Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-20


5 o'clock for Cairo and st. Louis.
For ARKANSAS RIvER.-The Darda-
nellie goes on Saturday.
FoR New 0RLEASs.-The great low
pressure Richmond will be down to-
night to leave at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning for Vicksburg, Natchez and
New Orleans, arriving in the city in
time to give her passengers an oppor-
tunity Of attending the great carnival
there. Nat Green, Memphian, is in
command, and assures us by telegraph
that the accommodations on his boat are
unsurpassed. To his care we commend
forty or fifty Of our citizons, who have
secured passage on the Richmond.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Ohio rose one foot at Evansville
yesterday.
The coal shipments from Pittsburg
during the past two weeks amount to
nearly 1000, 900 bushels.
The James L. Rankin was sold by the
United States Marshal, at Evansville,
Saturday, to Thomas & Cox, for $4,000.
At Evansville, Saturday. the United
States Marshal sold the sunken steamer
Commercial, to Buffner, jr., for $l25.
The boat is entirely under water aft OF
her wheel.
The contract for the transportation OF
Government supplies for the Western
forts etc, has not been awarded. The
competition is causing good deal of i'll
feeling between some ofthe bidders, and
some Credit Mobilier operations on
small scale are being divulged.
The Sam ]. Hale and barges are due
from below.
We clip the following from Tuesdays
Knoxville Press and Herald:
The Holston, having fallen twelve feet
from the former high tide, commenced
rising about daylight on Sunday morn
ing. and continued to rise until three
o'clock Yesterday afternoon, at which
time the river had risen four feet. Last
night it began to fall slowly. A tele-
gram received in this city yesterday after
noon stated that the Resaca bridge
would be all right by evening, and 1t was
expected no further detentions would
occur on the W. & A. r. K. Down IN
Georgia a large extent OF territory has
been flooded by the overflow OF the
Etowah and Oostanaula. All the bridges,
however. stood the tremendous pressure
from the rush of the angry torrents OF
water. At Chattanooga the river rose
steadily until yesterday, greatly to the
terror of the citizens, but fortunately
for the neat little city, the raging waters
kept right forward and did not make
any side issues with the town, other than
covering all the lowest places. The
river is about six feet below the rise OF
IS47, and within twenty-seven feet OF
the high water mark of 1867.
Thompson Dean left Cairo at eleven
clock yesterday morning and came
here in twenty-five hours, including two
hours lost at wood yards and two hours
lost in the rain.
When the passengers Of the Thomp-
son Dean-about one hundred and fifty
in number-wcnt up on Main street this
morning for walk King Menus thought
Mardi. Gras had slipped in upon him a
few days ahead of time, and was about
to marshal his forces for the carnival,
but finding that the crowd of WELCOMED
strangers were destined for New Or
leans the forces were dispersed.
From 6 o clock last night to 10 o'clock
this morning the river rose nine inches,
and then stood twenty-nine feet one
inch above low water, the total rise
being eighteen feet nine inches, and
is now but ssuen feet and Jioe inches
below the highest mark OF 1861 The
water at the wood yards between here
and Cairo is within four feet of the top
of the bank, and to this there will be a
rise of five or six feet during the next
ten days. A letter from Captain Scud-
der, of St. Louis, anticipates vast over
flow here, and we again say, Prepare
for high water"
A heavy fog enveloped the river
nearly all the morning.
Our item hunter, through the kindness
of Mr.. N. B. Fowler, clerk Of the
Thompson Dean, obtained glimpse Of
that boats register to-day, and found
inscribed thereon the names of one
hundred and twenty-seven passengers,
who hail from New York, Pittsburg,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Dayton, st.
Louis, Louisville and other cities all
going to New Orleans. The most i'm
portant feature of the male portion is
that they are the solid men of the
cities mentioned, their estimated wealth
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000, 1000
each, averaging all told $l2,5OO,OO.
Among the most prominent are
j. II. Wilson and II. Cooper,
Cincinnati; DR.. Porter and fam
lily, Louisville; Sam J. Hale and
lady, Cincinnati; II. Burton and lady,
Miss Emma French, Miss Cooper, Mrs,
Smelton, Miss Merriwesther, Miss Gun.
ningbam, Captain Frank Carter, Super
intendent Of the Louisville mail line Of
steamers; w. ]. Byers and family, W.
F. Thorn and lady, j. ]. MeHenry, Cap
tain John Kyle and lady, Miss Hahn
Miss Stegman, Miss Barr, John Carlisle
and wife and sister, DR.. Lehman and
lady, E. Melton and wife and son, Mr..
Bentley and family, Mrs. E. K. Min