Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-14

home this morning from Cincinnati
whittier he has been in the interest
of his well established line of boats.
The steamer Ed Richardson has
been Withdrawn from the New Or
leans, Memphis and Cairo trade on
account Of dull business and cheap
freights.
The Grand Tower cleared for St.
Louis with a splendid upstream trip.
She added here 425 bales of Eastern
bound cotton and several lots Of way
freight.
The Adams Mail Line packet
Ouachita Belle leaves Vicksburg to-
day at noon for Memphis. and will
arrive here Sunday afternoon and
return on Tuesday to Vieksburg.
r. G, Yarble has chartered the tug
James HObson to government con
tractors for eight months, to assist in
towing material for the canal at Mus
Gle Shoals, Tennessee river.
The G. P. Chouteau got AVA last
evening for New Orleans with 800
bales cotton, 100 bbls. oil and a lot OF
oil cake and meal. She has engage
ments below sufficient to fill her out.
The Thomas Sherlock, Captain Lew
Hates, leaves Glenn's wharf boat this
evening at ) o'clock for Cairo, Louis
vile and Cincinnati, going through
with dispatch.
} The ice is breaking up in the Illinois
river, and going out without gorge OF
damage. Ice merchants are preparing
steamers for early departure for the
Southern markets with ice barges.
Capt. John WOODBURY.. of the
steamer Katydid, arrived yesterday af.
ternoon from Vicksburg on the
steamer Paris c. Brown. He will re.
J main in the city a few days settling up
his steamboat interests.
, The Montana knocked the tops OF
her chimneys off at st. Louis Wednes-
day evening while passing under the
bridge, and the Simpson Horner met
a similar accident the same day and
, from a like cause at Cincinnati.
The Josie Harry passed Helena this
morning for Memphis with a big trir
} of cotton and seed and other freight
and will arrive tonight, and leave to.
morrow evening at 6 o'clock with q
return trip for White river.
Mr.. Marion Wright, of Cairo, who
IS well known in steamboat circles
was on the levee yesterday interview
: ing a number of his steamboat friend,
4 and left last evening on the City Of
4 Helena, bound for the Loona planta.
! ton, on an inspecting tour.
The rising river has again sub.
merged the sunken Ed Hobbs unit
the water came to the hurricane deck
Last Tuesday night, about 8 o'clock
an unknown towboat, bound up, raj
into the wreck with her tow, tearinl
away the cabin and upward.
On Monday night, as Michae
Suesdorfer was passing from the
wharfboat to the United States, a
Carrollton, KY, he missed his footinl
and fell into the river, drowning be.
fore aid could reach him. He was /;
shoemaker, and resided in Carrollton
where he was highly respected.
The good little steamer Jay Hardy
in command of hat popular boatman
Captain Billy Davis, leaves the foo.
l of Union street at sharp five o'clocl
this evening for Island 81, Old rive
: and all way points, attending to all
business in behind the islands.
The City of Helena passed dowr
last evening for Vicksburg with ;
splendid trip. She discharged her,
. 2l88 bbls -four and meal, 10 wet bbls
/, 30 SKIS meat, 339 SKIS grain, 6 ties lard
; "a head stock, 80 bales cotton, ~,
pkgs sundries, and added 30 tons foI
t points below.
: Mr.. Jacob 0sler, second engineer O
. the City Of Helena, while at worl
5 yesterday afternoon about the engine.
I had his leg caught by the piston roc
and badly mashed. A physician
was speedily summoned, and tn,
wounded limb was carefully dressed
Mr.. Osler returned to his home, at st
Louis, on the Grand Tower.
The negro emigrants, which passed
up last evening on the Grand Tower
will locate along the Pacific and Kan
sas railroad, the richest section of tn,
-. Southwest. Mr.. Charlie Haight. tn,
able representative in this city of tn,
above railroad, informs us that there
4 are over 1000 emigrants that will emf.
CRATE from Mississippi this spring anC
locate along this great thoroughfare.
Cincinnati Star: "'There are whisp
; ers in the wind hat parties here wht
! have plenty of money are figuring OF
the cost of fast sidewheel packet fol
! the Cincinnati and New Orleans trade
especially for carrying passengers. Sh,
is to be very sharp length, 1876 or 34l
feet; beam, AZ feet engines with cyl
/. inders rs inches in diameter, 10 fee
stroke, and about z boilers" Onl
i whispers-nothing more.
The 0sceola Belle, Captain j. G
\ Andrews, came in from the uppe
coast with 60 bales and 8 bags cotton
All sacks seed and % pkgs sundries
She leaves this evening with a return
trip for Osceola, carrying the mail an,
attending promptly to all way business
B. 0. Michel, Cyrus Fay and A
Spears, a trio Of clever gentlemen, ar,
+ her clerks.
The John A. Scudder, Captain Jacl
Carter, Of the Anchor Line, will ar
| rive tomorrow morning from st
Louis, and leave the Anchor Lin.
/, w~harfboat, foot of Monroe street, a
10 am. for New Orleans, making al
principal way landings. She has so
tons of miscellaneous freight for thi