
Burke and Marlin Jones are her
clever and accommodating clerks,
The Belle 81, Louis, en- route
from st. Louis to Memphis, with
500 tons Of miscellaneous freight
Oh board, was cut down by the lee
yesterday at st, Genevleye, sixty
miles below st. Louis. The boat
and cargo will prove a total loss
She was owned by the Belle st
Louis Transportation Company
was valued ut $4,000, and insured