Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-11
Changes.
Above loWlI {
tBelow high water Of 1871.
Failing fast.
Blank Cal indicates no report; cipher (O)
stationary; 20 rising; I'd gorged;
Observer sisnaI Service. b. s. A.
rnE RIvERs AYp wEArHER.

THE RIVERS AND WEATHER.
The river has risen an inch since our
last report, and to-day is going mp quite
rapidly from a steady rise that has
not been reported at Cairo by either che
press or Signal kilograms. but which has
been going on for several days. Now the
water level there is twenty feet above
low water mark, the rise yesterday being
two feet. The principal rise is from the
Cumberland, but now that stream is fall
ing, and the rise from the Ohio is about
to enter the Mississippi, which will make
further swell of two or three feet here.
There are indications, too, that the
Missouri and Illinois will be open in a
few days, as warm and rainy weather is
reported above. The weather to-day is
heavy; slow but steady rain set in be-
fore daylight and continued up to noon.
} BUSINESS. ao .ii
The local packets got out last night
we'll laden. The White came up with a
good trip Of cotton and seed, and the
Frank Forest had as much as she
wanted. The c. B. Church passed down
with l4OO tons, and the Lady Lee was
loaded deep as she passed for Red river.
The Capitol City had good trip and
laid over until to-day. The Cheek came
down last night with 244 bales Of cotton,
81 sacks Of seed cotton and 2029 sacks
of corn. The W. J. Lewis went down
for the Ouachita to-day loaded fiat.
The City Of Helena came down last
night with a big trip for Vicks-
burg, and left at ten AN. to-day,
The Andy Baum came in from
the Ohio to-day with 600 tons The
Julia passed up early, putting ont I'll
bales cotton and l75 sacks seed here.
The Capital City's cargo embraced, as
one item, 5000 barrels -four and meal,
and she had 200 head of stock. The
rain continued until long after dinner.
BOATS TO LEAVE, tx
For CfNcINNATI.-The Andy Baum
will be here to leave on Wednesday,
s FoR ST. Louis. The Capital City,
Captain j. F. Luker, departs at o'clock
this evening for Cairo and st. Louis. and
will make all railway connections
FoR MARIANA. - The passenger
steamer St, Francis, Captain John 7.
Bowman, win leave this evening at 5
o clock for Helena, Mariana, the Cut
off, and all the usual landings. Messrs.
S. Paine and ]. Franklin are clerks.
For FRIAR's PoINT-The Pat Cleburne
leaves tomorrow at 5 pm. for De-
wallis Bluff, Jacksonport and all way
landings Captain Ashford commands,
and Messrs. Davis and Neil Booker are
her clerks Do le % y h.ilol
For NAPoLEoN.-The A. J. White,
Captain Mark Cheek, leaves at o'clock
this evening for Napoleon and all the
bend landings. Messrs. E. c. Postal
and Charles Sharpe are secretaries.
For PINE BLUFF AND LITTLE Rock.
The steamer Clarksville, Captain S. B.
Adams, leaves this evening at 5 o'clock
for Pine Bluff and all points on the Ar
kansas river. w. Holmes is her clerk.
49, MISCELLANEOUS.
On last Saturday night the towboat
Petrol struck log near Huntsville, 10
the Ohio river, and Aoated down stream.
Captain McElhany swan ashore, but he
was so thoroughly chilled that he died
shortly afterward. While she was sink
ing she turned over, her boilers and
ohimneys rolled of, and her supply
pipes exploded. Three men were
drowned.
The wreck Of the Belle Pike is at the
mouth of the chute at Presidents Island,
partly out of water.
There is four and a half feet in the
Arkansas to-day to Little ROck.
Captain John B. Davies, the we'll
known engine builder of Louisville, is in
town.
Mississippi must have equal rights,
and captains Of steamboats, who permit
auarrels on their boats in that State
must submit to arrest, as will be seen by
the following from Sundays Yieksburg
Herald. There was considerable ex-
element on board Of the little steamer
Hunter last evening. The Waterman
and a colored laborer started a row,
which was sufficient to draw TO the as
sistanse Of the man and brother al least
one hundred others Of his color, making
things look rather bilious for q while.
The police pat in an appearance, as Is
usually the case, at the eleventh hsar,
Who With the aid Of sOue half a dozen