Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-06

IL rose D lncneS with 10 feet ) lnCnea
on the gauge. At Cairo it rose 4
inches with Al feet 6 inches on the
gauge. The Mississippi at st. Louis
rose 3 inches, but is falling again with
80 feet 6 inches on the gauge. The
Cumberland at Nashville fell 3 inches
with II feet 5 inches on the shoals.
The Tennessee at Chattanooga fell 4
inches with 6 feet IL inches on the
gauge. Red river at Shreveport is on
stand with 10 feet 7 inches on the
gauge. Arkansaw river is on a stand
at Little Rock. with 3 feet 5 inches on
the gauge. White, Black and Little
Red rivers are declining.
RECEIPTS PER STEAMERS.
Per Josie Harry, from White river:
2S9 bales cotton, so SKIS cotton seed.
Per Osceola Belle, from Osceola:
rs bales cotton, 2 bag, seed cotton, z
head cattle.
Per james Lee, frem Friars Point:
20 bales cotton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Pleasant weather.
River declining steadily.
A moderate business doing at the
landing.
The river is reported falling slowly
at st. Louis.
The present prospects do not favor
an overflow.
The Josie Harry, for White river,
tomorrow evening.
The Mary Houston left Cincinnati
last evening for New Orleans.
The Golden City, for Cincinnati,
left New Orleans last evening.
The John B. Maude flying light re-
turned last evening to st. Louis.
The Belle Memphis, for St. Leuis,
passed up this forenoon flying light.
The City of Providence, from st.
Louis, arrived at Vicksburg yester-
day.
The Guiding Star will be due up to-
morrow afternoon en- route to the
Ohio.
The Tdlewild for Arkansaw City de-
parted with a fair trip Of both freight
and people.
Planters, go ahead with your work,
and cast aside all fears of an overflow.
The worst is over.
The ferryboat John Overton will
make another excursion to Marion on
Sunday afternoon,
The Fearless and barges and the
Centennial, from New Orleans, arrived
at st. Louis yesterday.
The My Choice and A. j. Baker,
with barges, from st. Louis, arrived
at New Orleans yesterday.
The Springer made the run from
Cairo to Evansville in fifteen hours,
and will reach Cincinnati tonight.
the Commonw wealth left Vicksburg
at noon yesterday and passes here Sun
day at 10 am. Ell route to Cairo and
st. Louis.
A telegram to Captain Ad Storm
announces that the Guiding Star will
pass here at 8 a m. to morrow en- route
to Cincinnati.
Lew Halliday, late in the Office OF
the Paris y. Brown, has quit the river
and opened up a little grocery at Gal
lipolis, Ohio.
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The Colorado will be found in port
tomorrow morning and leave in the
evening with a return trip for Cairo
and st. Louis.
The Piasa arrived yesterday from
Chester, Illinois. She was a little un-
fortunate this trip, having lost a barge
Of stone at Randolph.
The Thomas Sherlock, lacking
three or four hundred tons Of a full
load, passed down yesterday, doing
nothing o fir,terest here.
Captain John WOODBURY. an old
time Arkansaw river steambOatm mar
will bring out the new ferry boat
Ozark, now yearly completed at Gin
cinD att.
The worst is over at and in the Vi
clnity Of st. Louis. The situation in
East st. Louis remains unchanged,
and the people in general fear no fur
Their damage.
The United States steamer Octavia,
with the river commission on board,
left st. Louis last eve ming for a trip
to New Orleans under charge Of Cap
tain Frank Clayton.
The D. A. January, a hospital boat
during the late war, having been or
dered to New Orleans with dispatch,
supplied herself with fuel and made
the run from Cairo to New Orleans in
less than three days.
The Gold Dust is the Anchor line
packet passing down this eve ming for
Yicksburg and way landings. Captain
j. 7. McUord commands and Henry
Dietrich presides at the desk.
The Rene Macready will be found
in port this afternoon and is the mail
packet leaving tomorrow at 6 p. m,
for Marian IA the Cut OFF and all way
landings on L'Anguille and St. Fran
els rivers.
The st. Louis bridge company are
reaping a rich harves st just now, on
account of tie high water, people GO
up on the bridge to view the water
which has spread all over the sur
rounding country.
A big syphon p'lmp, consigned to
Diver Al Buris, vas shipped yester-
day on the steamer Thomas Sherlock.
and will be used in the raising of the
d. Stein sunk ashort time since in
Bayou Bartholomew.
The fast and elegant Anchor line
steamer John A. Scudder, is an
nounced to pass down at II M, to-
,,Orrow e. MnvU n.1o- no-Ao.-