Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-11
Marble City, Sc Louis.
DEPARTURES.


BOATS IN PORT.
Gen. Anderson, Silver Moon, I Eckert
st. Francis, Dardanelle, George W. Cheek
Marble City.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river rose three inches in the past TWEEN
ty-four hours, and is now but two feet SIX
inches below high water mark of 1867. Tn,
latest advices from above report a check in
the rise at Cairo. and a decline at st. Louis
while the Upper Mississippi is again rising
with food coming out of its tributaries. The
Missouri, too, is reported rising at St. Joseph
and above, but the extent of the rise is not
given, The Ohio is falling from Pittsburg tC
its mouth, as also are the Cumberland and
Tennessee rivers. The Arkansas is very low
and falling-the latest dispatches from Little
Rock report thirty inches below Little Rock
and eighteen inches to Fort Smith. White
river has moderate stage to Jacksonport
and is stationary.
Business on the levee this morning was fairly
active.
Weather warm and pleasant.
The elegant and commodious steamer Oar
danelle, Bowlin master, will leave this even
ing for Pine Bluff, Little Rock, and all points
on the Arkansas. The Dardanelle carries the
U: S. mail, and is bound, therefore, to go
through on time. Geo. A. Ditton is her pqpn-
lar clerk.
The R. E. Lee passed up last atght, and the
Leonidas down.
The Belle Memphis came in this morning
from st. Louis with an assorted cargo. She
returns this evening.
A Little Rock paper, of the 4th, says one Of
the barges laden With railroad iron, in tow of
the Celeste, was sunk twelve miles below Pine
Bluff the day previous.
An Omaha paper of a recent date says for
two days the bank on the Iowa shore, opposite
that city. has been rapidly caving in, and
some sixty feet have been washed away. If
the water continues for many days at its pres
ent hight. il will become serious question
where the ferryboats may effect a landing.
About Bottoms of hold" freight was thrown
overheard from the Richmond to enable the
carpenter and crew to stop the leakage, which
was caused by her striking against the bank.
She had about 1900 tons of freight aboard, aAd
was not near loaded to her capacity, The
pilots state that she handled we'll. as gene
raj thing, but at the time of the disaster, in
making the crossing at the bend, her nose got
into shallow water and she became unmanage-
able.
The Mississippi is open ftola the head of
Lake Pepin to St, Anthony Falls, and in all
probability navigation through the Lake has
been resumed ere this.
The ST. Paul Press. of the 5th, says the Min
nesota is out Of its banks at Carver and
Chaska.
A rumor was current that the wheat ware
house Of Commodore Davidson, at Mankato,
had been undermined on one side. and that
40 900 bushels Of whesi had slid into the river
The Press adas. however. that it is probable
that this rumor grew out Of the reported I'M
derming Of Shabut's wheat warehouse at that
point.
The Hercules. with a tow Of 10000 bushels
Of coal for Vieksburg. passed over the falls At
Louisville Friday.
The stock $4,000 Of w Evansville and
Tennessee Packet CamFanSes all taken.
A nearo man and woman. who took passage
on the Golden Era. in August. ISIS. from Gal
lipolis to Cincinnati. brought suit for 5000
damages for ill-treatment. alleging that they
were denied a state-room in the ladies' cabin
and were compelled 10 eat az the last table.
The trial ended on Thursday, before Judge