Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-08-30

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PUBLIC LEDGER. We sell to the newsboys at
two cents copy. thus allowing them over a
hundred por cent. profit on every paper.
The Port Of Memphis.
The river is rising quite rapidlyat this
point, it having swelled abonts twelve
inches since our last report. The news
from above indicates that the river will
stop its upward course shortly, BusI-
ness at the landing this morning was
dull sThe,weather was clear and pleas
ant
The following are the arrivals and de-
partures since our last: a,
.ags Arrivals.
Princess, Little Rock,
Yankee (towboat), St Louis.
=. City of Cairo, st Louis. sene.
n Noble Hambleton, ST. Francis river.
n Lady Gay, St. Louis. s.ngfi
Hero (towboat), Cairo.
ftSBAf@ Departures. firrNf
Princess, St, Louis.
Yankee (towboat). New Orleans.
Lady Gay, New Orleans. ~ $3.50,
Golden Eagle, Cincinnati.
- Boats in Port.
Harry Dean, Linnie Drown, City of
Cairo, Die Vernon, Pioneer, Mollie
Hambleton. " p"
Boats Leaving To-Day. n
The City Of Cairo, Capt Bob X. Riley,
is the regular ST Louis packet this even
ing, leaving at O'Clock. W. Fl. Block
has charge of her Office.
Capt. W, B. Miller starts for Louis
vile and Cincinnati this evening at five
clock with the Harry Dean. Z. c.
Miller presides in her office.
Arkansas travellers are Informed that
the Linnie Drown leaves for all naviga-
BILE points on that stream this evening.
Capt. John Claycombin command, Geo.
N. Baker clerk
u Miscellaneous.
A steamboat captain having threatened
to punch a hole in the river with
somebody for. starting the report that
his boat was to be propelled by "gas,'
the St Louis Republican says Bah
let him punch The fellow is green. ~
The G. w. Graham for the present has
withdrawn from the Vicksburg trade,
having made one trip init. 400 "a
Dispatches from Little Rock report
two feet in the Arkansas, and rising
slowly. The Princess reports twenty
seven inches on ROB Roy bar, and two
feet from Pine Bluffto Little Rock.
The Laura Fenton left Louisville on
Tuesday for this point with good trip,
including in one item 1900 plows The
freight was at 35@45c each. She had
engagements at New Albany, including
a lot of street railroad material
AT Pittsburg the river is reported fall
ing again, with only thirty inches water
in the channel, and but yary little bust
ness doing
There was considerable rain in and
about Nashville, Monday, and hopes are
entertained for a rise in the Cumberland
That river has been too low for naviga-
ton for some time 81 fa4 aaF
Officers of boats that left Cincinnati
late Monday evening report the river
swelling at that point The rise was not
expected to very materially increase the
volume of water below. The rise was
thought to be from the Muskingum,
The Mississippi is falling from St.
Paul to Cairo At the latter point it fell
two inches yesterday. ..uI ..4
The Messenger, sunk at Island &c a
couple of weeks since, has been raised
and started to Cincinnati for repairs.
The Louisville Courier of yesterday
says the river was falling very slowly,
with four feet water in the canal in the
evening by the mark. During the pre-
vious twenty-four hours it had fallen only
two inches at the head of the falls, and
six inches at Portland. The weather
continues dry and rather cool for the
season, though much warmer than yes
terday. On the falls last evening there
we're two feet water in the pass down the
Indian chute, and the river about at a
stand, or falling very slowly.
STEAMBOAT PAINTING. We respectfully
ask our steamboat friends to call aud ex-
anime the specimens of fine steamboat
printing daily executed at the PUBLIC
LEDGER office. Our prices will be found
to compare fayorably 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. -t