Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-29
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.


RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river is declining one inch per
day at this port, and is now twenty-five
and half feet below the high water
mark of 1867 The decline at Cairo
yesterday was two inches At Louisville
the river is stationary. The Ohio is
declining from Pittsburg to its mouth,
and has barely sufficient water below
Louisville to permit the passage of even
light-draught boats. Cumberland and
Tennessee rivers are low and declining
steadily. White river has four feet of
water to DevalPs Bluff and three feet
above there to Augusta. The Arkansas
is again declining, having risen in all
nearly eleven feet at Little Rock. 1t
rose nine feet in eight hours while the
Durham was laying at Fort Smith, on
Saturday last There is to-day not less
than fifteen feet in the channel from the
mouth to Little Rockand ten feet above.
Business at the levee was but fairly active
this morning. The weather continues
clear and pleasant,
The U. S. mail steamer A. j. White,
George Malone master, departs at pm.
to-day for Helena, Friar's Point and all
way landings. Charlie Smithers and
the Granger boys, Walter and Andy,
are her clever secretaries
The Belle st. Louis, Aleek Zeigler
master, and j. W. Baskette, clerk will
depart at 5 pm. to-day for Cairo and St.
Louis, carrying all those who wish to at
tend the st. Louis Fair at reasonable
rates.
The Des Arc is advertised for sale.
The Belle Lee came in this morning,
and left at noon. During her stay she
was visited by a number of our citizons.
She added here 10 passengers, some mis-
cellaneous freight and 80 mules, and also
added GOO sacks corn and Is hogsheads
tobacco at New Madrid.
The City of Alton is the regular U. S.
mail packet for Vicksburg and way land
ing, leaving to-day at 5 pm.
The A. ]. White brought up Sc bales of
cotton aud 900 sacks of seed She also
had good passenger trip.
The George w. Cheek, newly painted
and reitted, will come to the landing to-
day to receive freight for Napoleon,
Beulah and Eunice leaving tomorrow
evening under the command of the
veteran commander, Mark R. Cheek.
The Bermuda and Emperor are for
sale at Cincinnati
Louisville is to be one Of the United
States Storm Signal stations
A Pittsburg telegram says the Monon-
gahea has become so low that it is diff
cult to navigate even the lightest boats,
A Cairo dispatch says the engineers of
the Belle Ice are enthusiastic over the
great saving in fuel caused by the new
patent hollow CRATE bars, through which
the water is supplied to the boilers.
The little steamer Malta was snagged
and sunk in Current river, fifteen miles
above Doniphan, No, on the 10th inst,
Efforts We're made 90 keep the boat
aRoaI by free use of the pumps, but she
went down the next day after the acct
dent
One feature of the st. Louis fair will
be fine display of steamboat models.
A Maeknaw craft arrived at Sioux
Oily on the 23d, only twenty-five days
out from Benton. This is claimed "a
the best time ever made by G Mackinaw
on the Missouri,
Yesterdays Democrat says: Captain
Jack Garter has some of the spirit of
SPECTATOR. Seeing the eapsized steamer
s. C. Day near Gaines Landing, he
bought her She is not a year old, 100
feet long, "a feet beam, a feet hold, and
will prove q good boat to carry Hemen-
way s shippers guide to market.
A two-ioot rise is reported in the Mis-
souri, at Brownsville,
The st. Cloud Journal is informed that
the steamboat on Leech Lake, owned by
the Government, was badly wrecked on
the 10th instant, by an explosion, her
boiler going clear through itself" as
steamboatmep say. She was a stern
wheeler somewhat larger than tub, and
used in carrying supplies in the Chippewa
country. The loss cannot be much, but
the boat will be missed by the payment
party this fall,
The Shreveport Southwestern says the
steamer Lightest appeared there the
other day with nobody visible but the
pilot and captain, which latter says he
has reduced steamboating to science,
combining in his avn small person, cap
tain, mate, clerk, steward and chamber
maid. IL saves the Inconvenience of
paying off so many different parties, he