Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-10

burg ana leaves here Monday morning
next.
The Maumelle left Little Rock yes
terday for Memphis aad will arrive
here on Monday, leaving Tuesday with
a return trip.
The Ashland, Kate Kinney and
Durfee are engaged in carrying rail
road ties from the mouth Of the Usage
to Wyandotte,
The Robert Mitchell, Captain Dan
Moore, will leave Glenn's wharfboat
Monday at u m. for New Orleans,
making all principal way landings.
The Andy Baum, of the Memphis
and Cincinnati packet line, will arrive
tomorrow evening from the Ohio
river and leave Wednesday evening
with a return trip for Cincinnati.
The Colorado passed down this after
noon for V~icksburg well laden. She
put OF here several hundred pkgs of
freight and added 30 TONS for points
below.
Inc Hard Cash Will pass Devalls
Bluff tomorrow morning for Mem
phis, and will arrive Monday night
and leave Wednesday evening with a
return trip.
The Ouachita Belle left Vicksburg
yesterday noon for Memphis, and Will
arrive here tomorrow afternoon and
will leave Tuesday evening with a re-
turn trip to Vicksburg.
The James Howard, of the Anchor
Line, passes down this afternoon for
New Orleans after discharging here
a few lots of miscellaneous freight and
adding a lot Of oil meal and cake.
The Jos. B. Williams lows the Bart
Able from New O~rleans'to Jefferson
vile, where the Towards are building
a new hull for the Able, the frame of
which was commenced last Monday.
Captain Jimmy Thompson, chief
clerk Of the Katie Hooper, who has
been along Arkansas river settling up
the business of that popular steamer,
arrived home last evening on the Mar
lin Speed.
Captain r. P. Glenn left this morn
ing for the East. During his absence
his efficient clerk, Mr.. j. D. Fuller,
will run the wharf boat, and do SO IN
a manner satisfactory to all concerned.
The New Orleans Picayune learns
from a prominent steamboat captain
that the negro exodus from Yicksburg
down has entirely subsidized, and the
hands r resumiEg their places with
confidence and willingness.
The returning negroes on the James
Howard from Kansas are provided
with a flag with the words, Return
ing Refugees" which they will dis
play, accompanied by songs Of glad
ness, to all parties Of negroes who are
seen on the Mississippi banks.
Mr.. Henry G. McCombs, son of
Captain John 7. McCombs, deceased,
an old-time steamboatman, was mar
ried at Pittsburg, on the 8th, to Miss
Maggie H., daughter of D. G.. Fickes,
river editor of the Pittsburg Evening
Chronicle.
Mr.. Pat Kallaher, the efficient
wharfmaster, will have his water
works completed to day on the levee,
and will give an exhibition of their
powers this afternoon at the foot Of
Monroe street between three and -four
O'Clock.
The Mary Houston, Captain Char
ley Miller in command, will leave
Glenn's wharfboat, foot of Union
street, tomorrow at u M, going
through with dispatch. Elliott Mil
Ter does the hOnors Of the office.
The new steamer City Of Greenyille
is proving herself to be a fast boat
having made the run from New Or
leans to this port in three days and
six hours. She made thirty-fve land.
ings, and lost four hours at Baton
Rouge in repairing her wheels.
In addition to the three coal barge,
grounded at Shoohy bar by the Alice
Brown a produce barge from the Ohio
river, bound for New Orleans, has
been stranded in the crossing, which
will prove quite an obstruction when
the water gets down follow tide.
The Batesville, Captain j. D. Ran
dali, came in this morning from St.
Francis river with 26 bales cotton, 1Sl
sacks seed, 1900 cane poles, %, 0OC
shingles, 4 COWS, aud sundries. She
leaves Tuesday with a return trip for
Witisburg and all points on st. Fran
els river. The courteous Birdie Ban.
ming controls the Office.
The Marlin Speed, of the Memphis
and Arkansas River Mail Line, Capt
Eugene Smith in command, came il
last evening from Arkansas river, ant
leaves this evening with a return tril
for Little Rock and all points on thl
Arkansas river. Wash Floyd, who i
one of the most popular clerks on thu
river, presides at the desk.
The palatial and swift mail ant
/, passenger steamer Josie Harry, Will
Captain Milt Harry on the roof, leave.
this evening at sharp G o'clock foI
White river and all points through Il
Jacksonport, carrying the mail an(
making direct connection at Jackson
! port with the light draught steamer
! Milt Harry and Alberta for uppel
White and Black rivers. Wake
: Outlaw is her chief clerk, with H. c
Smith and Lon Hudson as assistants
The bell on the Edward J. Gay i
the oldest on the river. This clea-
and beautiful toned bell was placed
on Jessie Hart's steamer Brilliant il
the year 1850. Captain Harris brothe
officers made up a pony purse of S25I
in silver, melted, and forms part o
S the metal. From the Brilliant thi