Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-25


Boyd, Fanny Brandeis, st. Francis, Geo.
W. Cheek.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Evansville. ...-,..... Commercial. pm.
Arkansas river......-M MARI Boyd...-...-....5 pm.
Red INSTRUMENTATION Bow........4 pm.
Mar1ana. ......St. Francis. .........o y IN.
st. Louis Marble City.........5 pm.
Vicksburg ..........-City of Alton. pm.
MISCELLANEOUS, RIVER, BUSINESS.
The river is declining slowly here and
at Cairo, but is about stationary at st.
Louis, with but five and one-nalf feet Of
water below and FIVE feet above the last
named point. The Missouri is very low,
and difficult to navigate above Kansas
City. The Ohio is falling slowly at Ev-
ansville, but is stationary at Louisville
and Cincinnati, and rising rapidly at
Pittsburg from the effects of the recent
heavy rain and snow storms along its
upper tributaries. The prospects for a
coal-boat rise are Aatteripg. Cincinnati
steamboatmen even anticipate fifteen
foot rise at Pittsburg, which, with the
rise now coming out of the other tribH-
taries of the Ohio, will enable resump-
ton of navigation from Cincinnati South.
White river is stationary, with four feet
to Devall's Bluff, and three and one-half
feet to Augusta. The Arkansas is also
stationary, with five feet scant to Pine
Bluff, and four feet thence to Little
Rock. Business at the levee is quiet,
with few arrivals or departures. Weather
clear and cool. A heavy fog settled upon
the river last night which will doubt
less delay the boats due several hours.
The Sallie is loading at st. Louis for
the Arkansas.
The City of Vicksburg, on her last trip,
made ninety landings between st. Louis
and Vicksburg, and loon her way back.
Thursdays st. Louis Democrat says:
THE Olive Branch was, and may be still
pretty hard aground at the head of Lib
erty Island, when the Grand Tower
passed up, and was drawing seven feet
water. Her second clerk had gone to
Chester for ferryboat.
Capt. Sam Taylor, a well-known White
river steamboatman, died at Des Arc, Ar
kansas, on Thursday last.
The J. S. Durham leaves Little Rock
to-day for New Orleans.
The R. P. Walt goes out tomorrow for
all points ON White river.
Wednesdays Louisville Commercial
contains the following:
Boats are paying 81 per box for coal
at Memphis, and five do not have a rain
soon the price will advance, as coal is
becoming very scarce in that market.
There il party here buying and ship
ping coal by rail to Memphis. Steamers
on their downward trip had better take
coal enough at ShotwelPs, or some of the
mines on the lower part of the river, to
run them back to the Ohio. A further
advance would make coal as good freight
as they can carry.
The Dexter has gone to st. Louis to
load
The following boats passed Cairo
Wednesday, en- route South: j. N. KEEL
logg, Post Boy, c. B. Church, Mary
Miller.
Capt. James W. Bachelor has ordered |
the wrecking steamer 7. F. Eckert to
proceed from Paducah to Evansville, to
work uponth City of Evansville, burned |
ON Monday morning.
There is less than six feet of water be-
tween Cairo and st. Louis. The NJ. ].
Wicks went into St. Louis Wednesday
evening drawing only five and half feet,
and yet she rubbed several times between
Cairo and that port
Yesterdays St. Louis Times has it that
Commodore Thompson Dean had a mar
row escape from death by a railroad ac-
cident while on his recent trip to this
city.
Captain David L. Sedan, of the Bel
fast, has sued Captain Cannon of the
Lee for $500 damages. 1t seems that
Captain Cannon made a contract with
Captain Sedan by which the Belfast was
to carry the Lees freight on a specified
day, and the petitioner claims that the
terms of the contract have not been full
filed. r1
The Anna, Capt Frank Stein, will be
in port, to leave tomorrow evening for
Cairo, Evansville and Louisville.
The Marble City leaves at pm. to-
day for Cairo and St. Louis.
The City of Alton will be down to-day,
and departs at 5 pm. for yicksburg and
the bends
Capt. Larry Harmstad informs us
that in view of the present rise in the
Ohio river he will now sign bills of lading
through to Cincinnati
At last accounts the City of Quincy
was aground on French Island bar.
An Evansville telegram of the 22d
says: Captain Jack Grammer, Ad-
miral Nisbit and John S. Hopkins,
Treasurer of the Evansville and Cairo
and Memphis Packet Company, leave
tonight and tomorrow morning to con-
tract for new boat to be put in the
place Of the City Of Evansville.
Capt. W. B. Lanier, a veteran steam
boatman, paid us a visit this morning,
and states that il is his intention to again
place boat in the Hatchie river trade.