Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-12

HAOuudy iuOIulugt aEu IL Tue lueS19y
packet for Cincinnati. Captain R.W.
Lightburne is agent.
The Charles Morgan and City of St.
Louis are to leave New Orleans this
evening, the former for Cincinnati aud
the latter for st. Louis.
Under the new schedule all the
Anchor Line mail boats bound south
will hereafter wait st Arkansaw City
for mails until $50 pm.
The Guiding Star, from the Ohio,
passes down to-day for New Orleans,
and gets about $50 tons including
$500 SKIS cotton seed meal.
For the week ending at noon to day
the river at this point has declined z
feet. Four feet and half OF which
must be credited to the past two
days. i-+i-
Captain Bixby's elegant Anchor
Line steamer, City of Baton Rouge,
will pass down this evening on her
way to New Orleans. 20. Elten is
her polite clerk.
The Andy Baum departed last
evening for Cincinnati, with very
light trip, comprising 81 bales cotton,
20 bales rags, SO bbls soap stock and
1000 feet lumber.
The Anchor Line steamer City of
Cairo, in command of Captain G.. w.
Vickers, will be here to leave at 10 a.
m. tomorrow for Vicksburg. Thos.
White is her chief clerk.
The sooner steamboats, adopt the
use of shipping papers in hiring their
crews the sooner they will get rid OF
this funny business before U. S.
Courts and Commissioners.
The Commonwealth, in command Of
Captain j. 7. McCord, is the Anchor
Line packet leaving to,morrOw FORE
noon for Cairo and St. Louis. Harry
Dietrich presides in the office.
A cOlored man while fishing inv olf
river yesterday afternoon was seized
with fits and tumbled over into the
water and went under before assist
ance could be rendered. He leaves a
wife and four children.
The Josie Harry, being the only
local packet leaving to-day, will not
only attend to her regular business in
White river but will take freight OF
passengers for the principal way land
ings on the Mississippi as far as Ter.
rene. There will be no other Local
packet until Monday evening.
The neat and elegant steamer Josie
Harry, in command of Captain Mill
K. Harry, leaves again this evening
for Devalls Bluff, Augusta, Newpori
and way landings, carrying the mail
attending promptly to all business tina
offers and connecting at her destina
ton with the regular light drai
steamers for upper White and Blacl
rivers. Ansel Banksmith presidel
in the Office, assisted by Hugh Smith
The Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce and Board Of Trade have rec
commended Hon. s. T. Covington 70,
Mississippi River Commissioner, 4
| fill the vacancy caused by the resigna
ton of Captain Eads. No man in tn,
United States is better posted or hal
done more than Mr.. Covington t.
advance the great W Western and South
ern river interests. In addition Il
being retired practical bOatman, h,
he is civil engineer. His appoint
meut would be Agreeable to all inter.
ested in the navigation Of our great
rivers Commercial.
Capt. Harve McNeely, Of New Or
leans, we'll known in this city, is re-
ceiviug a great deal of merited praise
for his efficient work in saving an ocear
steamer from destruction. The vesse
was on fire and the Captain would mo-
let water be pumped into the vessel as
he knew it would sink and the loss b.
total. Capt. McNeely, seeing the
condition of affairs, suggested pump
ing steam into the vessel aud driving
the fire out. This was done and the
result was satisfactory and great loss
prevented. There are hundred tug
boat Captains at New Orleans, but
the Times Democrat says "McNeely il
tho haet ona In tha harhoru