Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-05

VIII be taken Dy tnem DeIWeeh ~. Louis
and Cairo until further notice. No ar
rivals or departures today,
CAIRO, December A. -Departed-Nick
Longworth for New Orleans, 2 pm.
Idlewild for Evansville, 3 pm. Very
little ice running in the Mississippi to-
night. There are indications of gorge
above. The river has fallen one foot
Weather clear and very cold. Their
mometer g. at daylight.
EVANSVILLE, December 4.-Clear and
cold to-day. Thermometer l3'. River
fell six inches. Port list-Fayette, to
Henderson and return; Tarascon, to
Louisville; Shannon, New Orleans to
Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, December 4.-River sta
tionary; FIVE feet in the canal, three in
the chute. Very cold this morning.
Thermometer l20 at 6 am; l30 at 5p,m.
Arrived Charmer, from Evansville; \.
c. Gray and Alaska, from Cincinnati.
Departed = Alaska, for New Orleans;
Charmer, for Cincinnati.
VIcKsBURG, December down yes
terday-Chas. Bodmann, Belle Vernon
Il
ney and Belfast. The Mary Alice and
barges passed up. Weather clear apt
cool. River rising,
New ORLEANS, Dec. 4--Arrlyed-Bls
marck and Mollie Moore, from st. Louis;
Emma Elliott, Mary Houston and Poto-
mac, from Louisville; San Juan, from
Pittsburg. Departed-James Howard,
for St. Louis Thermometer 450.
The Belle St. Louis, from Vicksburg
brought in 81 bales cotton and 6f0 sacks
sped,
The A. J. White came in last night
with 81 bales cotton and 36l sacks seed
Her negro rousters jumped her here.
The towboat Mohawk and barges
passed up this morning.
The new steamer John +. Tolle ar
rived this morning from Pittsburg, ten
days out. She discharged forty tons oil
freight here, and was drawing seven and
. half feet.
Yesterday was the coolest of the
season at Little Rock.
The Legal Tender goes out at five
pm. to-day for White river.
The Robert Burns will depart to-mor-
row evening for Louisville and Cinein-
natl.
The excellent steamer A. J. White,
Captain George Malone, leaves to-day at
FIVE pm. for Napoleon and all way
landings. Mr.. B. P. Fields is clerk.
The good steamer G. W. Cheek, with
Mark Cheek on the roof, leaves to-day
at five pm. for Friar's Point and the
coast landings. F. S. Gonterman, l..
W. Briggs aad NJ. Downs are her
clerks.
The St. Francis, Captain T. R. Bow
man, leaves to-day at five pm. for
Phillips Bayou and all points on st.
Francis river. S. C. Paine, Billy Dean
and Andy Granger are her clerks.
"Old Pennsylvania" alias Captain
Blake, will back out that elegant pas
senger and freight steamer Belle st.
Louis at FIVE pm. to-day for Belmont
and Cairo.
Navigation at St. Louis is suspended,
both above and below,
At the Junction OF the Little Rock
railroad and White river there is located
small village yclept by the Appeal
Devils Bluff" for which amusement
and discouraging the visit of the Grand
Duke the entire editorial staff of the
Appeal are forever condemned to pur
gatory by the Devils Bluff Journal
There will not probably be more thar
eleven candidates for wharfmaster a
the coming election.
The Dardanelle arrived from Arkan
sas with l72 bales Of cotton. She picke'
up tree at South Bend, seventy-hv'
miles above the bend, which tore away I
portion of her boiler deck, and knocked
overheard one chimney.
Our river kilograms gives q gloomy
prospect Of steamboating for SOM
months to come.
The steamboatmen's meeting will b
held this evening, when an organization
should be effected similar to those il
other cities.
Sundays St. Louis Democrat says
The lines of New Orleans steamer
will make fresh arrangements with TIL
/ Iron Mountain railroad, Belmont to b.
the point of junction. 1t is impossible
to foretell, but there is a decided opin
ion entertained that navigation hence L
the South will not be interrupted By
ice this year. This result is to b
brought about by the resistance Of thu
bridge piers causing the final and low
est ice gorge Of the Mississippi to form
there"
The new wharfage ordinance recently
adopted at Louisville provides for a re
daction Of twenty-five per cent for th'
larger steamboats,, but not so much ioI
the simpler oraA-
The si.amer Darling was tied up By
the United Sates Marshal At Cincinnati
FOR debt Mr.. Robert Jones, engine
I t..sI1.- l. the ulafuffH