Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-03
BOATS IN PORT.
John Lumsden, Fanny Brandeis.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.

BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
st. Louis............grand Tower...,.~.....5 pm.
Vicksburg. j ulia.. . pm
Friar's Point.......A j. White............5 pm.
White riyer.....h. 7. ;-...4..o Pm
New Orleans. V. Kountz....5 pm.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river is about stationary here, with
scant eight feet below and seven and q
half feet above to Cairo, where yesterday
a rise of three inches was reported. A
decline is reported at st. Louis and all
points above. The Ohio is rising at
Evansville and Louisville, with three feet
over the falls at the latter place, and is
also rising at Cincinnati, with over twelve
feet in the channel. Between there and
Pittsburg it is rising at some points and
falling at others. At Pittsburg there is
six feet ten inches in the channel, and
the water is falling. The Cumberland is
rising, and has been for some days, there
being over three feet on Harpeth shoals.
White river has four feet to DevalPs
Bluff, and is stationary. The Arkansas is
on another bender, having risen four and
a half feet yesterday and last night at
Little Rock. Business is moderate, with
a fair list of arrivals and departures
since yesterday. The weather was
cloudy and dark early in the day, but
cleared off toward noon. f'
All the steamers due this morning
were detained by the dense fog. The
A. j. White will leave positively this
evening, as also will the Walt and other
packets advertised.
The Holston, Wauanita and Belfast
passed Cairo yesterday, en- route South,
The Mary Boyd goes out on Monday
for the Arkansas.
The Mary E. Forsyth will be down to-
day, to leave at pm. for all the lower
landings and all points on Red river as
far up as Jefferson and Shreveport.
Capt. II. H. Symmes is her master, and
j. T. Worthington, agent.
The Carrie V. Kountz, Captain j. G.!
Vanhook, will arrive from below to-day,
and turns back from here, taking cargo
of cotton for New Orleans. The Kountz
is swift sailing steamer, and possesses
all the comforts of first class packet.
Capt. Dick Lightburne is her agent.
The Colorado, Capt Mckee, passes
down to-day for Vicksburg and the
bends. kt $40 sfkFk 4tf
The elegant side-wheel packet A. j.
White will leave at her usual hour this
evening with the u s. mail for Helena
and Friar's Point. George Malone com
mands, and Messrs. Smither, Sharpe and
Fields are her clerks. 80
The new and magnificent r. p. Walt,
Captain Ashford, will back out at 5 PM
this day for all points on White river TO
Augusta, connecting with the Little
Rock train at Devall's Bluff, and with
light-draught steamers for the upper
White and Black rivers. W. T. Butler
and John Smither are her entertaining
clerks. es .aaasH ln l Tarl
The elegant Grand Tower, Captain
Lennox, goes out at pm. to-day for
Cairo and St. Louis. Mr.. Thomas H.
White is her clerk, and Billy Dill her
gentlemanly passenger agent.
A Louisville telegram says the canal
will probably be opened on Monday
next.
The hole in the side of the Emma
Floyd commences just aft of her ring
bolts, and extends back thirty feet, and
from just above her knuckle, ranging
up two and half feet. Her latboard
side is broken off about ten feet forward
Of her cylinder. 30
The Vicksburg Herald Of a recent
date says: "Steamboatmen have any
amount of trouble at Memphis. Not
only are the wharfage taxes exorbitant,
but nearly every boat going out has trou-
bic with crews. Furthermore, coal is
selling at one dollar TO steamers, and
sixty cents per hour is the price of
labor on the leyee."
The Paducah Kentuckian mentions
the arrival of General Weitzel and Col
onel W. E. Merrill Of the Engineer corps
Of the United States army, aud says
Thespecial mission Of these gentlemen
to Paducah was TO make some investiga-
ton in regard TO the proposed bridge
across the Ohio river at this place.
Both gave II as an of hand opinion, az.
ter looking at the proposed crossing,
that it was practicable TO construct the
bridge without materially aAecting steam
boat navigation. 1t is the opinion OF
the two distinguished engineers above
mentioned that both the steamboat and
railroad interests can be accommodated
BY each yielding something. The rail
road must 20 to a certain hiehth with It's
bridge, and the steamboats, can so ar.
range as TO lower their chimneys in
going under the bridge.
An Evansville telegram Of the Isl
says:
The Higbee, with the Eckerfs syphon
raised the Emma Floyd in two hours an
twenty-five minutes from the time 81