Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-12
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Belle St. Louis, st. Louis.
I" Susie Silver,
4" Julia,
Gen Anderson, Friar's Point
r. P. Walt, White river
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Belle st. Louis, St. Louis.
" Susie Silver, New Orleans.
Il" Julia, Vicksburg.
BOATS IN PORT.
Gen. Anderson, St. Francis R. P.
Walt, Pat Cleburne.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
C0ntlnental, Louis.
Pat Cleburne. river.
RIVER. BUSINESS. MISCELLANEOUS.
The river continues to rise slowly at
this port, but is declining at Cairo. A
slight rise has set in at st. Louis; not
sufficient, however, to improve naviga-
ton between there and Cairo. The total
rise in the Upper Mississippi, from the
recent rains, was four feet The last
boat over Liberty bar reports 5 feet 3
inches, with the stick" Several boats
are aground there and at Hat Island.
The Missouri has AZ feet to Kansas City
and feet thence to Omaha. Nothing
further has been heard from the reported
rise along the upper portion of that
stream. The Ohio is falling all the way
up. The Arkansas is declining slowly
with % inches below and 16 inches above
Little Rock White river has feet of
water to Augusta and is stationary at
Devalrs Bluff, The weather is warm
and sultry, with no indications of ram.
Business at the wharf is extremely dull,
with limited number of arrivals and
departures,
The towboat Tom Rees, with a tow of
barges, passed down yesterday
The elegant U. s. mail steamer Pat
Cieburne, of the Memphis and Arkansa
river packet line, departs this evening for
Buelah, and all intermediate
landings on the Mississippi. She also
connects at the mouth of White river
with hght-draught steamers for Pine
Bluff, Little Rock, and all landings on
the lower and upper Arkansas. Rees
Pritchard, better known as "old safety,
goes in command, and Messrs. Huls an
Outlaw are clerks.
The r. p Walt came in this mornin
from White river, with about one hun
bred passengers and twenty-five bales of
cotton. She returns tomorrow, goin
through to Augusta. Mr.. Butler, tn
good looking clerk of the Walt, ba s
again placed us under obligations for
favors. I
The George w. Cheek backs out to-
morrow evening for Helena and Friar's
Point,
The Sam J. Hale and Virginia have
laid up at Louisville.
Mr.. w. II. Brown, the coal king of
Pittsburg, has seventeen steamers and
an immense feet of barges running ON
Western rivers, engaged in towing coke
and coal to the towns and cities along
the rivers from Pittsburg to New Or
leans and as far up as ST. Paul.
A Vicksburg exchange says: "We
hear rumors of opposition on an extern
sive scale on the Lower Mississippi this
fall. The Katie and Pargoud will leave
on Thursday for the bends. The Wade
Hampton will run against the Waggoner
The Robert Z. Lee will possibly have a
and still another ian indie
pendent steamer is talked of as putting
in claim for share of the trade.
The abolition of the tonnage tax re-
moves an annual burden Of $ll9,000
from our steamers
One of our Cincinnati exchanges says
that parties who were there some time
ago to contract for iron steamboats, have
let out contracts to different firms for
wooden boats instead, nobody there
being willing TO risk the enterprise.
A ten-foot rise is reported in the Up
per Red river.
Capt. Matt Glass, of this city, is spend
ing few days at St. Louis.
The following boats were at the Port
land wharf Wednesday: Mollie Gratz,
Edinburg, Emma Floyd, Armadillo, R.
C. Gray, Rose Hite, Lorena, Palestine,
Mary Houston, Exchange, Pink Yarble,
Glasgow, Kate Putnam, Argosy and
Minneola. The p. w Strader and Nick
Longworth are lying at New Albany
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