Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-21
Stations.

EJECT below standard. below high water
mark of 1871.
Blank (.....) indicates no report; cipher CO)
stationary.
At vicksburg the change is from the 18th
| inst. inclusive.
[Oficiall s.W. RHODE,
Observer Signal Service. U. S. A.
The rise here since our last report
| is seight inches. The Missouri is
again falling at Omaha, but the next
report will likely contain news of rise;
considerable swell is coming out of its
lower tributaries and the Mississippi is
rising about st. Louis. The Arkansas
is out of its banks below Pine Bluff, and
rising with twenty-eight feet at Little
Rock. White river and the Ouachita
are also rising. The weather is clear
and warm.
PORT NEWS.
The Carrie Kountz passed up last
evening, after cleaning her boilers here.
She had $50 tons for St. Louis ......... The
Bismarck also went up with nearly 1000
tons. Belle Memphis took a
fair list Of passengers, and the Phil Allin
got away with a good trip, getting q
number of Arkansas Liberals from the
train on the other side of the river to
attend the convention at Helena.........
The Colossal went down this morning
for White river with barge containing
rolling stock for the Cairo and Fulton
railroad. .....".The Pauline Carol went
down at noon loaded fat, adding here
fifty tons of oil cake.
Aftccrrr lNrouC
Coal forty cents box, from deck of
covered barges, at Johnsons Landing,
Tenn, three miles above Island 30. l73
The remains of Mr.. Connley, the en-
gineer of the Bee, who was scalded to
death by the bursting of the steam-pipe,
was forwarded to his friends at st. Louis
from New Orleans, on Thursday even
ing.
The decision Of Captain Sam Houston,
Supervising Inspector of this district, in
regard to the collision between the Gar
rett and Falls City, at Louisville, where
by the decision of the Local Inspectors
is reversed, has caused something of
stir at Louisville among steamboatmen,
and an appeal to the Secretary of the
Treasury is talked Of
A st. Paul exchange says steamboat
men there are beginning to talk of big
water the entire season. They base
their prophecies upon the prevalence of
the high winds. They say windy
April and May precedes season of
good water.
Vicksburg papers give an account of
one Rouse, formerly of Maryland Land
ing but recently a raftsman, who tried
to buy the steamer Trader for $4,000,
giving check on bank where he had no
money, and who also stole $35 from the |
pocket of the clerk Of the Trader, for
which he is now in limbo.
The water gauge at Vicksburg was,
during the early part Of last week, COW
cred with mud and drift; hence the in
ability OF the observer to furnish re-
ports.
Ice is worth four dollars per ton in st. !
Louis, and, thanks to Bohlen Huse &
Co., our steamboatmen will find a good |
supply here this season at reasonable |
prices.
The Mt. Vernon Banner tells the fol-
lowing: 1.-THE river editor of the Mem
PMS ANdlauCuo OuBuJ W DC pTOScSutOu
for playing a cruel joke on Silverthorn,
of the Evansville Journal. On the last
trip up of the Kilgour the Avalanche
man reported that she had several hun
bred lunches Of bananas and large
assortment of pine apples aboard, which
we're to be distributed along the shore.
Silver saw the item long before the XII
your was due at Evansville, and he set
az three days and three nights, waiting
or them bananas When the Kilgour
lid come there was not banana in
The John T. Moore created no little
sensation in Jefferson, she being the
rst iron boat that has yet attempted to !
,avigate the wilds of Red river.
An exchange has it that the steamer
Iayhower recently ran from Camden, ,
N the 0uachita, to New Orleans in
ifty-one hours. the best time on record. 7
The Arkansas river at Little Rock is
ow within a few feet of the high water
mark Of 1874. The little town Of Ar
enta, opposite, is under water, and
,lantations bordering on the river be- ,
ow there are also under water. The
amage will be greatest in Jefferson,
arkansas, Chicot and Desha counties.