Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-24


NEW ORLEANS, November 23.-Arrived
Louisville from Cairo, Clarksville and
Rose Vile from Arkansas river. River
thirteen feet seven inches below mark Of
1862. A special to the Commercial
Bulletin reports Red river falling at
Shreveport, with weather cloudy and
business lively; also raining heavily at
Camden. The prospects are good for
plenty OF water in the Ouachita.
CINCINNATI, November 23.-River
thirteen feet and falling. Raining. Ar
rived. Charmer, Edinburg and r. G.
Gray, the first boats up through the ca
nal since early in July. Departed
Charmer for Evansville; Nightingale for
Arkansas river; Nashville for New Or
leans-all expecting to 20 over the falls.
The Ohio river is falling from Pittsburg
here. No prospect of an early rise
The big John f. Tolle is expected here
tomorrow for Pittsburg. kilograms this
evening say the Kanawha river is sta
tionary, with four and a half feet. The
following coal towboats passed down
Rierden, Hercules, Charles Mcdonald
Bengal Tiger, Michigan, j. S. Baker
Resolute, Hornet No. 2, and Blue Lodge
ST. LOUIS, November 23-Departed
Belle St Louis, Vicksburg. River rls
ing slowly. Snow has fallen to-day
with the temperature much milder thar
yesterday. K9okuk and Illinois river
boats have laid up, and if this weather
continues few days longer, navigation
will be suspended above here. 1t has
showed here since early this morning
and the snow now lies on the ground
four and half inches deep
EVANSVILLE, November DIV Gather
cloudy with snow to-day. Mercury l9'
at daylight, 800 at noon. River swelling
this evening. Business active and ship
ments fair. The Potomac leaves here
tomorrow.
CAIRO, November 23.-Departed: An
ma, New Orleans. River has risen three
inches. Heavy snow tonight.
Navigation in the Mississippi is sus
pended at and above Dubuque. See oui
special telegram to that effect.
The river is frozen over at st. Paul.
Our special dispatches give the --latest
news as to the coal fleet.
1t is well known fact that the LEDGER
each day contains more river news than
any other paper published in Memphis
The local packets out yesterday car
ried good trips.
The Great Republic laid over here al
night, but did not add much either in
freight or people.
There are number of passengers
awaiting the arrival of the Richmond to
go to New Orleans.
The OctAvia passed down night be-
fore last.
Some of the pilots on our local packets
give anything but encouraging reports
of the operations of the snag-boats below
here.
The Belle of Pike, Captain Rider
leaves to-day at 8 pm. for Cairo, st.
Louis and all way landings.
The passenger steamer A. j. White
Captain George Malone, leaves to-day at
5 I'm. for Napoleon and all way land
ings. Barney Barinds and Charles
jackson are her clerks.
The fine feet passenger steamer Pat
Cleburne, Captain Reese Pritchard
leaves to-day at pm. for Pine Bluff
Little Rock and all way landings. c. t
Walker is her chief clerk.
The Belle of Pike arrived this morn
ing from St. Louis well laden.
The Celeste, from the Arkansas last
night brought 6s bales of cotton
and reshipped 80 bales at the mouth Of
White river for New Orleans. The
Batesville reshipped ls2 bales at the
same point.
The Indiana will pass down tomorrow
for New Orleans.
There are several hundred bales oil
cotton on the levee awaiting shipment to
New Orleans.
Rates on cotton per river are; For
compressed to Cincinnati, 81 25; Louis,
vile and New Albany, 81; Shawnee
town, Toe; to New Orleans, 81 %.
A letter from John Sullivan to Larry
Harmstad, dated at Vicksburg, says the
Belle Lee passed there with $4,000 bales
of cotton and 5000 sacks of seed, equal
to $500 bales of cotton and loading her
to the guards. So much for enterprise.
The fine steamer Batesville, now at
the landing, will leave at five m. to-day
for pevall's Bluff, Jaoksonport and all
points on White, the Little Red, and
Black rivers.
Thomas Fox, the cook of the steamer
Batesville, fell overheard and was
drowned while that boat lay at Crock
ett's Bluff, on her passage down White
river.
The city fathers of Louisville are slow
in reducing the wharf tax, but will take
some action in the matter when they see
all of the Southern steamers passing
their wharf and going to Cincinnati for
their supplies and eargoes.
Nv. AL. II. Hurd, river editor Of the
Cairo Bulletin, was married to Miss
Lottie II. Elliott, at the residence Of Joe
Abel, in Cairo, on the 10Th inst.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
Capt. Alex. POage, of Little Rock, is
here shipping considerable merchandise
on the Nightingale
Yesterdays ST. Louis Democrat says
the Richmond is the longest boat on the
river, being in length three hundred and
forty feet, aud in breadth eighty-fve
feet, oyer ALL Captain Green sets her
down as $500 ton boat The repairs