Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-07

will arrive Monday morning from
Vicksburg, and leaves Tuesday with a
return trip.
The 0uachita Belle is the regular
Monday mail packet for Arkopolis,
connecting with the Katydid for
Vicksburg.
The river is still rising and encroach-
ing ON the freight piles on the levee,
causing an extra expense TO have the
freight removed. o..
The steamboatmen report severe
weather along the Ohio river, snow-I
storms and high winds causing boats
to lay up and a restriction of business
at the different ports to be severely
felt.
The U. P. Schenck passed up last
night for Cincinnati with a good up
stream trip, being loaded down to 81
feet. She discharged here 6 bags cot
ton and 30 pkgs sundries.
The Anchor Line packet John B.
Maude, Captain VIM. Blake, leaves
the Lee wharfboat tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock for Vicksburg and
the bends. Mr.. Gobel presides at the
desk.
The new and elegant Anchor Line
packet Annie p. Silver, Captain d.
Silver in command, will leave the Lee
wharfboat at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning for New Orleans, making all
principal way landings.
The Hard Cash will pass Devall's
Bluff tomorrow morning for Memphis
with another big trip Of cotton and
will arrive here Tuesday, returning to
White river "Wednesday, her regular
day.
Captain Oscar Postal enters his
staunch and light dranght steamer, the
Trader, in the Cache river trade, max
ing regular connections at Devall's
Bluff with the White river packets
and the Little Rock railroad.
The james D. Parker, en- route from
from Cincinnati to Memphis, passed
Evansville last night at s o'clock and
will arrive here Monday with a large
trip Of Western products, and returns
to Cincinnati Wednesday evening
next,
The Cityof Helena passed up last
evening for st. Louis with a good up
stream trip. She discharged here 2
bales and 3 bags cotton and Is pkgs
sundries and added $50 bales Of East
ern bound cotton.
The Fannie Lewis, of the Anchor
line, Captain Cartwright, will arrive
to-day from st, Louis with a full
cargo of grain and produce, and leaves
the Lee wharfboa this evening at !
O'Clock with a return trip.
The side-wheel passenger steamer
Red Wing, in command of Captain
John b. Davis, is due to-day from st
Louis. She enters the Memphis anC
White river trade as a weekly packet
Mr.. Ed. Crowell, late Of the Ruth, il
her chief clerk.
The Grand Tower passed down yes.
! terday afternoon for Yicksburg wei
/ laden. She put off here n bales anc
1874 bags cotton, 500 sacks seed, GIG
sacks corn, 6S1 bbls -four, 600 empty
barrels, 225 bbls meal, 16 head cattle
and sundries, and added 80 tons o
> miscellaneous freight for points below
Captain Henry NJ. Hampton, who i
h well and favorably known along tn.
upper coast, and also on the Hatchi,
river, will pilot the neat little steame
h Hope and introduce her and Captain
d Baldwin in the trade, and will rende
h them valuable service in %securin.
e them business.
The tug Charmer, from Chicago
e came in yesterday having in tow tn.
n sloops Henrietta Ash and Seminole
o the brig North Star, the canalboat J
H. Adams and two she'll boats 70
Hale's Point, hat are to be loader
with slaves for New Orleans.
The Osceola Belle, Captain j. G
Andrews, is the regular mail packe
leaving this evening for 0sceola an.
the upper coast, paying strict atten
ton to all way business. b. o. Mich
10 ell, an affable gentlemen, holds fort
. in the office, and has for his assistant
Cyrus Fay and Mr.. Speares.
It We arc much indebted to Colonc
Joe ". Rhodes, the prominent mel
q chant and cotton factor at Golde
Lake, Ark, for a pair of opossum, {
which we made a grand feast, an
while enjoying the same we toaste
, the donor, and wished him many yeal
!. of success in business and happines
:, in life.
The excellent ight-draught steame
Maumelle, Captain Thomas Darrag
:; in command, leaves this evening at
o'clock for Little Rock and all point
p on Arkansas river. Captain j. A
BY Mcconnell and Charley Musselmar
ut two clever gentlemen and accommC
IL dating clerks, have charge of tn
Office.
l. The neat and staunoh little steame
g. Hope, in command of Henry N
Hampton, will enter the Hatchie rive
p trade and make regular trips through
out the season, running Ia %connectio
with the excellent light draft boat ia
y Hardy. The Hope Is we'll suited fc
the trade and all business entruste
10 to her and the Jay Hardy will met
with proper care and attention, Sh
will make her initial trip next Nor
s day, leaving at five pm. for Hatch
ie river direct.
Mr.. Ed Crowell, the popular Whit
river clerk, dropped in to-day to 81
G. us, and informed US that the new sid,
IS, wheel passenger steamer Rod Win.
which will, be entered in the Memph
I'd and White river trade, would aTriy