Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-22

mere are on DdlCo VI COtlOH ohA wv
sacks of oil cake here awaiting the Elk
porter for transportation to New Or
leans.
Captain John A. Suddoth, Of Friars
Point, is in the city.
The city authorities at New Orleans
have brought suit against their wharf
masters and their bondsmen for over
$4,000 wharfage collections unaccounted
for.
The Burns will not get her cargo dis
charged in time to load and get away to-
night. She will, therefore, lay over un-
til tomorrow.
Mr.. George A. Clum, the assistant
weather observer at this station, has
been ordered to report at Washington,
and has been relieved by Mr.. j. ID.
Stockwell. Mr.. Clum left on the noon
train, and will undoubtedly be placed in
charge of some large station. While
here he made many friends, and his de-
parture is much regretted.
After the first of next month the stage
of water at each station will be tele-
graphed daily by the signal service bu-
reau instead of compiling from the rise
and fall, as has heretofore been the
custom.
Four or FIVE new signal stations are to
be established by the War Department
during the next month.
The Mary Boyd is the next regular
mail steamer for Little Rock and other
landings on the Arkansas.
The rise at St. Louis yesterday was
thirteen inches instead of three, as re-
ported.
A Cairo telegram of the 18th to the
Cincinnati Commercial reported the Ex-
porter aground at Caseyville bar.
In advocating the construction of
bridge at Little Rock, and the voting Of
100000 by the people for that purpose,
the Little Rock Republican gets off the
following argument: Ferries are ante
diluvian concerns. Noah, you remem-
Der, walked the roof of the first craft of
this kind, and ever since his time these
arks have been monopoly, as was his.
The age is progressive, and ferryboats
are behind the time.
The Imperial passed Dubuque on her
way down Monday with five barges, con-
tanning $4,000 bushels of wheat. On the
same day the river rose six inches. Five
persons, man, two women and two boys
were drowned at that point during Sat
urday and Sunday by the upsetting of
skiffs.
St. Louis rates to New Orleans are III
to 20 cents per 100 pounds 25 cents per
barrel on -four To Memphis: Flour,
30 cents; pork, so cents; whisky 81 %;
hay, 80 cents. To Vicksburg: Flour, 40
cents; hay, 80 cents.
The John +. Tolle had 10000 bushels
of bulk corn in her hold when she passed
here yesterday. 1t is the first consign-
ment from st. Louis destined to New
Orleans in the hold of steamboat.
The st. Louis Democrat would thus
explain away the legal difficulty of the
Carrie Kountz at Vicksburg: 81 She laid
aground some time ago, and was helped
off. A contractor was paid for the work,
bat he ran off and defrauded some labor
ers of their wages; hence, the suit
against the boat by the men who were
defrauded by the contractor" Too thin
altogether.
The Bodmann went up at 2 pm, well
laden, for the Ohio. Mr.. A. W. Robin
son, river editor of the Cincinnati Times
and Chronicle, who is a passenger, paid
us flying visit He is on his way home
from visit to his relatives in Louisiana.
The r. c. Gray, which left Louisville
early Sunday morning with full cargo
of freight for Arkansas river, and also
the barge Ludlow, containing one loco
motive and tender and six box-cars for
the Mobile and Northwestern railroad,
burned her boilers at Leavenworth, and
her clerk returned to Louisville for ma
terial and hands to patch them.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in
noticing the marriage of JOHN Mcbride,
pilot OF the A. J. Baker, concludes its
. paragraph as follows: May the honey
moon afford them light through the long
journey of life; and may Jehn guide the
ship OF matrimony, towing the little Nc
4. Brides, whom he may find along the
shore, safely into the harbor at last.
The river was stationary at st. Louis
at one pm. to-day. Heavy rains are,
however, falling in Ohio, Kentucky, In
diana, Illinois and Missouri that will
start another rise.
A number of new barges are being
constructed at Chattanooga by the gov
eminent, which will be used in removing
the distractions on the Tennessee river
at Ross Tow Head, etc.
On Monday in the United States Sen
ate, Mr.. Sprague said that he received a
communication setting forth serious
objections to the steamboat bill passed
by the Senate last week, and he moved
= to reconsider the vote on it. The Vice
? President ruled that the motion was out
: OF order, the House having already acted
= on the bill, but he said that it would be