Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-02

Of St. Louis during the month Of June,
when the wharfage collections there were
$6599 IA. N9h
The Fontanelle was thirty-two days in
going from St. Louis to Fort Benton and
return. She had to duck her ehimneys
at Leavenworth bridge.
The following boats are laid up at st.
Louis and Carondelet Fannie Keener,
Rock Island, Dexter, Continental, Capt.
toll City, Thompson Dean, St. Joseph,
Marble City a(soon to undergo general
overhauling), Savannah, Susie Silver,
wrecking boats Salvor, Salvor No. 2,
and Submarine No. IA, City of Keiths-
burg, p. w. Strader, Commonwealth and
the Carrie V. Kountz.
The Knoxville Chronicle of the 9th
says: The river is rising very rapidly,
and has already reached six feet above
the usual water mark.
A mountain poet gets of the following
on the race up the Missouri between the
Nellie Peck and Far West. Captain
Marsh, of the Nellie, is heard to shout:
A horse horse my steamboat for a steedi
viii no one help me? see here is gold!
Oh, fetch me horse, for great is my need,
The . Far West" is coming, and Tllbe soldl
The poet or some one else at Benton
concludes the poem, by saying in very
important manner:
Back. Captain, back, to your native "ca-
The The. s N.,l ;, Far West" has beaten your
her downfall.
When next my story will tell.
The Tensas and Mobile bridge, or
bridges, on the Mobile and Montgomery
railroad, extends from Tensas Station,
on the Mobile and Montgomery road to
the city of Mobile, distance of fifteen
miles, crossing both Mobile and Tensas
rivers and including ten draws, one for
each Of the navigable channels into
which the river is divided. The bridge
is constructed of wood, but its pillars or
supporters are iron cylinders, which rest
on solid surface of wooden piles driven
down evenly with the bottom of the
stream and the mud of the intervening
morasses. 1t has been three years in
the course of construction, at cost of
about 81, 100000, and now that it has
been successfully completed, is, perhaps,
the longest structure on the globe. y
The City of Quincy, for st. Paul d.
rect, passed up early this morning with
a good trip, and the Colorado, for Vicks-
burg went down soon after daylight, put
ting out $50 tons here.
The passenger steamer Julia leaves at
five o'clock this evening for Vicksburg.
Captain Boyd commands, and Jimmy
Thompson, Esq, is her prime minister.
The reliable passenger packet Thomas
81. Allen, in command of Captain Eu-
gene Smith, leaves this evening at FIVE
o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock and
all the usual way landings. Colonel
Pat Morrison and Bob Gillespie are her
clerks.
The feet passenger steamer St. Fran
els, Captain T. r. Bowman, leaves this
evening at FIVE o'clock for Helena,
Mariana, Wittsburg, and all the usual
way landings. Sam Paine and Billy
Dean are her clerks.
The Charles Bodmann, Captain o. P.
Shinkler, leaves this evening at four
o'clock for New Orleans direct. She
has superior accommodations and fare.
Mr.. Holden is her chief secretary.
Through the kindness of observer
Rhode we give the following river tele-
grams to-day: st. Paul, stationary, four
feet eleven inches; Davenport, station
airy, four feet six inches; Omaha fell
FIVE inches-thirteen feet above low
water. Nashville. fell six inches-three
feet water. st, Louis, fell one inch@-
seventeen feet nine inches. Cincinnati,
fell eight inches-thirteen feet six inches.
Cairo, fell six inches-seventeen feet ten
inches Louisville, fell twelve inches
FIVE feet one inch, Memphis, fell six
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