Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-21

Captain W. w, Mccullough has
chartered the good little steamer
Mark Twain from Captain Randall
and will run her in the Cairo and
Hickman trade as a daily packet.
She is well suited for the trade aud
Captain Mccullough is well and favor
ably known in that part of the river
and he will undoubtedly do well with
her.
The Hattie Nowland, Captain J. J..
Darragh, will arrive to-day from the
Arkansas with a good list Of cotton
and other freight, and will leave to.
morrow evening with a return trip for
Little Rock and all points on the
Arkansas, carrying the mail and max
ing direct connection at the Rock with
a light-draught steamer for Fort
Smith. Captain j. A. Mcconnell and
w. b. MeEnulty are her clever and
accommodating clerks.
The City of Alton, of the Anchor
Line, Captain Bixby in command, will
arrive tomorrow morning from st.
Louis, and leave the company's wharf
boat, foot Of Monroe street, at 10
am. for New Orleans, making all
principal way landings. She has 800
tons of miscellaneous freight for this
port. Captain Storm, superintendent
OF the line, will make engagements
fer her.
The Anchor Line packet John B.
Maude, Captain William Blake in
communal, leaves the cOmpany's wharf
boat, foot of Monroe street, tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for Vieksburg
and the bends, doing all way business
and making close connection at Vicks-
burg with New Orleans packets and
Parisott Line for Yazoo river, ticket
ing passengers through and giving
through bills of lading. Billy Bleck-
mer presides at the desk.
The 0sceola Belle, Captain j. G..
Andrews, came in this morning from
the upper coast with AZ bales and II
bags of cotton, 168 sacks seed, 2 head
cattle and sundries, and a good list of
people. She leaves this evening at six
o'clock, sharp, with a return trip for
Osceola, carrying the mail and attend
ing promptly to all plantation bust
ness. b. q. Michel, a worthy gentle
man and efficient clerk, controls the
office, assisted by Cyrus Fay and AL
Speeres.
The popular passenger steamer Red
Wing, of the Adams Mail Line, in
command Ofthat ever popular and ex-
perienced boatman Captain George
Malone, leaves this evening at 6
o'clock, sharp, for Vicksburg, carrying
the mail, paying strict attention to all
way and plantation business and max
ing direct connection at Vieksburg
with the Parisott Line for all points
on the Yazoo river, and with the
Natchez for New Orleans, giving
through bills of lading and ticEeting
passengers through, She has elegant
passengeraccommOdations and is an Al
carrier. Captain Ed Thomas, a cour-
tesus gentleman, controls the office,
assisted by Jimmy Thomas and Hal
Aydlett.
The new and magnificent White
river mail packet Josie Harry, Capt.
Milt Harry in command, came in this
morning from White river with 1872
bales of cotton, l161 SKIS seed and
sundries, and reshipped at the mouth
g. bales of cotton. She had also a
fair list Of people. She will return to
White river tomorrow evening, carry
ing the mail, doing all way business.
and making direct connection at Jack
sonport with the light-draught steam
ers Milt Harry and Alberta for upper
White and Black rivers. Walker
Outlaw, an efficient clerk and worthy
gentleman, is her purser, with Dan
Sullivan as supercargo, a guarantee
that all freight will be properly han
died and delivered.
The "red tiger" packet Coahoma,
Captain Henry Cooper in command,
came in on time, as usual, from the
lower coast, having "a bales and 5 bags
cotton, 200 sacks seed, IA packages of
sundries and a large number of people.
She leaves at 6 o'clock with a return
trip for Friar's Point and way points,
carrying the mail and making pIanta-
ton business a specially; also makes
direct connection at Glendale with the
Mobile and Northwestern railroad.
The Coahoma is one of the safest and
most reliable vessels entering this
port, having a neat and comfortable
cabin and a set of officers unsurpassed
anywhere. Billy Smither is her chief
clerk, a gentleman no less known for
his business capacity than his suave
and polite manners. and shippers or
travellers having business transactions
with him will never have cause to re-
greet it. Messrs. Frank Ellison and
Platt Rhodes are his able and earnest
coadjutors.