Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-02
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.


RIVER INTELLIGENCE
BOATS ADVERTISED TO LEAVE TODAY.
Cairo. City Of Chester. p.m
Cairo. Emma O. Elliott..-.......5 IN
Friar's pOint...-a. W. Cheek. p.m
Vicksburg Fannie Lewis..............5 IN
ARRIVALS.
Ste amer Commonwealth, Cairo.
f" Susie Silver, Cairo.
Dexter, Cairo,
Mollie Moore, Cpiro.
City OF Chester, Cairo.
I" Emma Elliott, Cairo.
Fannie Lewis. Cairo.
Lady Lee, Cairo.
Phil Allin, Friar's Point.
A" K. II. Duffee, New Orleans. !.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer st. Francis, Mariana.
Belle Lee, New Orleans.
II. G. Yaeger, New Orleans.
Lady Lee, New Orleans.
Susie Silver, New Orleans.
Mary Boyd, White river.
Il. II. Durfee, Cairo.
Bismarck, Cairo.
Dexter, New Orleans.
BOATS IN PORT.
Commonwealth, Dexter. Mollie Moore,
City of Chester, Emma Elliott, Fannie
Lewis, Andy Baum, Mary Miller, Ash
land, Lawrence Cleburne, Legal Ten
der, Jennie Howell, G. w. Cheek, Phil
Allin.
THE RIVERS AND WEATHER.
The total rise in the river here up TO
yesterday morning was ten feet; then the
water began to decline, and at night had
fallen one foot, but this morning it is
again rising, and with the breaking Of
the gorge at Randolph and the rain last
night will go up a foot or two yet. White
river is rising, and the Arkansas is swell
ing slowly, with prospects of resump-
ton of navigation in each at no distant
day. Heavy rains are reported above,
and it is more tkan probable that by
Saturday we shall hear of assumption
of navigation to Cincinnati in the Ohio,
and perhaps to st. Louis. The weather
yesterday was cloudy and damp, and at
night a dense fog, the heaviest Of the
season, settled over the river and city
and hardly cleared away this morning
BUSINESS.
The ice-gorge at Randolph, which was
the largest ever known there, and was
ten miles long, forty feet deep and stood
at some places twenty feet in the air
broke at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning
near the Arkansas shore, opening a.
space large enough for the following
boats, that were blockaded above, to pass
through: Lady Lee, Susie Silver, Dex--
ter. Commonwealth, City of Chester
Fannie Lewis and Mollie Moore, all Of
which arrived here this afternoon and
evening, and several of which have been
out ten or twelve days from Cairo. Sew
eral of the boats named were injured
slightly by the ice coming against them
but none seriously. The Elliott had
quite hole knocked in her hull, but re-
paired ii. The Commonwealth Jared
worse She lost her barge Red Stocking,
with 400 tons Of st. Louis freight going
to New Orleans, that having been cut
down and sunk, and injured the Cla-
rinda. A ferryboat was seen high up on
the ice Monday that was carried there
the night before with Fifty passengers,
many Of whom had their hands and
limbs badly frozen, and only escaped
death by crawling over the top of the
gorge, part of the time on their hands
and knees, to the shore,ga distance of
over half a mile. The wrecks of many
prodn. and hatboats were also seen, as
well as two boats. AS yet no floating ice
has arrived here, and the superstition is
that it SINK before reaching here. Some
of the above named boats passed down
last evening, including the Lady Lee and
Susie Silver, and the Belle Lee got away
at dark with 1900 bales cotton, 400 bills.
potatoes and a large miscellaneous
freight. The Yaeger went this morning
with Ih00 bales cotton and 100 tons oil
cake. The Bismarck and Howard started |
up this morning. The river up to noon
10 day had fallen fourteea inches. The
Dexter left at 10 a. IN. for the South, and
the Bismarck and James Howard left at
daylight for Cairo. The E. H. Durfee
came M at noon with full trip and the
Phil Allin arrived with 200 bales GOTTEN
and s62 sacks Of seed.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
FoR ST. LoVIs-The Anchor Line
steamer Emma c. Elliott will be here to
leave this evening at Eve o'clock for
Cairo aud st. Louis.
FoE VIoEsBURG.-The Fannie Lewis
will be down to leave in the Anchor
Line at Eve O'Clock for Vieksburg and
the bends.
FoR fRIAR's POIST.-The regular
United States mail packet G. W. Cheek,
with Captain George Malone on the roof, |
leaves this evening for Friars Point and
all way landings, Robert Wildberger as