Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-14
though mostly cohfDed to local pack.

though mostly confined to local pack
cts.
The Andy Baum, en- route to this
port, passed Evansville yesterday af-
ternoon.
The W. P. Halliday will be due up
tomorrow evening bound for 81.
Louis.
The Grand Tower has been stripped
Of everything but the machinery, and
that will be taken out at once.
The james w. Gaf for this port.
aUd Mary Houston for New Orleans,
will leave Cincinnati this evening.
The City of Greenville arrived at
st. Louis yesterday, and the City of
Helena left there last evening for this
port.
Pilot W. G. Brown, who was at the
wheel of the Star Of the West when
she burned, is in the city open for a
berth.
The Josie Harry brought out of
White river 220 bales cotton, and re-
shipped 1Ol bales at Terrene for New
Orleans.
The City of Vicksburg, from St.
Louis, arrived at Vicksburg yesterday
and left there at noon tO.day with a
return trip.
The Belle Memphis for St. Louis
passed up last evening after adding
800 bales Of Eastern bound cotton for
reshipment at Cairo.
Pilot Billy Warman is now in
charge of the wheel of the Memphis
d Little Rock railroad transfer
steamer General Pierson.
The Henry Frank, owing to the
slack OF business, has withdrawn from
the Memphis trade, and for the pres
ent lays up at New Orleans.
A part of the John B. Maude's trip
In this morning from st. Louis con-
sisted of neal 1000 bbls of -four and
1876 SKIS Of corn, oats and bran.
Owing tothe extreme high water the
dam at the Louisville falls is no longer
an obstruction to navigation. The
bridge is the next to give trouble.
Floods in the Ohio and along the
Cumberland rivers and overflow of
low places on the Mississippi between
Cairo and Vicksburg are the prospects
for the coming week.
Ageneral overflow in this section
will hardly take place from the pres
ent rise, though the same is expected
BY many. The river at this point is
less than five feet below high water
mark.
Captain j. T.. McCord's Anchor
Line steamer Gold Dust will be here
to leave at 10 am. tomorrow for
Vicksburg and all principal way
landings. Henry Dietrich is her polite
clerk.
The fine Anchor Line steamer City
Of Alton, in command of Captain Dan
Able, will be here to leave at 10 am.
tomorrow for Vicksburg, New Or.
leans and the Bends. William Mason
is her polite clerk.
The Guiding Star, on her seventh
day out from New orleans, passed VI
at daylight with a good trip. She put
of a few packages here, also brought
up McIntyre & Heath's minstrels
comprising twenty. six people.
The John B. Ma1de. in command
of Captain Harry Brolaski, is the
Anchor Line packet leaving thil
evening for Cairo, st. Louis and al
way mail landings. Lem Carter anC
Al. Simpson are her polite clerks.
The Golden Rule, with all tn,
freight she wanted, and drawing g.
feet, passed down last night. Sh,
discharged 50 pkgs and added abou
80 deckers. At Wolf Island, Just be
low Columbus, she added 828 SKIS o
corn.
The Charles Morgan, from New Or
leans. passed Vicksburg last evening
rnd If no bad weather intervenes vii
pass here tomorrow night or earl,
Monday morning, bound for the Ohio
captain Ad Storm, at the wharf boat
is her agent.
The sple ndid light draft steamer
Marlin Speed, in command of CaptaiI
John j. Darragh is the mail packe
leaving at SPIN. to-day, fof Pin
Bluff and all intermediate landings Of
Arkanssw river, giving prompt atten
ton to all Q. o.. ID. and other blu lines
entrusted to her, and making direc
connection with the regular packets 70.
Little Rock and points above. Cap
tain Chas. Musselman presides at th,
desk and is assisted by Will Darragh
A dispatch from Nashville says tn,
the Cumberland river is still rising
with AZ feet on the gauge, and within
feet 6 inches of the rise of l847. TIL,
river is already out of its banks, anC
the people in the lower portion of the
city are compelled TO abandon theiI
homes. A dispatch from Point Burn.
side states that it is still raining a
the head of navigation, with a 80 fee
rise. The river is rising IS inches pei
hour, and a damaging food is ex.
pected.
Captain Thorwegan's champion cot.
ton carrier, Uhas. P. Uhouteau. is on
berth to leave this evening for Vicks.
burg, New Orleans and the bends.
Besides her large capacity for freight,
she has 6rst-olass passenger accommo-
dations, with large and airy state
rooms, and her tables are spread with
everything the market affords. Cap
tain Geo. Miltenberger and Peter
Writ, her gentlemanly clerks, will
see that pas sengers are made comfort
able and enjoy their trip.
The Indictment weather of the past
week detained the Josie Harry this