Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-24

depth. The Arkansas has eighteen
inches to Little Rock, four feet in White
river. two and a half in the Ouachita,
three in the YAzoo. and, as the shreve-
port Times says, "scant thirty inches in
Old Red river on Couashatta bar, and
three aud half feet on the other bars,
with the water falling The mouth Of
the river only affords three feet of mud
and water" The weather is anything
but favorable TO the sick. A heavy fog
developed the city and river from am.
to am, and only cleared away after
that hour.
BUSINESS.
The Belle Memphis took away 100
bales Of cotton yesterday, and the Eli
OF had about so bales, The Clarksville
brought As bales from the Arkansas,
only going as high as Pine Bluff. The
Julia went down last night with a fair
trip. The G. B. Church and towboat
and Crescent City passed up last night
for st. Louis.
BOATS TO LEAVE.
For ST.. LoUIs.-The City Of Chester
leaves at FIVE p m. tomorrow.
For New ORLEANS. The Glencoe,
Captain Calhoun commanding, and
Owen G. Gates, cashier will be here to
leave at ten o'clock tomorrow morning
for New Orleans and all intermediate
landings.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The City Of Helena will be down on
Friday morning for Vicksburg, and the
City of Vicksburg will leave at the
same time for St. Louis.
John Duffy, of Cincinnati, has entered
suit at Davenport against the K N.
Line Company for $4,000 damages
for being put of on a barren island.
BE got on the Rock Island at Red Wing
for Lacrosse; after arriving there he de-
cided to 90 further, and, as he alleges,
the clerk demanded the full fare from
where he got on, which he refused and
was put off
Captain Owen Davis, Of Nashville, is
seriously i'll at Columbus, KY.
The Pat Cleburne goes into the An
Choir Line between ST. Louis and Vicks-
burg. W, j. Ashford retains command.
White Carol comes down in the Office
Of the Exporter.
The St. Louis Dispatch tells US that
" the Anchor Line is at present COM
posed of the following boats: To Mem
phis-City of Chester, Emma Elliott,
Belle Memphis, St. Joseph, Utah; to
Vicksburg-Capitol City, City of Vicks-
burg, City of Helena, Pat Cleburne Jo.
Kinney and Julia; and soon the John
A. Scudder will be completed and put
in the Memphis trade, yet this tonnage
has all it can do, notwithstanding the
scarcity of freight. The City of Helena
will be withdrawn for the present for re-
pairs and more water"
The National Board of Steam Navi.
cation elected Captain Dick Voolfolk,
of Louisville, Vice President, and re-
solved agaiuDt the renewal of patents,
and favor Government control of the
Louisville canal.
The Ohio and Illinois rivers, as we'll
as the Arkansas, are so shallow that
boats have to keep sharp lookout for
fear of running on some log or being
upset by small sized catfish.
The Natchez merchants are already
beginning to feel the effects of their too
hasty quarantine against the world"
The Democrat tells it in this wise: NOW
that the wharfboat has been removed,
we doubt not considerable trouble will
be experienced in the shipment of cot
ton, owing to the exorbitant charges that
will be made by the draymen for hauling
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then why not have the cotton hauled to
the old landing, and then have a man to
roll it on fat, which can be showed out
to the packet when she gets nearly oppo-
site the landing, where she can anchor,
put on her cotton, and then go on her
way rejoicing" The rejoicing" part
will be seen when the boats pass the
city altogether and leave the cotton to
be foated on the same flats" to New
Orleans.
Joe Oldham, well-known pilot, was
aiken down with the prevailing last night
md is quite i'll. Andy Granger is getting
,etter.
Major John D. Adams came over from
little Rock last night on business, and
eturns tonight on another account