Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-28
Stations.

SBelOw high water mark OF lSl. -
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S' qosieiaiI s.w. RHODE.
Observer Signal Service, U. S. A.
The river is now about stationary here,
but will probably go few inches higher
before the decline at st. Louis reaches
this city. The Ohio is rising at Pitts
burg, but the extent of the rise is not
great. The Arkansas fell eighteen
inches at Little Rock yesterday. The
condition of other streams is given
above. The weather is cloudy and cool.
PORT NEWS.
The Belle St. Louis went up before
daylight yesterday morning....,....The
Nile went down for the Arkansas with a
fair cargo. The I. II. Allen brought
good trip of freight from the Arkansas
The Henry Ames went down at
dark with barge in tow, but did not
land. There are no libels here against
her. ....-..The Colorado went down at
dark with fair trip.........The Edinburg
came in from below, added 400 NJ. I.
beer kegs and got off at dark for the
Ohio. .......The Belle Memphis left for
st. Louis with good trip.........The
towboat Wilson, with barges for the Ohio,
went up after dark.
N-i MISCELLANEOUS.
Observer Rhode received to-day let
ter from General Myers informing him
that an improved cipher would be used
after the first preximo in telegraphing
the stage of water at different points, so
that the telegraphio errors will be obvi-
ated, and the reports improved in many
other ways.
Major Adams, of the Arkansas River
Packet Company, will return tomorrow
from Little Rock, where he has been on
business. 1t is whispered that the De
mocracy of Arkansas will nominate him
for Governor of that State. We hope
they will and that he will be elected.
The total decline in the Arkansas at
Fort Smith is ten feet. The decline at
Little Rock yesterday was eighteen
inches.
The current in the Arkansas is very
swift, and several new cut-offs have been
made by the high water. One at Hins-
ley's plantation, fifty miles below Little
Rock, is now navigSble, and the L. ID.
Allen, on her downward trip, came
through it, for which her pilots, Messrs.
Movers and Daniels, received a present
of two hundred and fifty dollars in green
backs from the planters in that vicinity.
The other is ten miles above, at Rev
sey's, the river having cut a channel
across a plantation, where, two weeks
since, there was cotton field. This
chute is fifty yards wide, and already a
vast quantity Of water pours through
with wonderful rapidity.
An Evansville exchange has advices
from Mt. Carmel that the Wabash river
has risen in all about five feet since
week ago Saturday, but was then falling
slowly.
A New Orleans exchange has the fol
lowing. "The Richmond crossed the
river last night to load with iron for st.
Louis Nat Green, her commander,
wears a Dolly Warden suit of imitation
linen. 1t is becoming to his style Of
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The conference on the Steamboat Bill
has finished all but two sections, and
were to be ready to report last Thurs
day. The result will be, in nearly all
points for which steamboatmen have
contended, as against the arbitrary ana
excessive powers Of inspectors aud I'M
proper designs Of pateat men, that the
features Of the House bill will be IN the
main retained.