Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-27

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that stream TO move the vast quantities
Of grain accommodating along its banks
The Ohio is falling at Evansville and
Louisville, with eighteen inches in the
chute at the latter point and rising
slowly at Cincinnati. A decline ia re-
ported at Pittsburg and Wheeling. White
river is getting in bad repute with steam
boatmen; there is barely three feet to
Augusta, and the channel is so narrow
and crooked in places that the packets
have difficulty In getting through. The
Arkansas continues It's rapid decline,
and has to-day twelve feet out from
Little Rock. Business is moderately
active. Weather fair.
Captain Louden, the contractor who
paved the levee several years since, yes
terday obtained from the Second Chan
Gerry Court an injunction restraining
Wharfmaster Goode from paying over to
the city any wharfage moneys collected
by him from steamers until the city shall
have cancelled its obligations to Mr..
Louden for the work done. The amount
due is 1874, 600
The Belle Lee Departed about 9
o'clock last night with 10 cabin and $50
deck passengers, 4s3 bales cotton, 1000
sacks oil cake and fifty tons mscellan-
eous freight, and has engagements that
will fill her out below.
The Jennie Howell discharged yester-
day 224 bales of hay and several lots of
furniture
The Dardanelle came in from the Ar
kansas with 1919 bales of cotton. The
Sallie V. also arrived with 80 bales, 45
sacks cotton, and ia sacks cotton seed.
The Pink Varble came in this morning
from Louisville, and will reship her Ar
kansas river freight here, returning to
Louisville tomorrow evening. She is
light draught packet, and will go over
the shoals in the Ohio without difficulty.
Capt. n, c. Selby is master, and Dick
Fuller clerk.
The City of Chester brought in a good
trip of produce and miscellaneous
freight
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"The early bird, ETC., etc. The Ava
lanche man has recently been in the
habit of rising with the lark and going
to the levee to get the manifests Of all The
steamers arriving during the night
for his next mornings issue, publishing
them for the information of consignees
just twenty-four hours after they had
received their bills of lading. Yester-
day, not finding the usual6 Courtyard man
ifest on the st. Louis wharfhoat, and
seeing copy of the Same in the APP
peal, he event for" that paper strong.
The idea of the Appeal man getting up
early enough to secure the coveted man
ifest is new ope, and we heartily COM
mend his rapidly improving habits,
The Mary Boyd goes out tomorrow
for all points ON the Arkansas, leaving
here at 5 pm.
George Negus, ofthe Richmond Head
light, has our thanks for appreciated
favors.
The Richmond passed up last night for
st. Louis.
That splendid steamer the A. j. White,
George Malone master, will leave this
evening for Helena, Friar's Point and all
way points, carrying the United States
mail, and will undoubtedly 90 heavily
laden with freight and people, as she is
a favorite below. Charley Smithers and
Andy Granger are her clerks.
The Des Arc came in last night with
l3S bales of cotton and 656 sacks of cot
ton seed.
The unsurpassed passenger steamer
Mollie Able arrived last night from
above, and will leave her landing at the
foot of Monroe street at pm. for New
| Orleans and the bends. Henry Carson
| is master, and Ross Powell and j. B.
White clerks.
The regular Carter line Red river
steamer, Silver Bow, will arrive to-day
from above, and departs at pm. for
jefferson, Shreveport, and all way land
ings on Red river and the Mississippi
Capt. T. W. Ray commands. j. T.
Washington is her agent.
Reports from Fort Scott, Kansas, state
that the heavy rains have caused the
streams in the southern counties of Kan
sas to overflow their banks, and are still
rising.
A Knoxville exchange says that on
Thursday the steamer Hugh Martin
broke her crank and blew out both her
cylinder heads. No lives were lost The
remains of the engine are at the Knox
vile Iron Works for repair.
A Little Rock exchange of Monday,
speaking of the Pat Cleburne, says:
Three Of the four bridal chambers are
engaged for this trip, and Jenkins says
he will take the first applicant for the
other one" Two of the couples are from
Little Rock
Capt. Jno. Haggarty, Of Cincinnati, is
very i'll at Put-in-Bay Island, and not ex-
peoted to recover.
New Orleans steamboatmen are said
to be organizing to take the wharfage tax
question into the courts.
Suits have been instituted against the