Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-09
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS THAT LEAVE TO-DAY.

BOATS THAT LEAVE TO-DAY.
Arkansas river Thomas II, Allen......5 p IN.
St. Francis river.St. Francis...............5 pm.
Steamer Julia, St. Louis.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
(" Geo. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
." Phil Allin, Friar's Point.
Nashville, Cincinnati.
Julia, Vicksburg.
BOATS IN PORT.
st. Francis, A. J. White.
RIVERS, BUSINESS AND MISCELLANEOUS.
The river is swelling slowly here, and
has full eighteen feet to Cairo. The
upper streams are declining at nearly
every point the exception being Omaha,
where there was rise of two inches, and
from there to the mouth of the Missouri
there is a depth of from twelve to
eighteen feet. The Arkansas is rising
to-day with swell already Of nearly
three feet at Little Rock. White river
is falling. The weather continues clear
and hot
MISCELLANEOUS.
Missouri river steamboatmen say they
never saw so delicate and gradual June
rise in the Missouri before.
Louisville collected $l663 wharfage for
the two weeks ending on Saturday.
Captain John Keiser, of st. Louis, is
in the city for day or two.
Captain Tom Berry came up yester-
day from his watermelon patch, in Wal
nut Bend, and is looking as hale and
hearty as though he was not over forty
years old. He bears age remarkably
we'll.
Several steamboats, will lay over here
tomorrow evening to give their passen-
gers an opportunity to attend the spirit
ual seance of Rev. DR.. Bhughes at the
Memphis Theater. Jim Franklin has
been nominated as Barney's treasurer.
The Julia went down at noon with
heavy cargo, discharging three hundred
tons and seventy-fve head of stock
here.
The changes in the streams since our
last are as follows; Omaha, rose inch;
IL feet inches above low water Dav-
export, fell inch; feet A inches Keo-
kuk, fell inch; feet 3 inches. Cairo,
fell inches; Is feet inch. St. Louis,
stationary; II feet, Cincinnati, fell 8
inches; s feet 4 inches. Louisville, fell
4 inches; feet inches. Vicksburg,
fell 10 inches; 20 feet 8 inches. Nash
ville fell inches; feet 10 inches.
The towboat VIM. Cowan, with 100, 600
bushels of Mount Carbon and lower Ohio
river coal for Brown 4 Jones, arrived
yesterday.
The City of Vicksburg, Captain Car
ter, will be up at daylight in the morning
to leave at ten o'clock for Cairo, St.
Louis and all intermediate points.
The Helena people declare that there
is no boat that floats the Mississippi
nor officials equal to the City of Helena
and her crew.
The Minneola leaves Cincinnati to-
morrow for New Orleans.
The towboats John Hanna and N. j.
Bigley are at work endeavoring to raise
eleven barges of coal recently sunk in
Youghiogheuy river. 1t is thought most
Of them viii be raised.
A Cincinnati exchange has the fol-
lowing: I'VE understand that at meet
ing held yesterdays new line Of boats
was organized for the Cincinnati and
Memphis trade, consisting of the Poto-
mac, st. Marys, Arlington and Andy
Baum, to commence operations at the
opening of navigation the coming fall.
Captain John A. Williamson is the Su-
perintendent."
A dispatch received at St. Louis on
the 9th from st. Paul announces the
Mississippi at that point higher than it !
has been before this season, and still
rising.
The canoe Dolly Warden will be trans
ported by boat from St. Louis to New
Orleans.
The Louisville Courier advises all
boats paying canal tolls to do so under
protest. By so doing there is a chance
of having the money refunded at some
future day. If not paid under protest
they will have no recourse.
Colonel Tom Scott has received from
Shreveport, by ordinance, for his Texas
railroad depot, the two blocks Of ground
on the river, between the railroad and
Silver Lake, which he required as con-
dition to his making Shreveport the
eastern terminus Of bis road. The city
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