Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-16
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.
7. ]. Brown, Observer
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.

The river continues its slow rise at this
port, and the water is slowly working its way
to the top of the bank on the opposite shore.
The rise since our last report is eight inches,
and now the water is nine feet four inches be-
low the highest point reached in 1867. The
rise ut Cairo yesterday was four inches. The
decline at st. Louis continues, and reports
from all points above there indicate that we
shall not have the anticipated June" rise
as early as has been predicted. The Ohio is
falling at all points, and low water is again
anticipated in that stream. All its lower as
we'll as the upper tributaries are falling, and
some of them are quite low. White and the
Arkansas are falling, with a good stage in
each. The weather is cloudy and cool. Bust
ness at the levee is inactive.
The elegant little steamer Geo. w. Ch- *,
Capt. Mark Check in command. will depart
tive o'clock this evening for Helena, Friar's
Point and all way landings.
The Legal Tender, Capt. William Elliott
commanding, with Ed Postal. Dan Sullivan
and Arthur Field in tho office, is the regular
Tuesday White river United States mail
packet, leaving to-day at five pm. for AL
points on White river. connecting at DevalPs
Bluff with the Little Rock railroad.
The Pat Oleburne goes out as usual on Fri
day for the Arkansas.
The St Francis. Capt. Tom Bowman. backs
out at five pm. to-day for Helena, Madison
and all points on the st. Francis. She has
tip-top accommodations. and does general
plantation business. Messrs. Paine. Berry
and Clark are her secretaries.
The Sam. j. Hale goes out tomorrow even
ing for all points on the Ohio river to Cinein-
natl.
The elegant Bismarck. Capt. Pat Yore in
command, assisted by those clever gentlemen
Messrs. Spane and Hall. will pass down at six
pm. to-day for Vicksburg, Natchez and New
Orleans.
significant paragraph of seven words APP
pears in one of our morning contemporaries
that would, if the author were in Washington.
send him to the old capitol on the double
quick.
large excursion party left Cincinnati the
other day on the Champion. TO make trip to
st. Louis and return.
The Minneola leaves Cincinnati tomorrow
for this port.
The Bismarck adds here 800 bales of cotton
and nearly lC,) sacks of oil cake.
Berry q Williams, of New Orleans, have
sued the City of Alton. In obedience to an
admiralty warrant under said suit the Marshal
seized the City of Alton on the 10th, and adj
vertised that he would condemn and sell said
boat if good cause we're not shown why she
should not be condemned and sold. The
" good cause" was shown by Captain Sheble,
and the matter adjusted without further legal
proceedings.
The river fell six inches at st. Louis on Sum
daay, and as much more yesterday.
Aleck Waddell. well known steamboat
clerk. has, we understand, been appointed
Passenger Agent of the Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad Company.
A dispatch from Omaha says that the Ida
Reese. the first boat Of the season, arrived at
Fort Benton Saturday.
The Henry Ames and Dexter are billed to
leave St. Louis to-day for New Orleans.
The NJ. J. Wicks left New Orleans Friday |
for st. Louis with a full load. consisting Of |
railroad iron and sugar.
The superior and fast passenger steamer |
Belle St. Louis. Captain Grissom command |
ng. will depart at FIVE pm. for Cairo and ST. |
Louis. Her passenger accommodations are |
eeond to no boat on the river, and her tables |
ire always supplied with the best the markets
ford.
On her last trip up Red river the iron
teamer John 7. Moore made thirty landings
nd ran from New Orleans to Shreveport in
wo days and sixteen hours. sheis the cham
lion packet in that creek. Her time from
Sew Orleans to the mouth Of Red river was
wenty-one hours. That's not bad time for a
,ick-up- behind packet.
The ParEoud has cut rates between New Or
cans and Yicksburg.
A runaway couple was gobbled " fond
iarient on the arrival Of the r. E. Lee at
few days ago. II was too late,
oWever. They had. previous to their en-
arkation. secured the services Of clergy
aan, and "parient" had to swallow his rage
nd diseneago himself from miniature walk
ng arsenal that he lad provided for the Oeca-
ion.
Conway Barbour. the Cincinnati darkey,
no was lately appointed assessor Of Chieot
1unty. Arkansas. b. Gov. Clayton. twenty
ears ago was chief bootblack on the steamer
ashton.