Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-28
London stock market,
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Steamer Utah, Arkansas river.
St Mary's, New Orleans.
Pauline Carroll, New Orleans
Thompson Dean, New Orleans
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Thompson Dean, St. Louis.
Pauline Carroll, st. Louis.
:" st. Mary's, St. Louis.
Utah, ST Louis.
" St Joseph, St. Louis.
MARITIME, 0sceola.
Legal Tender, White river.
BOATS IN PORT
Celeste, Mary Boyd Norman.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
st. Louis ula PM
Arkansas river.....-..Mary Boyd......~.5 pm.
New Orleans ......... Belle Lee...........5 p. m.
Shawnee Village oil City..............4 pm.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river is declining at the rate of
one inch per day at this port, and two
inches per day at Cairo. The decline at
st. Louis continues at the rate of six
inches per day, with nine feet out to
Cairo. The Ohio is declining all the
way up, and is cutting out very slowly
below Louisville. Boats in that stream
are compelled to load light oil account
of low water. The Cumberland and
Tennessee rivers are declining; the
former has less than twenty inches over
Harpeth Shoals. White river is sta
tionary, and has a good boating stage to
Augusta. The Arkansas is rising,
with nearly 10 feet to Little Rock and
10 feet above there to Fort Smith Bust
ness at the levee is moderately active.
Weather clear and warm.
The new steamer Phil T. Allin was
launched yesterday evening, with the
assistance of a couple of tugs, and is
now at the bank above the dry docks re-
ceiving her boilers and machinery. 1t
is expected she will be completed and
ready for business in about a month.
The City of Alton will pass down to-
morrow for Vicksburg
The swift-sailing U. S. Mail steamer
Mary Boyd, Capt. Rube Haines com
manding, is now at the levee loading,
and will depart at 5 pm. this day for all
points on the Arkansas, connecting at
Little Rock with the stages for Hot
Springs and with light draught steamers
for Van Buren, aud Fort Smith. L. w.
Outlaw and Bob Shields are her execu-
tive officers
The regular Shawnee Village packet
Oil City, Capt Randall, will be in port
to leave to-day at 4 pm. for all landings
above. She is safe aud commodious
packet, and does lively trade. Mr.. NJ.
W. Quinlin is her secretary.
Senator Sherman addressed the mer-
chants of Cincinnati on Change Friday
regarding river Improvements.
Side-wheel packets have ceased run
ming in the upper Ohio. The business
is divided among boats Of the
lightest DRAFT, and as the rates are
the same as during high water, there is
very little money in it,
The good steamer Julia, Callahan
master, will leave the ST. Louis wharf
boat at o'clock this evening for Cairo
and St. Louis, making all the important
railway connections for the North and
East. Captain Billy Dill viii, we learn,
make special arrangements with passen-
gers desiring to attend the ST. Louis
Fair, and Jimmy Thompson, the agree
able clerk Of the Julia, will attend per
sonally to the comfort Of those who
travel with him.
The magnificent and unsurpassed pas
senger and freight steamer Belle Lee
came in this morning from St Louis.
and is now at the wharf receiving freight
ssa passengers for New Orleans. for
vbieb poist she departs at o'clock this