Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-01

ton of the Grand Chain. Below Cairo
there is scant nine feet, above st. Louis
four and half feet 10 Keokuk, and in
the Missouri four feet is the stage re-
ported. The Ohio, too, is down to four
feet below Evansville, and is falling
three inches day. The Arkansas is
falling, with thirty inches below and
twenty-three above Little Rock White
river is falling, with three feet to Jack
sonport. The weather continues clear
and warm. Business is light
The Mary Boyd took out good trip
to the Arkansas last night
The Belle St, Louis arrived last even
ing from above and remained until this
morning. From our morning cotempo-
raries it would be hard matter to deter
mine whether she was going above ore
below. One had her advertised without
a heading, and the other posted her for
st. Louis
The Carrie " Kountz ignores Capt.
Goods wharfage bills, by passing the
city without landing. She did this last
night
The Lady Lee passed down about
dark yesterday, fully laden, for Red
river.
The Sallie, from St. Louis, passed
down for the Arkansas last night with
slim trip.
Eighty persons were killed by the
explosion of the ferry-boat Westfeld, at
New York, on Sunday.
The gay little steamer Geo. W. Cheek,
Capt. Mark Cheek in command, will
leave at FIVE o'clock this evening for
Helena, Friar's Point and the plantation
landings B. P Fields is clerk.
The Batesville will depart at five
o'clock this evening for Devalrs Bluff,
Jacksonport and all other points on
White river. Captain Smith, her com
mander, and Messrs. Postal and Sulli-
van, clerks, are fully posted as to the
wants of the trade, and have made their
boat quite popular along White river.
Capt. Rees Dugan, of the wrecker
Eckert, who went to the St. Joseph yes
terday reports that she will doubtless
be raised, and proceed to Cairo this
morning.
Under the head of river news"
morning contemporary publishes the ar
rivals and departures of ocean steamers
at foreign ports.
The obstruction that sunk the st. Jo-
seph lies in the crossing going from the
corner of Elk Island to Eliza Towhead,
abreast the island above the foot of Cut
bar There is good water fifty hands
from the bar on both sides.
The Argosy that was to have been sold
by the United States Marshal on the sth
sunk few days ago while laying at the
wharf at Batesville.
The underwriters say the Olive Branch
is the most complete wreck of the kind
they ever saw. The boat is not lying on
the obstruction, and it is not 20 be found.
The Virginia came off the ways at Pa
ducah on last Tuesday morning. She
will be ready for business by the 10Th of
August. Her cabin will be extended
fully aft.
The following comprised the cargo of
the Olive Branch: l73 packages and
casks beer, 10 sacks bran, 4l5 sacks
corn, 1913 barrels corn meal, 10 packages
eggs, All barrels -four, l45 bales hay,
65 tierces lard, ia packages tobacco, 6
boxes soap. 81 packages potatoes, l52
barrels pork. $40 sacks oats and 345
packages merchandise, 700 tons in all.
Yesterdays st. Louis Republican
says
The condition of the upper Missis-
sippi is represented as being bad in the
extreme. The Northwest has recently
been visited by tremendous rain storms,
and all the small streams throughout
Nebraska, a portion of Iowa ard Kan
sas, are reported to be very high, doing
much damage to the growing crops,
washing away fences and destroying
bridges. 1t is probable that we shall
have rise in the river here from these
local floods, but we cannot depend on
such a contingency for the permanent
effects produced on the stage of water
in the river. We hear OF nothing of
cheerful character from the upper Mis-
IL l.
up there to raise the water as in the