Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-27
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
BoATs IN PORT.

General Anderson, Hesper, I. II. Al
len, Little Rock.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The decline here has been checked a
trihe by recent rains above. The river
continues to recede, however, with no
immediate prospect of a rise. The de-
cline continues at Cairo and st. Louis,
with but feet of water over the shoal
places between those points. Above st.
Louis the river is falling steadily as far
up as st. Paul. Steamers now expert
ence difficulty in reaching the last
named point, on account of the scarcity
of water over the shoals below there.
The Missouri is getting unusually low.
The Cumberland is rising again-a heavy
dew having fallen above Harpeth Shoals
caused a two-inch rise in that uncer-
tain stream. The Ohio is rising slowly
at Pittsburg, but declining below there
to its mouth White river has fair stage
to Jacksonport. The weather is OPP
pressively warm. Business at the land
ing is fair to-day.
The new and elegant packet Mary
Boyd goes out Friday for all points on
the Arkansas.
The George w. Cheek win srrive in
the morning, and departs tomorrow eve
ming for Helena and Friar's Point.
For LITTLE Rock AND FoRT SMITH.
The new and commodious steamer Little
Rock, Mat Houston master, came in this
morning and departs at five pm. for all
landings on the Arkansas, going directly
through to Fort Smith, where she will
ply in the trade from that point to Little
Rock. She is admirably suited to the
trade, being of extremely light draught
and possessing all the accommodations
of a larger steamer, She will be well
coined TO that trade by the citizens gen.
orally. Mr. c. II. Conrad, formerly of
the Memphis and st. Louis Packet Com
pany, is her worthy secretary.
Captain Sam Houston, Supervising
is in the city.
The Mollie Able added here large
lot of oil cake, and passed down at aoon
Tor New Orleans.
The Memphis and Cincinnati Packet
Company have perfected arrangements
or line of boats to run from Portland
% this city during the closing of the
canal, and have arranged with the Gin
.innati and Louisville mail line to trans
port all their freights to Southern points
1t the very lowest rates the extra
transfer from Louisville to Portland will
Justify,
The river is so low at Louisville that
none but boats Of exceedingly light
lraught can pass over the falls
Captain Jim Lee has sold his interest |
n the Hesper to Nit Harry, who will
place her in the BLACK river trade to fill
he place of the Fairy Queen.
The annual report of the river depart
nent of the St, Louis Custom-house for
he year ending June 80, is published.
Number of steamers and barges sold,
so; licenses issued, -269; steamers sunk,
i; barges sunk, A; steamers burned, 8;
Iismantled !; steamers enrolled, 1867
'arges enrolled, 10
The Cincinnati Times says:
The combination of circumstances,
Ieat, low water and suspension Of the
Jacket lines in the lower trades, has
iven three-months' furlough to a large
,ortion of our river men, who, TO enjoy a
etier atmosphere, or probably visit new
Genes, have, many of them, left for
ther shores.
Sundays Cincinnati Commercial says;
Yesterday being the last day for boats
aaving here to descend the Portland ,
anal, there was an unusual rush of
reight for the Lower Ohio and Lower
fississippi. The Exchange and Carrie
CONVERSE received all they could handle. !
D New Orleans, at so cents for pound
,ts, 81 for whisky, and 4O@5Oc per hun
red to the Lower Ohio.
The Northern Line Packet Company,
aiming between ST. Louis and St. Paul,
ay annually from $4,000 to $4,000
,r wharfage The Burlington Gazette