Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-08
Daily report Of the stage Of water and tho
changes during the tweny-four hours ending
M uoou ta-dnyf

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NIX RIVERS AND WEATHER
n. -. rose six inches during the
me 49,. Ilssr bur hours. and now stands
twenty eight fe y SIX ,nsGSs n raD;Jlx y a,
water mark. The 'n,o - ,.;'ns swaIl;n, a,
Pittsburg, and the ussouri :, III, sa mo
all points. The Miss ss'ppl VIII , DC ris'nS
at the upper points in IA u To- ,satiber,
there is every reason 20 b. - - b. y
will be plenty Of water for O + GIl;no
all directions. White rive. I."Lson'
slowly, with nearly nine feet to ma .
port, and the Arkansas has four H. fail
half feet TO Little Rock A cold ra, ,be
during the morning, and at am. w.
mercury stood at So.
BUSINESS.
The Belle Lee got 403 bales of cotton
at Hopefeld yesterday, and had far
freight trip down. The Forest brought
ia bales Of cotton. The Continental
went up at dark with 500 hogsheads OF
sugar and 1900 sacks Of salt for ST.,
Louis, and the Belle Memphis went out
light. The Andy Baum brought 600
tons OF freight from the Ohio, and will
be loaded when she leaves here on her
return trip. The James Howard and
John +. Tolle passed up this morning
the latter without landing The DeSmet
also went up before noon. The Boyd
brought 27l bales Of cotton. The Julia
dischargek % tons, and has 800 tons for
Vicksburg, but lays here until evening to
repair her wheel. broken by the coal fiat
this morning. The Smoky City and
barges passed up early.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
For CIYcIYNATI.-The Andy Baum
departs Wednesday afternoon.
FoR CINCINyATI.-Th Pat Rogers
will be down to leave tomorrow.
FoR CINcINNATI.-The unsurpassed
packet N. Longworth, Captain Lew
Hates, leaves to-day at six pm. for Gin
cinnati, Louisville and way landings.
The Longworth is one of the best man
aged packets that comes to this port, |
and ought to receive good trip by her
hour Of departure. Mr.. Eugene Bowers
| is the chief clerk.
For ST.. LouIs.-The st. Joseph,
Captain Gray, leaves to-day at FIVE
o'clock for Cairo and st. Louis. Mr.. o.
Hewitt is clerk.
For NAPOLEON regular packet
A. J. White, Captain Mark Cheek, leaves
at five clock this evening for Napoleon
and way landings. Messrs. Postal,
Sharpe and Smithers are clerks.
FoE WITTsBURG. regular pas
senger steamer St. Francis, Captain I.
r. Bowman, departs at 8 o'clock this
afternoon for Helena, Mariana, Wits
burg and the usual way landings.
Messrs. Paine and Franklin are her
clerks.
For WHITE RIvER-The regular mail
and passenger packet Pat Cleburne
leaves to-day at 5 o'clock for Devall's
Bluff, Jacksonport and all points on
White river. Captain William Ashford
commands, and d. p. Davis and W. S.
Butler, clerks.
FoR ARKANSAS RIvER.-The United
States mail packet Mary Boyd departs at
o'clock this evening for Pine Bluff,
Little Rock and all way landings. Capt
John Myers commands, and Mr.. A. ID.
0'Neill is chief clerk.
For New ORLEANs.-We learn by
special telegram that the popular Ohio
river and New Orleans steamer Charles
Bodmann will be down to leave at 4
o'clock this evening for Vicksburg,
N.4.ka, ond Navy 0rlaanG
For NEW ORLEANS The large and
handsome steamer Great Republic takes
her departure tomorrow evening at 5
o'clock for New Orleans and way points.
This steamer has no superior on the
Western rivers for the accommodation
Of people, freight and stock.
For New ORLEANS. = The Henry
I Ames, with roomy guards, handsome
cabin, with plenty Of room to stow away
freight, will depart for New Orleans this
evening. d.
For New ORLEANS departure of
steamers to-day will be unusually inter-
esting, and will serve TO attract an unu-
sual crowd Of visitors to the bluffs, the
fact being that the grand and unrivalled
j low. pressure Richmond will be among
them. She leaves the landing at five
! O clock this evening for New Orleans
and all way landings. Captain Nat.
Green, than whom a more efficient COM
mander cannot be found on the Missis-
sippi river, has charge of the hurricane
roof and superintends all matters in
relation to the craft while under way.
In the Office will be found Ben Cougar,
the purser of the packet, who will see
that you are properly labeled and
slowed away in a comfortable room for
the trip.
MISCELLANEOUS.
This mornings dispatches report the
rain falling heavily at Cairo, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Pittsburg and at nearly every
point on the Missouri and upper Missls-
sippi.
boatman, died Thursday at st. Louis,
|, aged sixty-one years.
Captain John Greenough, with his
popular steamer, the Mary Forsythe,
D will be up this evening on his way to st.
Louis.
VIM. Harker, mate of the towboat n.
; J. Bigley, dropped dead at Pittsburg
Saturday from heart disease.
A bill has passed both Houses OF the
Pennsylvania Legislature, Incorporating
a company to render the Younghiogheny
river navigable by slack water, and con-
meet the same by canal with the Chesa-
4 peake and Ohio canal at the Maryland