Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-07-20

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of them doing something The weather
was warm and clear, with delightful
breeze. u.s
The following are the arrivals and de-
partures since our last:
ml Arrivals
Olive Branch, New Orleans.
Lady, New Madrid
Northwest, Mariana
Yankee (towboat), New Orleans
Golden Eagle, Cincinnati
Linnie Drown, Arkansas river
Southerner, St Louis
tiL Departures V eii4lt
Olive Branch, New Orleans.
Yankee (towboat), st, Louis.
City ofAlton, ST. Lonis t+s
Petrolia, White river . Z w -
n Boats in Port H0rs
Southerner, Cleaner, Linnie Drown,
Golden Eagle, Mollie Hambleton, North
west, Lady Ah II
Boats Leaving To Day. fsfa
The fine steamer Southerner is the ST.
Louis packet this evening at ) o'clock.
Capt. McPheeters has taken charge Of
this boat, and Mr. VIM White of the
ice--they will make her popular for
they are courteous and competent men.
Tickets can be obtained Z the Union
ticket office, 3 Jefferson street
Arkansas bound travellers are informed
that the celebrated steamer Cleaner
leaves for Pine Bluff and Little Rock this
evening at 5 o'clock Capt John X
Moody commands, while The affable
Will X. Speed presides in her Office, as
sisted by Tom Halliburton Travel by
the Cleaner
Capt. T. r. Bowman's craft. the fam
Gus Mollie Hambleton, leaves this even
ing at o'clock for Helena and the st.
Francis river. This boat is making
many friends in her present trade Her
clerks are Messrs. Tom Day and W Fl
Clark they are o. X
Miscellaneous.
The bridal craft - the City Of Alton,
left last evening, with good many pas
sengers and two bridal parties, Captain
Calvert takes bridal party up the river
nearly every trip.
Captain A. T. Wood, an old steam
boatman, died at his residence, near this
city, on Wednesday morning The
Captain came from Maysville, Ky,
many years since, and was commander
of the Winchester and several other
boats that ran between this place and
Napoleon. He was sixty four years old.
Thirty-seven steamboats, are now laid
up at or about Cincinnati.
The tug Samuel is now laid up at the
foot of Poplar street, undergoing repairs,
she having collapsed ten hues and burned
three sheets
Capt De Haven has purchased the
Prairie State for the Selma and Mont
gomery Navigation Company. She will
leave St. Louis for Selma in few days.
The Cumberland has got so low that
boats can no longer run. The oil com
panies near that river are building RATS
upon which the shipments of oil will
hereafter be sent to market Last Sat
urday the Oyerton Oil Company sent
down raft with eighty-four barrels upon
it, and it went through with success
The Dubuque papers report the Upper
Mississippi falling three inches per day.
On the 10th the Chippewa river had
risen FIVE feet
The Ohio is falling at Pittsburg, and
rising at Louisville. The lower part Of
the river is hard to navigate, only four
and half and FIVE feet being found in
some places.
The ST. Louis Democrat, Of yesterday,
says: The river is falling steadily The
pilots will begin telling us OF low water
to Cairo in few days, There is four
feet to KeOkuk, and thirty inches above
Dubuque, The Illinois is still declining,
with about two feet water on Naples fats
The Missouri is in good navigable condi-
ton Business is dull, comparatively.
Freight is scsfce, and prices low 70 New
Orleans 1t is also scarce to the Ohio,
and the Wauanita, partially loaded al
ready, has ceased to operate, and viii
rest until freight accumnlates-