Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-15

the prospects for another rise are good.
Nearly all the boats connected with the
coal feet have departed with light tows,
averaging $4,000 to loo, 900 Bushels each.
There was not enough water to let out
the coal boats, but il looks as IL there
would be in the next forty-eight hours.
The Tom Dodsworth ran into the Picket
near the Marine railway, tearing of
about half of her wheel, and causing
the Picket to sink barge of coal be-
longing to j. s. Mcdonald, which she
towed down to that point, and was about
to land to wait for more water. The
Greyhound is reported as having stuck
two of her barges at Glasshouse."
Irwin Dugan and the crew Of the T.
f. Eckert, laying at Cairo, have con-
verted her big yawl into fine sailing
vessel, and thus they while the weary
hours pleasantly away.
Samuel Houston, supervising inspec-
tor of steamboats, for the Eighth district,
having resigned, the friends of Captaia
Samuel Montgomery, of New Albany,
have telegraphed the President to ap-
point him. The friends of Captain
Reynolds, one of the local board, are
urging his appointment to the vacancy.
George Day, Waterman of the M j.
Bigley, who attempted to rape Fannie
Tucker at New Albany last November,
and was shot while escaping from the
officers, was arrested day or two since
at Cincinnati
Heavy rains continue to visit the up
per Mississippi river country The small
streams above are quite full and pouring
out flood into the Mississippi
A letter from Captain Dave Campbell
to his partner, Captain John Graham,
dated at New Orleans, June 10, says: 81
am here and awaiting the st. Charles
from Mobile; will be ready to leave for
st. Louis Friday or Saturday, l have
purchased the hull Of the old Great Re-
public, also her machinery and the ma
chinery of the John Briggs and Warrior,
also steamers st. Charles, Cherokee and
Lizzie Hopkins For the Cherokee /
paid $500; for the Hopkins, $3.50,
and for the ST. Charles and four pair en-
gines of the following dimensions: 81
inch cylinders, 8 feet strokes; 22.inch
cylinders, 8 feet stroke; 36-inch cylin-
ders, feet stroke; l8.inch cylinders, Z
feet stroke, $1,000. | have also contract
ed to build new sternwheel boat, l65
feet long, 80 feet beam and A feet hold,
to be ready by October / may possibly
buy some more wrecks before Saturday"
Three of the Charles B. Church's
deck.hands are IN Jail at Paducah, await
ing trial for perjury.
The Arkansas river fell twelve inches
at Little Rock last night and has now
sixteen feet of water below that point.
The Gsand Tower, Captain Lennox,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Cairo and st. Louis Mr.. White is clerk.
This is one of the best boats in the An
Choir Line and makes all railway connec-
tons.
The Legal Tender, Captain Ashford,
departs this evening at FIVE o'clock for
Devalls Bluff, Jacksonport and all
points on White river. Ed. c. Postal
and Dan Sullivan are clerks.
The passenger steamer Julia leaves at
FIVE clock this evening for Vicksbusg.
Captain Boyd commands, and Jimmy
Thompson, Esq, is her prime minister.
The elegant steamer Pauline Carroll
will as we learn by telegram to Cap
tain Washington, pass down tomorrow
at ten a. m. for Vicksburg, Natchez, New
Orleans and all intermediate landings.
Captain James A. Yore is in command.
ITEMS. -The Great Republic leaves
St. Louis today for New Orleans. The
st. Joseph will not come out from st.
Louis to-day. The City of Helena will
bring her Memphis freight. Captain
Silas Hemenway, Captain John S. Ten
nyson and Mr.. George Bickle left st.
Louis yesterday for Current river, Mis-
souri,, to begin the improvement of that
stream, for which Hemenway holds a
contract from the State. Captain Dodge
says the new elevator here will be ready
for business in thirty days. Billy DilIs
office will be forty by sixty-nine feet,
with elegant furniture; the desk on
which he will make his mark" will be
built of solid Eastwood with lounge at
tachment. The City of Cairo was sold
on private terms. A Pittsburg lad
named Motley Francis Anderson, who
ran away from home on the tow
boat Veteran, is anxiously sought by his
distressed parents The City Of Alton
is coming up with 60 passengers, 400
tons of iron and 100 tons of miscellan-
eous freight for st, Louis. But nine
feet of water below Fort Smith The
Tom Jasper left New Orleans Wednes-
day night with 5000 bars of railroad
iron for Evansville The Bodmann had 3
a light freight but good passenger list.
A telegraph cable was laid across the
river at Vicksburg Wednesday. 1t was
$500 feet long, and weighed 800 tons.
A two-inch rise at Omaha to-day.