Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-02

w al oonus Duhinebs ana making |
direct connection with the princi-
pal railroads for all points East and
West.
The Anchor Line packet Color
ado, Captain James O'Neal, leaves
the elevator tomorrow morning at
10 O'Clock for Vicksburg and the
bends, doing all way business and
connecting with the Pine Bluff rail-
road at Arkansas City and at Vicks-
burg with the New Orleans and
Yazoo river packets.
The new and elegant steamer
Golden Rule, Captain 0. P. Shin
kle, will leave tomorrow at 5 pm.
for New Orleans, making all the
principal way landings. She is one
of the best passenger packets on
the river and a safe carrier. Mr..
Shaw, an affable gentleman, is her
purser,
The City of Alton, with 552
hhds. sugar and $50 tons Of miscel-
laneoas freight for st. Louis, passed
up this morning, after discharging
here 10 hhds. sugar, $40 coils ropes
20 bbls. oysters, 60 bbls. potatoes
and So packages sundrieS.
Our river friends can congratu-
late themselves on the new coal firm
of @. B. Bryan & Co., the card of
which appears to-day in our col
umns. With the veteran Pittsburg
firm of O'Neil & Go. to supply the
Pittsburg, and the st. Bernard Coal
Company the St. Bernard coal, ard
our worthy friend Thad s. Ely to
represent them on the river, the
team is a strong one and steamboat
men can rely on them.
The fine steamer Vint Shinkle,
Captain Kenniston, leaves this eve
ming for Cairo, Louisville and
Cincinnati, ticketing passengers
through to all Eastern cities at
reduced rates, transferring passen-
gers and baggage to the railroad
depots free of charge. Captain A.
j. Lindsay, a gentleman with whom
it is a pleasure to travel and do
business, controls the Office.
The A. ]. White, in command of
Captain J. J. Darragh, superintend-
ent Of the Memphis and Vicksburg
Packet Line, arrived yesterday
afternoon from Mound City, at
which point she was locked and
thoroughly repaired, and is now in
splendid running order. Captain
Darragh says he was caught in the
snow storm at Mound City on
Wednesday, and the White brought
some Of the snow down with her,
the weather being too cold to admit
of it melting before reaching here.
A Pittsburg telegram of Thurs
day states as follows: "About all
the coal that will get out on this
water appears to have gone. Coal
men are feeling blue. The down
river markets, they say, are all glut-
ted, and that notwithstanding the
low prices there is but little selling.
The feeling prevails that mining
should be stopped for thirty or sixty
days in order to reduce the stock,
and a movement with this view is
not improbable"
The Ruth, Captain Milt Harry,
will arrive this afternoon from
White river with 800 bales of cot
ton. She was delayed on account
of the bad weather, but will posi-
lively leave tomorrow morning at
ten o'clock with a return trip for
White river, going through to
Jaoksonport and making direct
connection with the steamer AL
berta and Milt Harry for upper
White and Black rivers. Freight
will be received for her at the Lee
wharfboat, and Captain Harry re-
spectfully solicits shippers to send
down their freight to the wharfboat
this evening, which will be promptly
received and signed for. Mr.. Ed
Orowell will be found in the office
ever ready to register passengers
wishing a safe and pleasant journey
to White river, and also to all bust
mass entrnsted IN his caro-