Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-27

" luOues AT IlLtsDurg. a slight I'M
proyement is looked for in the lower
Ohio, where barely 4 feet is reported.
White river has 4 feet from Jackson.
port down.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cloudy.
Business fair.
Tom Adams goes out mate on the
Plow Boy.
Pilot Dave Thomas has returned
from New Orleans.
Pilots report 5 feet over Portland
bar below Louisville.
The Mike Davis, for st. Francis.
had all she could handle.
At Louisville 1000 barrels cement
are awaiting shipment South.
The U. P. Schenck left New Or
leans yesterday for Cincinnati.
The City of Providence left St.
Louis yesterday for Vicksburg.
The Grand Tower from St. Louis
arrived at Vicksburg yesterday.
The Thomas Sherlock is receiving
extensive repairs at Cincinnati.
Colonel N. NJ. Jones left yesterday
on the City of Vicksburg for Terrene.
The Port Eads aud barges from st.
Louis arrived at New Orleans yester-
day.
The City of Alton, Captain H.
Blxby leaves at pm. for Cairo and
st. Louis. VIM. Mason is chief clerk.
Captain Joe Stack, Cotton Seed
Joe, after spending few days among
hls marine friends, returned to Vicks-
burg'this morning.
The Annie p. Silver en- route to
New Orleans passed down yesterday
with a light trip. She put off 200
pkgs here ard added l6 bales cotton.
A telegram from New Orleans this
morning announces the sinking of the
steamer Cornie Brandon at Cotton
Point in Red river. The beat was
loaded with railway iron, and she will
prove total loss.
The Osceola Belle, Captain Henry
Cooper, is the mail packet at 5 p IN.
for Randolph, Fulton, Osceola, and
all way and plantation landings. Billy
Smlther, John Haley and Hugh Tom.
linson are her clerks.
The Plow Boy will leave this even
ing Gin place Of the Marlin SPEEDY for
all way, plantation and mail landings
on the Arkansaw river through to
Pine Bluff. Captain Amos Day is in
command and Ed. j. Gay has charge
OF the Office.
Captain Il. P. Cridel backs out the
rafting James Lee at 5 o'clock this
evening for Helena, Briars Point and
all intermediate landings, connecting
at Glendale with the Mobile and
Northwestern railroad. Captain Lloyd
Whitlow is chief clerk, and is assisted
by Platt and John Rhodes.
At Mack's boat yards, Cincinnati. is
being built new sternwheel craft, on
which will be placed machinery to be
used in grinding and packing bark for
shipment to Europeon ports The
novel craft will work up the Tennes-
see river. She is owned by New York
parties.
The reliable Hard Cash, Capt. Ed.
Postal, is receiving and leaves at 5
o'clock this evening for Indian Bay,
DeValls Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport
and all way and plantation landings.
connecting with light draught packets
for upper White and Black rivers, and
with the daily packets for Batesville.
Charley and Joe Postal are her clerks.
A special to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial from Pittsburg says 1.-THE pres
ent freshet is not likely to hold out
long, and while there was good water
anu plenty of coal ready TO move, the
run has been a very small one. But
for the want of proper lockage facili-
ties above, and the difficulty encoun
tered at the Davis Island dam, our
coal men could have gotten out
100000 or perhaps 100000 bushels,
instead of a little over 100000
bushels. The run foots as follows:
For Cincinnati, 724,00O bushels; for
Louisville, $4,000 bushels, making in
all 100000 buihels. The John
Penney, Fred Wilson and Coal City
started with tows, but owing to the
Penney grounding barge at the foot
of the lock at Davis Island dam,
efectually blockading the channel,
they did not get below that point.
The coal men are very severe in their
structures on the dam, and many of
them say it will never be anything
but an obstruction, and that in the
end it will destroy the coal trade of
Pittsburg"
Itmay be that Arkansas can get
herself pronounced Arkansaw, but as
for Louisville, St. Louis and New Or
leans, they must expect to hear their
names in infinite variety for some
time to come. It Louisville and ST.
Louis are to honor the Frenchmen
after whom they we're named, it might
be supposed that the French pronun=
ciation-Lewy- should be used, even
though the vile in Louisville we're
given an English pronunciation. If
the English pronunciation Of Louis
was inianded by those who named
Louisville and st. Louis. they ought
to have written the French name
Lewis, as some historians write it. As
for New Orleans, hers is As desperate
a case as the others. There. are so