Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-19


came down to assist the Port Eads,
passed up this morning light. aud the
Sidney Dillon passed up for Cairo,
dropped two barges here and added
barge No. 26 loaded with 1850 bales
cotton.
The Granite State, in command Of
Captain james Chenowith, is an
n1unced to leave at 5 pm. to-day for
all points on the Ohio river through
to Cincinnati, and will give cheap
rates to points East. Robert Mccoy
is 10 charge of the Office.
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
Baton Rouge, from Cairo, is announc.
ed to leave from the elevator building
at 8 pm. to-day for V~icksburg, New
Orleans aud the bends. Captain
Horace Bixby commands. with Jas.
Elton in charge of the Office.
A dispatch from St. Louis states
that nearly all the ice has run out and
there seems no longer any fear Of a
gorge near that city. The weather is
mild vita rain during the night. The
steamer Montana is lying on a gravel
bed opposite Crawford's landing, but
it is believed she will get of.
The Rene Macready, in command #
Captain o. X. Joplin, arrived last
night with 1876 bales cotton, q bags
seed cotton and 459 SKIS cotton seed.
She is the mail packet leaving this
evening for Helena, Mariana. the
Cut OF and way landings on Ian
guile and St. Francis rivers. Charles
Stockley and jeff Black are in charge
the Office.
Diver AL Buriss was called to New
Orleans Sunday, and Diver Moore, OF
this city, assisted in raising the tug
Frank Jones yesterday. After the
entire boat was drawn to the surface
Of the water the hull had to be cut in
two, in order to save the machinery.
The engines were saved, and the mig
ger boiler, which is very valuable.
The balance will be got out at some
future time.
Tho John S. Bransiord of the Milt
Harry U. s.. Mail Line is the regular
packet leaving this evening for
Deyall's Bluff, Augusta, Newport and
all way landings through to jackson
port, attending to all business that
offers and connecting with the regular
light draft steamers for the upper
White and Black rivers, Captain j.
G.. Holder commands with Geo. D,
Marsh in charge Of the office.
The Katie Hooper, in command Of
Captain Il. B. Smith, is the mail
packet leaving this evening for Pine
Bluff aud intermediate landings on
Arkansaw river, attending promptly
to all business that offers, and maxim,
close connection at her destination
with the regular packets for Little
Rock and points above. Captain Cbas
Musselman presides in the Office, anC
is assisted by Cbas. Leftwich.
Greenwald's Aatboat, with abou
1900 bbls potatoes, and McCallum 4
Hamilton's boat with 1900 bbls, tn,
latter from below Leavenworth, tn,
former from Uniontown, KY, havl
both arrived at this port consigned t
Speed & Co. The same firm have
10000 bbls Of salt 10 three or foul
barges coming down the lower Ohio
in tow Of the Charles Mcdonald
This steamer has five or six barges
loaded chiefly with apples and pota
toes, from the upper Ohio going t.
Southern markets, mainly through t
Few Orleans.
Fifteen or twenty fatboats loadel
with potatoes, are under way for New
-
Orleans below this port, aud higl
winds with stormy weather has delay
ed their passage. Among Others Johl
j. Goodwin's boat from Rising Sun
passed south last Wednesday. Jane
DAILY is three weeks out from thi
port; G. NJ. Terrell & Co., from Eliza
bethtown, passed with two boats som
days ago; u. & w. Peasants, wit
two boats from Elizabethtown, passe
down some time ago, and Howard I
Cruger, from Rising Sun, with tw
boats passed down early last week.
The new steamer Kate Adams cam
quietly to the landing about hall pas
ten O'clock last night. Her electri
lights were burning brightly and bu
few we're out to welcome her adven
the crowds having gone home, think
ing that she would not arrive unit
daylight. She would have been htl
Saturday evening, as FIRST promised
had it net been for a detention
forty hours at Tiptonville, where tn
channel is shoal and hard to define,
number Of boats having been caugt
in that locality recently. The fe'
who boarded the Adams upon he
arrival last night we're welcomed
received by the officers of the boa.
who treated them with that courtes
for which the Marine fraternity ar
noted. The Kate Adams squared
comes up to all that has been said Q
written about her. She is one of tn
finest boats ever built for Wester
rivers, and the planters and shipper
along the river between here az
Arkansaw City will not be d;sappoinI
cd in what Major Adams had promise
the Kate would be. She has a beau
tiful model. Indicative of sneed III,