Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-29

The "red tiger" packet COaho-
ma, looking as fresh and as pretty
as a tube rose, win resume her reg
ular trips in the Friar's Point trade
next week.
The Anchor Line packet City OF
Helena left Vicksburg yesterday
noon. She will arrive here to-mor-
row evening and leave the elevator
Friday evening for St. Louis.
The Belle Of Shreveport left near
noon for New Orleans loaded down
to the guards. She put of a lot of
stuff at the elevator and filed out
at the Lee wharfboat with $50 sacks
oil meal.
New Orleans freights at Ciucin-
natl have been advanced to 20 cents
per hundred on bacon, so cents per
Dbl on pork and IS cents per Dbl
on whisky.
A st. Leuis correspondent says
the Kountz Line boats are not do
ing much, and that the James
Howard, leaving there this evening
in the Anchor Line, will have 1900
tons of freight, and good engage
ments below.
The West Wind, Captain ]. G,
Andrews, is the regular mail packet
leaving this evening for 0sceola and
all points on the upper coast, car
rying the mail and doing all way
business. B. 0. Michel and Cyrus
Fay are her gentlemanly clerks.
The new Mary Houston passed
up at 10 AN. for Cincinnati with
800 tons of freight and rs cabin
passengers and 80 deckers. She
discharged at the Lee w%harfboat Is
barrels molasses, 10 barrels onions
and IL packages sundries.
Mr.. H. W. Gays, of Louisville,
late general freight agent Of the
Cincinnati and Louisville Mail
Line, has been appointed agent Of
the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincin-
natl and indianapolis, at Cincin-
natl. He assumes the duties of the
position June 1st.
Captain William Winpenny, who
commands a tug at the Eads %jetties,
says hal the jetties will prove a
failure, as will be shown by the ac-
ton Of the current, which is fast
destroying the work done there at
an enormous expense to the gov
eminent,
The Capitol City passed down
yesterday afternoon for Vicksburg
well laden. She discharged at the
elevator 34S sacks corn, 145 sacks
oats, 395 sacks bran, 1920 bbls
meal and flour, aud 3 sacks cotton,
and added 10 tons Of freight for
points below.
Captain Oscar Postal has his ex-
cellent little steamer, the Trader, in
good running order, and is making
regular trips in the Cache river
trade, running in connection with
the Hard Cash and Ruth and Little
Rock railroad.
W. F. Mcintyre, clerk of the G..
B. Church, has gone to the coun-
try. He is rusticating at the home
of his partner, Jimmie Wirthlin,
near Milford. Amos Day, late
freight clerk of the Morgan, has
gone to Indiana on a visit to his
mother.
The New Orleans Times says:
Pilots bringing their boats into
New Orleans must keep a sharp.
lookout for the United States man
of-war Swatara, as she is anchored
in the river Immediately opposite
Canal street, laying rather closer to-
the Algiers shore than the Canoni-
Gus did"
The George W. Cheek, Captain
Mark Cheek, came in this morning
from the lower coast with an ex-
c%ellent trip, and leaves this evening
with a return trip for Friar's Point,
carrying the mail and doing all.
way business. Walker Outlaw is
her purser, and is assisted in his
official duties by Platt Rhodes and.
Thomas Hughes.
The James d. Parker cleared last
evening for the Ohio with 535 bales
cotton, 80 bales rags, 500 bars rail-
road iron, $50 sacks oil meal and
sundries, and had 40 cabin passen-
gers and 20 deckers. Capt. Russell
.M ~ III