Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-26

The different lines from ST. Louis 10
the South have been trying to devise
some plan TO advance rates, but so far
have failed to harmonic. The James
Howard began loading for New Orleans
at 25c for -four and l2lo per 100 for
pound freight.
There is only five feet of water in the
Arkansas below Van Buren,.
Captain VIM. Trainer and pilot Geo,
Hughes, Of Cincinnati, have gone to Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
The Arlington and II. W. S. Killinger
have laid up at Cincinnati.
The Vieksburg and Meridian railroad
has purchased, in the first named city,
the Marshall Landing, giving it a river
front Of seventeen hundred yards.
Major Hutton, OF the United States
Engineer Corps, is now in Fredericks-
burg, Va, experimenting the blowing
up Of the wrecks sunk in the Kappa
hammock river at that place during the
war.
Captain George f. Hardy, Of. the
Vicksburg and Delta Ferry Company,
purchased the ferryboat P. f. Geisser,
lying at Carondelet, for $4,000,
The st. Louis Globe says:
Steamers leaving port have a great
deal Of trouble in getting crews, and
many of them who leave with full crews
lose them by jumping within twenty.four
hours after leaving port. We would
especially state that if steamboatmen do
not burn or sink their boats, run Off with
somebody else's wife; in fact, do some
thing worthy of sensation article, they
must not expect much from the Deck
Sweepings" 1t is dull and no mistake.
Captain Jud West has laid the City Of
Quincy up. He is reported to have
made successful season, and proposes
to jump the game and quit winner
while he can. He says twenty-five cents
on -four and twelve and half cents on
pound freight is too small an ante
Captain Steve Wilkins was expected
home last night from Saratoga, where he
has been doing the springs.
Red river drains very large area Of
country, probably the richest for cotton
raising purposes in the world Nearly
its entire course is confined to the cotton
growing belt. There has never been an
actual survey made of this river, but
its estimated length is two thousand
miles. In many respects it differs from
any other river in America. In the
first place, it is considerably wider
at its head than at its mouth.
Captain Marcy, in his report TO the
War Department, makes its width six
miles from its source, 200 feet, just be-
low the mouth of the North fork two
thousand feet, and fifty miles below
20Ol teet. At the mouth it is
eighteen hundred feet, at Alexandria
seven hundred and twenty feet, and at
the mouth of Black River seven hundred
and eighty-fve feet. The narrowest
part of the river is just above the mouth
Of what is called Twelve mile bayou,
where it is but little over one hundred
feet. From there to Carolina Bluffs the
width varies from one hundred to two
hundred feet. Above that point to
Dooley's bayou, the stream increases in
width, and still further up it becomes
from four TO seven hundred feet wide
Another peculiarity-and one rather
detrimental to steamboat interests-is its
numerous outlets. Some OF these are be-
lieved to carry of more water than the
main river For instance, Red and
Dooleys bayous, above Shreveport, car
ry off more water than the main stream,
and are the cause of the narrow river
between Dooley's bayou and the mouth
Of Twelve-mile bayou, where the water
again returns to the river proper.