Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-15

stand the settlers are apprehending a
food, and continuance Of the rain will
give realization to their fears The
river is rising steadily, and Three Mile
creek pours in its turbid quota with the
rage OF mountain torrent.
Light freights, excessive tonnage and
high water have sent freights down again
at st. Louis. Rates on Monday de-
clined as follows: By steamers to
Memphis: Flour, 35c pork, Coo; pound
freight, zoe. To V:cksburg: Flour, soc;
pork, SOC; whisky 81 So and pound
freight, 25e. The above is by the Mem
phis and Vicksburg packets. By Car
roll & Bakers steamboat line: Flour,
soc; pork, SOC; whisky, 81 so; hay, 35c;
and pound freight, 25c. By Haynes
barge line: Flour, soc; pork, 75c, and
pound freight 25c per cwt
A two masted schooner, in command
Of woman, left st. Louis week ago to-
day for New Orleans, and should, by
hard lacking, reach here tomorrow.
The scallawag who sometime since
brought suit here against the Alaska for
$4,000 damages for the loss of carpet
sack containing sundry dirty linen, and
who was injured slightly on the boat and
sent to the hospital here and kindly
cared for, has, we learn from a reliable
source, compromised the matter by the
boat paying him FIVE dollars. The
Alaska will now land here instead of
passing, as has been her custom.
The Great Republic left New Orleans
for St. Louis Saturday evening with
5000 bars Of railroad iron, 500 sacks Of
salt, ETC., in all about 1000 tons. She
was also full of passengers, and will pass
up to-day,
The Dexter got 1900 tons at st. Louis,
gets 200 tons above Cairo, AND 200 hogs
heads of tobacco at Cairo.
The low-pressure Richmond leaves St.
Louis tonight for the South. Wait for
her, all who want pleasant trip.
Titles for new books now being written
by st. Louis steamboatmen are just now
worrying the brains of some of the river
reporters there. What | don't know
about dead-heads," and What / don't
know about cotton planting" are the
latest suggestions. The former seems
for the benefit Of the Democrat man,
and the latter for Captain Abe McPike.
John Higgins, an old steamboat car
penter who has been on the river thirty
years, died at st. Louis Saturday.
A Louisville exchange has it that the
new steamer Andy Baum will enter the
Cincinnati and Memphis trade. and run
in connection with the Emma c. Elliott.
The river at st. Louis fell four inches
this morning.
Supervising Inspector Houston re-
verses the decision of the local inspec-
tors at Louisville in the case of the col
lision between the j. W. Garrett and
Falls City, and exonerates Captain Da-
Wis and Pilot Bass of the former boat
from all blame, restoring their license
and restoring the license Of Pilot Dolly.
The decision is too long for publication.
The Minneola, Captain Miller, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Louis
vile, Cincinnati, and all way landings.
Mr.. j. s. Jones is her chief secretary.
The Colorado will pass down to-
morrow for Vicksburg.
The Mary Boyd goes out Friday for
thelArkrnsas.
The swift and elegant steamer Belle
St. Louis will be off this evening at sharp
FIVE for Cairo and st. Louis. Passen-
gers will find her accommodations and
fares of the best, while Captains Blake
and Grissom will do all they can for the
comfort Of the guests. 1t is a treat to
travel with them and on their fine boat.
Mr.. George Tod, the well-known caterer,
has charge of the tables of the Belle.
The Will S. Hays is now in the hands
Of the United States Marshal at Cam
den, Ark, and will be sold at no distant
day for claims amounting to S2l00 from
Evansville and St. Louis The bills
we're sent here and an officer went from
here to point thirteen miles above
Camden, where she was found and taken
to Camden.
The bar opposite the city shows its
surface in several places to-day.
The Murrillo did not land here.
Steamboatmen will find daily tele-
graphic report of the rise and fall of the
rivers, as well as the stage of the water
posted every evening upon Captain
Lightburne's bulletin at his Office, No. 522
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