Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-29

streams are declining but another rlss
IL looked for In each. Red river IL rising
and swell IL reported In the 0uauhita.
The weather Is cloudy and cool. A
steady rain fell from dark last evening
until after midnight.
PORT NEWS.
The A. ]. White took out a heavy trip
last night, the greater part of which was
for reshipment at the mouth of White
river........The st. Francis had a good
trip and the T. H. Allen left we'll freight
ed........The Alice Dean came up at
dark with full cargo for the Ohio, and
gets Ia bales cotton, besides other freight
here. The Great Republic went
down late with 1900 tons Western pro-
duce. The new cutoff in the Ar
kansas at Rowseys makes the distance
to points above eight miles less than be-
fore the rise.........Major Adams, Major
Murphy, Captain Pritchard and others
have returned from Little Rock.........
The Mary Houston went down this morn
ing with 900 tons, and the Julia went up
with a light trip.........The Phil Allin
brought fair trip.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There are ten feet of water above St.
Louis to Quincy.
The first shipment of new wheat this
season was made by the Anchor Line
yesterday. That line received fifteen
sacks consigned to Alden, Burr & Co.,
St. Louis.
The Pauline Carroll with 2,34O bars
railroad iron and 100 tons boxed sugar,
left New Orleans last evening for ST.
Louis.
A New Orleans dispatch announces
the DEATH from congestion of the brain,
yesterday, of Joe Green, for many years
a pilot on Red river.
The towboats Grand Lake No. 2 and
Bee, with barges, passed up yesterday.
The Pat Cleburne is the next regular
steamer for the Arkansas. She leaves
Friday
1t is rumored that the transfer boat
North Missouri, loaded with railroad
iron and locomotives for the Cairo and
Fulton railroad, sunk fifteen miles above
Augusta in White river, on Saturday.
The water is said to be over her hurri-
cane deck.
The Julia discharged at the Vicksburg
elevator 400 tons of freight in six hours,
in al about 5000 packages. Thanks to
the untiring energy of Captain mot
0ssian E. Dodge, the Anchor Line ele-
vator here will have the last pile driven
by Saturday next when the building
will be rapidly completed.
A terrible rain storm and tornado
al H..
day and Saturday, the water pouring
down necessarily for two days. Houses
and barns were blown down, trees up
rooted and all the streams were bank
full and overlooking, washing away rail-
roads, embellishments, bridges, trestles,
and doing immense damage AtSpring-
field it has rained every day for two
weeks, and every portion Of the valley
is flooded.
The upper draw-rest of the bridge
over the Missouri at ST. Joseph was sue
cessfully landed Monday ON a bed of
rock at depth of fifty feet below the
yards of sand were thrown up by the
Cameron pumps in twenty-four hours
during the progress of the work.
Low rates from St. Louis are about at
an end. An advance is expected to-
day or tomorrow. Flour will go up to
forty, and perhaps fifty, cents per bar
rel.
Charlie Hough, formerly clerk of the
Marble City, has severed his connection
with the river, and is now in the COM
mission business with L. Butterfeld at
st. Louis
At St. Paul there are sixty-6ve
steamers licensed and eighty-one barges,
with total tonnage of 20, Isl tons. ST.
Paul last year had navigation to New
Orleans 2l2 days, while there was navi-
CATION on Lake Erie for only 200 days.
The passenger steamer Sam. j. Hale,
Captain Hambleton, leaves this evening
at five o'clock, for Louisville, Cincin-
natl aud all way landings. Captain
Miller, is chief clerk.
Louisville collected $ll28 so wharf
age for the two weeks ending May 25th.
A Cairo telegram of the 26th says
Walter Morse, engineer of the tug
Montauk, had one of his feet cut of by
the crank attached to the main shaft,
while on duty to-day. Amputation was
afterward performed at the anklejoint.
His relatives reside at Cincinnati. He
bore his injury with wonderful fortitude
and resignation, and will recover as fast
as the amputated limb can heal.