Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-08-15

Departures.
Mollie Able, st. Louis.
Belle St Louis, ST. Louis.
Peter Bolen, Vicksburg
Commercial, White river
Guidon, Arkansas river.
Des Arc, Vicksburg
Northwest, Mariana.
Albert Pearce, ST. Louis
Boats in Port.
Kate Robinson, Lady.
Boats Leaving To-Day.
The Kate Robinson is the only boat
to leave our wharf this evening. She
leaves at o'clock for Cincinnati, in
command of Capt John Skunk. Her
Office is in charge of Capt W. G. Voris,
who will make passengers comfortable.
Miscellaneous.
The Southerner changed hands yester-
lay. Her owners now are Captain Dick
Mason, Mr.. Steve Hancock, and Captain
Tom Berry, late of the Des Arc. She is
to run in the Memphis and New Orleans
trade, Captain Mason commanding.
The G. W. Graham aud City of Cairo
are to run between St. Louis and Vicks-
burg, leaving on alternate Thursdays.
7. J Hale is the name of the new boat
being built for the Dean line. She will
be one hundred and eighty-two feet long,
with beam of thirty-seven feet, and a
depth of hold of nine feet She will have
the machinery of the Bostona No. 2,
comprising three boilers, twenty-eight
feet long and forty ght inches in diam
eter; cylinders thirteen and one-half
inches in diameter and seven feet stroke.
She is ready to be launched will be fin
ished by September LIST, and will be COM
manded by Captain Vim. Walker.
John Elliott & Co. purchased yester-
day of R. P. Walt & Co. their interest in
the Des Arc. She is owned now by John
Elliott & Co, Captain Ashford and John
Sullivan
Freight to New Orleans from St Louis
advanced 10 per cent on Monday. Flour
is IS cents per barrel, corn 40 cents per
bag, oats so cents, etc.
A dispatch has been received at ST.
Louis announcing that the upper Missis-
sippi was rising and had risen five feet.
Bishop McClurg, second engineer of
the steamer Virginia, died of cholera on
Sunday night, at St Louis. He was pre-
viously in capital health McClurg was
from Galipolis, Ohio,
Alex. NJ. Davidson, of ST. Louis, died
at Cincinnati on the 18th, of cholera.
The deceased was well known as steam
boat clerk He was formerly engaged in
the Cincinnati and Memphis trade, but
more recently in the St Louis and New
Orleans trade
Yesterdays ST Louis Democrat says
there was a violent thunder storm on
Sunday night, which continued almost
into daybreak yesterday. The rain was
constant, and perfect deluge. Similar
rains fell Sunday in Illinois, and per
haps in Iowa. Although the fall of water
was immense, the rise in the rivers will
be only temporary In few days they
will be back to the present, or late low
stage. The river is rising here slowly.
The Illinois has probably swelled little.
There is FIVE feet in the Missouri, the
channel having cut out
STEAMBOAT PRINTING We respectfully
ask our steamboat friends to call and ex-
anime the specimens of fine steamboat
printing daily executed at the PUBLIC
LEDGER Office. Our prices will be found
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
who take in work they are not prepared
to execute. 7