Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-20

board in time to leave at five o'clock, as
advertised elsewhere.
The Indiana wild be the regular
Wednesday packet in the Memphis and
New Orleans trade, and leaves here next
Wednesday, al five pm, for New Or
leans.
Captain Lightburne, agent, will re-
ceive freight for New Orleans and points
below at all times.
The Lucy Bertram, Captain Thompson
in command, will arrive to-day, and de-
parts at five pm, as advertised, for
Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orleans.
Her agent, Captain Lightburne, has a
clerk at the levee to receive freight.
We learn that General Weitzel has es-
tablished water gauges, both at the head
and foot Of the canal at Louisville,
which will indicate the rise and fall of
the river. No such good fortune for
Memphis. Neither the city authorities
nor the Government care enough for the
interests of the planters below here to
establish water mark, so that during
high water the exact rise and fall of the
river could be ascertained.
There is awaiting shipment to st.
Louis steamboat load at every one of
the seventy-Gve landings on the Mis-
souri, below Kansas City.
Now that there is prospect for
change in the Board of Supervising In
spectors and modification of the laws,
Commodore Rollingpin will again bring
out the Bull of the Woods. The latest
from her is that he had sold her bar
privilege for the boats lifetime at auc-
ton, on Change in st. Louis, realizing
5000 therefrom.
The Ohio is so low at Marietta that not
a drop of water passes over the dam.
A convention of steamboatmen is
talked Of, to occur at Louisville some
time next month, when the action of the
Board of Supervisors will be considered,
and Congress will be memoralized with
regard to the grievances in the new
steamboat law. Steamboatmen are now
coming to business and acting in way
that will give them a hearing, and do
much more toward gaining the object
desired.
The Cincinnati Times and Chronicle
says: Major C.S. Holt, late Of Nashville,
has been appointed general freight
agent at Memphis for McCoy's South
western Transportation Company's
wharfboats.
No further advices yet of rise in the
upper Mississippi.
The NJ. J. Wicks ran her barge on the
rocks below st. Louis day OR two
since, and it shipped three feet Of water,
but was subsequently pumped out.
There are now four Government snag
boats and dredges. at work at or about
the harbor of St, Louis. An excellent
location for the officers of that number
of boats, considering that the river is
full Of dangerous snags between Cairo
and Helena, and sarcely day passes
that some boat does not strike on some
of them.
The levee improvements are progress
ing slowly.
The local board of steamboat inspec-
tors at St. Louis have revoked the IL
cense of Julius S. Asher, engineer, for
committed while in charge
Of the boilers aud machinery Of the
steamer H. C. Yeager, in August last.
They have also refused license to John
N. Hamilton, as master of steamers, in
Of inexperience.
The channel in the river is changing
At st. Louis, and the current threatens
70 throw up formidable bar where the
'oats now land. Bloody Island will |
be the capital of the United |
States unless the councilmen of st. |
louis act promptly.
The excitement over the position of |
at Nashville has at last |
eliminated by the almost unani NOUS
of Charley Arthur.
The Wabash river, at VinceDnes, has
,een over four inches lower during the
present drought than at any time during
he last one hundred years, according to
he records kept at that place.
The following sixteen boats, with their
are advertised in the New
)rleans papers as composing the Gin
innati, Louisville and New Orleans
Jacket Line for the season: Nick Long
forth. Hates, captain; Robert Mitchell, /
Wade, captain John Kilgour. Stein,
aptaini Charles BOdmann, Shinkle, cap
aim Mary Houston, Durham, captain;
indiana, Neal, captain; Glencoe, Cal
loon, captain; Andes, Cullum, captain:
.ouisville, Merrilees, captain; II. S.
Turner, Rusk, captain; Potomac, Bach
'lor, captain MOllie Ebert, Ebert, cap
ain; Alaska, Cakes, captain; c. B.
Church, Patterson, captain; Belfast,
sedan. captain; J. H. Groesbeck. Hart,