Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-19

SILVER 1t this point has playcdtile conf
dences game SO long now, that all expectation
seems TO have subsidized Commission men and
shippers merely express the opinion that it
viii probably rise in coming time, which in past
years would have been a telerablc safe predic-
Etion, but noss is rather i risky adventure To
be ncn-committal, we would say, il rnayI or it
may not rise. Serious apprehensions are enter
tanned that it may freeze over Yet before a rise
shall set in.
The Cincinnati papers Of last night report as
follows:
the river ut this point continues to recede, and
dispatches from points above report the water
falling from Pittsburgh I'll the way down. The
weather is cold and cloudy.
business IS pretty lively at the wharf, consid-
ering the very low stage of water. my
The steamers Great West, John Tompkins,
Kate French, and Clifton. are loadiIg for St.
Louis; the Cremono is loading for Maysyile,
and the Lightfoot, for Pomeroy.
Freights are firm at the following rates:
70 srw oaErass.
Whisky and on 2 sb. $500
rSand Frsisht ) hundred ca. Is
70 81. iorls 4
WHISKY and on e bbi.... -..... ........... 400
Pound FssIsi.', 2 hundred 70
sssnyfLIE.sr
peand freight, e hqndrsa. Edo
The Moses Mcclellan is the packet this morn
ing for Louisville, the Lady Pike for Madison,
Dunleith, for New Richmond, and the ii. A.
The steamers Hiberiiia and Argonautleft yes-r
terday for st. Louis, with all the freight they
could get along with. s. IS s
STEAMER wHrrE BLuFrs SusK.-Ihe steamer
White Bluffs, Capt Haynes, bound for Nash
vile, struck a snng on Sunday morning. near
She left this port on Friday night, but got
aground opposite the lower part Of the city,
where she remainctlall Saturday. The boatwili
be saved, the cargo is under water. The follow
ing Is 0 list of her cargo from this city: 200
empty trunks; 324 bbls whisky; 200 do ale; 56
do clover seed; 20 doz. band boxes; 1876 boxes
candles; 200 do cheese; 80 do starch, 80 do
shrubbcry; 232 pkgs furniture; % doz brooms;
6 chestsioysters; 400 pkgs. merchandise. ss
The river at Louisville was at stand yester.
day, with three and a half feet water in the
canal ss.ft9z 6sssttst isgss3 Ns ees.l1s
The ST Louis Democrat, of Friday, SAYS:
The RiyERs - UPrER AIIssIssIPpI ABorT CLo-
SG.At this point the water is falling Mt about
the rate of from one to two inches per day, with
channel depthof from nine to ten feet to Cairo.
Upper Mississippi is filling, with thirty inches
on the Lower Rapids, and the weather in the
vicinity of Galena, Dubuque and st. Paul. is
becoming quite cold. The Arcola, that came in
thisnorning, left considerable floating ice in the
river between St Paul and Dubuaue and was
compelled TO break the ice in Fevre river, to get
into Galena. Feyre river is by this time frozen
loyer. 1T has been frozen over every night for
some time past but the boat that arrived in the
morning was enabled to break throughiit with,
out difficulty. The officers of the Omaha, that
came in from st. Joseph this morning found the
river full of heavy floating ice at Weston and
st Joseph, and the weather quite cold No
change to notice in the Ininoisriyer.