Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-27
RIYER. BUSINESS, MIsCELLANEOUs.

cloudy, is probable from Wisconsin eastward
| to the Atlantic.
RIVER, BUSINESS, MISCELLANEOUS.
The decline for the twenty-four hours
ending at noon to-day was seven inches.
1.-THE Arkansas is falling slowly, with
about eight feet to Little Rock. White
river is declining slowly, with seven feet
to Jaeksonport. The Ohio is falling all
the way up to Pittsburg, and has less
than three feet in the channel at that
point. The Missouri and upper Missis-
sippi, with all their tributaries, are fall
ing. Business at the landing is rather
dull for Saturday, but fair for the season.
The weather is cloudy, with light showers
of rain.
The Celeste goes out on Monday for
the Arkansas.
The elegant little steamer George W.
Cheek, Capt. Mark Cheek in command,
will depart at FIVE o'clock this evening
for Helena, Friar's Point and all way
landings.
The Dean line steamer Nashville will
get away at five pm. to-day for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati, and makes all
landings on the Ohio. Captain Merrilees
is in command
Capt. William j. Ashford will, at FIVE
pm. to-day, back out the Thomas H.
Allen for Devall's Bluff, Jacksonport and
all the landings on White river. She is
the regular United States mail packet,
and will make direct connection with the
Little Rock train. Mr.. E. W. Outlaw is
clerk
The Grand Tower, Captain Lennox, is
at the st. Louis wharfboat, and will leave
at five pm. for Cairo and st. Louis. Mr.
lJames White is her executive officer, and
those who place themselves under his
charge for the trip may rely on a good
time. tIH
The Emma Floyd is aground on Har
peth Shoals.
The steamer Emma Elliott is to be
launched at Louisville to-day.
The Helena Clarion of yesterday says;
The river at this point has fallen some
twelve inches during the past twenty
four hours, and is now about eleven feet
eight inches below high water-mark, and
is thirty feet above low water-mark.
A Little Rock exchange, referring to
the increased facilities of the Little
Rock railroad and advantages that city
will derive from its completion, says the
road has made arrangements with the
Memphis and st. Louis Packet Company
to give through bills of lading from St.
Louis to Little Rock without any extra
drayage or per centage, commissioning,
wasteage, wharfage, storage, leakage,
shrinkage, delayage or any other age,
but don't make any allowance for the
stick-in-the-mud-age, and concludes by
saying that Little Rock can furnish
goods to merchants and small dealers
along the river and back in the country
cheaper than Memphis; all of which is
another conclusive proof that the wharf
age tax should be reduced or abolished
at once.
The gay steamer Indiana will arrive
tomorrow morning from below, and de-
parts at 10 a. m. for Cairo and Louisville.
Reub Neal is master, and Miller-not
the Peabody Miller, but the Indiana $
Miller-is secretary.
Joseph Belknap was, on Tuesday last,
confirmed Supervising Inspector Gene
raj of Steamboats, in the United States
by the Senate.
Captain j. D. Elliott's new steamer,
Emma Elliott, viii be launched at Louis
vile to-day. Captain John is there to
superintend matters.
The Glasgow and Pink Varble came
over the falls at Louisville on Thursday,
and will go to the boneyard at New AL
bany for the present.
A bank safe, the largest ever made at
Cincinnati, weighing seventeen tons, is
coming down on the Groesbeck for a
firm at New Orleans. 1t took twelve
horses to haul it to the landing.
The Minnie has gone into retirement
at st. Louis.
Captain Reese Pritchard, of the Pat
Cleburne, viii take few weeks vacation
after landing his boat at Little Rock to-
morrow.
The Olive Branch, Captain McCord,
is the next regular packet for New Or
leans. She will pass down tomorrow
evening.
A Pittsburg telegram of the 23d says:
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