Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-18

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containing over 100000 bushels, be
sides her fuel barges, passed down Sat
urday evening bound for New Orleans
The Marlin Speed will be in to-mor'
row, and is the mail packet leavint
Wednesday for Pine Bluff, Little
Rock and all intermediate landings OF
the Arkansaw river, making direct
connection with light draught packets
for Fort Smith.
The Ed. Richardson came up Satur,
day from New Orleans, 3 days and
eighteen hours out. She added here
1443 bales Of eastern bound cotton fol-
reshipment at Cairo. I,csides having
a good trip of freight, sne had over &C
cabin passengers.
The Will Kyle, on her fifth day GU.
with between 700 and 800 tons Of
freight, arrived last evening and after
cleaning out her boilers, proceeded at
day light on her way to the Ohio. She
is making good Roadway for a boat D
her class, and that against a rising
river.
The Rene Macready will be found
in port this afternoon receiving to
leave at 5 p. m, tomorrow for Mari
anna, the Cut OFF aud all way landings
on L'Anguille aud st. Francis rivers
through to Wittsburg, making direct
connection with light draught packets
for the Sunk lands.
The fast and popular passenger
steamer Chas. Morgan will be due
down this evening, bound for the
Crescent City. Captain Harry Stein
commands, and the Office is in charge
Of Adam Wayland. Captain Ad Storm,
at the wharf boat, will make engage
ments for her.
Captain Geo. w. Vickers' splendid
Anchor line packet, Ste. Genevieve,
came in before daylight with about
800 tons of freight, comprising 5342
packages. She leaves with a return
trip at 5 pm. to-day for Cairo, st.
Louis and all way mail landings. John
Messengale presides at the desk.
The City Of Greenville leaves at 10
am. tomorrow for Cairo and Sc.
Louis, and at the same hour the City
Of Providence will pass down for
Vicksburg. Both are elegant Anchor
line packets, commanded by expert
enced officers. They leave from the
company's wharfboat, foot Of Union
street.
The secretary of the treasury de-
cides in the cases submitted to him by
the local inspectors of steam vessels
that steam pile drivers must be in
spected like other steam propelled
vessels, and that a pilot totally color
blind can be licensed to act as pilot
on vessels known to inspectors to run
only in day timo.
The feet 0sceola Belle, in COM
mand of Captain Henry Cooper, take:
her departure at 5 p IN. to-day fol
0sceola and all intermediate Landings
on the upper coast, carrying the mai
and paying prompt attention to all bu.
siness intr listed to her. Billy Smithel
presides at the desk, and is assisted BY
John Haley and Hugh Tomlinson.
The splendid sideyheel passengeI
steamer James Lee is the mail packe
leaving this evening for Helena, Friar
Point and all intermediate landings
attending promptly to all q. o.. D. ant
plantation business intrusted to her
and connecting at Glend lie with tn,
Mobile and Northwestern train. Cap
tain Stacker Lee commands and th,
Office is in charge of Lloyd W. Whit
low, assisted by Plat Rhodes anC
Arthur Brown.
A band of gypsies, consisting o
about 80 people aud having IL wagons
and "A hsrses, came up yesterday OF
the James Lee and will probably taxi
the Virgie Lee to morrow evening fol
Cincinnati. They are bound for Day.
ton, Ohio. Among the children in The
party is Master Phil Allin Stanley
who vas born on board the steamer
Phil Allin and was christened in the
cabin, Captain Stack Lee then in com
mand standing Godfather. Captain
Stack feels as proud of the chap as
though he were his own.
The Virgie Lee, in command o.
Captain James Madison, came in al
daylight with about 400 tons freight.
and did a good business all the way
down. She will have all her freight
out by night, aud leaves at 5 p. m. to-
morrow for Cairo, Louisville, Cincin-
natl, and all principal way landings on
the Ohio river, giving passengers
through tickets to all points east at
very low rates. The Lee is a fast boat.
with excellent accommodations, and
her officers polite and social to all.
Captain james Surtees presides at the
desk, and is assisted by Lew Briggs
and Will Dunlap.
A dispatch from Louisville states
that the towboat James ii. black
more, from P~ittsburg, yesterday passed
over Un6 IdllS AZ LOUISVILLE Win mel
tow in safety. She landed il a few
miles below the city and started back
on her return trip to Pittsburg. When
near the lower end of the canal the
boat was caught in a whlrling current
and capsized. The wreck now lies
below Portland. No lives are re-
ported lost. The Blackmore was ten
or twelve years old, and was purchased
last fall by the Grand Lake coal com.
pany, composed of Captain Joseph B.
Williams and others, for the sum Of
$4,000. She was considered one OF
the best boats of her class on the
river.
All having business or pleasure
down the river this evening should
bear in mind that.5 pm. is the hour
for the departure of that fast, safe
and punctual steamer Idlewild, of the
Mail line for Helena, Terrene, Ar