Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-11


Edinburg, New Orleans.
St. Francis, st. Francis river.
Thos. III. Allen, Arkansas Il"
Geo. w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Rubicon, ST. Louis.
Edinburg, Cincinnati.
City of Alton, Vicksburg
BOATS IN PORT.
Des Arc, Tnes. II. Allen, George W.
Cheek, St Francis, Gen. Anderson, Belle
Memphis.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The decline continues slowly here and
at Cairo. The river is rising at st.
Louis, with less than eight feet to Cairo
and FIVE feet to Quincy and but thirty
inches over the Keokuk rapids. A slight
rise is reported in the upper Missouri, it
has not, however, made its appearance
at Sioux City yet. The Ohio is rising at
Cincinnati and falling at Pittsburg.
There is no change to report in the Cum
berland or Tennessee, both streams are
falling. The Arkansas is falling steadily
but slowly, and has now but twenty-seven
inches to Pine Bluff and two feet to Lit
tie Rock; above the latter point there is
but fifteen inches to Fort Smith. White
river is getting low, and should the de-
cline continue our regular packets in
that stream will find navigation difficult
before the close of the week. Business
at the levee opens fair for Monday; re-
ceipts are, however, light, and shipments
moderate. The weather is warm, with a
cool breeze from the south.
The Des Arc came in from White river
last night with fair passenger trip. She
returns tomorrow, going through to Au-
gusta.
The Belle Memphis, Capt. Crane in
command, is the regular packet to-day
for Cairo and st. Lonis She leaves the
wharfboat at pm.
The City of Cairo is due from above,
and will leave at 8 pm. to-day for Vicks-
burg and the bends. Capt. Luker is on
the roof, and Charlie Hough presides at
the desk
Notwithstanding the immediate pros
pect of low water and difficult navigation
In the Arkansas, the Memphis and Ar
kansas River Packet Company continue
to send their boats out regularly to that
stream, carrying fieight and passengers
through without delay, To-day the large
and spacious steamer Thomas H. Allen
will depart for all points on that stream,
going through to Little Rock, where she
connects with light draught steamers for
Fort Smith and points along the upper
Arkansas. The Allen carries the United
States mail, has good accommodations,
and is well suited to the trade. She has
all the freight she wants, and will leave
at pm. Ed. Rowland goes in com
mand, and the clever HG,s and waddell
are her secretaries.
Four hundred Chinese laborers ar
rived at Omaha yesterday, and leave
there to-day by river for Chattanooga
They will probably pass through this
city.
The Mary Houston has laid up at New
Albany.
The new steamer Pat Cleburne, built
by the Memphis and Arkansas River
Packet Company for the Memphis and
Little Rock trade, left Cincinnati last
night for this port,
The new hull for the Dexter has been
safely launched. That boat is expected
to be ready for business in thirty days.
The Boaz with tow of empty harges
and another towboat, the name Of which
was not ascertainsd, passed up this
morning.
Notwithstanding the many notice"
posted on our steamers, some passengers
are as careless, in leaving their valuables
lying around loose, as ever A gentle
man lost $3.50 in greenbacks this morn
ing on the Belle Memphis by leaviughis
pocket-book, watch and several articles
of jewelry in his stateroom while he
went to The washroom. The watch, for
tunately, was overlooked by the thief.
Major John d. Adams will, we learn, |
return to this city to-mor1oS. He was
on the Pat CleAarhe when she made her
tsisl "Trip at Cincinnati, and was ex-
tremely well pleased with her in every
respect. The Cleburne will not reach
here before Saturday, as she has eonsid-
erahle freight TO load at Louisville.
The Geo. W. Cheek. Mark Cheek mas
ter, goes ont tomorrow for Helena,
Friar's Point and ell intermediate land
ings She's clipper and has a gallant
crew
Capt f. B. Granger was q passenger
on the Lee on her reOeat trip up He
took passage ON the Idlewild at Cairo
and reached Evansville, having been out
bpt four days, one hour and two min
ntes-the quickest time ever made by .
steamer to that port.
A Cairo dispatch TO q ST. Louis ex-
,hange says the officers of the R. E. Lee
iepounce IS utterly false the report pub
ished that portion of the balkheads
we're taken out Of her hull during me