Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS ADVERTISED TO LEAVE ro.DA


St. Louis Mary Mcdonald b p. IN
Vicksb ..........Joe Kinney. ...........5 y. m
St. Louis.................Be Belle of Pike....5 p. m
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Mary Mcdonald. st. Louis.
- W. J. Lewis, st. Louis.
- Batesville, White river.
- Batesville, White river.
Z" Mary Boyd, White river.
90 Belle of Pike, 81. Louis.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Phil Allin, Friar's Point.
- q. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
., Legal Tender New Orleans.
. W. J. Lewis. Yicksburg.
| " Utah, st. Louis.
'' b. Church. Cairo.
- Bsbbage, Cairo.
- John Kyle, New Orleans.
BOATS IN PORT.
City of Cairo, Mary Mcdonald, Belle of
| Pike, Mary Boyd, Batesville.
THE RIVERS AND WEATHER
Ice, cold weather, low water and the horse
disease. combined with steamboat accident
once in every twenty-four hours, is just now
the obstacles that steamboatmen have to con-
tend against. The ice is running at st. Louis
o-day, and no more boats will come out at
present. Louisville and Cincinnati harbors
are also full, and St. Louis. with New Or
~ Nans. is choking with the horse disease. At
~ former point the ferryboats transfer cars
-, ID and to load to the wharfboats on the
80, :; Ne. and oxen haul the freight down.
A. tho 10 \tter place the entire landing is filed
,,;,t Geo, hit of every description. Next
aonaas low water. Starting from the bar six
,,;Ios below IA elena is MOntezuma, where the
srs, " sr;af,, B. H. of the steamboatmen
occurs There IN ~ find but six and half
coo,. naxt at Hele IA, six feet; Horn Lake.
1--WE feet nine inches: Reeves, six feet. Then
above here, Island 40 iye and nail ieeti Is
land %, five feet two inches' and Point Pleas
ant four and a half feet. and above Cairo
nearly four feet. The Ohio VIII have hve-
foot channel from Evansville out in day or
two but II won't last long. White river has
all of thirty inches below Devall's Bluh, and
the Arkansas sixteen inches below Pine Blum.
The other lower tributaries are even worse.
The weather is again indicative of snow and
no prospects Of sunshine.
GUINNESS.
The two packets, Ch,nek and Phil Allin' got
ont last night with goo trips. The Legal
Tender took IS bales cotton for New orleans.
The Kyle got 5000 sacks corn at Madrid, and
laid over here until noon to-day. The City OF
Cairo paid off her crew and has laid up at the
foot of jefferson street; she has $50 hogsheads
sugar, and $50 barrels molasse for upper
points. The w. j. Lewis added 10 tons for
Vicksburg. The Utah took SIS bal,N Of cotton
for Cairo. The Babbage had 800 ba les for the
same point. and the Anchor Line folks had
600 bales for the Mary Mcdonald to take up
tonight. The G. B. Church got away yester-
day for tue Ohio. The Batesville came in
last night with 200 bales of cotton, and the
Mary Boyd, also from White river, arrived TO-
day with 5sl bales of cotton and some of the
cabin and bar fixtures Of the Thomas ii. Al
len; she reports the Eckert below Horn Lake
going down all right. The Babbage had not
got her two barges loaded at noon, but they
were being rapidly filed with cotton. The
Belle of Pike came down early with good |
trip. The Mary Alice and barges passed down
during the morning.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
For WHITE RIvER.-The Bstesville goes out
Tomorrow evening.
For ST. FRANCIS RIvER.-The St. Francis.
Captain Bowman, leaves this evening at Eve
o clock for Helena, Mariana. and all the usual
below landings. Mr.. Sam c. Paine is chief
clerk.
FoR ST. LoUIs.-The Mary Mcdonald de-
parts this afternoon at Eve o'clock for Cairo
and St. Louis direct.
For VIcKsBuKG.-The elegant steamer Joe
Kinney, Captain Porter, will be at the eleva-
tor to leave at Eve O'Clock this afternoon, in
the Anchor Line. for Vieksburg and ell inter
mediate landings. Joe Dill is her popular
purser.
For ST. LOuIs.--The Belle Of Pike. with
Captain Rider on the roof. leaves this after
noon at Eve o clock for Cairo and St. Louis,
in the Anchor Line.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Legal Tender got two dollars per bale