Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-27
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.

RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
| The river at this point is falling, and is now
about nineteen feet below high water mark Of
1867. The Ohio is rising at Louisville and ut
Cairo. but falling at Cincinnati. The Cum
berland is swelling. with eight and half feet
on Harpeth. The Mississippi at st. Louis
is stationary but the Upper Mississippi is
rising. The lumber regions between st. Croix
and the Mississippi are inundated and large
volume of water is pouring out. The Arkan-
sas is rising again; it went up five feet last
night at Little Rock. We have no later news
from White river. The weather is clear and
pleasant and business on the levee is slack.
The United States mail steamer X. P. Walt
goes out Saturday for all landings on White
river. She is the regular Saturday packet.
The A. j. White gets away tomorrow even
ing for Napoleon and all way landings.
The Phil Allin leaves tomorrow for Friar' S
Point and intermediate landings.
The City of Chester, Captain Alex. Zeigler,
with j. w. Baskette in the office. leaves to-
day for Cairo and St. Louis.
The Alice Dean has laid up at Cincinnati.
Captain Skunk, Of the Robert Burns, will
probably resign his position on arrival at Gin
cinnati.
As yet few steamboatmen have attended the
races. They will all be there tomorrow and
next day.
The Julia, Captain Tom Townsend, with
our townsman Jimmy Thompson in the office,
passes down this evening for Vicksburg and
tho bends. She carries the United States mail.
The beautiful Belle Lee will pass down this
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Passengers will find her one of the most ele-
CANT packets on the river. Captain j. Frank
Hicks is master, and John S. Sullivan is the
popular chief secretary.
The A. j. White came in with sixty-two
bales of cotton.
The MARITIME, from 0sceola, brought in
twenty-five bales of cotton, twenty-five sacks
Of cotton and three hundred and sixty-four
sacks of seed.
The Pat Cleburne came in from the Arkan-
sas with thirty-six bales of cotton and two
hundred sacks Of seed.
The towboat Grand Lake passed up with
barges.
The X. @. Wilson passed down with tow of
salt.
B. p. Field, ESQ.,, is again in town. He
has been plying between New Albany and
White river. but will probably accept posi-
ton in the Office of one of our local packets.
Tho r. C. Gray came in yesterday from the
Arkansas. She brought 2S4 bales cotton for
the Ohio and added 500 here.
The tow-boat j. II. Bigley passed down last
evening. She left seven barges of coal for
Bigley, Mellersh & Co., of this place.
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with coal.
The Mary Houston passed up. She was
four days out, and put off hero 142 boxes
] lemons, So barrels molasses. 25 hogsheads
sugar and lot of miscellaneous merchandise.
She added here 81 bales cotton.
The Kate Kinney passed up. four days out
from New Orleans. She had 1900 bars railroad
iron for the Ohio.
The Glasgow passed down. She put off IS
packages furniture.
Capt. John V. johnson, formerly planter
of the Ouaehita country. and boat COM
mander on that stream. has become connected
with the Northwestern Union Packet Com
pany rs Assistant Superintendent. st. Louis.
The steamer Lumberman made trip from
Oshkosh to Prairie du Chen, via the Fox and
Wisconsin rivers, in sixty hours. She found
good water the whole route. Should canal
communication be opened to the lakes. this
will form an important water Communication
from the Mississippi river to the East.
The tugboats Aspinwall and Admiral, while
racing on the river at New Orleans on Tues
day, ran into the harbOr police boat, knock
ing it to pieces and killing Officer Douglass.
The three other officers were saved by swim
ming TO shore.
Captain james II. Peppers new steamer. in
addition to fine model and good power, is
to have the finest cabin ever constructed on
the Western or Southern waters.
A correspondent writing from Louisville to
the Cincinnati Commercial says:
Among the noticeable matters here is the
cOllapsing tby hydr0static test Of one Of the
hues Of che boilers on the new Missouri packet
Capital City. The fues were made in Eng
land, and are termed drawn flues, being made
in similar manner to gas pipes. The thick
ness of the iron, doubtless, was intended to
be One-fourth Of an inch. but is only so in
spots. / looked at pieces only thres-Eixteenths
Of an inch thick. The materiali is villainOus
compound for such n purpose. and the In
spectOrs did right in condemning them as IN
safe boilers. The test applied was two hun
bred pounds, and in fattening the tue also
split. Capt. j. Stutt Neal has been carrying
an idea for some time. and has elucidated il
on the Capital City. lie holds that better
combustion can be obtained than has hereto
fore been done in the furnaces Of steamboat
boilers. His plan is to wall across the fur
naces at the after end Of the crate bars, hav-
ing the throat on the same level with the
crate bars. instead, as is usually done, at the
bridge wall. He had tile made TO put in
and around the circle Of the boilers. These
are supported BY column Of brick say eight
inches long, between each boiler. The rest Of
the space 4 open, giving about the same open
ing usually found on bridge walls. Immedi-
ately abaft Of the wall b the usual slope
found in breaks Of fre-bcds. This be makes
n combustion chamber 70 consume the gases
which have len the crate bars, and usually
find their exit through the chimneys. / am
told that the trial was hatterinE, and would
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