Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-10
WEArnER AID Rusrrrss-

Cairo and seven and a half feet below
here. At st. Louis the river is station,
airy, with five feet on the bars out to
Cairo. At Pittsburg the river is five feet
one inch and falling. AT Cincinnati il
IS sixteen feet ten inches aud falling.
At Louisville the rise yesterday was
twenty-eight inches, with eight feet III
the canal aud six feet on the falls. Cum.
berland and Tennessee rivers are both
rising. Arkansas river continues at low
tide, with twenty.seven inches of water
from PineBluf to the mouth and TWEEN.
ty-two inches above there. White river
is falling, with four feet on the bars from
Augusta to the mouth. Business on the
landing is fair.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Another moist day.
The landiRg is in such a miserable
condition that it was almost impossible
to handle freights yesterday.
The rains for the past t~hirty-six hours
will, in all probability, improve naviga.
ton.
The James d. Parker, for Memphis,
passed Evansville yesterday morning.
She will arrive here o.morrow evening,
and leave on Friday with a return trip
for Cincinnati.
The new steamer Assumption passed
Evansville yesterday en- route TO New
Orleans.
The Fontenelle left New Orleans last
evening for Arkansas river.
The Mary Houston, bound for Cinein.
matt, passed Vicksburg yesterday. She
will arrive here and leave tomorrow
evening for the Ohio river,
The Spaugler left Louisville last even.
ing for New Orleans with a tow Of coal
The Joe Kinney left St. Louis yes
terday for Vicksburg.
The Mollie Moore will be down to-day
for New 0rleaus.
The Bigfoot left Pittsburg yesterday
for New Orleans with a tow Of coal.
Notwithstanding the Indictment weather
and the muddy condition of the levee
the packets all got out with good trips o.
freight and people.
The St. Joseph returned to st. Louil
last evening with 400 bales of cotton.
The John B. Maude leaves New Or
leans this evening for Memphis.
The City Of Chester, Captain Zeigler
is the Anchor Line packet leaving to
morrow evening for Cairo and St. Louis
connecting with the principal railroads
for all points East and West.
Mr.. Frank Skunk, clerk of the Mime
ola, remains behind to settle up the triT
of the Minneola.
The Arlington left Cincinnati las.
evening for New Orleans.
The Ashland will be down to-day fol
: New Orleans. She will ply in the Ar
kansas river trade this summer
The Fort Gibson, Captain Eugene
Smith, is due today from Arkansas river
with a big trip of cotton.
Heavy rains have extended along the
water courses and we may look for q
swell in the upper rivers.
} Brooks is now happy. We have Joined
|, his church and shook hands with Jimmy
Sullivan on the temperance question.
, The rain yesterdayand last night de-
|, tanned the local packets.
The Kittie Hegler loads this week al
Cincinnati for Arkansas river.
The 0sceola packet 0sceola Belle will
be completed in a few days and be here
I ready to enter the 0sceola and upper
coast trade by the first Of the month.
, The Mary Miller reshipped at Cairo
and returned to New Albany with Is, 1000
feet of lumber.
/ The Fannie Tatum loads at St. Loui,
for New Orleans.
The GAINESVILLE at last accounts was al
Rob Roy bar and unable to get over.
} The Indiana's hull will be converted
into a wharfboat and placed at Arkansa.
City.
The rates on cotton from here to New
Orleans rule at 81 per bale and in the
bends at SIPS.
The Utah, with 1875 boxes and Ii
hogsheads Of sugar for St. Louis, and
the Cherokee, with 1900 boxes and AZ
hogsheads for Cincinnati, will be up the
latter part of the week.
The Cons Millar leaves Cincinnati to-
day for Memphis.
The Charles Morgan leaves Cincinnati
to-day for New Orleans,
The Thomas Sherlock leaves Cincin.
natl on Saturday for New Orleans.
The propeller Come aud See Me is
coming south from Marietta, Ohio, with
a tow of produce boats.
The broadhorns with their cargoes OF
produce, apples, hay and grain will be
coming in lively in about ten days. The
slight rise in the Ohio has started a mum;
Der of them out,
The Minneola for Cincinnati had $50