Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-28


FoR New 0RLEASs.-The elegant
Robert Mitchell will be down early TO.
morrow morning on her way South.
FoR Arkansas RIvER-The Anna,
Captain Reese Pritchard. departs this
afternoon at FIVE O'clock for Pine Bluff,
Little Rock aud all points on the Arkan-
sas river. Mr.. John o'Neil holds forth
in the Office.
FoR VIcKsBURG. THE Julia is the
Anchor Line steamer to depart to NOR
row evening.
FoR CIScIYSATI.-The Henry Pro-
basco, with Captain Andy Robinson on
the rsof, leaves at sharp five clock for
Cincinnati direct. Mr.. Alex. Young is
chief puiser.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The soon-to.be Captain John A. Scud-
der started from Louisville for st. Louis
last night in tow Of the Greyhound.
The Yellowstone expedition have as
certained that this river is navigable for
longer distance than was currently
s. 'osed.
The Commonwealth yesterday had a
lot Of cotton for ;Iew Orleans that came
from Texas by rail to st. Louis.
A huge chunk Of the levee between
jefferson and Washington streets drop
ped into the river yesterday. More will
follow unless steps are taken to prevent
it.
The Probasco has gone up to the foot
Of Jefferson street to take on some ma
chinery, and will start from there this
evening.
Tue levee space is rather limited just
now, and for that reason boats that have
laid up for repairs, ETC., should be taken
either above or below.
At New Orleans, last Thursday night,
R. l.. Fisher, steamboat clerk, was
shot in the left leg BY an unknown party,
whe made his escape. His injuries are
not considered dangerous.
The Arkansas rose, ten feet at Fort
Gibson on Sunday, and was rising there
yesterday.
The Colossal got 227 bales of New Or
leans cotton from the Danville at Little
Rock, and gets So Is per bale freight.
Yesterdays Little Rock Gazette says:
" The GAINESVILLE still lies at the wharf,
her deck crew musing to themselves as to
whether she can beat the R. E. Lee, and
in rolling dice on the deck for the sake
Of changing owners to sundry pieces of
paper in the shape of fractional cur
rency."
Advices from Fort Sully state that the
June rise had reached that point on the
10th inst. The effect of the late rains
along the upper rivers has commenced
to show itself at Sioux City and Omaha,
and the heavy rains of the past two
weeks through Western Kansas and Ne
braska have swelled the tributaries OF
the Missouri to such an extent that they
are over their banks. The Platte river
is over its banks and flooding the coun-
try in Western Nebraska. On Saturday
the Missouri at St. Joseph rose twelve
inches in three hours.
The new shaft of the John F. Tolle
will be down on either the Julia or James
Howard.
A small steam yacht, fifty feet long
and six feet beam, is building at Mound
City for the United States snag-boats,
and the survey service will have ma
chinery to move her from eighteen to
twenty-five miles an hour.
The Colorado up to this morning dis
charged fourteen bales of cotton and
added one hundred and fifty bales for
st. Louis.
DRIFrwooD.-The Falls Pilot, with
four loaded coal barges for this city, left
Louisville day before yesterday.
Captain Jack Carter has bought in st.
Louis six boilers for his new steamer.
They are thirty eight inches in diane
ter and twenty-six feet long .........The
James D. Parker broke her shaft Satur-
day afternoon just above Henderson,
and was towed to shore by the George
Rohartq and afterward toWed to Evans