Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-21

II packet leaving from n cOmpa-
nys wharf boat at 5 pm. for Cairo
and st. Louis. George Walton pre-
sides at the desk.
The Smoky City is coming up with
the Henry Tete and Florence Meyer
in tow. The former she takes to Gin
cinnati to be ~dismantled, the latter
she drops at Louisville.
Several of the leading merchants
doing business on the White river,
came around on the Josie Harry to
lay in their stock. They return by
same boat tomorrow evening.
The channel between Sand Island
and Portland is getting to be pretty
rough on steamboats,. and it is almost
impossible for a sternwheel boat to
make her way to the canal without
assistance. The channel is fast cut
ting out, and for awhile will be the
biggest eyesore to pilots along the
river.
Mr.. M. Logan, Of Louisville, arrived
last evening, and in the future will
assist Mr.. Whitlow in the discharge of
his duties on the James Lee. Mr..
Logan is an old hand at the business,
having clerked on several Of the best
packets on the Ohio, and will prove
quite an acquisition to the clerical
force Of the James Lee.
The Maumelle looses a trip, having
stopped at the wreck of the Hattie
Rowland to take on the machinery and
cabin outfit. The Marlin Speed will
arrive to-day, and leaves tomorrow
evening with a return trip for Pine
Bluff, Little Rock and all way land
ings on the Arkansas river. Jimmie
Thompson and Amos Day are her
polite clerks.
The U. p. Schenck, for Cincinnati,
will pass up Sunday at s am, and will
take passengers through at the follow
ing reduced rates To Evansville,
$500 Louisville, Sc 90; Cincinnati,
800; Pittsburg, $14.OO Baltimore,
$1,000; Philadelphia, $22.50; New
York, $24.00 and to all other points
lower than any other irst-class line of
steamers. For further information
apply to James Carr, passenger agent,
office, No. 5, Madison street.
On and after the LIST day Of June no
water craft of any description coming
from below Vicksburg will be allow
ed to land at that port unless they
stop at the national board of
health inspection station, situated
about three miles below and received
a clean bill of health. The above is
the substance of an ordinance passed
by the Vicksburg board of health at
its meeting on Monday last.
The Osceola Belle, Captain Henry
Cooper in command, arrived last night
with 9 bales cotton, 9 SKIS seed cotton,
rs SKIS corn and l05 sacks cotton seed,
She leaves this evening with a return
trip for Osceola and all way landings
on the upper coast, carrying the mail
and attending promptly to business
John Haly presides at the desk and
is assisted by Hugh T~omlinson.
The Anchor line company are issue,
ing round trip tickets to st. Paul,
: Minneapolis, Denver or any othel
point to which a tourist or pleasure
seeker would wish to go. The boats
Of this line leave here every day o
+ the week for st. Louis, where passen
: gers can select their own route, either
r b riveror rail. For furtherinformatio
call on Captain AID. Storm at the
Anchor line wharfboat.
The swi%ft-running steamer jane
2 Lee, Captain Stacker Lee in command
| arrived last night with a fair trip, anC
$ is the regular mail packet leaving thi,
6 evening for Helena, Friar's Point and
all way landings, paying strict atten
ton to all business entrusted to her
The Lee has elegant passenger accom-
modations, and is frst-class in all he
= appointments. Loyd w. Whitlow i
8 her chief clerk, and is assisted by M
: Logan and Platt Rhodes.
! Commodore James S. Wise has pc
: titioned the Evansville city council
; to reduce the wharfage on the steam
: ers of the Memphis and Ohio rive.
packet line, so as to place them on tn
same basis as the Louisville and Hen
derson packets. When he has accom-
plished his purpose at Evansville, h
should petition the legislature Q
i Tennessee to reduce the wharfage a
L the port of Memphis Taxing Dis
trict.
L The rafting James Lee has set an
other peg, and any boat is at libert
a to knock it down in less time than j
took her to put it there. Her tim
yesterday morning from Westover t
p Helena, a distance of sixteen mile,
was made in %ffty-eight minutes. |
was a little race between the City 0
IS Helena andthe James Lee, the forme
% boat starting out from Friar's Poin
when the latter left Westove1
which is a short distance below on tn
I, other side. The City of Helena j
= one Of the fastest boats of the Aucho
line. but she was passed yesterday b
9 the James Lee, and no mistake. Six
IL teen miles an hour up stream is goo,
for a short packet.
'e The popular steamer Cons Millal
n Capt. W. G. Tichenor in command, al
rived last night with about $50 ton
$, of freight, including 200 bbls mea
80 bbls -four, 427 SKIS corn, $50 pkg
furniture, 200 pkgs wagon stuff, II
l. pieces sewer pipe, 700 empty oil bbl'
81 bbls whisky, 125 boxes soap, an,
q about 300 pkgs sundries. The Milla
leaves this evening with a return tri
for Cairo. Louisville, Cincinnati, an
r way landings on the Ohio, givin
passengers through tickets to an
., point east at very low rates. She ha
J" excellent accommodations, both f