The Daily Cairo Bulletin

—It was stated, some time ago, that the wharf-boat at Paducah had refused to receive freight for or from the steamer Champion. This report placed the owners of the wharf-boat, who are subject to the laws that apply to common carriers and public warehousemen in such an unenviable light before the public, that many of our citizens refused to believe it, holding that it had been circulated with a view of injuring the wharf-boatmen in the estimation of the public. It seems, however, that the report was not unfounded. A Paducah shipper, named T. B. Lyles, publishes the following card in the Paducah News of Tuesday:

"Gentlemen:—I see from the river column in your issue of the 1st instant that the wharf-boat at Paducah claims to show no partiality in regard to receiving freight. This is false, which I can prove by twenty good witnesses. Yesterday about 5 o'clock in the morning I was notified that the steamer Champion had a lot of freight for me, consisting of 34 bales of hay, and that I had better be there to receive it, as the wharf-boat would not receive it. I went down and called Mr. Hughes out of bed and asked him politely to let me store the hay on the wharf, as it would be damaged by moving it in the rain. Mr. Hughes (clerk) remarked that "if he could not get freight in clear weather he would not receive it when rainy." I said to him that I did not know of any change in receiving freight, and did not know what to do as I had no way to keep it dry. Mr. Hughes then referred me to Capt. Joe Fowler, and still insisted on not receiving the hay. I know if he had a bill of charges to collect he would refer me to the books in his office and not to Capt. Fowler, and this itself shows conclusively that they had a mutual understanding in regard to receiving freight. Any ill-feeling between the boats, or their owners, should not be to the detriment of our citizens. I have no interest any more than as a citizen of Paducah and a one-horse shipper."