Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-21

evening, but will probably get away
tomorrow.
The Commonwealth for Cairo, and
the Mary Houston for Cincinnati, left
here this morning.
The Marlin Speed was towed up TO
the landing this forenoon, and is re-
ceiviug Tor Arkansas river.
Sam Nc Bride and Lew Pierce pilot
the Granite State from New Orleans
to Cincinnati.
-Four new steel boilers. seventy thou
sand pounds tensile strength, are being
made for the Golden Crown.
The big James Howard, Captain
Bryan in command, is due up this
evening, bound for Cairo.
Raining yesterday at all points
above here, and the Ohio rising from
Cincinnati to Cairo.
But few persons were moving about
the levee this morning, the soft snow
and slush being too much for them.
The Gold Dust is the Anchor line
packet passing down to-day for Vicks
burg and the bends. Captain j. T..
McCord commands, and Henry Diet
rich presides at the desk.
The Golden Rule, from New Or
leans, passed Vicksburg early yester.
day and will be due up to morrow
evening bound for Cincinnati.
The Charles P. Ohouteau, for this
port, and the Thompson Dean, for
Cincinnati, left New Orleans last eve
ming.
TheWill Kyle, which has been de-
tanned at Cairo on account of ice 10
the Ohio, left there night before last,
bound for cincinnati.
Heavy ice running by Cairo yester-
day, but, with the rise of the river and
the present spell of wet weather, none
Of it will reach this point.
The government towboat, Walker
Morris was engaged yesterday break
ing up the ice in the canal at Louis
vile.
The towboat NJ. S. Thanhauser, be-
longing to j, II. Morris & Co., was
cut down by the ice at Green river
island yesterday afternoon, but will
probably be raised. She is valued at
$1,000 and not insured.
Captain Randall returned Yesterday
from Madison, and reports the ice be-
tween Madison and Wittsburg about
three feet thick, heavy teams having
crossed over. The backwater from the
present rise in the Mississippi will
soon bre TX up the ice and let out the
Rene Macready, ice-bound ten miles
below Wittsburg.
Not a great amount Of ice running
in the river to-day, and what there is
is dirty and dark, proving it to be in a
rotten condition.
The City Of Alton, from Cairo, and
loaded fiat, passed down last evening,
bound for New Orleans. She put off
nothing here, but added SO head Of
stock aud about % .ous of miscelll-
neous freight. She took on in Madrid
bend 1900 bags of corn.
The Josie Harry is due to-night,a and
is the regular packet leaving to-
morrew evening for all points on
White, Black and Little Red rivers.
Pilot Marsh Miller, of the Coz
homa, left yesterday on the Henry
Frank TO take a look at the river and
post himself again.
Mr.. Charles @. Money, an old Yazoo /
and Tallahatchie river pilot, died at
the VIcksburg marine hospital on
Tuesday last and was buried with Ma
sonic honors.
The wife OF W. w. Toplis, a steam
boat engineer, wishes information in
regard to her husband, whether dead
or alive. Any one knowing the where
abouts of Mr.. Toplis can address his
wife at Madison, Ind.
The towboat Grand Lake, upon her
arrival at P~ittsburg, is to receive five
steel boilers twenty six feet long and
forty inches in diameter.
When the Chss. Morgan left Ciucin-
natl She had 1000 tons Of freight. She
could not land at Madison, on account
of the heavy shore ice, and at Louis
vile she did no business besides re-
celving fuel aud supplies.
John Tully, the man who has saved
so many lives on the falls at Louis !
vile, does not con6ne his operations
to water. During the severe cold he
hunted out cases of suffering on the
levee at Louisville, and many a heart
now returns him thanks for his noble,
self-deuyiug acts.
Captain AL Smith, with his steamer
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