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

Captain Asa Bumgardner. of Ne
trOpOlis, arrived in the city to-day, and
is the guest Of Captain bud Broad
hurst.
The Golden Crown leaves Cincin-
natl this evening for New Orleans, and
will be followed on Saturday by the A.
c. Donnally.
The John A. scudder passed up
last night for st. Louis with a fair up
stream trip. She added but very little
here.
There was a rise of II feet Z inches
in the river at Pittsburg yesterday,
with the Allegheny and Monongahela
booming. 10
The Marlin Speed, Captain Eugene
Smith, is due to-day from Arkansas
river with a big list of cotton, and
leaves Saturday evening with a return
trip. ias
The Carl Schurz with a tow of pro-
duce barges for this port and New
Orleans, came in last night from the
Ohio river.
The Anchor Line packet Grand
Tower, Captain Lennox, leaves the
Lee wharfbOat tomorrow evening at
5p'clock for Cairo and st. Louis, doing
all bend business.
The Anchor Line packet City of
Helena, Captain Mckee, leaves the
Lee wharfboat tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock for V~icksburg and the
bends, giving special attention to all
way business,
The Josie Harry is the regular
Saturday White river mail packet.
She will arrive in port tomorrow AID
leave Saturday evening with a return
trip.
The @. P. Ohouteau r%eshipped her
Memphis freight on the 0uachita
Belle, and turns back from Helena,
leaving there to-day for New Orleans.
The Thompson Dean cleared last
evening for New Orleans with 1900
bales cotton and so tons of miscellane-
Gus freight, and has liberal engage
ments in the bends.
The wharfmaster has determined to
place all the wharfboats south of
Monroe street, and give the upper
portion of the levee for the use of the
local packets.
Arkansas river s~tubbornly refuses
to wake and leave its little bed. 1t is
too sluggish to be disturbed by river
monitors or water crafts. That would
kick up a dust on the bars.
The Avalanchian, like a snowflake.
wants to sweep down on the cotton
seed men and swallow them up by ad-
yising the packets to bring them no
more seed until the levee is cleared.
Colonel Glenn, of the "Horse Ma
rines," gives the little blonde hind
wheeler to-day 1000 bales of cotton
and 500 sacks oil cake for New Or
leans.
The Ohio is booming and the wave
coming from the Alleghanies may
make us a big river here, and it will
be we'll enough for the people in the
bends to prepare for a big river if not
a freshet on a small scale.
The Commonwealth Capt. Shields,
of the Anchor Line, leaves the Lee
wharfboat this evening at six o'clock
for New Orleans, making all principal
:. way landings. Owen Gates, a worthy
gentleman, ~oficiates in the Office.
The Sam Roberts and barges gets
away to-day for the Ohio. Her barge
r. Morton, was loaded here with 100C
bales of Eastern bound cotton, which
goes to Evansville and thence East by
rail.
The present stage of water admits Of
steamboats, landing at the wharf al
Vicksburg, and in consequence the
wharfboat, which was removed two
miles below the city some days since.
has been taken back and moored at the
levee for business.
The Vint Shinkle, Captain Sterling
Mcintyre, will arrive to-day from the
Ohio river with a full cargo of West.
ern products, and leaves Saturday
evening with a return trip. Captain
Lindsay, an affable gentleman, hold,
forth in the Office.
) The splendid passenger steamer Col.
den Rule, Captain 0. p, Shinkle il
command, leaves Glenn's wharfboat
this evening at 5 o'clock for New Or
} leans, making all principal way land
! ings. Nh. Shaw, a clever gentleman.
. is her purser.
! Major John Hardin, superintendent
I. of the Memphis and Arkansas River
: Packet Company, received a telegram
a this morning from Little Rock stating
: that the river had risen 4 inches and
came 70 a stand again, with no fatter-
, ing prospects of a farther rise OF better
water for the present.
The famous and swift passenger
J steamer Charles Morgan passed up at
10 am. for Cincinnati with a splendid
: up stream trip. The Morgan being
SO popular with the people always gets
1.-The cream of the BUSINESS She has
the best reputation of any steamer that
plies in the New Orleans and Cincin-
4sti trade.
The George ". Cheek, Captain
0 Stacker Lee, came in this morning
with $50 bales and 40 bags of cotton.
S $50 sacks seed and sundries, and leave,
!, this evening With a return trip for
a Friar's Point, carrying the mail and
doing all way business. Walker Out
c law is her purser.
p Mr.. VIM. Wheeler, a saciable gen.
( tlemap and competent clerk, who has
creditably flied The position of freight
y clerk on the j. w, Gaf and James D
Parker has been appointed BY the
Mamnkis an1 Ohio River Packet