Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-19

AT III q. m, enroute 20 Nlcksburg and
the bends. Jos. Osborn, a clever
young man, is in charge Of the Office.
The John B. Maude, Captain Bro.
laski in command, is the Anchor line
packet leaving this evening for Cairo
and st. Louis. Billy Blenker is hel
polite clerk.
Major Green and Mr.. Sidney Lewis
state engineers of Louisiana, have
made an estimate ofthe levee to BE-
built at Lake Concordia, and report
that the entire work to be done is
10000 cubic yards, and the actual
cost will be about $4,000.
Captain ]. w. Blanks has contract.
ed with @. I. Dumont for a new boat
for the upper 0uachita trade. She d
to be completed and ready for service
by November 10Th, aud will be la
feet long, 81 feet beam and 5 foot hold.
Her machinery will consist of eyliu-
ders IA inches in diameter, with 6 foot
stroke. She will have two boilers 26
inches long, 42inches in diameter, with
two lues each. Dumont has the con
tract for the entire boat.
The Josie Harry, Captain M. R.
Harry in command, will be found 10
rcrt this evening receiving to leave
With a return "trip on Saturday for
Deyalrs Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport.
aud all way landings, connecting with
the light draught packets Winnie and
Milt Harry for upperWh Black aud
Little Red rivers. Walker Outlaw
presides at the desk and is assisted by
j.. NJ. Truslow.
The "old reliable" G. w, Cheek has
the honor Of bringing in the first Of
the new crop cotton grown in the
Memphis district. One bale was
raised by Colonel w. G. Myers, Of
Bolivar county, and consigned to
Thos. II. Allen q Go. The other
was raised by 4. B. Hooker, of Delta
Landing, Coahoma county, Miss. and
is consigned to Messrs. Fulmer, Bur-
ton y Co. As has been the custom
by all boats bring first bales" the
Cheek brought these two bales through
free Of charge.
The popular steamer Cons Millar.
in command of Billy Tichenor, will
arrive tomorrow morning and leave
J a the evening with a return trip for
Cairo, Louisville, Cincinnati and all
way landings on the Ohio liver. giving
p2ssengersthrough tickets to all points
ea3t at very low rates. The Millar
has excellent accommodations. and
her officers are polite aud sociable.
She being Of LIEUT. draught, will 20
through without detention. Jimmy
Voris IS her chief clerk, and is assist.
ed by Harry Galley.
The G.. W. Cheek, Captain A. L.
Cummins in command, came in this
forenoon with 3 bales cotton, 16 bags
seed cotton, "a SKIS cotton seed and a
fair list Of PEOPLE. She is the mail
packet leaving this evening, with q
return trip, for Helena, Terrene. Ar
kansas City and intermediate land
ings, connecting, at her destination
with the Little Rock, Mississippi.
River and Texas railroad and with The
Dean Adams, for Vicksburg. The
Cheek gives strict attention to all G
0. ID. and plantation business. Billy
Thomas is her chief clerk and is sec.
onded by William Nuckles.
New Orleans Times: The specia
notice to be found in u columns re
veals the fact that hat the Red rive
transportation company have con
cluded to throw the river open for al
that is, cut and come agaiu-wbich
in the main, is disastrous to all aDC
beneficial to none; for the opening O
a trade like that invites such competi
ton that no one is benefited thereby
We are satisfied but a few weeks viii
slanspire until the truth of the sam,
is realized and a CHARGE is made il
that order" The above paragraph
viii come In handy hereabou.s 10 {
few days. The river between Mem
phis and Helena will be thrown oper
for all, that is, out and come agaia.'
The outlook for business is good an,
lively times are expected.
Those who are engaged in wreck
ing the sunken steamer City of Vicks
burg, are having a bard time of il
being bothered considerably by rive
pirates, who have been about ther
ever since the boat sunk. A party o
men we're discovered the other nigh
carrying off a skiff load of the cargo
The Grew of the wreckiug boat fire
at the thieves, and one Of them, sup
posed to have been wounded, fell owe
board and was drowned. The friend
of the drowned man appeared the mex
day, and at last accounts had Mr.. L
M. Bedard, who is in charge of til
wrecking boat, 4. f. Eckert. uude
surveillance on the boat, while H. A
Burris and William Howard, diver:
and James Jones, another ofthe crew
were kept under guard on shore
Fears are entertained that the tire
prisoners on shore would be lynched
Governor Marks, of Tennessee, ha
been asked to send military or othe
aid for the protection of the men an.
property.