Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-25

The levee presents a dull appear
ance.
They r catching shad on the falls
at Louisville.
Southern freights along the Ohio
river continue to fall of.
The Guiding Star left New Orleans
last evening for Cincinnati.
The Golden City, from New Orleans.
arrived at Cincinnati yesterday.
The Future City and barges passed
up this morning for st. Louis.
The Golden Rule leaves New Or
leans tomorrow for Cincinnati.
Capt. Rees w. Dugan will make an
other effort to raise the c. B. Church.
The John Means and barges left
Cairo yesterday at pm. for New Or
leans.
The squatters on the public landing
have been notified to remove their
shanties.
The Nellie Speer is due down to-day
bound for New Orleans with a tow Of
coal.
The Golden Crown, en- route from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, passed
Louisville yesterday.
The Vint Shinkle, en- route from
Cincinnati to Memphis, passed Louis
vile yesterday,
The Corona, Captain TIC. Sweeney,
leaves New Orleans this week for the
Ohio river.
The Belle of Shreveport, of the
Anchor Line, leaves st. Louis to-
morrow for New Orleans.
The barge sunk at Island 81 by the
w. h. Harrison, February last, is now
on the bar high and dry.
Captain Gus Donnelly's new boat,
building at Cincinnati, will be ready
to launch in about two weeks.
St. Louis freights at Pittsburg are
down to the exceeding low rate of 10
cents per hundred by river.
The new Wheeling packet will be
named after Captain G. w. Bachelor,
of Pittsburg.
The Alps is coming south with a tow
Of 10000 or $4,000 tons of ice for
Vicksburg and New Orleans.
The Ouachita Belle, Of the Adams
Mail Line, left Vicksburg to-day at
noon for Memphis.
The Cons MilIar for Memphis. and
Mary Houston for New Orleans,
leaves Cincinnati tomorrow.
The Alice Brown is en- route from
Louisville to this port and New Or
leans with a tow of ii boats of coal.
The Golden Crown will be down
Monday morning for New Orleans.
Mr.. Fuller is making engagements for
her.
The contract for the transportation
Of Indian goods on the upper Mis-
souri, will be awarded to the Coulson
line.
The City of Vicksburg arrived at
Vicksburg yesterday from st. Louis,
and leaves there to-day at noon with a
return trip.
The Charles Morgan, en- route from
New Orleans to Cincinnati, passed
Evansville last evening at 5 o'clock.
The Grand Tower added here 20C
bales of Eastern bound cotton and
cleared for st. Louis with a fair VI
stream trip.
The kellogg came in yesterday
afternoon from Illinois river with {
large tow of ice for Messrs. Bohlen
Huse & Co.
The James w. Gaf from Memphi.
and Thomas Sherlock from New Or
leans arrived at Cincinnati this morn
ing.
The City of Greenville, of the An
Choir Line, left st. Louis yesterday fol
New Orleans and leaves here Monday
next.
The Gold Dust, Of the Anchor Line
leaves st. Louis this evening fol-
Vichsburg, and leaves here Monda,
morning.
Captain A. j. Carter, late of the
Scudder, now commands the new
Anchor Line packet City of Green
vile.
Capt. John A. Wood expected tc
have the towboat John A. Wood, re-
Gently sunk below New Orleans, aAoat
to-day.
The Centennial passed up at noon
for st. Louis with a fair upstream
trip. She put off here a few lots o.
freight and added some people.
About 10000 sacks of coffee will
arrive at New Orleans in a few day.
by steamship, and the major portion o
it will be shipped west by river.
The Fred Wilson, with 8 barges
los, 1000 bushels of coal, and the Samp
son, with 10 barges, 10000 bushels o
coal, left Pittsburg on Wednesday 70
Louisville.
The Robert Mitchell, Captain Dar
Moore, passed Vicksburg last e%venin
bound for Cincinnati. She will arriv
here tomorrow morning and leav
Glenn's wharf boat at y m.
Dispatches from Little Rock stat
Captain Ed Rowland has good hope
of raising his fne steamer Kati
Hooper, and expects to have he
aaoat by this evening or tomorrow.
The fine steamer Batesville, Capt