Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-30

CATION to any great extent, nor will 1t
affect the stage Of the Father Of Waters.
The Ohio is very low from its mouth to
Louisville, with not over three and
half feet on the bars below Evansville,
aud three feet above there to Louisville,
where it is declining slowly, with twenty
inches in the chute. At Cincinnati five
feet is reported in the channel. Heavy
rains have fallen in the mountains of
Virginia and Pennsylvania, along the
head waters of the Ohio and its tribu-
taries, and we may soon expect rise
in that stream. White river is about
stationary, with good stage to Augusta.
The Arkansas is declining as rapidly as
it rose. The total rise at Little Rock
was twelve feet There is to-day four
teen feet in the channel from that point
TO its mouth. Business at the levee is
fairly active. A heavy fog prevailed
upon the river last night, which doub
less compelled several boats due here to
tie up. The weather to-day is clear and
pleasant.
The Jefferson (Texas) Jimplecute, of
recent date, says "The Bayou is
still going down at an accelerated pace.
Prospects are brightning for light
draught boats, there being only 81 feet
scant at Potato Bend" The Times and
Republican of the same date reports
business quite active, and says: Every
boat that reaches Jefferson brings large
.reights The levee has been literally
covered at times, with engines, plows,
wagons, steam boilers, labor-saving ma
chimes, and all kinds of machinery"
The new steamer r. P. Walt is the
regular mail packet for all points on
White river, leaving tomorrow evening.
The fine little steamer Oil City, Cap
tain j. d. Randall, commander, is now
at the levee loading, and will depart at
p. m. for Shawnee Village and all in
termediate landings. NJ. W. Quinlan,
courteous gentleman, presides at the
desk.
The Geo. w. Cheek has been reprinted
and reftted from stem to stern, and is
now one of the finest steamers coming
to this port. She will, this evening,
leave port on her first trip in the Napo-
leon, Beulah and Eunice trade, under
the command of Mark R. Cheek, her
efficient master, and will prove a valu-
able acquisition in that trade. Messrs.
Gonterman and Briggs are the clerks.
The splendid Carter-line steamer r. j.
Lockwood, Captain Coghill command
ing, will arrive from above, and depart
at clock this evening for Shreveport,
Jefferson and all intermediate landings
on the Red and Mississippi rivers. Cap
tain j. T. Washington, agent, No. Al
Madison street, will give all desired in
formation as to freight or passage.
The boilers of the Phil I. Allen were
placed upon that steamer yesterday
Capt. Jim Lee is pushing work upon her,
and intends to have her out at the earliest
possible moment.
Freight from st. Louis to Jefferson,
Texas, are; Flour, 81 25; bacon, 81 per
100 lbs; bagging, 81 % per roll.
The Jefferson (Texas) Times and Re-
publican says: The river is low at this
point, though boats continue to arrive.
The Fontenelle, Julia A. Rudolph, Fla
villa and Lightest have all been at the
wharf this week, making good time in
shallow water. Yesterday the Lotus No.
3, Capt. Dannals, came up. She met
with no difficulty through the lakes, and
was only detained about half an hour at
Potato Bend, pulling round "
The lightning packet Thos. H. Allen,
Capt. Clay Rice master, and Aleck
Waddell and Charlie Mussellman clerks,
will depart this day at pm. for flying
trip to the Arkansas, going through to
Little Rock, where she connects with light
draught steamers for Fort Smith and
points on the upper Arkansas. The
Allen carries the United States mail,
makes all the way landings, and goes
through on time.
The Colorado, Mckee, master, will be
in port to leave at FIVE pm. for Cairo
and ST. Louis, making all railway con-
nections at the points named for the
North and East.
The Commercial will soon enter the
st. Francis trade She is well suited to
thatriver, being ofextreme light draught.
Tuesdays Cincinnati Times says A
dispatch to Captain Pierce, from Rising
Sun, states that the mail boat coming up
could not get over Rising Sun bar and
returned to unload part Of her cargo at
Rising Sun. Freight is accommodating
rapidly and navigation becoming more
difficult. In the event of suspension
of navigation in the Ohio, st. Louis
steamboatmen will endeayor to fill up
that stream and take the trade to St.
Louis.
The skeleton of body, supposed to
be the remains of one of the crew Of the
steamer Cheyenne, burned at the Gin
cinnati landing two years since, was
found at the foot of Sycamore street, in
that city, few days since.
Twenty-three inches is the stage re-
ported over the bars above Cincinnati.
Capt. Sam Jones refused au offer OF
$4,000 for the Emperor,
Up river freights from Cincinnati have
been raised to fifty cents per hundred
pounds, and one dollar and fifty cents is
asked for whisky.
Our energetic young steamboat agent,
Capt. Dick Lightburne, has, as will be
seen by a card in another column, been