Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-07-31

there is but five feet, and at Pittsburg
but thirty inches. The Missouri and up
per Mississippi are falling gradually
and are even now down to low water
mark. White river has nearly three
feet to Jacksonport, and the Arkansas
about thirty inches to Little Rock, and
both streams are falling, The weather
is warm, and business only moderate.
A dispatch announcing the sinking Of
the st. Joseph last night above Cairo
will be found in our local columns.
The Batesville viii be here this even
ing to leave tomorrow for White river
The Pauline Carroll will pass down
tomorrow.
The Sallie and J. N. Kellogg are due
from above.
The swift steamer A. J. White, Capt.
Geo. Malone, will depart at 5 pm. with
the United States mail for Helena,
Friar's Point, Napoleon and all way
landings. Barney Barinds is her clerk.
The Lady Lee, Captain Carter, will
arrive during the day, and depart at
o'clock pm. for Jefferson, Shreveport
and all points on Red river and the Mis-
sissippi
The light-draught mail steamer Oar
danelle, Captain Ed. Rowland, will get
away at o'clock this sevening for all
landings on the Arkansas. Messrs.
Walker and Gillespie are clerks.
The U. S. mail steamer Belle St.
Louis, Captain Blake, will pass down
this evening at FIVE o'clock, making all
way landings to Vicksburg. ALI. Girls
som is secretary.
The Belle Memphis, Captain Crane in
command and Banker clerk, is in port
receiving, to leave at five pm. for Cairo
and St. Louis. She has just been over
hauled and painted, outside and inside,
and looks terribly neat
The steamer Maysville is tied up at
Maysville by the sheriff, for debt.
The steamer Armada will be sold at
auction, at Cincinnati, on Saturday
next. Captain DuSouchett is her pres
ent owner.
The Local Inspectors at Louisville
have suspended the license of B. Mathe-.
ney, pilot of the Mollie Ebert, for sixty
days, and that of William Frelingdorf,
pilot of the William Cowan, for thirty
days, for neglecting to attend to a proper
sounding of signals, and thus causing
the collision between the Ebert and
Cowan on April 10th.
The hull of the City of Helena was to
have been launched from Towards
yard, at Jacksonville, on Saturday.
The particulars of frightful steam
boat explosion will be found in our tele-
graphic column.
A friend of ours who came down on
the Belle Memphis this morning de-
clares that Billy Banker is the prince
of steamboat clerks. He also speaks in
the highest terms of Mr.. Tracy, the cap
tain of the cabin, and tells of his new
system of entertaining passengers by
having full string band to discourse
music during meal hours.
The Terre Haute Express says:
The United States engineering party,
under charge of Mr.. Fred. Stein, now
engaged in the survey of the Wabash
river, reached this city last evening on
board the steamer Try U.s. The thorough
examination made by Mr.. Stein, on this
survey, demonstrates the fact that the
river is susceptible of such improve
ment as to make its navigation reliable,
for the greater part of the year, from
this city to its mouth. He is inclined to
the belief that this can be done for
less sum of money than estimated by
him in his preliminary reconnaissance Of
last year. The party leaves to-day in
the direction of Lafayette, where it will
probably arrive by the first of August.
Mr.. STEMS report and estimate will
not be ready to submit for three or four
months.