Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-17

DEPARTURES.


Fanny Brandies, sallie ", Ozark. Mary
Boyd.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
GAS WoRKs-MEMPHIs, March l6, 1870.
River fell inches in the past twenty-four
hours. 1t stood below high water mark of
1861, II feet, inches this morning.
CHAs. GOODWIN,
Superintendent Gas Works.
The river at this point continues to decline.
as will be seen by the above report. while at
Cairo and st. Louis it is again rising, with all
the water needed for the largest boats between
those points. The Ohio is falling at Pittsburg;
rising at Cincinnati, and falling at Louisville.
with ten feet in the canal at the latter point.
Business on the levee this morning was any
thing but animated, with but limited num-
Der of boats discharging or loading.
The Groesbeck is coming down with her
hurricane piled full of agricultural imple-
ments.
The Belle st. Louis, Julia, st. Joseph and
Minneola are due from above.
The regular Thursday White river packet
to-day is the Ozark. She backs out at 5 pm.
for Jacksonport and all intermediate landings,
taking the place of the Caldwell. Riley Kin
man is her master, and Carrot lIuls will be
found at the desk.
The new steamer Mary Boyd is the Arkan-
sas river packet for tomorrow.
The United States mail steamer George W.
Cheek will depart this evening for Friar's
Point, and makes all the way landings. Capt.
Malone commands. while Barney Barinds and
Charley Jackson do the agreeable in the office.
violent wind and snow storm, lasting from
one until FIVE pm, was experienced at Gin
cinnati Tuesday. 1t came up so suddenly as
to cause the steamer Wren to swing around
and strike with great force the stern of the
General Buell., tearing away a portion of the
wheelhouse and cookhouse of the former, but
not injuring the latter. Several large hawsers
were parted at the levee at Cincinnati during
the gale, and the regular packets were detained
thereby.
Yesterdays St. Louis Republican says the
sudden change in the weather has completely
upset business, and that on Tuesday there was
a marked decline in shipments to all points.
To New Orleans there is not the activity dis
played which was expected at the close Of last
week; and to the upper rivers there
is no spirit to ship until the weather
becomes more settled. Following this the same
paper says Captain John B. Davis contem-
plates placing the steamers Liberty and Com
mercial in the Louisville and White river
trade, Withdrawing them from Memphis.
We have no coal supply tug here now. Boats
are obliged to land at the coal-yard above
town to obtain them. tug now in course of
repair, and the Little Giant, will be ready for
work in a few days, when the old system of
landing barges alongside Of steamers at the
wharf will be renewed.
Capt. Boardman and brother. and Capt.
Pittsfeld, of New Orleans, are at Cincinnati.
where they contemplate contracting for a new
steamer for the Red river trade, the hull to be
constructed of iron.
The Annie Laurie, while making landing
Sunday evening. at Rome, Ohio, was caught
in a gale Of wind and blown against the wharf
boat as to cause it TO sink in a short time.
The Ida Refs leaves st. Louis for the noun
tains on the 18th of this month, instead Of
April.
The Memphis and st. Louis Packet Com |
pany have contracted for another steamer of /
large dimensions, and it is calculated that she /
will be a very fast boat. She will have a full /
length cabin and all the modern steamboat
Letherbury, at Cincinnati. is building two I
immense barges for Mississippi Valley Trans
portation Company.
Major John d. Adams. President Of the 1
Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Com
pany. arrived yesterday from New Orleans.
where he has been for some days.
A Rock Island dispatch to the LEDsrE says 4
that sam. Lynch. the notorious rinEleader Of /
the riot on the steamer nsbaque some months /
since. has been captured in Arkansas.
The following are special dispatches to the
LKDGER.
ST. LouIs. March i7.-Auived; Rob Roy.
Mary Forsyth. N. J, Wieks. City Of Cairo.
Departed Civ " Cairo. City Of Alton and
Absehh, TIE river Is freeIine hard, and nav
igation Is nearly suspended,
CIScISSkrI, March f.-Auivsl; Lawrence
and Alice Dcsa. fhe river is risins. with .
feet 2 inches in the channel.