Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-08

Rates on New Orleans freight at
st. Louis rule at 10 TO 10 cents per
hundred and 20 cents per barrel on
flour.
OaptainG George Throopwill build
this summer a four hundred ton
boat for the Evansville and Nash
vile trade.
Messrs. O'Neil & Co., the coal
men, have contracted at PittSburg
for a new propeller for the harbor
at Natchez.
The Andy Baum, en- route from
Memphis to Cincinnati, passed
Louisville to-day, and is due at
Cincinnati tomorrow.
The Belle Memphis left st. Louis
last evening for Memphis. She
will arrive here Sunday night and
return to st. Louis Monday eve
ming.
The favorable reports of the
growing crops are very encourag-
ing to steamboatmen, who want to
see a big business doing the next
season.
The Ooahoma returned to Friar's
Point last evening with a splendid
trip of freight and people. In fact
she had a big trip for this season OF
the year.
The City of Alton, Captain Bixby,
is the Anchor Liner leaving to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock for
New Orleans, making all principal
way landings.
The Cons Millar left for Cincln-
natl with 453 bales of cotton, 30
bales rags, 673 bars railroad iron,
POP bbls potatoes, 40 cabin passen-
gers and rs deckers.
Captain James Remission, OF the
Vint Shinkle, has been steamboat
ing forty years. He contemplates
an early retirement from the river,
after long aud faithful service.
Captain John Howard, the boat
builder of Jacksonville, is in st.
Louis negotiating with Commo-
dore Scudder for the building OF
two new elegant sidewheelers.
The City of Augusta will give a
grand river excursion tomorrow
afternoon, leaving the wharf at 3
O'Clock. She will 60 down to the
Ensley place and around the Island.
Wallace Pike, the steamboat
printer of Cincinnati, celebrated
his forty.ffth birthday Thursday,
and was remembered by a number
Of his friends, both ladies and gen.
tlemen.
Captain Alex Moses, agent Of the
New Orleans board Of under
writers, took passage on the Grand
Tower last evening bound sixty
miles up the river to attend to
some insurance business.
Commodore John A. Scudder,
the live man Of st. Louis steam
boatmen, has squelched Commodore
Kountz and his red.chimney fleet
and caused them to go in their hole
and close the trap after them.
The bee-boat ]. +. Frazer, from
New Orleans, passed up last even
ing for st. Paul with a cargo of six
hundred beehives. The bees are
being taken to Minnesota to spend
the summer and gather honey.
The fine steamer Hard Cash will
pass Deyall's Bluff tomorrow
morning on time, en- route to Mem
pbis, with a good trip of cotton and
other freights. She will arrive here
Tuesday morning and return to
White river Wednesday evening.
Captain Milt Harry left this
morning for Pittsburg to inspect
his new boat building there. He
was accompanied by his wife and
daughters, who 90 to the Virginia
Springs to spend the heated term.
The river route is about getting
away with the railroads on Eastern
tourists this summer. Every boat
from New Orleans and here carry
u good number Of Eastern people,
who prefer the river route to all
rail.
The Golden Grown has received
her new shaft. She will be ready
to resume her place in the New
Orleans trade in the course of a
week. She is to receive a new coat
Of paint, and be put in thorough
order.
The Thomas Sherlock passed up
last evening for the Ohio river with
500 tons Of freight, l07 cabin pas
sengers-30 Of whom take the rail
at Cincinnati for the East, and 115
deckers. She discharged at the
Lee wharf boat 1900 bundles Of
cotton ties, 81 bbls molasses, rs sks
salt, and added some freight and
several people.
The Colorado is the Anchor Line
packet leaving the elevator to-mor-
row evening at sharp 5 o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis, attending 70
all bend business and connecting
with the principal railroads for ali
points East and West. Capt. Sam
McPheeters commands, with Joe
Corbyn in the Office.
The James D. Parker, Captain
Charley Russell, will arrive to-mor-