Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-11


terday afternoon for Dyersburg with
a fair trip Of freight.
The government steamer A. A..
HUMPHREYS left St. Louis day before
yesterday to assist the Annie P. Silver
off the bar at Horsetail.
The Commonwealth, from Vicks-
burg, passed up last evening, adding
here 1900 bales of eastern bound cot
ton for re.shipment east.
The Henry Brown and John A..
Wood, the former for this port and
the latter for New Orleans, left Louis
vile last evening with tows Of coal.
A second edition is being taken on
the new levee just pelow the Anchor
line wharfboat and the workmef are
doing their best to complete the work
at an early day.
The james D. Parker departed last
evening for Cincinnati with 600 bales
Of cotton, 40 barrels of oil, 10 bales
of papeA stock, 10 tons Of old iron and
a fair trip Of people.
The new upper Arkansas river
packet Dove passed Louisville yester-
day and is due here on Tuesday next.
Captain Jim Rees one of her builders,
brings her as far as this port.
The rapid rise Of the river caused a
barge to sink just below the wharf
boat, and, unless removed, will be apt
to cause trouble to any boat attempt
ing to land at the new levee,
Monday next is the day set for the
sale of the commercial steamer Chas.
Rebstoek. She is a new boat, less
than six months old, of light draught
aud said to be pretty fast, for a boat
Of her size.
The Hard Cash on her return trip
to this port passes Devalls Bluff to-
morrow evening, will arrive Tuesday
evening and leave on Wednesday next
for all points on White river through
to J%acksonport.
The Josie Harry came in last night
from White river bringing out of that
stream 975 bales Of cotton, SO of which
she reshipped at Terrene for New Or.
leans, bringing GIG to this port. The
Harry returns to White river this
evening.
Colonel Frank Baker, of the Ma
rine Journal, published at Cincin-
natl, will arrive here tomorrow and
remain in the city a day or two in the
interest Of his popular river paper. He
will receive e hearty welcome from his
many friends.
The Henry Frank, seeing nothing
in sight for her at this port, turns
back from Helena, leaving there to-
day. Captain ALI Grissom, her chiel
clerk, who has been in the city for
several days, went down last night on
the James Lee.
The splendid sidcwheel passenger
steamer Rene Macredy, Captain o. X.
Joplin in command, is the regular
mail packet leaving at 5 pm, To-Day
for Mariana, the Cut 0ffand all inter
mediate landings Of L'Anguille and
St. Francis rivers. A. L, Banning is
her polite clerk.
The old gunboat hull Chickasaw,
brought here yesterday by the Beaver,
is being unloadsd Of her wood and
leaves tomorrow with the barge con
tanning eighteen cars for the c., G, &
B. railroad, running out from Green
vile, Miss. j. Mead and George
Keefe are the pilots, and Billy Keefe
clerk, Of the Beaver.
The U. P. SOheuck, from New Or.
leans enroute to Cincinnati, passed VI
last evening with 900 tons of freight
comprising 525 hogsheads and 32C
bayrels of sugar, 1910 barrels of mo
l%asses, 40 tales of cotton, so bales o
rags, and about 40 tons of railroad
iron, She remained here long enough
to clean out her boilers.
A St. Louis paper, in talking Of tht
absurd condition of the channel of thC
river between st. Louis and Cairo
says that this Of itselfis sufficient t
call for works to make navigation
0 southwark practicable at all seasonso
d, the year, and truthfully says hat it j
: simply absurd that there should onl
/, be three feet Of navigable water in tn
greatest river on the face Of the earth
t Chattanooga Times, Thursday
! Last night a telegram was receives
; from Nashville stating that it wa
5 rumored there that the louisville an
E Nashville railroad had bought out al
. the steamboat lines between PaduoaI
? and chattanooga. Nothing in refer
4 ence to such a transaction is known i
this city, and men, likely to know
e any such event occurred, have hear.
9 nothing ABOUT it,
a The fast and elegant sldewheel pas
senger steamer Charles Morgan, Car
tain Harry Stein in command, passe
down this afternoon bound for Vicki
burg, New Orleans and the bend
Fhe Morgan has large and airy state
rooms, with neal ana elegant plssen
ger accommodations, and her moti
is speed, safety and comfort. Ada
Wayland and Sam Parker, a couple