Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17

evening for Vickburg, leaving here
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
Among the prominent buildings
decorated at Cincinnati for the fes-
festival were Parker, Wise & Co.'s.
Captain Dave Silver will build
this summer a 5000 bale cotton
boat for the New Orleans and Red
river trade.
The Morgan is loading at Gin
cinnati for New Orleans at 20 cents
per hundred, and rs cents per Dbl
on whisky.
The st. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line packet Golddust will
leave st. Louis tomorrow evening
for New Orleans.
The Golden Grown for Cinein-
natl and Simpson Horner and
barges for Pittsburg left New Or
leans last evening,
The Florence Meyer is caught by
low water above Little Rock and is
unable to get out until there is a
rise in the river.
The rates on freight from st.
Louis to New Orleans rule at 10 to
IL cents per hundred, and 20 cents
per barrel on flour.
The John B. Maude left Vieks-
burg yesterday noon for st. Louis.
She will arrive here tomorrow
evening and leave Sunday evening.
The Andy Baum, for Memphis,
passed Evansville last evening and
will arrive tomorrow noon, and re-
turns to Cincinnati Monday even
ing.
The Capitol City, from St. Louis,
arrived at Yicksburg yesterday af-
ternoon, and leaves there to-day at
noon with a return trip for Mem
phis.
The little steamer Yicksburg
stole away from the United States
mashal at Yicksburg a few days
since aud made her way to New
Orleans.
Captain J. Harvey Mathes, our.
senior editor, takes passage on the
j. W. Gaf, leaving this evening for
Cincinnati, EN- route to the Paris
Exposition.
The Lioness No. 2 left Cincin-
natl Wednesday for Memphis with
twelve pieces, containing 10000
bushels of coal, and adds at Cairo
100000 bushels for this market.
The Golden City passed down to-
day for New Orleans, when the sea-
son closes. Captain Hegler will
give her an additional boiler and a
pair of new cylinders % inches in
diameter, with s feet stroke.
The st. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line packet City of Alton
left st. Louis Wednesday evening
for New Orleans. She will arrive
here tomorrow evening and leave
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
The j. W. Gaf has her colors
still at half mast and the Office
draped in mourning in respect to
the memory Of the deceased Will
liam Wise, the venerable parent of
Captain r. W. Wise, whose funeral
took place yesterday at Cincinnati.
We were highly complimented by
the receipt Of a handsome bouquet,
Yesterday, presented us by Mr..
Jameson, an atache of the Lee
w~harfboat. May his pathway
through life be strewn with flowers.
The Belle of Texas, Capt. Eugene
Smith, came in at l pm. from Ar
kansas river with a fair list of cot
ton and other freight, She goes to
the bank again, and the Katie
Hooper resumes her regular trips,
leaving tomorrow evening.
Several steamboat clerks followed,
last night, the good example set by
Captain Joe Spears and joined the
red-ribbon brigade. Let the good
work go on. There are several
more of our steamboat friends
whom we hope to see converted.
The towboat John Porter, with a
tow Of model barges loaded with
cotton ties and Pittsburg wares and
several barges of coal, came in last
night from the Ohio river. She
dropped l barge here loaded with
20, 1000 bundles cotton ties and sc
barrels clay, and has l barge of cot
ton ties for Yicksburg and 8 fol
New Orleans laden with cotton ties