Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-28

diana, got of his boat here TO pay a
visit to his sweetheart and got left--not
by the young lady, but the boat. He
goes to Vicksburg to-day by rail-
By reference to our steamboat column
II will be seen that the elegant steamer
Mary Houston, newly fitted and fur
nished, will pass down tomorrow for
New Orleans.
Shippers and those passengers estined
South should not forget that the elegant
steamer CITY of Cairo, Captain Dix,
will be down on Wednesday night TO
leave on Thursday for New Orleans and
all intermediate landings.
The Minneola will be here tomorrow
night to leave on Friday for C,ncinn ati.
The Bismarck left for New Orleans
this morning with barge in tow, adj
ding few packages Of sundries here.
She was drawing seven and n half feet.
The Mary Boyd, from the Arkansas
to-day, brought in $50 bales OF cotton,
lao sacks seed, and reshipped 1914 bales
from the mouth for New Orleans.
The A. j. White came in at midnight
with 22O bales cotton and $50 sacks see d.
The Belle St. Louis arrived from st.
Louis, discharged here one hundred
tons of freight, added several tons of
way freight and departed, drawing 81 <
feet.
The Shannon gets several hundred
bales of cotton here.
The Indiana is reported aground at
Bordeaux chute.
The magnificent steamer Richmond
the great low-pressure floating palace
Captain Nat. Green in command, will
pass down at pm. to-day for Vicks-
burg New Orleans and the bends.
The Columbia for st. Louis will be
due from the Arkansas tomorrow.
The Carrie V. Kountz left Little Rock
yesterday for New Orleans with a good
trip Of cotton.
Our dispatches yesterday gave the in
formation that the towboat Dart struck
a hidden obstruction below Maysville, in
the Ohio, Saturday night, and went to
the bottom.
Freight rates south from st. Louis
have advanced. See our river kilograms.
The Louisville, Arkansas and White
River Packet Company sold the Pink
Varble to Henry Miller, j. II. Porter
and Thomas Hunt, of Evansville, for
$4,000 cash, Porter and Hunt one-fourth
each, and Miller one.half. The boat
will be put in the trade from Evansville
to this city or the Wabash river.
Two aatboats loaded with hay, pota-
toes, bulk meat, etc., went over the falls
at Louisville yesterday. Loss $500;
mostly insured.
The Celeste leaves for the Arkansas
next Friday.
The elegant steamer St. Francis, Cap
tain r. 7. Bowman, leaves to-day at five
pm. for Helena, Mariana and all points
on the st. Francis. Sam. c. Paine and
Andy Granger are her clerks.
The lively G. W. Cheek leaves to-day
at five pm. for Friar's Point and all
the coast landings, Captain Mark
Cheek is her commander. F. S. Con
terman and L. W. Briggs are her clerks.
The A. j. White, Captain George Ma
lone, leaves to-day at five pm. for Ma
poleon and all way landings. B. f.
Fields and Matt. Glass are her clerks.
The St. Luke leaves to-day at twelve
m. for Cairo St. Louis and all way land
ings.
Already the water gauges at this and
other points established by the United
States Government begin to show their
benefits, as will be seen by the following
from the Helena Clarion of Sunday.
We begin to realize little Of the ben
e6ts of this institution already, in find
ing out some strange facts in regard to
4 the present stage Of the river. For in
stance: The stage of the river-that is,
the rise and fall-at Cairo and Helena,
in 1858 and $50, was almost exactly the
same, or about forty-three feet. The
variation at Memphis that year was
thirty-one feet Colonel Merrill, who
left here on the James Howard, informs
us that the high water mark at Cairo is
6fty-one feet above the low water of this
season. At Helena it is forty-four-
showing a variation of seven feet during
that time. The river at Memphis has
been some thirty-hve feet below high
water this year, or four feet lower than
in 1858 or so. 1t thus appears that the
water is some seven feet lower at Cairo
than in 1885, four feet lower at Mem
phis, and only about one foot at Helena.
We account for this by the fact that
there has been no large rise out of the
Missouri, from whence the sand and mud
of the river comes, and that the clear
water Of the upper Mississippi and the
! Ohio and its tributaries has commenced
/ the scouring-out process. Another fact to
which we have alluded heretofore, is that
the river will rise more at Helena than
at Memphis. The total rise at Memphis
has been twenty-four inches, while at
Helena the rise has been thirty-four
inches. This we attribute to the fact
that the river has less slope from the
mouth of the St Francis down, than
from Cairo to that point--thereby re-
curing a greater elevation of the sur
face, or wore depth to carry of the
same amount of water, which is one of
| the points that we claim for Helena
that a given amount of water passing
Memphis gives more depth of channel
below Helena than above.