Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-22

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THE RIVERS A ~ WEATHER.
The rivers generally are falling both
above and below, exc ep; the upper Mis-
sissippi and Missouri. which are rising
as will be seen by he tabulated tele'
grams above the lat Ter gate rapidly at
Plattsmoulh, and the former steadily at
St. Paul. White river and the Arkan-
sas are falling hall foot each day and
are gradually coming down TO summer
level. Another rise is expected in the
course Of week in the latter, which
may swell It several set. Red river is
rising steadily, as 5 also the Yazoo,
but with the exceptions named, the diff
ferent streams are falling. Here the
river is falling four inches each day.
The weather is cloudy and warm, ana
indications favorabl e for rain.
BUSINESS.
The c. b. Church. went down yester-
day afternoon with moderate trip. The
City of Quincy pass ed south partly
laden, but did mot land. The Belle
Memphis got away light. and started up
the river at 2:4O gait, running quite
close to the steam srs at the landing as
she passed. The Marble City up had a
fair trip, and the Julia got away for
Vicksburg mode rately laden. The St.
Joseph brought 1900 tons and returns to
st. Louis to-nigh5. The Cleburne brought
1874 bales of cotton from White river and
l62 packages sundries, besides reship-
ping p bales of New Orleans cotton at
the mouth of White river. The Belle
Lee came down early with about 1900
tons of Ohio river freight, footing up
1926 packages and including the follow
ing "hefty" it ems for New Orleans: 596
hogsheads tobi .cco, 80 casks bacon, 9l2
barrels -four, 2 60 barrels coal oil, so bar
rels lime, 1860 barrels pork, 26O4 sacks
corn, 679 sack bran, 22s sacks oats and
had large al nount Of way freight. She
added here so netting like 300 bales cot
ton, and had fair passenger trip. The
W. f. Curtis, from the 0uachita aud
Tensas rivers, came up early and cleaned
out her boile RS, preparatory to leaving
for the Upper Missouri.
BE ATS TO LEAVE.
For HELENA AND NAPoLEoH.-The, A.
j. White, Capt ain Cheek, leaves as above
this evening. Ed. c. Postal and Charles
Sharpe, clerks.
For ARKANsA RIVER. - The Utah,
CAPTAIN VOORHEES,, departs this afternoon
at FIVE o'elock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock
and all points on the Arkansas river.
For ST.. LOUIS The st. Joseph, Capt.
Gray leaves this afternoon at five clock
70 Cairo and St. Louis. Mr.. o. Hewitt
is chief clerk.
FoR WHITE RIVER. Pat Cleburne,
Captain William Ashford, leaves for
Jacksopport and all points on the White
and Little Red rivers, this afternoon at
FIVE o'clock.
For CINCINNATI. - The excellent
steamer James d. Parker, Captain Bob
Wise, leaves this evening for Cincinnati.
W. F. Mcintyre is her chief clerk.
For CINCINNATI.-'lhe favorite passen-
ger steamer Andy Baum, Captain Vim
ton, and Charlie Woodbury. secretary,
goes tomorrow afternoon.
For ST.. LOUIS The regular through
passenger packet John Kyle, Captain
A. M. Hutchinson, departs this evening
at I o'clock fer st. Paul, Minnesota, St.
Louis, c afro, Memphis and bend land
ings. The Kyle will ticket passengers
through to any point from this port to
St. Paul. Mr.. ". NJ. Brown is the chief
clerk.
For CIXCINNATI.-The elegant steamer
John Kilgenr will pass up fer all points
on the Ohio river.
For New ORLEANS. The Nick Long
worth will pass down tomorrow.
For WrTTsBURG The St. Francis,
Captain T. R. Bowman, leaves as above
this eveni1ig, stopping at all landings
between here and Helena, and also
along the St. Francis river.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The weather to-day is cloudy at Chi
cago, Daven port, Omaha and Pittsburg,
and fair at Keokuk, St. Louis, New Or
leans, Nashville, Louisville and Cincin-
natl.
The new signal stations are Hermann,
Brunswick, Jefferson City, Lexington,
Kansas City, St. Joseph, Mo-, Platts-
mouth. Neb., Andalusia, Fort Smith,
Warsaw, H., Little Rock, Ark, Free
port, New Geneva, Oil City, Confluence,
Penn, Marietta, Ohio, Evansville, Ind,
Smithland. Ky.
The R. W. Skillenger was the first ar
rival at Shreveport direct from Pitts
burg; returning she offered to take cot
ton for Boston at six dollars per bale,
and little less to New York and Phila-
delphia.
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