Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-16

heavy rain fell neaRly all last night that
will almost check the decline here. To
day it is cloudy, and the prospects for
more rain are good.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Mary Alice and barges passed
down, and the towboats Bell and barges
and Kellogg passed up yesterday.
| The White river cutoff, which was
closed by filing up has again washed
out and is navigable.
Mr.. Tchudi, clerk of the M. j. Wicks,
left here by rail to-day for st. Louis,
where he will arrive some hours ahead
of his boat.
Mr.. VIM. Roselle, commercial editor
of the Appeal, accompanied by his wife,
were passengers on the Belle Memphis
last night for St. Louis.
The injury to the barge towed by the
Wicks in picking up the snag in Council
Bend was not great. The snag struck
the nose of the barge, and glanced up,
catching the deck, and turning over,
apron like, about twenty feet square of
the deck, laid it down as though it had
been done by machinery. Even the
railroad iron was undisturbed, and re-
pairs to the barge will not cost over
800. Captain Tchudi, who was in the
cabin ct the time, hearing the crash, ran
out upon the guards, and the night be-
ing dark, he got his head out over the
railing just as the monster snag was
raising, and thought it missed his crani-
UNI by about four inches.
The Richmond went up last evening
on one wheel. She was filled with
people.
The Vicksburg came down last night,
put off 200 tons, and had double that
amount for Vicksburg.
A Montgomery, Ala, telegram says
heavy rains in that vicinity have swollen
the small streams and carried away rail-
road tracks and destroyed millions of
dollars worth of cotton and corn.
The John Kyle left New Orleans Sat
urday night with one of the best trips of
the season, having over 100 passengers
and 1900 tons freight, including $50 tons
railroad iron and 5000 sacks salt.
The Indiana will lay up at New Or
leans for few days.
The Houston is coming up with her
cabins well filed, but has little freight.
Sundays St. Louis Republican con-
tains the following: 1.-THE James How
ard takes the Richmonds turn in the
New Orleans line, and follows the Glen
coe. Captain Pegram says he and the
Richmond have formed no line from
Cairo to New Orleans, as reported in
New Orleans, but both have signifed
their intentions of running their boats
between those points during the winter"
Jim Matheny stationed his lights on
Grand Chain, in the Ohio, last Tuesday
night.
A Madison, Ind, exchange says: 1.-THE
fine New Orleans steamer LaBelle, now
being heightened at Stewart & Co.'S
shipyard, was cut in two forward of the
chimneys yesterday, and drawn asunder
sixty feet, in just two and half hours.
The Cherokee undergoes the same sur
gical operation to-day, and will be made
thirty feet longer. The towboat Dick
Fulton has been caulked, AID is ahoat
again. The Pink Varble, thoroughly
repaired, leaves for Memphis tomorrow.
She has full load of freight engaged
at Louisville and Evansville"
The feet and entirely new steamer
George W. Cheek, Captain George Ma
lone, will leave punctually at five pm.
to-day, for Helena, Friar's Point and all
way landings. R. II. Wildberger and
Charles Sharpe are her clerks.
The st. Francis, Captain Tom Bow
mans favorite packet, goes out this
evening for Helena, Mariana and Mad
ison, connecting at the latter point with
Little Rock trains.
The reliable passenger packet Thomas
II. 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 archer
clerks.
The superb steamer City of Helena
will be up tonight to leave at ten o'clock
to morrow morning for Belmont, Cairo
and st. Louis, making all railway con-
nections. Captain Mckee commands,
and Will t. Power is her clerk.