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

be raised or lowered by one man. They
are now in use upon many steamboats,.
The Vint Shinkle, Captain Sterling
Mcintyre in command, will arrive to-
day from Cincinnati with a full cargo
Of Western products, and leaves on
Wednesday with a return trip for
Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati.
There is talk of placing the large
andelegant sidewheel passenger steam
er Ben Franklin in the Cincinnati and
Evansville trade. Captain Sam James.
of Corn Island, also contemplates
placing a steamer in the same trade.
Mr.. U. p. Schenck, of Vevay, ac-
companied by his estimable wife and
granddaughter, mako the round trip
to New Orleans and back with Capt.
j. Il. Carter, on his namesake, the
steamer U. p. Schenck.
Paul Boynton, the navigator. who is
swimming down the Ohio from Pitts
burg to the Gulf in his rubber life
saving suit, passed Wheeling, w. Va,
on Friday. He expects to arrive at
Cincinnati tomorrow or Tuesday.
The Thompson Dean added here
768 sacks oil cake, 6S bales cotton, 40
bbls lime and sundries, and got away
Saturday at midnight for New Orleans.
She has engagements in the bends
sufficient to fill her out.
The Jay Hardy, Captain William
Davis, came in from the upper coast
with q bales and ID bags of cotton
and % sacks of seed. She returns to-
morrow evening to Island 81, Old
river and all upper coast landings.
The little steamer Acme, with $50
bales cotton aboard, burned on Thurs
day last on Ouachita river, eight miles
above Quachita City. The boat and
cargo are a total loss. She was owned
by Captain +. B, Cryder and insured
in New Orleans.
The City of Alton passed down yes
terday morning for New Orleans with
1000 tons of freight. She received in
Madrid bends 6526 SKIS corn, and added
here 678 bales cotton, $50 SKIS oil cake
and 1000 SKIS oil meal. She took cot
ton at so cents per bale for New Or
leans.
The George w. Cheek, Captain
Stacker Lee in command, brought in
As bales of cotton and a lot of seed
and sundries. She leaves tomorrow
evening with a return trip for Friar's
Point, being the regular Tuesday mail
packet. w. w. Houston, an affable
gentleman, is her first clerk.
The mammoth freight and passen-
ger steamer Henry Frank, Captain
Frank Hicks, came in this morning
from New Orleans with a lot of sugar
and molasses. She is receiving at the
Lee wharfboat and returns to New
Orleans Wednesday evening. Capt.
Aft Grissom is her chief clerk, sec
onded by VIM. Thomas.
The Ohio River Transportation
Company sued out an injunction last
fall restraining the city Of Parkersburg
from imposing wharfage tax against its
steamers. The case came before the
Circuit Court, who dissolved the in
junction and declared the company
liable to the tax.
The Hard Cash, Captain Ed Postal.
will arrive tomorrow morning from
White river with a good list of cotton
and other freight, and leaves on We'd
nesday with a return trip, going
through to Jacksonport and making
direct connection with light draught
packets for upper White and Black
rivers.
The neat little steamer Shields,
Captain James g. Shields in com
mand, came in yesterday from the
upper coast with a good list Of cotton
and other freights, and leaves this
evening with a return "trip for Osceo-
la, Ashport, New Madrid and all in.
termediate landings, Mr.. G. d..
Neatuer, a genial and clever gentle
man, holds forth in the Office.
The Red Cloud, ofthe Anchor Line,
came in Saturday night from st. Louis
with a full cargo, including 1904 bbls
-four, COS bbls meal, 80 bbls pork, 3SS
sacks bran, l25 casks bacon, 1S9 %tierces
hams, 3l5 pals lard, 955 pieces bulk
meat and 728 pkgs of miscellaneous
freight, and added 1923 bales Of East
ern bound cotton, and returned to st.
Louis this morning.
The splendid passenger steamer
Belle Memphis, Captain John G.
Crane, of the Anchor Line, will
leaYe the company's wharfboat, foot
of Monroe street this evening at FIVE
O'Clock for Vieksbprg, attendingto all
bend business and making close con
nection at Vicksburg with the New
Orleans and Yazoo river packets, Civ
ing through bills of lading and tick
citing passengers through.
The palatial passenger steamer
Golden Crown, in command of the
popular Captain Eugene Shinkle, will
leave Glenn's wharfboat tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for New Or
cans, making all principal landings.
She is a safe carrier and as a PASSENGER
steamer has no superior. AIr. ShinkIe
pFesides at the desk, and by his husi-
ness and genial manners has won tho
good will of all.
The upper coast mail packet Osceola
Belle, captain ), e. Andrews, brought
in M holag and OK han. 80. 200