Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-20

Captain Mat Tremmel will have a
packet for Scanlan's Landing tomorrow
in place of the Carl Schurz,
The Golden City is due up to-day from
New Orleans, en- route to Cairo.
Captain ]. T. Washington with his
large and c~ommodious wharf boat, the
R. E. Lee, moored to the foot of Court
street, is ready fer business.
The Florence Meyer comes South soon
to enter the Arkansas river and New Or.
leans trade.
The U. P. Schenek is loading at Cairo
for New Orleans.
Captain Parisot's new boat will be
called the Carrie Hogan, in honor of a
beautiful and accomplished resident OF
Yszoo.
The Grand Tower is the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator tomorrow
evening for St. Louis.
Workmen are engaged in repairing
and repainting the George w.. Cheek.
She will enter the Helena trade Monday
week.
The steamer Gold Dust will ply in the
St. Louis and New Orleans trade this
season.
The Mollie Moore will leave St. Louis
Saturday.
Captain A. B. Shaw has gone into the
hotel business at St. Louis.
The Christian piety of some men in
this city is like the load on a sternwheel
boat-all on deck and nothing in the
hull.
The Belle Of Lacrosse is high aud dry
on a chain of rocks near Keokuk in a
bad fix.
The Shotwell Coal Company have con.
tracted for q new tovboat at Pittsburg.
A deck passenger on the Danube fell
overheard at Rising Sun Saturday night
and was drowned,
The river between Cairo and st. Louis
is in q deplorAble condition, and steam
ers bound down experience much trouble
Ga account of low water and the ragged
condition of the channel.
Captain Keiser and his partners, 7.
L. Jones and Thomas P. Leathers, have
received a patent from Washington on
their steam generator, and the machine
is soon to be tested. Many think the in
vention will reyolutionize steam power
The Maumelle, Capt. Thos. Darrsgh,
leaves this evening foe Little Rock and
all points on Arkansas river, carrying
the mail and attending to all way bust
ness. Messrs. Pat Morrison and Charley
Musselman do the honors Of the Office
In the suit Of the Missouri River
Packet Company against the Hannibal
aud St. Joseph Railroad Company for
damages sustained by their boats in col
liding with the bridge piers at Kansas
City judgment was rendered in the Cir
cult Court at Independence in favor of
the packet company for $1,000 damages
to the Alice and $1,000 for the St. Louis.
By a private telegram from St. Louis
this morning we learn that Capt. Frank
Hicks has purchased the Bismarck to
take the place Of the burned steamer
Carondelet in the Memphis and New
Orleans trade. The Bismarck will have
cotton guards put on her and be ready
to enter the trade by the first of October.
The Illinois, Capt. Nat Greene, came
in this morning from the lower coast
! with 6 bales and Is bags of cotton, 48
q sacks Of seed, and sundries, and had
also q big list Of passengers. She re-
turns to Arkopolis at sharp FIVE this
evening, carrying the mail and giving
special attention to all way business.
Captain Lee Cummins is her chief clerk,
and has for his aids Neal Booker and
| Joe Boyd.
The City of Chester, Captain Zeigler
is the regular Anchor Line packet leav
e ing the elevator this evening at 5 O'CLOCK
Y for Cairo and St. Louis. She carries the
T mail and attends TO all bend business
2 and connects with the principal railroad
for all points East and West. Henry
Dsatrich, an afable gentleman, presidsl
Q at the desk.
o The City Of Helena, Captain Mckee
is the Anchor Line packet leaving tb
. elevator tomorrow morning at tel
u o'clock for Vicksburg and the bends
carrying the mail and doing all wa.
business. She makes direct connectio.
at Arkopolis with the Pine Bluff raj
i road aud at VickSburg with the r. L
q Lee for New Orleans and the Yazo
' river packets. George Walton, a cleve
gentleman. presides at the desk.
The fac steamers Grand Republic an
Csrondtlet were burned last night Q
St. Louis, and both steamers are a totl
Of loss. The Grand Republic was owne
by Captain Vim. ThorweigAn and other
of St. Louis. She was to have left 81
Louis on the 6:h Of October 10 enter tn
Memphis and New Orleans trade. Tn
C~arondslet was owned by Captain Fran.
te Hicks, his son RsCe Hicks aud Capital
Of Alf Grissome. She has beon undergo
ing repairs at St. Louis, and was to hav
ID left st. Louis the latter part Of thi
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