Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-15


The Thos. Sherlock from New Or
leans will be due up tomorrow on her
her way to Cincinnati.
The Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers are falling, as are also the Ohio
and upper Mississippi.
The Charles P. Chouteau and j. B.
NJ. Kehlor, from New Orleans, ar
rived at st. Louis yesterday.
The Fulton departed last evening
for Hatchie river, and is to be back to
leave again on Saturday next.
The Dean Adams will arrive to-
night, and is the mail packet leaving
tomorrow evening for Arkansaw City.
The Paris c. Brown, for the Ohio.
and the W. P. Halliday, forSt. Louis,
will leave New Orleans this even
ing.
The John B. Maude arrived at st.
Louis yesterday, and the Belle Mem
phis left there last evening for Vicks-
burg.
The Anita, loaded with government
r%ations, arrived this morning from st.
Louis, and will proceed probably to
Yazoo river.
The Ste. Genevieve will be in to-
morrow morning and leaves at 5 pm.
tomorrow with a return trip for
Cairo and st. Louis.
The City of Vicksburg yesterday
added 200 bales of cotton, $4,000 feet Of
walnut and ash lumber, and got away
at shutdown for st. Louis.
The j. Sharpe Mcdonald with a
tow of coal arrived at New Orleans
yesterday, and the Boaz with empty
barges left there last evening for the
Ohio.
The Emma Etheridge got her chin
neys knocked down day before yester-
day, while passing through Cow
Island chute. She put them up again
in a short time.
The tug Tilda returned last even
ing from New Orleans whittier she
had been with a tow of slaves. She
goes to Obion and Forked Deer rivers
after another tow.
The Coahoma left at noon TO-DAY
for Osceola and will be back to leave
tomorrow for Helena and Friars point.
Captain Cooper commands, with
Hugh Tomlinson in the office.
The towboat S. L. Wood, from the
Ohio river, arrived yesterday, aud lelt
her tow above the city while she made
some repairs here. She proceeded on
her voyage south this morning.
The Andy Baum departed last even
ing for the Ohio with 400 bales cotton
% bales paper stock, GA bbls tallow ,l0C
bbls oil, 800 SKIS cotton seed meal
10000 feet of walnut lumber, anC
several people.
The Raymond Horner with empty
barges and the steamer W. j. Be6ar
in tow, passed up this morning for III,
Ohio. She will take the Behan tt
Mound City to be oyerhauled and con
verified into q mountain boat.
The James w. Gaf will arrive to
morrow, and leaves with a return tril
Friday at 8 pm, for Cincinnati an,
all principal way landings on the Obi,
|, river, giving through tickets to point
r East at low rates. Captain r. w
Lightburne is her agent.
! Pat Maley, a hack driver, was sho
! in the mouth this morning BY tn
| Waterman of the steamer Rene Ma
cready soon after she had landed. Tn
shootist made his escape down tn
river in a skitf, and was pursued by
couple Of officers, who boarded til
tug DeSoto, but was not captured.
Eugene Sutcliffe, formerly connecte.
! with the river business for G.
Bryan 4 Co., has changed base an
will make his headquarters at the ic
, house of O'Neil & Co. Steamboatme
, will not miss. his smiling co~untenanc,
4 as he will still hold on to the Office Z
Deputy Wharfmaster, and be on han
to collect their little" wharfage.
The government steamer Genera
Barnard and the towboat Coal CHI
and barges, now at Keokuk, have bee
ordered to st. Louis, where they vii
be loaded with provisions and sen
South. Rations are now being dis
tributed on the lower Ohio river an,
from Cairo to New Orleans, includinI
the tributaries of the Mississippi.
While the local packets are carryinI
out supplies free Of charge to the peo
pie in the o~ver1owed districts, tn
government has ordered other boat,
to proceed to this port and report foI
service, The latest order is for tn,
largest steamers at Little Rock t
come here and report to the govern
ment agent, who will load them fol
the overfowed section.
The splendid light draught steamer
Plow Boy, in command of Captain Il
B. Smith, is receiving to leave at
pm to-day for Pine Bluff and all in.
termediate landings on Arkansaw
river, making direct connection with
the regular packets Tor Little Rock
and points above. Will Darragh pre-
sides at the desk and is assisted by Ed
Gay.
The Hard Cash, in command Of
Captain e. G. Postal, is the regular
packet leaving this evening for De.
Wallis Bluff, Augusta, J~acksonport
and all intermediate landings, attend
ing promptly to all business entrusted
to her, and making direct connection
with light draft packets for upptl
White and Black Rivers. Charles M
Postal presides at the desk, and il
assisted by Joseph Postal.
The II. II. Benner, a boat built ant
owned by the government, is lynn
here doing nothing, when she could b.
employed IN doing good" for the peo