Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-08-10
The Port of Memphis.

The Port of Memphis.
The river declined about twelve inches
in the past twenty-four hours Business
was dull at the landing this morning.
The glorious rain that descended last
night has converted the leyee dust into
sticky mud, and this morning the weather
was cloudy with an occasional sprinkle
of rain.
The following are the arrivals and de-
partures since our last
Arrivals.
Southerner, St Louis.
Henry Ames, New Orleans.
Yankee (towboat), New Orleans
Luminary, New Orleans.
Northwest, Mariana.
Departures.
City of Alton, ST Louis
Henry Ames, st. Louis.
Luminary, st. Louis.
Yankee (towboat), St Louis.
Boats in Port.
Southerner Harry Dean, Mollie Ham
bleton, Petrolia, Northwest, Cleaner
Boats Leaving To-Day.
TIE high headed packet Southerner,
with the gallant Capt Sam. McPheeters
in command, is the regular St Louis
packet this evening Billy White will
preside at her desk IN his usual affable
manner. Tickets can be procured at
No. Jefferson street
Capt W. B. Miller's gay craft, the neat
and feet Harry Dean, leaves for the
Ohio this evening,"and passengers bound
for Louisville and Cincinnati should
travel on her Mr.. c. G, Miller is her
efficient clerk.
Arkansas travellers should remember
that the regular mail packet that is com
manded by Capt John X. Moody, the
popular Cleaner, leaves for Pine Bluff
and Little Rock this evening Will h
Speed and NJ. u. Wells have charge of
her office.
Who has not heard of Capt. T. R.
Bowman's steamer. the pretty Mollie
Hambleton? She is the most popular
boat that ever ran in the ST. Francis
river trade She leaves this evening.
Tom Day and W. H. Clark are her
clerks
Ho Tor While river! The dashing
light water craft prtrolia sails this even
ing for that famous stream at 5 o'clock.
Capt. Oris Colby commands, and NJ. A.
Knox and R. B. Majors are her clerks.
Boats Leaving To- Morrow.
Tomorrow the Adam Jacobs and J. S.
McCune leave for ST. Louis, the Kate
Robinson for Cincinnati, and the Linnie
Drown for the Arkansas.
Miscellaneous.
A dispatch from ST. Paul dated the
Sth says the river rose three feet and
was still rising
Mr.. Benton Goode, former clerk on
the river, died at his residence, in St.
Louis, on last Tuesday evening.
The Bart Able has been thoroughly
fixed up at ST. Louis, and is to run in
the Memphis and New Orleans trade.
James G. Cullum, a well-known clerk
attached to the Memphis and Cincinnati
Packet Company, died of the cholera at
Cincinnati on Monday, after an illness
of twenty-four hours
Thursdays ST. Louis Democrat says
the river is falling slowly but steadily.
To Cairo there are seven and half feet
of water. Four feet scant to Keokuk,
with channel cutting out as fast as the
river falls. The Illinois is still falling,
and gives trouble to even the very light
boats now navigating it. The Missouri
is steadily falling 1t is believed there
will be four and half feet in that river
to the close of this week Navigation is
suspended at Pittsburg, or river business
is, and the Lower Ohio is going down to
its lowest Weather still hot, with pros
pect of heavy rains, Business fair for
the season. Shipments to the South are
fair, and receipts considerable from all
the upper rivers, by boat and barge
Wednesdays Louisville Courier says
the river was falling rather slowly, with
three feet ten inches water in the canal
in the evening, by the mark. During
the previous twenty-four hours it had
fallen only two inches at the head of the
falls, and barely six inches at Portland.
STEAMBOAT PRINTIYG.-We respectfully
ask our steamboat friends to call and ex-
anime the specimens of fine steamb oat
printing daily executed at the PUBLIC
to compare favorably with those of Gin
cinnati or St. Louis, and to be greatly
below those asked by other city offices.
Bring your orders directly to us, and
save the commission charged by parties
WIN take in work they are not preparPd