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

boats will find deep water and have
no trouble. The City of Alton went
up through the chute on Wednesday
last.
Messrs. G. B. Bryan & Co, the ex-
tensive coal dealers, have bought out
the entire ice business of Mccormick
u Co., and steamboatmen should
make a note of this, and give them a
share of their patronage. Captain
Dennie O'Neill represents the firm at
the river.
The people between Vicksburg and
Arkansaw City are well pleased with
the Adams mail packet, Dean Adams,
which for point Of sreed and comfort
cannot be excelled. They say she is
~exeactly the boat for the trade-and
Captain John Darragh the man for
the boat.
The splendid steamer Osceola Belle
in command of Captain Henry Cooper,
is the mail packet leaving this evening
for Osceola and all way landings, pay.
ing strict attention to all business
entrusted to her. Billy Smither pre-
sides at the desk and is assisted by
John Haley and Hugh TomlinsOn.
Tie splendid passenger packet
Golden Grown, in command of Cap
tain Eugene Shinkle, is announced to
pass down at 5 p m. to-day for Vicks-
burg, New Orleans and all way land
ings. Chant Shinkle is her polite
clerk, and will keep an eye to the
pleasure and comfort of passengers.
An excursion party of nearly fifty
people got aboard the James Lee at
Helena yesterday, and went to Frlars
Point in the hone of witnessing a race
between the James Lee and Belle
Memphis, but they we're disappointed,
the Belle having left there before the
Lees arrival. Hope they will have
better luck next time.
The elegant steamer James Lee, in
command Of Captain Stacker Lee, is.
the mail packet leaving at 5 pm. for
Helena, Friars Point and all interme-
date landings, paying strict attention
to all COD. and plantation business,
and connecting at Glendale with the
Mobile X Northwestern train. Lloyd
W. Whitlow is her polite clerk.
The Josie Harry, tho finest and
fastest sternwheel steamer running to
this port, came in yesterday several
hours ahead Of time, and will leave on
a return trip tomorrow at 5 pm. for
Devalls Bluff, Augusta, J~acksonport
and all way landings, making direct
connection with light draught packets
for upper White and Black rivers.
Captain Milt r. Harry commands, and
is assisted in the Office by John G.
Wyckof and Fred Jones.
Captain Charlie Russell's splendid
neat and comfortable packet, James
d. Parker, is receiving to leave at 4
pm. to-day for Cairo. Louisville. Gin.
%cinnati and all way landings, offering
special inducements to those wishing
a pleasant trip up the Ohio OF to any
eastern point, to which through tick
cts will be given at very low rates.
The accommodations of the Parker
are not excelled by any in the line,
and her officers are polite and atten-
tive to the wants of her guests. Rob
ert Mccoy and Lowell lines, a couple
of clever young men, are in charge Of
the Office.
1t now looks as if General Hazeu,
the head of the signal office depart
ment at Washington, made a grad
mistake in sending out his alarming
bulletin a couple Of weeks since, at
least in that portion relative to Mem
phis and the country below. IT'S true
that the upper rivers have been out
Of their banks for some time and con
tinued to rise, but it must be borne in
mind that at the present high stage of
the river, a rise Of several feet is hard
ly I%erceptlble at this point, the waters
instead of coming right down the
channel spread oyer a vast amount of
country and saturate the ground. The
heavy rise reported in the upper Mis-
sissippi and tributaries during the past
few days will do but little more than
check the decline at this point, and
unless there be heavy rains very soon
along the Ohio, Cumberland and Ten
nessee valleys the river will not reach
the level it attained a few days ago at
Cairo and points below. 1t is our
opinion that those who have not suf-
fered so far will not this spring. We
have only been saved from a disastrous
overflow by the low condition of the
Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee,
| and the streams south of here.