Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-02

! RubicOn, st Louis;
ii Groesbeck, Cincinnati.
BOATS IN PORT.
/ Robt Burns. Geo W Cheek, Gen Anderson.
/ ST Francis, Legal Tender, Belle Memphis,
Mary Boyd,
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
/ The river at this point has risen inches
since Saturday, and is now rising, but SO slow
ly that the rise is hardly perceptible and will,
no doubt, come to stand before tomorrow.
1t is now feet II inches below the high water
mark of 1867. The rise has been checked at
Cairo, where it was stationary yesterday, and
will commence to decline to-day. At St.
Louis it is also stationary, and p feet inches
above low water mark of 1868. The Missouri's
bed is showing itself in many places between
st. Joseph and Omaha, and navigation be-
tween those points is becoming difficult The
Illinois and Upper Mississippi are falling.
The Ohio is declining rapidly all the way up
to Pittsburg and had yesterday but feet in
the canal and feet over the falls at Louis
vile, and y feet in the channel at Cincinnati,
White river has a good boating stage to Jack
sonport. The Arkansas has a rise of 8 feet at
Little Rock, and foot rise at Fort Smith.
to let out all foreign boats that have gone
above Little Rock.
Business on the levee this morning was dull.
and confined exclusively to discharging the
boats that arrived yesterday and last night.
The weather is hot, with a faint breeze stir
ring.
The Legal Tender and Geo. W. Cheek ar
rived last night, both having fair trips. The
former returns to White river, and the latter
to Friar's Point tomorrow.
The St. Joseph, C. b. Church, Forsyth, and
the towboat Boaz are due from above, and the
Alaska and Ida Norvel from below.
The Mary Boyd has her flag up for the Ar
kansas, and will depart for that stream at s
o'clock carrying the United States. The Boyd
is new, eommodious and built for the Arkan-
sas trade. Passengers and shippers may be
assured of quick time. ms she is one Of the
fastest going crafts running to this port. Cant.
Reub. Haines goes out in command, and
Messrs. Outlaw and Shields are the accommo-
dating clerks.
We understand that the proprietors of the
ST. Louis Republican have requested Mr..
Lyons to resume charge Of the river column
of that paper.
The Eau Claire Free Press reports jam
above Chippewa Falls. containing freu forty
to fifty million feet of logs, ana likely to in
crease, II is over mile IN length, and from
nfteen to forty feet thick.
The remains Of Downard. who was accident
ally killed here on the 7. T. Eekert a few DAYS
since, were inferred at Coyington, Ky, ON
Friday last.
On last Thursday nigkt the fsFaseoR struck
her wheel on log, just above Newburg, broke
her starboard plummer block. threw her shaft
out Of the journal and broke her wheel badly.
The Commissioners selected for the purpose
have appraised the Quiokstep at s2iOoO. at
ghleA price she will be put in the Evansville.
Cairo and Memphis Packet Company.
A deekhand on the hatcher was shot By the
second mate on the up trip Of that beat
week ago yesterday, Ths deekhand was
caught iryiAs "a apeR box not belonging to
MIN, and upon the mate attempting to arrest /
him. drew his cotton hook and showed fight. I
The mate drew a small Smith 4 Wesson's pis- /
tol and fired two shots above his head. This I
failing to intimidate him he fred tive saass at /
his body, one hitting hin eR she collar bone
and the other "A he thigh. Both wounds were 4
siiEht. but sufficient to impress the deckhand 4
with the belief that the mate was in earnest.