Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-17

Vicksburg. Harry COrbyn is her
chief clerk.
The Dean Adams, in command Of
Captain Henry Cooper, will be the
Lee Line mail packet leaving this
evening for 0sceola and way landings
Oh the upper coast. Hugh Tomlinson
is her chief clerk.
The City of Cairo from St. Louis
passed to Vicksburg yesterday with a
good trip. She discharged nc pkgs,
including 500 bbls -four, 30 SKIS corn,
and az SKIS bran, also added about 50
tons for points below.
The U. s. snsgboat in charge Of
Captain Frank Caytop got out toCairO
on Saturday last, and will probably
continue her good work in this direc-
ton. She will find plenty to do both
above and below here.
The City Of New Orleans with 400
tons of freight passed to St. Louis
Saturday night, after discharging here
over 1000 pigs and cleaning boilers.
She was drawing all the water to be
found aver the shosl places above
here.
The Thomas Sherlock will be out
on the docks fully another week. Her
repairs are very thorough, and Captain
John Patterson, who is to command
her, says she will be good for FIVE
years service after she leaves the ship
carpenters bands.
The Ida Darragh, in command of
Captain Ed Rowland, is the mail
packet leaving Tomorrow evening for
Pine Bluff and way landings on Ar
kansaw river, connecting at her desti-
with the pool line boats for Little
Rock and points above.
A few days ago the owners Of seven
different steamboats, at Cincinnati sep
arately placed the figures at which
their different boats should be valued
and on comparison the greatest differ
ence between the highest and the low
est was not much over $1,000.
Captain Charles B. Russell and wife
have gone to New Hartford, Pike
county, NO., to visit his father, who
has been an invalid for years, and re-
Gently afflicted with an appoplectic at
tack, from which he was in a critical
condition at last accounts. He is
sixty-three years Of age.
The Annie l., en- route from Cairo
to Greenville with a wharf boat CON
tanning about 500 tons of freight and
drawing 81 feet, came down yesterday
from Island 80, where she left the
wharf boat hard aground. The latter is
said to be on a mud lump and swinging,
but will probably have to be lightered
off.
The CoAhoma having to 90 to Ar
kansaw City last trip with the freight
Of the Kate Adams, will not be in until
this evening, and goes to Helena and
Friars Point tomorrow at 5 pm; also
on Thursday and Saturday of this
week in order to get in her three trips,
Next week she will get back on her
regular days.
The Ida Lee, in command of Cap
tain j, @. Collins, is the mail packet
leaving to morrow evening for Mariana
and way landings on L'Anguille and
Francis rivers as far as the Cut Off,
where direct connection is made with
the light draft steamer Advance for
the sunk lands. Charles Stockley is
in charge Of the Office.
The Kate Adams, running on one
wheel, came up from Helena Saturday
night in twelve hours, which is extra
ordinary good time considering the
stage Of river. Her shaft was taken
out aud sent to the Charleston rails
road shops yesterday for repairs, which
will be done Immediately. She will
be ready to resume her trips by Nom
day next and probably before that.
The new ferryboat Martha, from
Cincinnati and destined to Dardanelle
on Arkansaw river, arrived yesterday
at noon only a week out and running
a single crew. She draws but two
feet and was brought here by Lew
Schragg, a Memphis and Ohio river
packet pilot. The Martha will prob
ably leave Tomorrow morning for her
destination.
The j. M. White has withdrawn
from the New Orleans and Greenville
trade on account of the low stage Of
the river above Vicksburg. TheWhite
could not find sufficient water to reach
Greenville and reshipped her freight
on the Commonwealth at Leota. Her
pilots reported only u feet atLeland's.
1t is reported that the White will
take the Ed Richardson's place in the
Viokshurg trade.