Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-21
RIVER INTELLIGENCE,


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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING TODAY.
For Friars Point, James Lee ....5 n m
/" Osceola, Coahoma. n m
= st. Louis, Belle Memphis. ........5 D m
Cincinnati, Vint Shinkle.........5 D IN
BOATS LEAVING TOMORROW.
For New Orleans, City of N. O......b D m
" ST Louis, John b. Maude. .....5 D m
White river, Josie Harry........5 D m
ARRIVED.
Steamer Guiding Star. Cincinnati.
james Lee, Friars Point.
Coahoma, Osceola.
" City of Providence, st. Louis.
Belle Memphis, Vicksburg.
Josie Harry, White river
Vint Shinkle, Cincinngti.
DEPARTED.
Steamer Dean Adams, Arkansaw CITY.
Ste Genevieve, st. Louis.
Guiding star, New Orleans.
49, City of Providence, Vieksqurg.
IN PORT.
James i e, Coahoma, Josie Harry,
Vint Shinkle, Belle Memphis,
CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.
At noon to-day the reading Of the
government gauge was q feet, or
s feet 2 inches below extreme
high water mark of March 9th, and a
decline OF 6 inches during the past "a
hours. The Ohio at Pittsburg is sta
tionary, with 3 feet 5 inches on the
gauge At Cincinnati it fell Is inches,
with 10 feet on tho gauge. At
Louisville it fell inch, but was
stationary this morning, with 8 feet 5
inches in the canal At Evansville it
fell 6inches, With II feet 8 inches on
the gauge. At Cairo it fell IL inches,
with 81 feet 9 inches on the gauge. The
Mississippi at St. Louis fell 8 inches,
with 81 feet Z inches on the gauge.
At Vicksburg it fell inch, with "A
feet 8 inches on the gauge. The
Cumberland at Nashville fell u
inches, with 8 feet on the
gauge. The Tennessee at Chatta.
neoga fell 3 inches, with 5 feet 10 inches
on the gauge. Red river at Shreveport
fell l inch, with Is feet on the
gauge. Arkansaw river fell Z inches
at Little Rock, with 5 feet inch
on the gauge. White and st. Francis
rivers are within their banks and
falling steadily.
RECEIPTS PER STEAMER.
Per Coahoma, from Osceola, 10
bales cotton.
Per James Lee, from Friars Point
3 bales cotton, II head cattle.
Per Josie Harry, from White river
81 bales cotton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Clear and warm.
River fell 6 inches.
Vint Shinklo for Cincinnati, 5 pm.
The Mary Houston, on her way to
Cincinnati, passed Louisville yester-
day.
The r. r. Springer, from Kew
Orleans, was expected to pass up this
forenoon.
The Thomas Sherlock is announced
to leave New Orleans this evening for
Cincinnati.
The Paris G. Brown. on hor way to
New Orleans, passed Vicksburg early
yesterday morning,
Per Guiding Star, from Cincinnati,
100 bbls -four, IS bxs starch, l6 bxs
bacon, A bdls spokes.
The City Of Providence left at 10 a.
m. for Vieksburg, after adding about
30 tons of miscellaneous freight.
The New Orleans and Grand Isle
pleasure steamer building at Cincin.
natl will be launched to morrow.
Captain Kallaher, the wharfmaster,
is having the levee washed to .dsy, and
once clean will keep it in finc ordor.
The sale of the Walton & Co. tow
boats and coal property, at Pittsburg,
has been postponed until April 10Th.
The Dean Adams departed last
evening for Arkansaw City with an
excellent trip Of both freight and
people.
The Cumberland aud Tennessee
rivers, also the Mississippi below St
Louis and the Ohio its entire length,
are falling.
The Andy Baum, for Memphis, and
the Will Kyle, for New Orleans, are
announced to leave Cincinnati to- NOR
row evening.
The w. p. Halliday, from st. Louis,
and the Joseph B. Williams, with a
tow of coal, arrived at New Orleans
last evening.
The Ste. Genevieve departed last
evening for St. Louis, taxing 400 bales
Of Eastern bound cotton for reship-
ment at Cairo.
Miss Florence Voris, sister of the
chief clerk, and Miss Jessie Whit
fridge are making the round trip on
the Cons Millar
The John B. Maude will be here to-
night, and is the Anchor Line mail
packet leaving tomorrow evening for
Cairo and st. Louis. $4,000
On the last trip of the Gem City
she made the trip from St Louis to
Alton in one hour and rty-eight
minutes. The distance is 20 miles,
Per vint shinkle, from Cincinnati,
s42 bbls -four and meal, I'll bbls DO.
tatoes, 400 bales hay, 100 SKIS oats,
1910 empty bbls, GOO pckgs sundries.
"A dispatch from Keokuk. Iowa