Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-11

The machinery OF the sunken
Robert Mitchell will be sold at auc.
ton at Cincinnati on Monday, April
2s.
The City Of Providence left St.
Louis last evening and passes here on
Friday at 10 N, bound for Vicks.
burg.
The Centennial, with about 300 tons
Of freight, passed up this morning for
St. Louis, discharging here about 200
pkgs.
The New Mary Houston is an
nouoced to pass up this evening bound
Tor the Ohio river. d. c. Lowe is
her agent.
The james W. GaH returned to
Cincinnati last night with 30 bales
rags, 800 bbls oil and 5000 SKIS cotton
seed meal.
The Chas. P. Chouteau arrived at
New Orleans yesterday, and the r. R.
Springer left there last evening for
Cincinnati.
Amos Day, one of the most popular
second clerks on the river, has taken
charge of the freight department Of
the Ida Darragh.
A dispatch from Louisville states
that all fears of another food in that
section are dispelled, as the Ken
lucky river is only at medium tide.
The Wyoming, from New Orleans,
passed up last night with light trip.
She discharged 30 bbls molasses and
added 80 bbls tallow and 8 bales cots
ton.
The falls passage at Louisville is
now an easy channel for navigation,
its only impeachment being the railroad
bridge with barely enough space for
passing steamers.
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
Baton Rouge passed up this forenoon
Tor st. Louis, after discharging lot
molasscs and cleaning out boilers. She
had Qp board about 600 tons.
The Charlie Brown arrived from
Louisville yesterday afternoon with 8
boats and 10 barges of coal for Messrs.
Brown & Jones. She sunk one boat
and one barge just below Plum Point
on Sunday night.
The W. P. Halliday, from st. Louis,
passed here yesterday forenoon, bound
for New Orleans. She had 14OO tons
Of freight and came through from
Cairo in eighteen hours, including
time lost at four landings.
| The new ferry boat Josie, in charge
Of her owner Captain A. NJ. Halliday,
Of the Paris @. Brown passed down
last night for New Orleans, with 5
barges of coal. The boat was built on
the Kanawha river, and is TO do the
night ferrying between New Orleans
and Algiers.
Captain Sam Mason, a pioneer
steamboatman on the Ohio river, died
at Wheeling, W. Va, yesterday, at
the age of eighty years. He COM
menced life in 1923 and shortly after
became pilot. In 1884 he acquired
an interest in a steamboat and re.
NAMED in that business until after the
war.
| The river at noon to-day lacked 5
feet inches of high water mark of
last year, and the news to day is quite
encouraging. The Ohio is almost
stationary at Cairo and falling at all
points above The Mississippi at St.
Louis is on a stand, while both the
Tennessee and Cumberland are fall
ing.
The popular passenger steamer
Golden Crown, in command of Capt.
Eugene Shinkle, is announced to leave
here at b pm. to-day for Vicksburg,
New Orleans and the bends. She has
splendid accommodations, and is in
charge Of clever and experienced
officers, Chant Shinkle is her polite
clerk. IA
The Henry Frank was at the land
ing early this morning, bound from st.
Louis to New Orleans as an independ-
ent packet, She had room for about
500 tons, and discharged 300 tons here.
She got 800 SKIS Of corn in the bends
above Cairo, and $500 below. About
1900 tons of her freight is for way
landings, and she will probably pick
up several hundred bales of cotton
below here,
The Dean Adams arrived on good
time with SO bales cotton, 10 bags seed
cotton aud 2lO SKIS cotton seed. She
is the Lee Line mail packet leaving at
3 m. to-day for 0sceola, Plum Point
and way landings on the upper coast,
and will ettend promptly to all busi>
ness entrusted to her, Hugh Tom
linson presides in the Office, assisted
by Charles Bourne and John Rhodes.
The Hard Cash, in command Of
Captain E, G. Postal, is the regular
packet leaving a 5 pm. to-day for
Devall's Bluff, Augusta, Jacksonport,
and all wav landings giving nromnt