Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-15

Missouri is rising slowly. Inc ONO,
however, is falling at Pittsburg and ris-
ing at points below. The rise in Red
river has been checked, and decline set
in. The Mississippi is stationary at
Quincy and Keokuk. The Arkansas is
falling, with twelve feet below Little
Rock. White river has seven feet to
Augusta, and is declining. The weather
yesterday was cloudy and warm; to-day
it is clear and pleasant.
PORT NEWS.
The local packets departing Saturday
had good trips. The Grand Tower took
GA bales of cotton.........The Silver Moon
got 800 bales 1.-THE Mary Houston
had good trip. Richmond had
1900 tons of freight and 20 cabin pas
sengers. She added $500 sacks Of corn
below Cairo, but took nothing here ex-
cept enough coal to bring her back to
Vicksburg .......The Glasgow had 250
tens for White river. This is her last
trip up that stream. ........ yesterday
there we're ten arrivals and seven de-
partures. But very little business was
done by passing steamers.........The
Dexter went down, and the Jennie How
ell up, without landing 1.-THE Night
ingale put out few bales of cotton
here, and had 200 bales for the Ohio
.........The st. Francis brought 40S bales
of cotton, and 273 sacks of seed.........
The City of Vicksburg went down early,
and the City OF Helena up, with mode
rate trips. 1.-THE Robt. Rurns brought
900 ton cargo from the Ohio, and the
Belle Lee passed up before midnight
fairly ladened. 1.-THE Robt. Mitchell
had a heavy trip. Business to-day
fair. The A. j. White, from Napo-
leon, came in with l54 bales cotton, 81
sacks seed and $50 sacks corn.........The
Belle Memphis, from st. Louis, brought
a fair cargo, two items of which we're
1880 dry barrels and l445 sacks grain.
......... The Frank Forest, from the Ohio,
arrived with large trip Of grain and
had barge in tow........The Indiana,
from Cairo, passed down FOR New Or
leans with full trip.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The James Howard takes cargo at
Cairo.
The Emma Elliott, downward bound,
passed Louisville yesterday
The Robert Burns calliope awoke
many sound sleepers as she came in be-
fore midnight last night. 1t is terror
to dogs, and drives them nearly frantic.
1t will be played again at 3 p. m. to-mor-
row, when the Burns leaves for Cincin-
matt.
The water in Green and Barren rivers
is very high, and boats are running over
the locks and dams.
The Joseph Kinney, a new boat for
the Missouri River Packet Company, ar
rived at Louisville from Madison yester-
day, to be inspected, and leaves for st.
Louis on Tuesday.
George Higgins, clerk Of the Silver
Moon, left on the early train, northward
bound, yesterday. Rumor says he is to
be married at Caledonia, Illinois.
The Legal Tender will be in tonight
with $50 bales of cotton. She returns to
White river tomorrow evening.
Some portions of the lower Ohio re-
semble a huge lake. At one point it is
nine miles wide, and its banks are Gov
cred with water for twenty or thirty
miles.
The river editor of the Vicksburg
Times was married last week to Miss
Metzler, a daughter of Captain Thomas
Metzler, Yazoo river steamboatman.
The Pat Cleburne will defer her de-
parture for the Arkansas until tomorrow
evening.
Seven steamers occupied the landing
at one time this morning.
The lower Cumberland is out OF its
banks.
The Cincinnati coal merchants lost
$4,000 BY the rise at Cincinnati.
The total rise at Cairo is nearly six
teen feet.
The favorite steamer Belle Memphis,
with her popular commander, Crane, in !
and Billy Banker in charge
of the office, will get away at five o clock |
this evening for Cairo, st. Louis and all |
way landings. Hardly a trip passes
that she does not carry a party Of ex-
cursionists from this city. Therefore,
those who wish choice staterOoms should
secure them at once.
Walt" the Cairo correspondent OF
The Cincinnati Commercial, under date
Of the 18th, writes as follows regarding
the Oceanus disaster:
The cause Of the disaster viii proba-
bly, never be known. but the muddy con-
dition Of the rapidly rising rivers may
afford some clue. 1t is stated, also, that
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