Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-12
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.
SIGNAL SERVICE U. S. Army, I
Memphis. April u. GA m.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.


I. j. BROws, Observer.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river is declining slowly, and is now
eleven feet six inches below the highest point
reached this season. The Indications now
are that it will come to stand tomorrow or
Friday. and by the reports from the upper
streams it is probable that another rise will
take place. At Cairo yesterday the river was
stationary. and at st. Louis it was also sta
tionary. The upper Mississippi is rising
slowly, and the Missouri is swelling rapidly.
The Ohio is falling at all points, with an ex-
cellent stage to Cincinnati. White river il
declining slowly. with eight feet to Jackson
port. and the Arkansas is rising, with twelve
feet to Little Rock. Business at the levee
was dull this morning. The weather contin-
ues warm and pleasant.
The Colorado will pass down at o'clock
this evening for Vicksburg and the bends.
The United States mail steamer Thos. II .
Allen, Mat Houston in command, will depart
at pm. to-day for Pine Bluff. Little Rock
and all landings on the Arkansas. connecting
with the packets for the upper Arkansas and
with the stages for Hot Springs. HAIRY Hall
and VIM. Knuckles are her clerks.
The United States mail packet Phil Allin
departs at pm. to-day for Helena, Friar's
Point and all way landings. Captain James
Lee is in command. and Messrs. Stack Lee,
James c. Harris and Neil Booker are clerks
The barge Dan Hewitt, owned by the North
western Union Packet Company, laden with
a thousand bars of railroad iron, sunk at the
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will doubtless be raised.
A violent storm prevailed along the upper
Mississippi yesterday. No damage to steamers
is yet reported, but it is thought that several
suffered severely.
The new steamer Lady Lee, just completed
for the Carter Line Red River Packet Com
pany, viii leave st. Louis to-mol low for Red
river.
The Oceanus reached St. Louis on Monday.
having made the trip from that point to
Shreveport and return in fifteen days and six
hours. On the down trip she made the run
from here to Vicksburg in tWenty-seven and o
half hours.
The Richmond is due rom below.
The Argosy, with a tow Of barges. made the
run from Cincinnati to New Orleans in seven
days and four hours. Good time.
The Mississippi rose one foot at Dubuque on
Monday. and was then rising rapidly. The
Missouri rose nine inches at st. Joseph on the
same day, and was rising one inch per hour.
The total rise at Sioux City is nine feet.
The series of articles in this journal, /"
/ says the st. Louis Democrat of yesterday,
advocating the reduction or abolishment Of
wharf charges on the Western and Southern
/ rivers. as an injurious burden on commerce,
| have Oeen productive of remarkable eOnse-
quenees at various points. Captain Joseph
La Barge, a Missouri river packet owner,
yesterday informed us Of one of these. lie
says that of the twenty or thirty points of
steamboat taxation along that river only two
continue the beggarly practice. viE Glasgow,
| TO the tune of three dollars per steamer, and
Lexington six dollars"
Memphis still holds out against any reduc-
ton.
The Charles Bodmann has not yet been re-
moved from her comfortable position on the
rocks at Louisville.
Red river was rising ut last accounts.
The tow-boat Dick Fulton No. passed down
this morning with a tow of coal.
Capt. John A. Scudder, President Of the st.
Louis Packet Company. left on the early train
this morning for st. Louis.
The Belfast passed up at noon with a light
trip for Louisville. t
The Sam j. Hale arrived at daylight, and
will discharge her cargo in time to leave to-
night-as advertised-for Cairo and all points
on the Ohio river. Captain Ed Miller, her
commander. is an experienced steamboatman.
and we'll understands how to make his passen-
gers comfortable.
"Corky." venerable steamboatman, was
accidentally thrown from his buggy while out
driving yesterday evening. and is now con-
fined to his room. We hope to sec him out
5000.
Captain Tom Bowman's steamer, the st.
Francis. came in at noon to-day on one wheel,
having broken her larboard shaft last night
about twenty-five miles below. The accident
occurred just as she was backing out from
landing, and fortunately 20 one was injured.
The shaft is broken short within three feet Of
the wheel. but will be repaired at once.
Freights on cotton were advanced to-day to
points East.
The Richmond came Hp at noon. less than
four days out from New Orleans.
The Phil Allin arrived this morning with
$50 bales Of cotton. 0 sacks seed and good
trip Of people.
Tho ferryboat Excelsior was crowded this
morning with piscatorial pleasure-seekers en-
route to the lakes on the opposite side Of the
river.
A libel was filed yesterday in the clerks
Office Of the United States District Cou BY
James D. Jordan and II. S. Brodie against the
tow-boat Laurel. in which they charse that in
February. 1870. they employed the Laurel to
tow raft Of logs from the Arkansas shore,
near Hopefold. to Griain's mill, at the mouth
Of Wolf river. agreeing to pay them $50 for the
work. The Laurel. according to agreement.
went over the river. fastened to the ran. and
started across; but owing to the great weight
Of the logs and tho want OF power in the boat,
the raft. instead Of being landed at Grifin's
mill. as agreed upon. was dropped below sss
city, and fastened to the shore near Fort
Pickering. Owing to the negligence Of the
employees Of the boat the ran was fastened in
an insecure manner. and subsequently broke
H., md WAS lost for whfrh uegfirauc- they