Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-09-14
THE PITTSBURGH PAPERS AND THE
BROWNSVILLE SLACKW AFTER.


fied that the travelling public would learn the
true state OF things at an early day. They
have doHe -. We know that there have
more passengers left steamboats, al Wheeling
than did before the Sackwaier was construct
ed, the business therefore that that work does
is mainly local and from the northwest
Southern travellers can g; bed bugs. feas
dirty beds aud narrow bcrihs nearer home, by
going up the Red riSer or Arkansas: Though
they do say the bugs GA the Monongahela
packets being principally a cross between the
cockroach and belbug are extra fine and nu-
merous) they therefore prefer taking stages at
Wheeling.
Wewere Silent knowing the Pittsburgh pa
pers would let the matter out soon. Accord
ingly the Journal broke ground by declaring
that the mail is now later aud worse than Tor
merly We responded showing the neccs.
sary inference That the slackwater route was
worse than the Wheeling one, even throwing
out the 96 miles Of low water between Pitts
burgh aud Wheeling.
The Gazette, Pitisburg p1ff master general,
and regent I'D interim OF the duck puddle,
takes up the matter in "hasty plate of soup"
which we shall decompose, as follows:
ave ascerained yesterday, that the Mail
Line hence to Brownsville is not to blame Tor
the delay in reaching this city The fault lie.
la the late hour al which the coaches reach
Brownsville"
The boass run too and from the coaches
The coaches are here at the usual time, ergo
the fault must be in the boats or slackwater.
"Our neighbor OF the Wheeling Times has
ondcavored 10 make little capital out OF this
taCt.--But he takes good case TO state that a.
the Mail coach isaiways the first into Browns
vile; when II il late all the passenger coach
IS are still later, and OF course are equally as
late IN reaching Wheeling"
Being unable 10 comprehend what this sen
tence has TO do with il, we hand it over 10 the
discriminating mind that developes the cat
egory OF the infntes- in this burgh.
The boats on the Brownsville Line are fast
aud can make the time without the least irnn.
BILE, II not delayed. That they are occasion.
ally little later from the great increase OF
business Is not surprising. bat If the mails
IRON Baltimore are expedited, nothing ol thi,
Kind worth mentioning Viii occur So oui
Wheeling friends may console themsclves
WIN VIC i'htAtlpl iudA lnG llOuc ana lIdNc
on the Monongahela Slackwater has great,
extended"
Pity that there should be so much. bushes
on the route as to stop the boats. There wer
two wagons stopped at Brownsville one da,
last week
''Il travellers will Just effect upoH II Tor I
moment they will seq the alvGataSe oil TIN
route over that fam Wheeling, III Stages
Low as the water has been, there has not
any ume been the l>asC delay in passing up q
dowp the Ohio ths season. Yesterday. &
Example loui splendid boats LETT iOr Cincin
natl, LnaisTille and ST. Louis"
We nave noticed in one day as hi5h as eigl
b0dis clinging to Beaver Shoals like ticks, an
dnring rifle on Friday last, OF lew mile
up the river saw the Rio Grlnde and tn
VIM. Penn, fast aground, and the passenger
sucking their thumbs Is there no delay9
On the SlackwatcT there is 40 kind Of della,
the boats on this iiHe are cited zap with al,
gance, and are passenger packets in the bro3t
est sense OF the term. Ihus tie trave
Ter passing east or west can enjoy himself
the luxury OF fine boats, plenty OF room. COZ
aud comfortable accommodations, varied an
delightful scenery.
ii it was not that an accusation of gsrblir
might be preferred sgainst US we would ita
izlze few words ia that sentence Tor the
musemen, Of travellers, particularly the "a
sgdnce," fine boats, "deiig4Jid scsHery."
1.-THE Pittsburgh Gazette Editor puts hios.