Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-21
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.


81. Louis. City Of Alton...--..5 pm
Shawnee Village..aOil City.......,-.........4 pm
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river is rising at Vicksburg, sta
tionary at this port, rising at Cairo, and
stationary at st. Louis, with ten feet
water between the two last named points
A decline has set in at Quincy and
above. The Missouri is improving from
the effects of the rise below and above
Kansas City. The Ohio is declining al
the way up, with but three and,a hal
feet of water over the bars between
Evansville and Louisville, twenty inches
in the chute at Louisville, seven and 9
half feet in the channel at Cincinnati
and sixteen inches at Pittsburg. White
river has FIVE feet to Devall's Bluff and
four feet thence to Augusta. Business
at the levee to-day is active, considering
the limited number of arrivals. Weather
clear and warm.
The Arkansas river had risen one foot
up to noon to-day, at Little Rock and
continued to rise slowly. The Pat Gle
burne left that port for this city, and the
j. S. Durham left for Fort Smith this
morning, both having good trips.
A shooting ARRAY occurred on Front
street this morning. The particulars
will be found in our local columns.
The Jennie Howell passed up this
morning, with 100 sacks of salt for st.
Louis. One of her cylinders burst when
a few miles above Helena, doing no seri-
GUS damage, however.
The R. p Walt comes to the landing
to-day to load for White river, leaving
on Saturday next. She looks as neat
as she did when she first made her APP
pearance here.
The great low pressure steamer Rich
mond, Nat Green, master, will be found
at the levee this evening, and will de-
part at pm. for vicksburg, Natchez
and New Orleans. The Richmond has
been re6tted, refurnished and painted
outside and inside, and is to-day one of
the finest steamers ahoat on Western
waters. She, as well as her officers, has
hosts of friends here, and will without
doubt depart with her cabin crowded.
Cook Creighton is her cashier and John
Langlois chief of the freight depart
ment.
The General Anderson came up from
Friar's Point at noon, with 30 bales new
cotton and 400 sacks cotton seed. Gov.
Alcorn, Of Mississippi, was among her
passengers.
The Richmond had not arrived up to
the hour of our going to press, but was
momentarily expected
The line steamer City of Alton, Car
ter, master, will arrive from below and
depart at pm. for Cairo and st.
Louis, making close connections with
the railroads Carrot Huls and Charlie
Parsons are her clerks,
The Oil City is in port and will leave
as advertised for Shawnee Village and
all way landings at pm. She is the
regular tri-weekly packet in the trade
mentioned and is doing good business.
Captain J. d. Randall is her master.
The U. S. mail steamer Thomas H..
Allen will finish loading her cargo to-
day and depart at pm. for all land
ings on the Arkansas as far up as Little
Rock, where she connects with light
draught steamers for Van Buren, and
Fort Smith. Freight shipped on her
for points above Little Rock will go
through without delay. Ernest Wal
worth, Alex Waddell and Charlie Mus
sellman do the honors of the Office.
Mondays New Orleans Times says :
The latest accounts from Red and
0uachita rivers are to the effect that
both of those tributaries are still having
downward tendency, and it may be
many weeks hence before there will be
any improvement in either. Many of
our Red river packets experience great
trouble at the mouth of Red river in
getting astride of the bar, there being
but three feet of water In view of
trouble experienced in navigation, pack
cts for Red river have advanced the rate
for the present week to high water card
rates, with nothing off, or, in other
words, no rebate,
The Riohmond's Headlight will, as
usual, illuminate the cities and towns
along the Mississippi this season. George
Negus continues his position as editor.
The towboat Jonas Powell, while pick
ing up her tow last Friday, at Clifton,
sunk aatboat containing $50 barrels Of
salt which had been loaded at Newcastle
Furnace, for Ed. Grant, of Cincinnati.
The salt, valued at about 5000, is total
loss, which will fall on the boat.
-Four companies of U. s. troops, re-
Gently stationed at the barracks below
New Orleans, have been sent to Ship
Island for healthier quarters.
New Orleans rates were weak at St
Louis yesterday. Flour was taken al
SOC. and pound freight at Csc. per 100
Messrs. Fowler and Lee, of Paducah
have purchased the machinery of tbs
steamer Rapidan, and have in oOntem
plation the building Of new boat, fol
the Cairo and Paducah packet trade
The new boat is expected to be out abou
the LIST Of January,
The work of putting in the machiner!
in the new Memphis and st. Louis packe
City of Chester, is being prosecuted Will
great vigor at st. Louis. She will hav'
the machinery Of the old Hannibal City
but put in magnificent order.
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