Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-27
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
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BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Napoleon. A. J. White p.m
Mouth White river, Legal Tender. ..5 I'm
rkansas river, Rosa Miller pm
,mhile river, huth....".-....................5p pm
White river, City of Augusta...~......5 pm
cincinnati, Andy Baum. p,m
st Louis Grand Tower.~~.............."..5 pm
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Joe Kinney, St. Louis.
ST. Francis Belle, White river.
Ruth, White river.
Tender, mouth White river.
Ashland, New Orleans.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer City of Vicksburg, St. Louis.
Joe Kinney, Vicksburg.
Cherokee, New Orleans.
George W. Cheek, Helena.
Phil Allin, Friar's Point
Belle Of Texas, Ashport.
Ashland, Cincinnati.
BOATS IN PORT.
Ruth, st Francis Belle, Rosa Miller,
Legal Tender, Andy Baum.
WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
Weather misty and cool. The river
here is swelling steadily and now stands
ii feet 10 inches above low water mark.
At Cairo the rise yesterday was 10
inches, and stands Is feet IL inches
above low water mark. At st. Louis the
river declined 5 inches, with 5 feet in the
channel from there out to Cairo. At
Pittsburg the decline was 2 feet 8 inches,
with 10 feet 8 inches in the channel. At
Cincinnati the rise was 3 feet 7 inches,
with rs feet 4 inches in the channel. At
Louisville the swell was l6 inches, with
feet IL inches in the canal. There is a
big stage Of water in the lower Ohio.
The rise in the Cumberland river yester-
day at Nashville was 3 feet IL inches
and stands II feet 10 inches above low
water mark. Arkansas river reese 2
inches at Little Rock yesterday; no rise
above there as yet. White river is in
good navigable order.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Busy day DR. the landing.
Labor continues scarce.
The negro l~aborerson the landing have
made a corner on the rates for discharg-
ing steamers.
The James D. Parker foe Memphis
passed Evansville yesterday.
The local packets went out last night
with good trips Of freight and people.
The j. W. Garrett and barges left Gin
cinnati last evening for New Orleans.
The Mary Bell left New Orleans last
evening for Memphis, and leaves here on
Wednesday next for a return trip to New
Orleans.
The Charles Morgan, with 394 'hogs.
heads sugar, 1881 barrels molasses, 1870.
barrels oil and 80 sacks of coffee, lett
New Orleans last evening for Cincinnati.
The Future City and Capitol City, for
st. Louis, Illinois, JohH B. Maude and
Howard, for Memphis, left Vicks-
burg yesterday.
The Belle Memphis left St. Louis yes
for Memphis.
Ice has blOekaded the upper Missis-
The Cherokee, for New Orleans, added
200 bales of cotton here.
The City of Vicksburg passed up last
evening for St. Louis. She put off here
100 bales Of cotton and 1900 sacks of
seed.
The Joe Kinney passed down al dusk
Tor Vicksburg. She put off here a few
packages, and added twenty-five tons Of
bends freight.
The Ella is due to-day from Paducah,
and leaves on Tuesday for White river.
The officers of the lower coast packets
considerable cotton at Helena,
Terene, and on the banks, awaiting
shipment to New Orleans.
The Clarksville has laid up twenty
below Pine Bluff.
The tug DeSoto left yesterday with a
tow of coal for the mouth of White river.
The Cons Millar foR Memphis, Kittie
for Arkansas river, and G. B.
Church for New Orleans, leaves Cincin-
natl this evening.
The St. Francis Belle, of the Milt
Harry White River Line, arrived last
from White river with 267 bales of
cotton, $50 sacks seed, and reshipped at
Terene 1872 bales Of cotton. She returns
10 White river on Tuesday next.
The Ruth, Captain Ed Postal, arrived
last night from White river with 3O8 bales
Of cotton and 80 sacks seed and re.
shipped at Terene liz bales Of cotton.
She leaves this evening for all points on
Black and Little Red rivers, Civ
.ng peciatattention to all way business.
Ed Crowell is her efficient purser.
The fine steamer Andy Baum, Captain
leaves this evening for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati. H. II. Deem
does the honors Of the office.
The Rosa Miller brought in from Ar
river IS bales Of cotton and 1000
sacks Of seed and reshipped at the mouth
1913 bales Of cotton. She leaves this
evening for Pine Bluff and all way land.
.ngs on Arkansas river and goes through
delay, Captain Eph Banks
commands, with Tom Darragh in the
office and Billy Nucles in charge of the
department.
Captain Williams, formerly Of the Ex-
porter, passed up yesterday for st. Louis
IN the Robert Semple.
Navigation between Cairo and St.
Louis is very precarious, and il 1t should
urn much COLDER in that quarter, fears
ire entertained that the river will be
by ice.
The Victory is frozen in in the middle
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