Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-07

Inc IlNcI - lhhihB quitc tapiuiy hctc
and few inches decline is reported a
ST. Louis, as well as at the different
cities along the Ohio, the emily rise re
ported being at Nashville, where thu
Cumberland rose twenty inches yester
day, and has large stage all the way
to that point. The Arkansas is rising
slowly, and has nearly four feet to Little
Rock. The weather to-day is clear anC
pleasant, the fog that developed the city
and covered the river during the night
having cleared away. Business at the
landing was quite active yesterday after
noon, but not much was done this morn
ing.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
For ARKANSAS RIvER.-The Darda-
nellie goes out on Saturday next az the
usual hour.
FoR WHITE RIvER.-The City OF Au
gusta goes to White river Saturday.
For HALE's PoIST.-The George W.
Cheek, Captain MaloRe, leaves this after
noon at 5 o'clock. Mr.. George G. Griffin
is chief clerk.
FoR FRIAR's PoINT.-The regular
coast packet Phil Allin, Captain james
Lee, departs at o'clock this Afternoon
for E,iar's Point and all the usual way
landings. Stack Lee is chief clerk.
For NAPoLEoN.-The A. J. White
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves at 5 o'clock
this evening for Napoleon and all th'
bend landings. Messrs. E. c. Postal anC
Charles Sharpe are secretaries.
For CINcISNATI.--Tbe Shannon il
momentariiy expected from below, ant
will leave at FIVE pm. for Cairo, Louis
Vile and Cincinnati.
MISCELLANEOUS.
At six o'clock this morning thu
weather bulletin issued by the sigma
Bureau read as follows: Chicago, "a
above zero, weather fair; Cincinnati
$40, foggy; Davenport, $50, clear; Louis
vile, $40, clear; Memphis, $50, clear
Nashville, 4l0, fair; New Orleans, 490
fair; Omaha, $50, cloudy; St. Louis
80, fair; St. Paul, 800, cloudy; Keokuk
$50, clear.
The Oakland, with a tow of coal, il
this side of Cairo, and the Bigley below
Evansville. When they get here the
price will suddenly decline.
Two boats, the John A. Wood and
Simpson Horner, left Louisville yester-
day with tows Of coal for the South
There is but FIVE feet of water above
Cairo.
The ice gorges in the upper MisGis-
sippi and Missouri hold firm yet, but are
expected to break every day
The bill authorizing the construction
Of 4OO-foot span bridge across the Mis-
sisoippi river at this point came up in
the House of Representatives at Wash
ington yesterday, when Mr.. Packer,
who had reported the bill from the COM
mittee, stated that compromises were in
discussion which would remove all OBJ
iections to the bill, and he moved its
which was done, and Mem
Dhis will, sometime during the nine
.eenth century, have a railway bridge
over two miles long spanning the river
near the city.
The United States Government will,
doubtless, soon construct here a large
Ihip-building yard to build portion of
IS iron, as well as wooden steamers.
Where in the world is there a city with
he facilities that Memphis affords2 We
lave, first, the natural location-at the
mouth of Wolf river; next, this is the
read of navigation, during the winter, as
veil as during low water; again, the
orests on either side of the river are
ull of the finest timber that can be
ound anywhere in the universe for ship
hickory, walnut and
very other kind, and it is easy to get
tut; and last, but not least, our State
furnishing, as has been acknowledged by
very steamboat builder in the East and
Vest, the best bsiler iron that is pro
Iuced in the United States. These are
he tep advantages that Memphis has
yer any city on the Mississippi or its
tributaries, and when the bill for the
obstruction Of such a yard comes up
gain in the United States Senate, as it
id yesterday, our Representatives there
hould not fail to put these facts square
= before that body. We want the ship
ard here; it will bring labor and CAPT,
Il, two things quite essential to the
iture prosperity of the third largest /
otton market Of the United States.
The machinery taken from the wreck
the Little Rock will be sold at aue-
on this afternoon at the foot Of Adams
treet
Barney Barinds, the handsomest clerl
n the river, and a clever o,leman
a1Aal, has, We lear taken charge Of
ae Pl'e- :. me George W. Cheek.