Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-08

RHE, DisTRleF CpuRr for the tenth district met
at Fairmone, Va, on the Cd and continued in
session three days The Judges in attendance
were Hon. George II. Lee, Hon. G. W. Thomp-
son, Hon g, ID. Camden, and Hon. Matthew. Ed
miston.. ,s, & a.
Joseph I'll Pendleton, Moses G. Good, and Ed,
Ward II. Htzhugh, were qualified as attorneys
of the court e.
The case of John Scott es james Steers,
npon writ OF 9stlpe,sedeas, to Judgment of
the circuit court of Brooke county, was argued
by Joseph II. Pendleton, Esq, for the plaintiff
in error, and Moses @. Good, ESQ, for the de-
PENDANT Tho judgment of the court below in
this case was affirmed s. st
/ The case of 16oaaas Hughes rs! The Hemp
Jsed Railroad Company, gstraisses, eec., upon a
writ of sopetset'eas to a i1dgmentlof the circuit
court of Ohio county, was reversed and remain
ded. Alfred Caldwell, Esq, for the plaintiff in
error. Joseph L. Fry, Esq, for the defendant.
| The case of ,JstInes S. Porksrrs The osoAeys of
the steamboat Wisconsin, upon a writ of su-
persedeas to a Judgment of the circuit court of
Ohio county, was reversed and remanded. Jo-
seph Il, Pendleton, Eeq, for the plaintiff in err
ror. and Moses G. Good, Esq., for the defendant.
-fdi'1nent irgs'aian. II
TnE RIVER was s feet 9inches, and rising, on
Saturday nightat this point, hence it is in good
boatable order. A number of arrivals and de.
partures of. steamboats,, all we'll freighted. for
the South and West, took place. Our wharf is
covered with freight, mostly Wheeling manu-
features, and presents lively and busting
scene, very gratifying toeyery body
We noticed some five or six of.the tow boats,
well surrounded with barges, laden with coal,
pass down on Saturday, This will truly be
good news for our neighbors of the Queen City.
We. copy the following items from the Cincin-
matt Gazette ofFriday: -
There is now fine boating stage of water in
the Ohio at all points from Portsmouth to Cairo.
AT Pittsburgh there is but five feet water in the
channel, which not sufficient for large pack
cts to run and carry full cargoes. Opposite this
city yesterday there were ten feet water in the
channel, and still rising. Weather clear and
cool.ads qssssf =
FRRIGurs- Thereisa slightdecline in freights
to pittsburgh and New Orleans. ETdfW heeling-
WI W husky and OH per Dbl. zoe; pork, Coo; -four,
40c; pound freight per hundred, 20c.
Business looks quite lively again at the land
ing. about forty steamers are at the wharf loading
for Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Big Sandy, Marietta,
Portsmouth, St Louis, Nashville, New Orleans.
Memphis and the Upper Mississippi.
The New Orleans Bnlletip, Of the 18th says:
STEAnPo&T DISASTER. The officers .of, thu C!
Jr., which arrived last evening, informs us
that they passed the steamer VIM. r. Douglas.
hence for Red River, above Donalisvillc, having
encountered snag by which her guards were
torn off and her steam pipe broken. s.4sise 81
We regret to learn that several of the passen-
gers aud the bar keeper We're seriously scalded
by the breaking of the steam pipe. e -
Arkansas RIvER.-The Little Rock Gazette,
of the 23d, says:
sTnR RIVER Three feet water in the channel,
and on stand. The rains which have fallen
within the last day or two, may make slight
| rise but tina, is doubtful.
and Dar1aheile arrived at our wharf They are
both new, well finished, and very light-light
enough we think, TO enable them to reach, this
place at the lowest stage of the river.