Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-26


special attention to all plantation
business. Mr.. Holmes and Plat
Rhodes, two clever and accommo-
dating gentlemen, have charge of
the Office.
The George W. Cheek, Captain
Mark R. Cheek, came in this morn
ing from the lower coast with 81
bales and 10 bags of cotton, and
277 sacks seed and sundries. She
will return to Helena this evening
at 5 o'clock, paying strict attention
to all way business. Hal Aydlett
and Thomas Hughes do the honors
of the Office.
Captain Joseph Elliott, Billy
Warmer and several of the crew of
the City of Augusta, went down on
the Phil Allin last night to rejoin
their packet which has entered the
New Orleans and White river trade.
The fog last night and this morn
ing detained all the packets.
The following is an accurate
statement of the shipment of coal
from Pittsburg on the present rise (:
For Wheeling, 10 barges; Oolum-
bia, 10 barges-115,OO0 bushels ;
IrOnton, 6 barges-65,O0O bushels /;
Cincinnati, Ga barges-over 5S1, 900.
bushels; Madison, IL barges-12O,-
900 bushels Louisville, 26 barges
1856, 900 bushels.
The Coahoma, Capt. Stacker Lee,
came in at IL o'clock with 211 bales
of cotton and 1895 sacks of seed,
and was full of people. She returns
on time this evening to Friar's Point.
She was delayed by the fog. She
passed the Phil Allin and Hard
Cash this morning at 6 o'clock lay
ing at Commerce.
The Batesville, Captain Matt
Tremmel, came in this morning
from the lower coast with a fair list
of cotton and seed and returns to
Benefits this evening at 5 o'clock,
carrying the mail and doing all
way business. Henry Cooper and
Lee Woodland are her clerks.
The Glencoe passed down this
morning for New Orleans loaded
down to the guards. She added here
so bales cotton, Is mules and 100
barrels oil and Is tons sundries.
She had also a colony of nearly 200
people in charge of MI. Thomas
Gale, Of indianapolis, Ind, en- route
to Carroll parish, La, where they
intend to locate.
The Osceola Belle, Captain j. G..
Andrews, came in from the upper
coast with 207 bales and "a bags Of
cotton and sundries. She returns
to Johnson's Landing this evening
at 5 o'clock, sharp, carrying the
mail and attending to all way and
plantation business. Cyrus Fay
and B. O. Michel are her gentle
manly clerks.
Captain Parisot's new %Sunaower
packet Carrie Hogan, passed down
at daylight this morning. She dis
charged here 80 bbls apples, 36 bbls
onions, rs bbls and rs half bbls Of
flour, Z bbls and 80 half bbls krout
and $50 pkgs of furniture and sun
dries.
Messrs. Bradford & Ely yesterday
received a letter. from Capt. Thor
weigan, of the new iron steamer
building at st. Louis, stating that
she is rapidly progressing toward
completion. The cylinders, doctor
and boilers are on board and in po-
s%ition; the cabin and pilot-house
will be completed this week. Hel
cabin will afford comfortable accom-
modations for twenty passengers
Her decks will afford plenty OF room
for cotton, all under cover except
what is on the guards, the latter be
ing fifteen feet wide. Her hull con-
tains twelve water-tight compart
ments, so that if a hole be knocked
into one, water will not get into an
other. Her provisions against fir
are the best known. She will leav,
St. Louis on Wednesday, Novembe.
9TH, and will enter regularly int
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