Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-20

planned by the regular packets charging the higher
prices which we have set down, whilst TRANSIENT
boats, constantly present IN great numbers, ac
cePt The lower figures"
We can scarcely conceive of greater mlsrep-
resentation of facts. than the above. We can
take, as does the Journal, either the packets
transient boats, and prove from the most abundant
evidence that ut no season of the year river
freigktS cheaper, or cheap, at Pittsburgh ii
Wheeling. The Journal tells us in the above that
the extreme rates now from that place TO Cncln
natl from fifteen to twenty cents; and 10 Lou
isvle from twenty to twenty five cents. Well,
the extreme rates now at Wheeling are.
Wheeling 10 Cincinnati per 100 lbs 12&a2Oc.
do do Louisville per 100 lbs 15a20c,
Coffee per bug U64 Ns.j
Wheeling to Cincinnati 20 to % cents.
So that, according to the lowest figures claimed
and place it thus:
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, per leo lbs l5a2Oc.
do Louisville, per 100 lbs 2On25c.
Wheeling to Cincinnati per 100 lbs 124a2Oc.
do Louisville, per 100 lbs 15a25c.
Our readers can perceive from this in whose ia
vor the difference is. We do not claim in ills ia
table, as the Journal does i'll his, that this is the
''range'' of rates, including all classes OF boats,
yegulnr aud elegant buckets. The transient boats
will go even below these figures. We might e%-
tend this table, and show shat while the highest
rate here in low water TO St. Louis is &c., it Is
from IS to 4Oc al Pittsburgh, but do not deem any
thing further necessary to convince the intelligent
and candid reader on this point
There is another item materially eiIecting the
expenses Of transporting goods on the Ohio river'
n. nd nd
for certainly all our Western Merchants, aud par
tcularly Insurance Companies understand it,) vast
" in favor of Wheeling, aud it is this: Tie dan-
gers OF navigation between this and PhtS0u'ghaIe
known to be so much greater than below; that the
insurance goods shipped at tlItSOuEGh COSTS
from three quarters 10 per cent, while risks on
those shipped at Wheeling will be taken at one
third per cent! Let shippers consider ttat one
item alone, and decide which route has the differ
enCe in IFS favor
In this same transparent fabrication in the
Journal, designed to divert into unnatural chan
nels the vast tIaue which is new flowing into our
city, we find the following: r.
..There is one advantage Pittsburgh always
possesses over Wheeling, and Shippers at New
YORK aud Philadelphia need to be reminded OF II,
and this is, that our wharVeS are always crowded
with steamerS-packetsf for Evansville, Cincinnati
Louisville NaSuNllIey 4@OulSs duu 4'S" -
lrans-and fleet Of transient steamers, whilst
Wheeling will have at the utmost brhSe OF boats
receiving cargo. Necessarily. with sucn com
petition at Pittsburgh, irelghts will be always
cheaper than at Wheeling, and atIr0ySI IS So eX-
cept when the river IS down.
For instance; at the time we write this article
there are in our port receiving or dScharging car
20 t,centv four steamers, of which Se0sn leaving
ont of view the short trip packets, would depart
Yesterday Tor ports below. In this we omit whoi-
IY the Allegheny river boats.
Against this array, Wheeling would yesterday
present probably, the Alvin Adams loading Tor
Louisville the Durnal' PhiSbuLGh packet ieu!dns
at o. clock in the morning for Pittsburgh niue
boat for ParkeEsbureh, and our boats passing DOWN
and IN. some OF which land and take on little
milk and butter and eggs" -ee
man seldom utteTs cool, unmitigated false
hood without entraPping himself. Now, 1t hap
pens, that of all this "fleet of steamers" which
according to the Journals day and date, left Pitts
burgh on Tuesday, but two OF them have vel nEtl'
we'd here, the balance, at the present tne, un'
obsueted condition Of navigation all the tDdy from
This to Cincinnati and Louisville, being deioned By
the gorged ice on the channel side Of the riUer be-
tpsen this city md Pittsburgh! The boats
which A1pe arrived had TO pass over dam at The
imminent peril Of getting stoUe IN! When The
water falls so as TO render it impossible for even
the most ventuTeSome boats to pass over that DAM
farewell to all communication by boat this winter
for is not probable that the gorge on the channel
side of the river will move until the return Of
warm weather!
As to that fling about the amount OF freight re-
ceived and discharged here, will settle it with
single item. We will do as the Journal has done
speak of things in view as we write. Hester-
day morning there were less than siztee" steam
ers at our wIat receiving and dischoging freight
hoilinp from Cincinnati, Louisville, ST. Louis
Evansville, Marietta, Parkersbursh &C. The
amount of freight brought TO our wharf by these
steamers was not less than four thousand TONS
Two boats alone-the splendid Union Line pack
els City of Wheeling and hos. Swami brought
over eight hundred tons for shipment on the t'a"-
m re and Ohio Railroad. The following manlieS'S
speak for themselves:
Per steamer ThOs. Srrann from Lotas1tHeN ID
F, Pearce bx mdze, ) bales heHp, 45l DDS NO 20
lard, 81 do, IA do, lis do, SO do % 10, uo' -
do, So DO, "a hhds shoulders 26 do. 81 DDS PolH'
% cks shoulders, D do hams, so do, 10 DO snoul.
der, 10 do, &c bills No. lard, los SKIS feathers;
, Forsyth & Hopkins. hid sugar, ck no. 20 VI
peaches, IA dried hides, 81 SKIS WOOL, 0G u0 Ni'S
apples, G bbls do, 81 SKIS wool, 10 hbs laiu OH, o
hid meat 100 bbls whisky, 200 do laTu on; az W.
SIS hhds meat; Jno. Gill, Dbl sund; Mcalee u