Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-25
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
METEOROLOGICAL REcoRp.
SIGNAL SERVICE U. s. Army. I
Memphis, April Is, 6.43 IN.
7. j. BROWN, UD5erVer.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
MEMPHIS, TENN. April "a, 1871.

MEMPHIS, TENN. April "a, 1871.
River Editor Ledger:
River fell nineteen inches in past forty
eight hours. Below high water mark of 1867,
seventeen feet three inches. JOHN ZRNr.
At Pittsburg tho Ohio is falling. but it is
rising Mt Cincinnati. stationary at Louisville
and falling at Cairo. The Missouri is low and
falling. but the upper Mississippi is reported
swelling. White and tho Arkansas arc fall
ing. The latter has seven feet to Little Rock
The weather is pleasant but favors rain, and
business on the levee is quiet.
The Potomac is putting off lot of railroad
iron Mt the foot of Market street.
The Leonidas passed down last night.
The IL. NJ. Shreve passed up yesterday from
Red river. She was light.
The C.. d. Church for the Ohio passed up
yesterday evening. She had 100 tons for Gin
cinnati. aa
The towboat Little Alps came in yesterday
from Little Rock with a tow of empty ice
barges.
Ben Clarke was in the city yesterday, and
left for st. Louis.
Tho Legal Tender, Captain Elliott, gets
away this evening for Jacksonport and all
way points on White river. She carries the
U. S. mail and connects with tho Little Rock
train. L. @. Postal, Dan Sullivan and Arthur
Field are her clerks.
The st. Francis, Captain Tom Bowman,
win get away this evening for all landings on
the st. Francis river. Messrs. Paine. Berry
and Clark are her clerks.
The gay steamer M. j. Wicks, Captain
Barnes, with Jim Tchudi in the Office, passes
up this evening at seven o'clock for St. Louis.
Large shipments of evergreens. flowers, etc.,
arc made from this city to Arkansas. Messrs.
Peters & Hatch ship on every packet to Little
Rock, as well as White river. hundreds of
plants.
The Sallie v gets away this evening, to run
in connection with the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad from Devalps Bluff up.
Colonel Gowan, of London, was in the city
yesterday. but left for Little Rock. The
Colonel raised the war vessels sunk in the
harbor Of Sevastopol during the war. lie will,
we believe, address our Chamber Of Com
merce on his return, which will be in few
days.
Mack IIammitt, Of Pine Bluff, left for homo
yesterday on the Mary Boyd. arrayed in pink
kids.
The barkecper Of the Mary Houston, due up
tomorrow Mt ten am, advertises in another
column that he will offer large lot of fruit
on arrival of that boat. Dealers should be on
hand.
The elegant steamer Glencoe will arrive to-
day. and departs at FIVE IN. for Cairo, Louis
vile and all points on the Ohio. She wants a
few hundred bales Of cotton to fill out with.
The splendid steamer Olive Branch. Capt.
j. I. McCord, leaves to-day at six pm. for
Vicksburg and New Orleans.
The Pat Cleburne. Captain Pritchard. leaves
on Friday for the Arkansas.
A new line has been formed at st. Louis.
Five steamers of the line are each to make
what are called eighteen-day trips-that is, a
round trip between st. Louis and New Orleans
every eighteen days. Each boat will leave on
its day, whatever may be the extent of her
freight or passenger list. The eighteen day
boats are the Olive Branch, Richmond. Belle
Lee, City of Alton and Dexter. Tho other
three boats of the line. the Bismarck, Pauline
Carroll and Commonwealth, are to be twenty
one-day boats. The new arrangement has
been initiated.
United States Marshal Newcomb has been
directed by the United States District Court to
sell the steamboat Great Republic on the 9th
of May for cash. Tho sale has to be adver-
tised in st. Louis. Cincinnati and Pittsburg
papers. Another suit was commenced against
the boat on Saturday. by Samuel G. Richards
and Joseph d. Lawnine, who claim 5000 %
for labor and material on it.
G. Hodges. Of Kenner. on the Mississippi,
writes to the New Orleans Times: In the
present perilous condition of the levees, with
the water resting on the crown in ,numberless
places. steamboats, should. as much as posi-
BILE. keep the middle Of the stream and not
run so fast. They undo our temporary work
almost as fast as VIC can do it.
The st. Louis Democrat says:
The river at this point continues to decline.
The fall yesterday was three inches. News
rom the upper Mississippi indicate that the
'lver Is now stationary at Dubuque, Lacrosse,
Davenport and keOkuk. Navigation on the
Missouri is yet t0lerably easy, though the
ynter is low. The Hines is getting down,
hOugh not enough TO interfere with nnyiea-
ion. Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Portsmouth, |
Louisville and Evansville papers arc filed |
With complaints of tho unusual dizziness that
'eigns in river circles at their respective |
places Of publication. The same may be said |
# Little Rock, Fort Smith and Van Buren, on /
he Arkansas, and Augusta. JacksonpOrt and /
Devalls Bluff en- the White river. Shreve- /
,ort papers also join in the general plant.
IN the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers
business Is good. On the IllOnOis also.