Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-25

alter being thoroughly oyerhauled.
will enter the Helena and Friars Point
trade.
-Four and a half feet is reported in
the channel at Caseyville.
Brown & Co.'S. new towboat Alarm
has the machinery of the old Key
stone.
Captain Ike Thompson, late in
charge of the II. II. Benner, came
over last night from Hot Springs
much %improyedin health. He leaves
Tomorrow evening on the Vint Shin
kle to post himself with the changes
Of the Ohio.
Engineer Murray Hicks arrived
last evening from New Orleans. and
is around mingling with his friends.
The Hard Cash on her return to
this port passes Devall's Bluff to-
morrow evening, and will be here
Tuesday, and leave on Wednesday
next for White river.
Captain Reub. l.. Haynes left YES
terday for Fort Smith, to look after
his plantation business.
The Ste. Genevieve, for this port.
lett st. Louis last evening. and Is the
regular Monday packet from here.
The Grand Tower, from Vicksburg.
and the Golden City, from New Or
leans, arrived at st. Louis yesterday.
A barge line from Memphis to New
Orleans would no doubt prove a paw
ing institution during the business
season.
Messrs. Royse and Mosset have
been appointed agents at Cincinnati
tor the Southern transportation line
Of steamers.
The City of Greenyille continues 70
lie in a straight position, and no harm
will beiall her. She will have to wait
patiently for a rise.
The burned towboat, Mary Ann.
Will probably be rebuilt, but the
Simpson HOrner is past reconstruction
and will have to be wrecked.
The U. P. Schenck, from New Or
leans, passed Vicksburg night before
last, and should pass here to. morrow
forenoon en- route to Cincinnati.
The w. j. Poitevent. CAPTAIN w
j. Ashford il command, leaves at &
pm; for Commerce and way landings.
Neil Booker presides at the desk.
The James Lee Cor Friars Point.
and the Osceola Belle for Osceola, de,
plrted last evening with fair trips Of
freight and the balance of u river
excursionists.
The Colorado, Captain Sam Nc.
Pheeters in command, is the Anchor
line packet leaving at 5 I'm. for
Cairo and st. Louis. Owen G.. Gates
is her polite clerk.
The steamboat business in Red
river has been cut short fllly one
halt by the ravages of the cotton and
boil worm and continued rainy weather
for the past thirty days.
The wheel-house of the Vint
Shinkle was left open during her
passage down the Mississippi, in con
sequence of which pilot Jim Carroll
is suffering with a severe cold.
For the coming season oil cake
frelghts from here to New Orleans
Will be ~ cents pei cwt cotton sl.25
per bale from here, Helena and the
mouth Of White river, and $3.50 at
plantation landings.
There is about six inches Of water
around the tug Two Brothers, which
grounded a few miles above here on
Wednesday last. BY Monday she will
be high and dry, and will have to re-
main there until there is sufficient
rise to float her off.
The B~atesville, Captain O. K. Jop.
lin In command, is the mail packet
leaving this evening for Mariana. the
cut off and all way landings on Ian
guile and st. Francis rivers. A. L.
Banning is her chief clerk, and is
seconded by Will Lash.
Memphis is the only place where a
surplus Of pilots are to be found.
Cincinnati, st. Louis and New Or
leans are paying good prices, and even
then the demand is not supplied.
Maybe the boys here cannot bear the
idea of leaving the Bluff city,
The new iron steamer, John T.
Moore, Commodore j. Ed. Montgom
cry in command, is the regular nacket
leaving this evening for Helena, Glen
dale and all intermediate points, pay
ing strict attention to all business
intrusted to her. Captain w. II.
Stone presides at the desk, and is as
sisted by his brother, j. H. Stone.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Ed Now
land in command, is the mail packet
leaving this evening for Pine Bluff and
all intermediate landings on Arkansas
river, making direct connection with
low water packet Plow Boy, for Little
Rock and all points above. Captain J
N. Thompson presides at the desk and
is assisted by Ed. w. Crowell.
The Johp T, Moore, on her last
trip down, took an excursion party Of
about fifty from Austin to Helena
and return. The majority of them
being pleased with the kind treatment
received. concluded to come ON
through to Memphis, and are to-day
enjoying the sights of the Taxing
District,
Captain Jim Brown and family.
coal merchant at Pittsburg, and Cap
tain Whitehall and family, coal mer-
chant at Arkansas City, also Captain
Q. B. Russell, Of the James D. Park
er, and Captain Perry, of the John
Howard, are all sojourning at Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
The Gold Dust, Capt. j. c. McCord.
in command, is the Anchor line packet
passing up tomorrow, at 10 a. M, for
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