Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-01

stacker Lee commands, with Plat
Rhodes in charge of the Office.
The City Of Vicksburg will be due
up tonight, and is the Anchor Line
packet leaving at 10 o'clock to,mor-
row morning for Cairo and St. Louis.
Captain Harry Keith commands, with
W. Q. Blenker in charge Of the Office.
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
Helena arrived from Vicksburg at
noon yesterday, cleaned out boilers,
added lot Of miscellaneous freight
and several passengers, and left at 8
o'clock last night for Cairo and st.
Louis.
A fine and complete report Of the
river from New Orleans to Paducah
is displayed in the rooms Of the Pilots
Association at Cincinnati. The work
is the result of observations taken by
Pilots Carrel aud Collier, Of the
steamer Belle Shreveport.
Captain j. NJ. Andrews, an old time
steambOatmen, died on Wednesday
last at Mt. Gilead, Morrison county,
Ohio. lie was upward Of sixty>fve
years old, and formerly commanded
the Baltimore, Commodore Perry,
Olive, Roanoke and Delaware.
The Dean Adams brought in l26
bales Of cotton, 8 bags seed cotton and
SOl SKIS cotton seed. She is the mail
packet leaving this evening for 0sceola
and way landings on the upper coast,
Captain Henry Cooper commands,
with Hugh TomlinsOn in the Office.
The st. Louis and SIS. Paul Packet
Company have fled in the United
States Circuit Court at st. Paul a
petition against the Keokuk and Ham
iltOn Bridge Company for $4,000
damages to the steamer War Eagle by
the disaster Of November 4th, 1881.
ROustabouts are advancing rates on
boats out Of New Orleans. The Ed
Richardson paid $50 last week, and a
coast steamer remained in port rather
than pay $50 as demanded. A nun
Der of hard working white men are
coming from the North to take the
place Of the negro labOrers.
The big cotton carrier Helena, with
700 tons Of the Q. p. Ohouteau's
freight and drawing 81 feet Of water,
passed down this morning for New
Orleans in command of Captain j. @.
Crane and Clerk Miltenberger. They
report everything moving smoothly
between Cairo and this port, with the
condition Of the channel improving,
The Ida Lee from St. Francis river
brought in Sc bales of cotton, 80 bags
seed cotton and 36 SKIS cotton seed
She is the mail packet leaving to,
morrow evening for Mariana, the Cut
OF, Wittsburg, and way landings or
lL'Anguille and St. Francis rivers
Captain j, Q. Collins commands, with
Charles Stockley and Charles Brown
in charge OF the Office.
The damaged cargo of the steamer
O., p. Chouteau consists of 200 bbls
-four, 100 SKIS bran, 100 boxes starch,
the loss not amounting to over 5000
on the cargo. The insurance com
panies pay the Helena 81 % per ton
over and above rates 10 the bills Of
lading to deliver to consignees. There
viii be no general average, the small
damage inducing prompt reshipping,
underwriters paying loss.
Some people will grumble as was the
case Of big Irish drayman this fore
noon who requested this reporter to
put piece" in the LEDGER calling
on Oaptein Kallaher, the .wharfmas-
ter, to have the mud washed off the
levee. He did not think we had a
very heavy rain storm of nearly an
hours duration this morning, and that
the levee was cleanerIthan il the water
works had been playing on it for a
week.
Paducah merchants are alarmed al
the energetic action of Evansville in
placing two boats per week in the
Tennessee river trade, and fear unless
something is at once done they will
lose the trade Of that rich country
which they have for years controlled,
A movement is on foot whereby Pa
ducah merchants will place two boats
in the trade which will serve the in.
terests Of their city exclusively. A
meeting Of merchants will be called
this week and the matter placed il
shape for immediate action.