Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-22
RIYER, business, MIsCELLANEOus.

Cairo, and is stationary at st. Louis,
with twelve feet of water between those
points. The Ohio is rising at Evans
vile, Louisville, and at all points above
to Pittsburg where decline has set in.
All the lower tributaries of the Ohio are
rising, except.the Cumberland, and that
is at high stage. White river is rising
steadily The Arkansas rose fourteen
inches at Little Rock on Monday night,
and continues to rise steadily. All the
lower streams emptying into the Missis-
sippi are rising, or have risen-some
nearly over their banks. The weather
is clear and spring-like. Business at
the wharf is moderate.
The John A. Wood made some repairs
to her machinery while at the landing.
There have been 4,lOS,00O bushels of
coal shipped from PittSburg on the pre-
sent rise.
The Indiana brought down bridal
party from Paducah.
The great low-pressure Richmond, Nat
Green master, will arrive from below to-
night, and departs at noon tomorrow
for Cairo and st. Louis. 1t is needless
to add that her accommodations are of
the very best. Cook Creighton and John
Langlois are her secretaries.
By reference to our steamboat column
it will be seen that the clipper steamer
Dexter, Isaac II. Jones commanding,
will take her departure at noon to-mor-
row for Vicksburg, Natchez and New
Orleans. Owen G. Gates and Steve
Cochrane attend to the Office duties.
The City of Quincy, Judd West mas
ter and William Brown clerk, is the reg
ular packet leaving for New Orleans at
4 pm. to-day. She is new boat and
irst-class in all respects.
A rumor is in circulation to the effect
that the Memphis and Arkansas River
Packet Company are about to contract
for the construction of two iron steamers
for service in the Arkansas river. The
boats will, it is said, be built at Cincin-
matt, and viii eclipse anything yet
brought out.
We learn that Major Adams, President
of the Memphis and Arkansas River
Packet Company, has closed a bargain
for the purchase of the immense wharf
boat now at Metropolis, at cost of $27,-
900, and will have it towed to this port.
The United States mail steamer
Celeste, John Hardin master, departs at
) pm. for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all landings on the Arkansas, making
close connection at Little Rock with the
Fort Smith packets. Harry. Hall and
VIM. Knuckles are clerks.
The gay and elegant steamer Alice
Dean, with that prince of commanders,
Capt. II. II. Drown, backs out at p. m.
to-day for Cairo, Louisville and Cincin-
matt and all intermediate landings She
is one of the finest passenger packets in
the trade, and parties destined North
should not fail to secure state-rooms in
time. Captain Drown, her master, was
for several years proprietor Of the
Spencer House at Cincinnati, and has
not, by any means, forgotten how to
make his guests comfortable, and knows,
too, what good living is.
The present rates from st. Louis to
New Orleans are: Flour, 45e; pound
freight, 25c; hay, 35c; whisky, 81 25;
pork, 75c per Dbl; cabin passage, $25 to
$50. To Vicksburg: Flour, 4Oc; pork,
6Oc; hay, SOC; heavy pound freight, 25c,
and whisky, 81 80. To Memphis also
high water rates have been adopted,
viz: Whisky, 81 25; -four, SOC; pork,
SOC; bacon, lard and other heavy freight,
zoe per 100; hay, 25c.
The damage to the Bismarck was
three planks in the hull and twenty-five
floor timbers broken. These we're re-
paired and the hull thoroughly caulked.
Coal is furnished to steamers at St.
Louis at l2]c per bushel.
The Ohio rose FIVE feet at Evansville
on Monday.
The Alice Dean gets 400 bales Of
cotton, 25 bales rags, and about ten tons
Of scrap iron.
The Indiana adds here $50 barrels Of
potatoes and some miscellaneous freight.
An unknown white man either fell or
vas pushed overheard from the wharf
boat or the steamer St. Joseph about
eight clock last night, just as the Com
nonwealth was coming in, and aoated
Town a hundred yards, when he sank
,ut of sight before assistance could reach
him.
The report Of the Steamboat Inspect
,rs Of the United States gives the fol-
owing interesting figures for the year
inding December 81, 1870:
Number of certificates Of inspection 8