Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-25
RIVER, BUSINESS. NIscrLLANroua.


hundred and sixty-one bales of cotton.
The Utah came in from St. Louis. She
discharged twenty tons of freight, and
added lot of way freight for below
The weather is clear and warm.
Another heavy fog last night. On the
night previous the A. J. White encoun-
tered the fog bank only twelve miles be-
low the city, about two clock, and laid
up, not being able TO leave the bank
until nearly noon yesterday. The good
looking clerk of the White thinks an
iron steamer, with a sharp prov, would
have had difficulty in cutting her way
through the fog, it was so dense.
The Natchez and Katie are doing
lively cotton business below. Yester-
day the former left Vicksburg with 1910
and the latter with 1900 bales of cotton.
There is chicken pie" in the trade
between this city and Greenville, and it
is strange that some Of our energetic
steamboatmen do not see it. The large
boats below know it, and for that reason
have placed the Mayhower in the trade
$50 rumor says to get away from Mem
phis all the cotton this side Of Napo-
leon, knowing that at points below there
they can control the trade without fear
of opposition. A handsome business
could be done by any enterprising com
mander with a good boat, and it could
be so increased that it would pay the
year round. Who will move in the mat
teri
Work was commenced yesterday upon
the elevator at the foot of Beal street.
Captain Dodge will have it finished in
short meter
Our Union street neighbor, the APP
peal, has a paragraph headed ihusly:
"The Pittsburg Commercial of yester-
day says" This is the only case we
know Of where the mails have beaten
the telegraph.
The lowest point reached at Cairo was
fifty-one feet below the high water of
1867. A rise of eighteen inches is re-
ported in Tennessee river.
The Helena Clarion of Sunday says;
"The river at this point is still falling
olomlp and h,- roaa ouramaut on fha 81 %
inst. was two and half feet below the
low water mark Of last year, and forty
four feet four inches below high water
mark. 1t still lacks some FIVE to seven
feet of the lowest point measured previ-
GUS to the commencement of the general
levee system Of 1852. The river is now
about two feet seven inches lower than
it has been since 1859. 1t is probably
about as low as it will be this season.
The Clarion man is posted on river
matters, and his statement may be relied
upon as correct.
The steamer Matte Bell was sold by
the United States Marshal at Helena on
c. A. Walterhouse bought
her at $lO5.
A water gauge is being put mp at the
store depot at Cairo. A similar con-
trivance here would be of great service,
but the city authorities do not care
enough for the interests of the planters
living below, nor for their patronage, to
spend hundred dollars in the construc-
lion Of water gauge.
John I. McCord, owner and command
or Of the deceased Olive Branch, will
lake charge of the Office Of the st. Louis
and New Orleaus packet Richmond.
The st. Joseph, Captain Corbiu, leaves
lo-dAy at FIVE pm. for Belmont, Cairo
and St Louis, making all the railway
The Utah, Captain VOORHEES,, leaves
io-day at five pm. for Vieksburg and all |
he lower landings She is now at the
wharf boat and will leave promptly as
advertised
The A. j. White was unavoidably de-
aged by fog, and did not arrive in time |
o leave last evening, but will positively |
cave this evening at four pm. for Hell |
ma, Friars Point, Napoleon and all the |
ray landings.
FUSEY.-Mondays Cincinnati En-
Iuirer has the following Several young |
men standing on the corner Of Fifth aud
Vine last evening were exercised over
he fact that Will P. Walker, jr., had led .
me of the fair ladies of Memphis to the
lymeneal altar, last Friday, and hadn't
invited them"
Rates by steamer from St. Louis to
New Orleans are as follows: Flour 81
10, whisky 81 so, pork 81 70, hay zoe,
'Ound freights Coo per 100 pounds.
The Shreveport Republican Of the
9TH gives the following rates Of freight
md passage Down freighis--coiton, s.
yer bale; up freights-three old card
ates; oattle-S7 per mixed lots pas
age, $50 passage per Carter line to St.
.ouis, S35.
The wreck Of the Virginia has been
.bandoned as a total loss.
The crossing from the Mississippi into
he Ohio is becoming troublesome TO
many pilots. The channel depth is
over down by more than boats length |
han IL was q month ago, and nearly all /
pilots try 10 cross too high up.
A Washington telegram Of the 23d |
says: The Supervising Inspectors Of