Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-12

DEPARTURES.
Steamer Belle Memphis, St. Louis.
Thos. III. Allen, Arkansas river
Gen. Anderson, Friar's Point.
Bismarck, New Orleans.
City of Cairo, Vicksburg.
Henry Ames St Louis.
R. J. Lockwood, Red river.
BOATS IN PORT.
Des Are, St. Francis, Geo. W. Cheek,
St. Joseph, Hesper.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The decline continues at this port and
Cairo, while a rise of two inches is re-
ported at st. Louis, but without CORE
spending rise above there in either the
Mississippi or Missouri The Ohio is
rising slowly at Louisville and Gin
cinnati, and stationary at Pittsburg.
The Cumberland, now noted for its sud-
den changes, is again rising, with AZ feet
on Harpeth Shoals. The decline in the
Arkansas continues at the rate of about
one inch in twenty-four hours. There is
now but twenty-seven inches Of water in
that stream over the shoal places to Pine
Bluff, and twenty-three inches thence to
Little Rock. Above the latter place four
teen inches is the stage reported to Fort
Smith. White river is gradually APP
preaching its summer stage, and has
barely sufficient water to float the regu-
lar packets to Augusta. Business at the
levee this morning was quiet, with light
shipments and lighter receipts. Quite a
refreshing shower fell this morning, lay
ing the dust and cooling the atmosphere.
The Des Arc, Capt. John d. Elliott,
master; Joe Elliott and Arthur Fields,
clerks, is the regular Tuesday United
States mail packet for all points on White
river, leaving this port at 5 pm. She
connects at Devall's Bluff with the train
for Little Rock, and at Augusta with a
light draught steamer for the upper
White and Black rivers. She draws but
little water, and will go through without
delay.
The George W. Cheek is at the wharf,
loading to depart tonight for Helena and
Friar's Point. So regular are her ar
rivals and departures that parties below
having business to attend to here claim
that they are seldom compelled to wait
at landing over ten or fifteen minutes
for her. Frank Gonterman and Charlie
Jackson are her obliging secretaries.
The st. Joseph, Captain Corhitt, is
the regular steamer for Cairo and st.
Louis to-day, and will leave the wharf
boat at pm. Billy Dill, her passenger
agent, will be found at his office ON the
wharfboat, where all information regard
ing connections with Eastern railroads
can be obtained and state-rooms Sc
cured.
The following letter is in reply to a
communication from the President of
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
regarding the closing of the Louisville
canal, and published in the Commercial
of the It'll:
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. July Z, 1870.
"JoHN A. GANo. ESQ.,:
DEAR SIR-The work on the en-
largement of the Louisville and Port
land Canal was subdivided in seven
parts, entirely with the view of having
it done this season if possible, and in
the shortest possible time. The canal
will be closed as advertised, and all the
machinery and men that can be crowded
into the space cannot do the work any
sooner. If | had called for proposals
for the work on condition that the water
in the canal should be drawn off during
any shorter period. the pittance of
$3.50, 900, WHICH seems to be determined
on for the season work, would not have
suficed even to make this excavation,
and even then the canal would have
been virtually closed against everything
but barges by the coffer-dams which the
contractors would have been compelled
to build throughout its whole length,
very truly yours, eto,,
VG. WEITzEL,
" Major Corps. of Engineers and Brevet Major
U. S. A"
From the above it will be seen that
there is no possible chance of the re-
opening of the canal after it Is closed
until the time advertised by General
Weitzel.
The st. Paul Press of the It'll says;
" The river is still falling, and the diff
culties of navigation begin to create a
demand for skill and carefulness in the
pilots. Freight light, but more than the
average of passengers y
Sundays St. Louis Times contains the
A MormoneSs, whose husband is called
Qxley, gave birth to fine male child on
board the steamer Glasgow, at this port,
Friday evening. In honor of her cour-
teous officers the new passenger was
christened William Lamoth Glasgow
0xley.
The Henry Ames passed up this morn
ing with GOO boxes sugar and fair trip
of people. The Bismarck went down
last night with big trip, and the Lock
wood passed down to-day loaded deep.