Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-16

NhNNA viz o0'pSh9t'A
natl.
The Hard Cash for White river at 5
pm. to-day.
The Thomas Sherlock is due down
to. morrow, bound for the Crescent
ci y.
The Mississippi is falling at st.
Louis, with the ice thinning out and
getting soft.
The Cons Millar, en- route from this
port to Cincinnati, passed Evansville
last evening.
No ice passing here since noon yes
terday. lhe river is still swelling,
with drift floating by.
Captain Mark Cheek took passage
yesterday on the Guiding Star to re-
join his boat, the Dean Adams.
The New Mary Houston leaves Gin.
cinnati this evening with a big trip OF
excursionists for New Orleans.
The w. P. Halliday arrived at St..
Louis yesterday, being the first boat
from the south since the freeze up.
Four local packets leaving this even.
ing as follows: Upper coast, lower
coast, White and Arkansas rivers.
The Charles P Chouteau, for New
Orleans, passed Vicksburg last even
ing with a pretty fair trip of cotton.
The Kenntz line steamer K. 0.
Stanard is announced to leave st.
Louis this evening for New Orleans.
The Ohio at Louisville is filled with
heavy floating ice which extends from
shore to shore causing the ferryboat
to lay up.
The Golden Crown is FIVE days out
from New Orleans, and will probably
pass up tomorrow. She has a big
trip for the Ohio.
Platt Rhodes, the efficient second
clerk of the James Lee, is getting
along finely at Hot Springs, but can
do without his LEDGER.
The Centennial, from New Orleans
passed up last night with a big triI
for st. Louis. She discharged here {
big lot Of sugar, molasses, and Other
stuff
The New Belle Memphis which left
Cairo yesterday Tor st. Louis, went.t &c
bank in Greenleaf bend, not wishing
to endanger herself with the heav!
floating ice.
The Gold Dust, from Vicksburg
passed up this forenoon, adding PSI
bales of compressed cotton for reship-
ment at Cairo.
The big james Howard, of the An.
Choir line, is announced to pass up to
morrow at 10 am, bound for Cairo
and st. Louis.
The Henry Frank will be due TO
morrow from New Orleans, and vii
probably get away in the evening wit
a return trip.
The Mollie Moore is off the bar an,
started up yesterday just after III
Gold Dust passed. She will probabl
pass up during the day.
at New 0rleans yesterday, the La
fourche packet Assumption explode
a donkey boiler, tearing away a part {
her forward cabin, killing one ma
aud injuring several others.
Henry Carnabau, the popular stew
ard of the r. Il. Lee, passed throug
this city yesterday, bound for H,
; Springs, where he goes to take a re
while his boat is laid up for repairs.
The James D. Parker, for this por
a passed Evansville at 3 pm. yesterda
D and is announced to leave here t.
morrow evening with a return trip #
l Cincinnati and way landings on Il
Ohio.
The Jas. w. Calf, for Cincinna.
= departed last evening with 1873 bal
e cotton, 800 bbls oil, 60 hhds ser
iron, 100 SKIS bones, 80 bales pap
1 stock, 10000 feeto of lumber, and a IA
trip OF people.
The coal shipments from Pittsbu
| on the present rise are as follow
- Louisville, 2,10500 bushels in eight
q three boats, tw~enty-nine barges, I
" teen fuels, and five box boats; Oinci
natl, 125, 900 in ten barges.
D. At St. Louis the underwriters "
terday raised the embargo on nayiG
ton, and the Ste. Genevieve left !
this port loaded to the guards, to
followed to-day by the City Of Pro
m dence, for Vicksburg, and the City
Greenville, for New Orleans.
The wrecking boat Salvor No. 2
now on her way to this port where s
will be stationed to'act in any emel
II. ency when required by the undu
writers. She is to be placed in char
of Captain Bob Speed, who represeI
Messrs. Brown 4 Jones at theriver
Major Adams has completed
rangements to have an elegant a
fast sidewheel steamer placed in (
trade between this port and ArkanI
la CITY. She will be here in time
leave Thursday, 9th inst, in co
man0 OF captains ODeeh anu Ou
minis who will bring to this porI
- y big Mardi Gras trip.
The gay 0sceola Belle, in comma
NV of Captain Henry Cooper, is the re-
he lar mail packet leaving at 3 pm.
q. day for 0sceola and all intermedi
&c. landings, attending promptly to
70 business entrusted to her. b
Smither, John Haley and Hugh TC
Iinson, a trio of clever young men,
an in charge of Office affairs.
he The Marlin Speed arrived last mig
rg, bringing the passengers of the &.
5 Check, which is lying at the bank n
in Star landing. 1t is not known
cause of her trouble, but it is proba
lis. that she injured her buckets in the
in and drift, or found it impossible
ng, stem the current, she having been
ge. hours getting from Helena to b