Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-30
RIVER I~NTELLIeRNcH


BOATS LEAVING TODAY.
osoecla, osceolA Bellsa-...... ..... ......l5 pm.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer City of Vicksburg. st. Louis.
Thompson Dean, New Orleans.
Osceola Belle, 0sceola.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Hard Cast, White river.
City Of Vieksburg, Yicksburg.
BOATS IN PORT.
Phil Allin, Augusta, CoAhoma. Ini-
nois, A. }. White, Thompson Dean.
MiseeIlAneOua.
Business better.
The river is on a stand here.
The City Of Vicksburg passed down
yesterday for Vicksburg.
j. W. Outlaw, the we'll known clerk on
the Cheek, arrived home yesterday.
The j.. A. Scudder is due to-day from
New Orleans.
The Joe Kinney is due to-day from
Vicksburg.
The Belle St. Louis left St. Louis
Monday for Memphis.
The Steamer Hattie Nowland is load.
ing at st. Louis for Arkansas river.
R. P. Glenn's wharfboat viii be
ready TOR business next Saturday.
il Captain AID Storm leaves St. Louis
to-day on the City OF Helena for Mem
phis.
Capt. George Malone returned home
yesterday, and will take the A. j. White
out on Saturday.
The John 0verton arrived this morn
ing with a good trip of cotton from
Mound City.
Capt, w. G. Harry, w~ell-known com.
mander of the White river packet,
Ruth, died OF yellow fever on board his
boat at Augusta.
The 0sceola Belle is the regular pack
at this evening tor 0sceola and all way
landings, carrying the U. S. mail. B. o.
Michel is her chief clerk.
Capt. Stack Lee will arrive to-day
from St. Louis with the Cheek. She
leaves tomorrow at 5 pm, for Friar'a
Point.
The 0sceola Belle camein from Osce.
ola this morning with o good trip OF
cotton and people and a lot of cotton
seed. She returns this evening at five
o'clock.
The new and elegant steamer, Josie
Harry, will leave Memphis Saturday, the
I'd OF November, at s p m. for White
river, Madon Bay, Clarendon, Jackson.
port, and all points between here and
Batesville. Captain Milt Harry is mas,
ter and E. A. Crowell clerk. Send
freight to Lee whariboat, Jim Saulsbery
will attend to it.
Globe.D Democrat 1t is worth tn,
while Of any one TO go down to the An
Choir Line w%harfboat, just to see the i'm
mense lot OF freight that is going south
ward on the boats of this line. Yester
day the boats we're filled out, and freighr
had to be taken to the New Orleans
boat for shipment. Further down tht
leveS, where an attempt at a boat hal
been loading for a week, matters arr
different. Here desolations reigns su
preme, and If appearances indicate any
thing, the boat abortion will lay another
week if they want to fill her out.
Courier Journal Capt. Gould's new
boat for the st. Loais and New Orlean.
Anchor Line was successfully launched
yesterday evening from Barnum ship
yard, Jacksonville, in the presence of
large number Of ladies and gentlemen
Several prominent steamboatmen iron
s.. Louis and the South we're among thI
number. Gen. James A. Ekin, now As
sistant Qusrtermaster General Unite,
States Army, and formerly a celebrated
steamboat-builder on the MonoDgahell
river, was present, and was assigned thI
post of honor by Mr.. Barmore in cut
ting the lashings, which allowed thI
splendid craft to plunge into her nativ
element and float of like a thing OF life
She is to be finished and furnished in
J plain, substantial manner, without an,
regard to elegance. Capt. Gould say
Capts. Cannon and Tobin have so Ell
, tirely exhausted the skill OF our ~ertizan
that be has no ambition in that diret
ton, and no money to spend in CRAFTY
ing it if he ha1 This boat i
9 $50 feet long, Al feet beam and 8 fee
o hold, with full model, and capacity 70
1900 tons of freight. Her power is de
d rived from FIVE AZ inch steel boilers, 3
feet long ; cylinders "a inches, 10 fec
stroke working water-wheels "a fee
in diameter, IA feet length of buckle.
This lie the ninth steamboat Barmor
has built for Capt Gould and his ass,
ciates in the last eight years, and she
the largest and finest of them all, an
the first passenger boat that has bee
built for St. Louis and New 0rlear
trade, since the James Howard Wa
. built, which was eight years old.