Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-09
ARRIVALS.
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.

SIGNAL SERVICE u. y. ARMY, !
Memphis. June 9. SAB ami
Rorouatar 30.0l4
Cban~s since last +.0l7
Tbar,nomater -'.................,,....,..... 1872
Change in last "a hours......-..."~...". 81
Relative humidity. % "a
Direction Of D. II
Velocity OF wind (miles per hour ........ 5
Pressure of wind Obs. per square foou... VIZ
Force of wind beaufort scale)'.- ........ uen',e
Amount OF "A
Rain fall in last "a hours Gnches)......... g.O
State Of weather.. fair
WASHINGTON. d. c., June s. 1871.
SYNOPSIS FOR THE PAST TwESTY-FouR HOURS.
The barometer has fallen on the Pacific
coast. and decidedly SO At the Rocky Noun.
has risen on the Gulf and South Atlantic,
and on the Lakes and Middle States, and re-
mains sensibly unchanged and quite low in
the extreme New England States: The tenn
perature remains cool north Of the Ohio
valley, and has fallen decidedly on the Caro-
lima coast, Northwesterly winds are very
generally reported from Lake Ontario to
Pennsylvania, and westward to the Missis:
sippi. Southwesterly winds have prevailed
on the Atlantic coast. The rain Wednesday
evening had this morning (Thursday) ceased
in the Middle and Eastern States. That
which prevailed last night Wednesday, in
Northern Florida is now extended to Cheese
peake Bay. Clear and partially cloudy
weather has very generally prevailed In the
interior.
PROBABILITIES.
It is probable that light winds. with warm
and pleasant weather, will prevail Friday
from the Lakes to the Gulf. Partially cloudy
and clear weather. with westerly winds, are
probable for the interior Of the Atlantic
States. No serious disturbance to any extent
is apprehended east Of the Mississippi.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The river rose two inches during the TWEEN
ty-four hours ending at noon to-day, and is
now twenty feet seven inches below the high
water mark of 1867. A decline has again set
in at Cairo. where yesterday the water fell
three inches. At st. Louis the river is sta
tionary, with indications of slight rise.
The June rise will probably reach that point
by the 18th. Up to the present time the indi-
cations are that it will come only from the
Missouri. The Ohio is falling at Pittsburg
and Cincinnati. and is stationary at Louis
vile, with two feet six inches in the chute,
and four feet six inches in the canal. The
Cumberland is rising slowly. White and the
Arkansas rivers are falling. with fair boat
ing stage in each. Business at the landing is
dull, with but light receipts and shipments.
The great Natchez will pass down on Sun
day, as per card elsewhere.
The elegant steamer Glencoe, Captain Cal
houn commanding, and Mr.. Parr secretary.
will arrive tonight. and depart at ten o'clock
tomorrow morning for Cairo, Evansville and
Louisville. She adds here a few hundred
bales of cotton.
The Thomas ii. Allen is the regular mail
steamer for White river tomorrow.
The elegant sidewheel steamer Pat Cleburne
goes out as usual tonight for Pine Bluff, Lit
tie Rock and all landings on the Arkansas.
| CAPTAIN Reese Pritchard is her master. and
Creed Walker clerk. Forty hours is the Gle
burne's schedule time to Little Rock. Ship
pers and passengers will make note of that.
The stauneh and new steamer A. j. White,
Captain George Malone master, backs out at
Eve D. m. to-day for Helena, Friar's Point and
Napoleon, going through on railroad time.
Barney Barinds and Charley jackson are
clerks.
CAPTAIN James Lee will back out his new
steamer, the Phil Allin. at five pm. to-day
for Helena, Friar's Point and all the planta-
ton landings. She is now run on schedule
time. and arrives and departs as regularly as
the trains Stack Lee, an accommodating
gentleman, does the honOrs of the office.
The Lawrence leaves this port at five pm.
tomorrow for Cincinnati.
The favorite steamer City of Alton, of the
st. Louis aud New Orleans line. will depart
at four p. IN. to-day for Vicksburg. Natehez
and New Orleans. Captain Sheble commands,
and the attentive Sheckley is clerk.
| The lne steamer Belle st. Louis, William
Blake master, will arrive this evening from
below, and leaves promptly at o'clock for
Cairo, st. Louis and all intermediate land
ings. Passage can be secured by applying to
Capt. Billy Dill at the wharfbOat.
NArcHEz.-The following is the time of the
Natchez made from New Orleans to st. Louis !
To Donaldsonville, hours, 20lz MINUTES; to
| Natchez, Is hours, 81 minutes Grand Gulf.
"a hours; Vicksburg, &c hours, IS minutes;
Oldtown, 4s hours; Memphis, 2 days. hours,
II minutes Cairo. days, hours, AZ minutes :
st. Louis, 3 days, % hours, 50 minutes. The
time of the Natehez from New Orleans to ST.
Louis on the I'D of June. 1870, was days. q
hours, SIS minutes. beating tue fastest time
then on record that ofthe j. NJ, White, which
was days. % hours. 9 minutes. The Lees
time on July 4th. 1870. was 3 days, is hours.
! 30 minutes
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Bledsoe's
Landing. fifty miles below here. yesterday,
between two young men named James Z. Col
Inns and John Dunn. during which the former
was shot and instantly killed. Dunn es-
capped Collins body was brought here on
the Phil Allin,
Two negroes are to be hanged at Marion,
Ark, to-day. A local editor of one Of our
morning contemporaries was busily employed
among the ferryhoats last night trying to Sc
cure n dead-head ticket to the point named.
The ST. Louis Times contains the following:
The new Orleans Packet Company, Mer-
/ chants Southern Line Packet Company, Mis-
sissippi Valley Transportation Company,
/ Memphis and Vicksburg Packet Company,
| etc, have notified shippers that hereafter
! sacks containing over three bushels of grain
will not be received for transportation. of
course a reasonable time will have to elapse
before this decision can be risidly enforced.
but il would be we'll for shippers to prepare to
comply with it as soon as possible, unl less they
desire to find themselves in perplexing stu
alton. The enormous packages which are
now and have been going forward for ship
ment, are entirely too large to be carried by
| the labOrers, and il IS but an act due to hu-
! mainly TO have them reduced TO a reasonable
| size. The proprietors Of the several lines
| who propose to bring about this reform, de-
| serve the thanks of the entire community.
The following memoranda of the trip Of the
hatcher from New Orleans TO St. Louis was
furnished the St. Louis press by Stanley Ry-
land. one Of the clerks. aud will be read with