Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-24

at III a.m. and will arrive here to-
morrow morning and leave in the
evening at 5 o'clock.
The ]. w. Gaf, en- route from Gin
c%innati to Memphis, passed Evansville
last evening at s O'clock. She will
arrive here Thursday morning and
leaves on Saturday with a return trip.
Commodore James S. Wise and
Captain James d. Parker. of the
Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Com
pany, arrived in the city last evening
from Cincinnati by rail and are guests
of Captain r. w. Lightburne.
Arrangements for chartering the G..
w. Cheek for the upper Mississippi
trade have been perfected, and she is
to ply as a semi-weekly packet be-
tween st. Louis aud GAINESVILLE. with
Captain Henry Cooper in command.
The Guiding Star, en- route from
New Orleans to Cincinnati, passed
Ficksburg yesterday morning at eight
o clock and will arrive here tomorrow
and leave at ten Am. She has pala-
tial passenger accommodations and
will go through with dispatch.
The Osceola Belle, Captain j. G.
Andrews, is the regular mail packet
leaving tomorrow evening for 0sceola
and the upper coast. She attends
promptly to all plantation business.
B. O.. Michel, a whole-souled gentle
man, bresides at the desk.
Colonel Doc Fly, a prominent mer-
chant and planter of Commerce, Miss.
and Mr.. Neil Booker, late freight
clerk of the 0uachita Belle, leave in
a few days for the East and the water
ing places. They expect to take in
Niagara Falls, Long Branch and Sar-
atoga.
The following are the principal items
of the cargo of the John Means and
barges due down to-day bound for
New Orleans: $4,000 bushels bulk
corn, 606 SKIS corn, 5000 SKIS oats, 24Sj
bales hay, 100 bbls -four, 237 bbls
pork, 40 csks hams, and 5000 tons ice.
She has in all, 3 barges of freight and
3 barges of ice.
The elegant passenger steamer, the
new Mary Houston, Captain Charley
Miller, will leave Glenn S wharfboat
near the foot of Jefferson street, to-
morrow at IL m. for New Or
leans, making all principal way land
ings. Elliott Miller presides at the
desk.
The Batesville, Captain Maumus in
command, leaves this evening at
o'clock for Mariana and all points on
the st. Francis river, carrying the
mail and doing all way business
Messrs. Birdie Banning and Mr.. Har-
rington, two clover gentlemen and
accommodating clerks, have charge Of
the Office.
The new and splendid passenger
steamer w. p. Halliday, of the An.
Choir Line, Captain Il. w. Gould, will
leave the company's wharfboat, foot
of Monroe street, this evening at
o'clock, sharp, for New Orleans, max.
ing all principal way landings.
The Belle Memphis, Captain John
c. Crane, came in this morning from
st. Louis with a good trip Of freight
The following are the principal items
1900 bbls -four, 104 SKIS bran, So bales
hay, 40 kegs and 12ll buckets larC
and s4ndries-5261 pkgs in all. She
leaves this evening at 5 o'clock, sharp
with a return trip for Cairo and st
Louis, carrying the mail, attending t.
all way business, and connecting witt
the principal railroads for all points
Fast and West. Mr.. West oficiatei
in the Office,
The Cons Millaf, Captain William
Tichenor, arrived yesterday afternoon
from the Ohio river with 400 tons o.
freight, including $50 bbls meal. 15(
bbls -four, 100 bbls salt, 325 SKIS corn
l42 SKIS bran, l22 bales hay, 225 pkg,
iron, 500 stoves and fixtures, 800 pkg,
lard, % ties meat, Sl,006 shingles, 22f
rolls bagging, a empty bbls and 120(
pkgs miscellaneous freight. She will
leave at 5 o'clock tomorrow evening
for Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati
ticketiRg passengers to points East at
very low rates; also gives special rates
to ex%cursionistS for points on the Ohio
river. The Millar has good passenger
facilities and a clever set of officers
CAPTAIN James Wilson, efficient and
qrbaIs, %eaFtF9ls the Office, assisted by
Jimmy Worries.
There is more travel north by river
this season than there has been fol
years. The route by river is far SUI
perisF 70 hat by a railroad. Yot
have no drst, ~ change to make il
the middle Of the night; but, on th,
contrary, you have all the comfort
you gould wish for; you have d nicI
state-FooW F99r meals are as good Al
if you got them as the 6Rest hotel il
the country. What Is nicer Chan ;
pleasant trip on a steamer? Yol
have a cool, refreshing breeze all da!
and night, and everything is done BY
the officers Of the boat to make thu
trip an agreeable ope. The Mepphii
and Cincinnati packets sell thEoggl
tickets to all points East, making NJ
charge EoF transfer Of passengers o.
baggage. The AnehOE Aile p9Gkets
also ticket passengers by three Routes
to all points Fast and West, lie.
everybody take a steamboat trip i
does not cost near as much as one OF
a tpqip, and n does not have neal
the Inconvenience.
Now, when the man layed him doyr
to sleep, the mosquito of his child
hood snrrnht he hnrnh md rnm a.