Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-30


The Anchor Line steamer John A
Seudder will be due up tomorrow
evening, on her way to St. Louis.
The Tiger, in command of Captain
). Basket, is announced to leave here
this evening for Peters, Bledsoe's and
way landings.
Charlie Hines, Of the Vicksburp
Parisot Line, passed through the city
yesterday, bound for Hot Springs,
Ark.
The agreed rate on cottonseed, as
liked by the several oil mills at
Natchez, is $ll per ton on the Missis-
sippi river and $l2 per ton at Vicks-
burg.
Captain A. Asenheimer, of Vicks.
burg, will command the United States
snagboat John r. Meigs, which will
leave here during the coming week to
operate in Yazoo river.
Captain George Wolf, who piloted
the Ida Darragh from Cincinnati to
this port, left this morning on the
james W. Gaf for his home.
Mr.. J. j. Hays, representing the
st. Louis Cottonseed Oil Works. has
purchased the towboat Dewdrop at
Evansville, to be used in transporting
cottonseed.
The Andy Baum bound from
Cincinnati to this port was at Evans
vile last night.
The government steamer. Emma
Etheridge, is due down to day bound
for Vicksburg.
The John 2. Maude, in command
of Captain, s. A. McPheetors, is the
Anchor LINE packet leaving this
evening for Cairo and st. Louis. Lem
Carter is her polite clerk.
The John A. Scudder for St Louis.
and the City Of Alton for New Orleans
passed Vicksburg yesterday.
The Centennial arrivedat St. Louis
yesterday and the City Of Helena left
there for this port.
The Golden Crown on her way to
Cincinnati PASSED Evansville last
evening.
The Anchor Line packets leaving
to morrow at 10 am. will be Captain
Vickers' elegant steamer City of Cairo,
for Vicksburg,an the Commonwealth,
in command of Captain j. T. McCord,
for Cairo and st. Louis.
1t will be two or three weeks yet
before the levee is clear of those piles
of stone. The crusher is doing good
work, and as fast as possible. 1t will
be of in tire for the big receipts of
cotton.
Captain James Good, of the River
Commission, has contracted with the
Madison Marine Ways for the build
ing o five barges to be used in levee
work. They will be each 100 feet
long, % feet wide and five feet deep, to
be completed by December next.
The splendid Anchor Line steamer
w. z. Halliday. in commands of Cap.
tain jolly, is announced to pass down
this evening for Vicksburg, New Or.
and the bends. Captain Owen
Gates is in charge of the office.
A dispatch from Pittsburg states
that 1,572,000 bushels of coal were
shipped from Pittsburg yesterday
With all the Southern markets well
supplied, this would tend to keep
prices down for the winter season.
The upper Mississippi river steam
boatmen are again getting after the
sawmill men, and want them to cease
dumping sawdust and rotten wood into
the river. The day is not far distant
when a law will be passed prohibiting
not only the dumping Of sawdust
the river, but cinders and other
like substances calculated to injure
navigation.
The splendid steamer, Josie Harry,
in command Of Captain Milt r. Harry,
is the mail packet leaving this evening
for Devall's Bluff, Augusta, Jackson
port and all way landings, making
direct connection with the regular
light draft steamers for the Upper
White and Black rivers. Her accom-
modatioDs are first class and her off
GERS are polite and attentive to the
wants OF their patrons.