Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-28
BOATS LEAVING TODAY
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD
SIGNAL SERyIcE u. S. Army.
Memphis, April %, CAB q m.
~. Knows, Observe
RAVEN. BUSINESS, MscELLANEoUs.

The river here is falling steadily, and is
nearly twenty feet below high water mark.
The Mississippi at st. Louis is stationary.
The Ohio is falling all the way TO its mouth.
The Cumberland is swelling, with fourteen
feet on Harpeth Shoals. The Arkansas is
swelling from recent rains. White river. at
last report. was falling, but it is doubtless
rising from the same cause as the Arkansas.
This morning opened up bright and clear, but
business on the landing is very quiet.
The splendid steamer Pat Cleburne, Capt.
Reese Pritchard. will back out this evening
| for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and all way land
ings on the Arkansas. She connects with the
packet for Fort Smith. Mr.. G. I. Walker is
her chief clerk.
Charley Eccles. who was so seriously burned
in the recent accident on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad. is almost we'll. lie is
we'll known to river men.
The favorite packet A. j. White, Captain
George Malone. will back out this evening for
Helena, Friar's Point and Napoleon, making
all way landings. She is very popular and
deservedly so. Barney Barinds is her chief
secretary.
The beautiful and swift Phil Allin, Captain
James Lee, will back out at five pm. for Hell
ena, Friar's Point and all intermediate land
ings. She goes on time. and is an elegant
passenger packet. Stacker Lee is clerk.
The City of Cairo. Captain Luker, leaves
this evening for Cairo and st. Louis. She is
the popular packet.
The Belle St. Louis passes down tomorrow
for Vicksburg.
The R. P. Walt is the regular Saturday
packet for White river.
Commencing Monday, May LIST, the. steamer
Usage, j. 3. Davis master, Charles Smithers
clerk, will leave Devalls Bluff Mondays.
Wednesdays and Fridays at five o'clock pm.
ton arrival of train from Memphis) for Des
Arc, Augusta and Jacksonport. Returning,
leave Jaeksonpor. Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays at five pm, making connection
with trains at Devalls Bluff for Memphis and
Little Rock. As early as the trade will justify
the steamer Sallie V. will be added to the
line, making tri-weekiy trips to Augusta,
West Point and Searcy.
The Sam j. Hale leaves tomorrow for Gin
cinRati.
The Belle Lee, Captain Frank Hicks, will
New Orleans. No finer passenger steamer
floats than the Belle. John S. Sullivan is
chief clerk.
The Phil AlIin brought in IS bales cotton
and 256 sacks seed. She also had SO barrels
whisky.
The r. p. Walt came in with 2i5 bales cot
ton. She reshipped IA bales at the mouth for
New Orleans.
Small jobbing steamers are multiplying on
the Teche as the towing. jobbing and lumber
season opens. These steamers will snake
enough RATS of cypress logs up the Teche this
season to weatherboard and floor township.
and the saw mills will turn out sawed lumber
in vast quantities.
Captains Manson and Shaw. of st. Louis,
have been in Atchison, Kansas. for several
days, making arrangements for the new line
Of packets to run between that city and
Omaha, in connection with the Missouri Pa
cife road. They are having large freight
houses built on tho river bank.
The Bismarck passed up. Eve days out. She
put of here s. barrels molasses, 80 boxes
oranges, 20 punches bananas, and has 1900
tons for st. Louis. including 1900 bars railroad
iron. cut Aieu nAE Nuo Ndgellc5 NoullQue
Troupe aboard for st. Louis.
DR.. Luke p. Blackburn. who has been in
the city few days. leaves for his home in
Arkansas this evening on the A. J. White.
The town Of St. ALBERT. on the Missouri,
has been shut OF ~ bar. so that boats can
not land there. but deposit freight on the op-
pOsite shore.
It is reported that 10. Nixon is the name of
the Waterman arrested at New Orleans on a
charge of firing the Belle of Alton. 1t is said
also that il is on his affidavit the arrest Of
engineer Marsh is based.
The St. Louis Republican says:
The river at this port was about on a stand
still yesterday. with n falling tendency. The
Missouri continues at low stage. Snags are
becoming a ittls Troublesome 10 boats navi-
eating its waters. At ST. Paul the Mississippi
Is rising slowly, and thestroams emptying into
10 are reported nearly up 20 tho level Of their
banks. The Minnesota has been but slightly
affected BY the late rainy season.. and no
approciable rise can be expected from that
source 70 affect the condition % the Missis-
sippi at the port Of So. Paul. The Illinois is
running out little flush.
The Nashville Banner says:
The United States local inspectors have
given notice that they viii enforce the law re-
quiring extra lifeboats. floats, cork-iacket
life prescrycrs. etc, 10 be provided BY all
boats bearing excursion parties. SO. for the
present, az least, we are not to have any
more Of thoso pleasant cxcursiOns b. boat.
Tho superiutendents Of the lines here have
determined that thew viii -. 80. .he re-
quirements Of the laW, and publish a notice
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