Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-03

three feet scant in the chute, and six
feet over Portland bar, and is falling
slowly at Cincinnati. The Cumberland
is declining rapidly. White river has a
good boating stage to Augusta, and three
feet above there. The Arkansas is
again declining, with nearly five feet to
Pine Bluff. Business at the leyee is
active. Weather clear and pleasant.
The champion steamer Of the West,
r. L. Lee, will arrive to-day from above,
and depart at pm. for Vicksburg,
Natchez and New Orleans. She will
doubtless receive numerous visits while
at our landing, as the solid silver tea
set, presented Captain Cannon by his
Louisville friends, is something Of an at
traction, and the fact Of the boat itself
being the fastest steamer on the West
ern waters, is still greater one. Cap
tain Cannon, the veteran, commands,
and A. Martin is her Secretary.
The Memphis and Arkansas river
Packet Company new side-wheel steam
err Pat Cleburne, Reese Pritchard, mas
ter, and W. I. Butler, clerk, goes out at
pm. to-day for all points on White
river, connecting at Devall's Bluff with
the Little Rock train, and at Augusta
with light-draught steamers for upper
White and Black rivers.
r. W. Lightburne, agent, has tele
gram this morning from Capt. Entriken,
stating the new and swift steamer Susie
Silver will arrive tomorrow morning,
and depart at 10 o clock am. for Vicks-
burg, Natchez and New Orleans. Capt.
Lightburne will receive freight up to the
hour of her arrival, and will also give
any information regarding passage, etc,
The Thomas II. Allen goes out on
Monday evening next, for all points on
the Arkansas. Clay Rice goes in com
mand.
The new and elegant Friar's Point
packet A. ]. White, Geo. Malone COM
handing, departs at five pm. this day
for Friar's Point, Helena, and all inter
mediate landings.
The Carter Line steamer r. j. Lock-
wood, Capt. Jas. Coghill and Jos. Widen,
clerk, will arrive to-day from st. Louis,
and departs at six pm for Shreveport,
jefferson and all intermediate landings
on Red river and the Mississippi. j. T.
Washington, agent, No. AZ Madison
street. will give all information regard
ing freight or passage.
The Grand Tower, Capt. Lennox, will
depart at FIVE pm. this day, for Cairo
and st. Louis.
The City of Vicksburg, Conway, mas
ter, will arrive from above to-day and
depart at five pm. for Vieksburg and
the bends. l
Ed, Corhen, well known river clerk,
fell overheard from the steamer Fleet
wood, near Chic, last Saturday, and was
drowned before assistance could reach
him. He leaves a widow and several
children.
The Carrie Y. Kountz passed up last
night for 81. Louis, where she will have
caulked some of the seams opened by
her long exposure while high and dry
on Island IS.
All the insurance there was on the
David Watts, which sunk at Price S
Landing last Saturday night, was placed
in Cincinnati, as follows; National,
$1,000 Eureka, $4,000; Crescent, $1,000;
Union, $1,000; total, $4,000.
New Orleans papers state that John
Clarke swan the Mississippi river at the
head of First street, a few days since, in
eleven and half minutes,
A Pittsburg telegram states that the
hull for n. j. Bigleys new boat has ar
rived. 1t will be called J. II. Bigley.
Captains Maratta and Ransom are near
Pittsburg, looking about the boat yards
up the Monongahela, with a view of con-
tracing for a couple of hulls for cotton
boats.
On the last trip up deck passenger
named William Fogarty fell from the
Tom Reese, and was drowned.
A New Albany telegram states that
the wharfmaster has ordered the idle
boats at Portland landing to be removed,
as they cause the sand to fill in so that
boats can scarcely effect a landing.
The same dispatch states that freights
for Memphis and New Orleans are accu-
mulating rapidly.
Major Adams, President Of the Mem
phis and Arkansas River Packet Com
pany, says he knows nothing Of the re-
port circulated by the St Louis papers
that he would soon place the Mart Walt,
Pat Cleburne and Legal Tender in the
st. Louis and Arkansas river trade.
Yesterdays St Louis Democrat says
"the stage Of the water has slightly i'm
proved to Cairo. Good barges sre in de-