Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-04

fourteen and a half miles In length.
The Colorado is the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator to-mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock for
Vicksburg and the bends, doing all
way business and connecting at
Arkansas City with the Pine Bluff
railroad, and at Vicksburg with the
New Orleans and Yazzo river
packets.
The John B. Maude, Captain
VIM. Blake, is the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator to.mor-
row evening at FIVE O'clock for
Cairo and St Louis, doing all bend
business and making direct connec-
ton with the principal railroads
for all points East and West. Mr..
Gobel presides at the desk.
Capt. Wiley, of st. Louis, arrived
in the city last evening. He came
here to recover the remains Of Capt
Dick Kenneth, the pilot who was
lost on the Warner few days since.
A suitable reward has been offered
for the recovery Of the body, and
any information in reference to the
above will be thankfully received
by the LEDGER.
The Katie Hooper, Capt. Eugene
Smith, is the regular mail packet
leaving this evening for Little Rock,
attending to all bend business and
making direct connection with the
Maumelle for Fort Smith and upper
Arkansas river. Jimmy Thompson
aud Billy Nucles, two clever and
accommodating gentlemen, have
charge OF the office.
The elegant passenger steamer A.
j. White, Captain N. S. Green in
command, is the regular mail packet
leaving this evening at 5 O'Clock for
Arkansas City. She will give strict
attention to all way business and
connect with the Pine Bluff rail-
ROAD. The White is a safe and re-
liable carrier and has palatial pas
senger accommodations, and her
officers are experienced and worthy
boatmen. John W. Gwathmey, her
chief clerk, is noted for his univer-
sal courtesy and promptness in
business, and has associated with
him in the Office Neil Booker and
Billy Thomas.
The steamer Ruth, with Captain
Milt Harry on the roof, came in
this morning from White river with
a good trip, including 400 bales of
cotton. She goes out with a return
trip this evening, connecting with
the light draught steamers Alberta
and Milt Harry, at Jacksonport,
for upper White and Black rivers.
Ihls IS one oil tine safest and most
accommodating vessels in any line,
her officers being both experienced
and careful. The Ruth will also
give special attention to Mississippi
business this side of Terrene. Ed
Crowell, who is known by every
one from here to Jacksonport for
his obliging disposition, is chief
clerk, assisted by Will Turney.
The James W. Calf got away last
evening about Z o'clock with a large
trip of freight, and quite a number
of cabin passengers, among whom
were Captain Dick Robinson, J. A.
Mackey, R. W. Walker, W. Long,
j. B. Cox, Ed f. Hovey, Mr.. Will
liam Wise and wife, Miss Ida Wise,
Miss Julia Wise, Miss Mamie Dud-
ley, Mrs. j. d. Moore, Mrs. NJ. E.
Jack, Miss Alice Holmes, Mrs. Nil.
Ter, Miss Lottie Miller, Miss Bruce,
Mrs. W. G. Morris, Miss Lentz,
Mrs. Bradshaw, and a number of
Others. Under the management of
Captain Bob Wise, than whom a
more courteous, generous and eff
cient officer never walked q deck,
the Calf has become the most popu-
lar packet on the river, and persons
going up the river, especially the
ladies, generally make it convenient
to 60 on the Gaf. Captain Moore
is her chief clerk, and is a prince of
good fellows. AS the boat showed
out into the stream the young
ladies stood on the hurricane-roof
singing Goodbye, Sweetheart,
Goodbye" to the gentlemen on the
levee. A pleasant and safe voyage
to the CAT.