Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-16

giving UOdJb cOubloeraDle trouble.
The Charles Morgan, three days siz
hours out from New Orleans, passed
up during the night for Cincinnati
She discharged 44S pkgs and added
ITO bbls oil.
The Dean Adams, in command Of
Captain Thomas Foster, leaves this
evening for 0sceola. Hugh Tomlin.
son, Charles Bourne and John Rhodes
are her clerks.
Captain Cody, of New Orleans, il
up the Ohio receiving proposals fol
the building Of new steamer for one
of the southern tributaries, to be CONS
pleted for the fall trade.
The OOshoma, in command of Cap
tain Marsh Miller, leaves this evening
for Helena and Friar's Point. Captain
A. l.. Cummins presides in the Office,
assisted by Platt Rhodes and Arthur
Browne.
The Anchor Line steamer City Of
st. Louis, with3 80 tons of freight. and
full of people, arrived last evening
only three days out from New Or
leans. She discharged 400 hhds
sugar, cleaned out boilers, added sc
bbls oil and left before daylight for ST,
Louis.
The champion towbOat Joseph B.
Williams passed here yesterday bound
for New Orleans with the largest tow
Of coal ever Aoated on western rivers.
She had 693, l3l bushels of coal in 26
boats and 9 barges; also one hay and
two fuel barges. James Rafferty, and
Mike Kelly are her pilots.
The tugs Billy Kilby and Tilda
seem to be in a streak of bad luck.
The Kilby grounded her tow at Island
20, knocking off her whistle and
chimney, and the tug Tilda out of
ObiOn river, with a tow of slaves,
sunk two of her barges at Cheek
Island just above the city.
Captain James B. franklin, the
energetic passenger agent of the Mem
phis and Ohio River Packet Company
has returned from a business trip to
Hot Springs where he formed the &C.
quaintance Of nearly every visitor in
the valley,and Of course many Of them
promised to return home by the line
ne so ably represents. Nature has
gifted him with all the requisites Lee
essary for passenger agent.
The Hard Cash, in command Of
Captain E. u. Postal, is the regular
packet leaving this for Devalls Bluff,
Augusta, JaCksonport and inferno.
date landings, attending promptly to
all business intrusted to her and con-
Meeting at her destination with the
Goodrich Line of light draft steamers
for upper White and Black rivers.
Captain Charles Postal presides in the
Office, assisted by his brother Joseph.
Reports from the Treasury Depart,
ment show the number Of vessels in
speCted in PittSburg in the last year
exceeded the number Of any port on
the Ohio, and the number of boilers
inspected there exceeded the total
number Of all the other points on the
river. The number Of inspections at
Pittsburg have increased $50 per cent,
while at other points there was a de.
crease.
Captain Postals new White river
packet Ohickasaw, building by James
Rees & Son, will be 1877 feet on deck,
80 feet beam, 6 feet depth of hold
cylinders l6 inches diameter, 7 feet
stroke-three steel boilers. Will
have full cabin and texas of tho
latest design, and supplied with ell
the latest inventions aud improve
ments. The new Chickasaw will be
pushed forward to completion as soon
as possible.
The OkechObee Company, at ks
sine, Fla, launched on Monday last
the dredge boat President Arthur,
the largest in America, and will exca.
vate 2O,OOO cubic yards per day. tits
designed 10 cut canal rs feet vide
aud 10 feet deep. The company will
commence operations at the lower
end of Lake Kissime, and 60 direct to
Okeechobee. The completion of the
canal will reclaim 100000 acres Of
sugar land.
Preparations are making at the
War Department to put snagboats at
work on the Ohio as soon as the stage
of water will permit, the Chief of
Engineers having decided that the
general fund for the improvement of
the Ohio still remaining can be used
for this purpose. This removes the
cause for alarm regarding the inability
of the government to take care of tho
navigation of the Ohio BECAUSE of lack
Of appropriations.
A Tennessee Curiosity.
Chattanooga Times, "A.
Mr., John B. Nicklin received a
snecimen for his cabinet of curiosities