The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-04
2 HATES OF suBsoRPTIoN.
Wheelipgs steamboat. Interest,"
The sanash ANA otherTradea.

ms been brought mp to its present con-
dition by an infexible determination
thnt held on against, and overcame nll
opposing difficulties. 1t does us good.
however, to record that there was not
so much difficulty in building up what
We may call tho shorter lines.
Tho SQnfish trade was like q rolicis!
some country lass, little coy Mt first,
but needing only little artTul wooing
to plump herself full into a follows
lap, and many were tho gay chaps that
were after her. Although tho distance
from Wheeling to ST1nfiSh isonlY thirty
miles, the amount of trade furnished by
the intervening country Is astonishing.
the moro SO as It is the most deceptive
country, in appearance, that the eve
looks upon In long distance. Its river
front presents a magnificent view of
nils, with occasionally narrow strfD
OF river bottom just sufficient to make
9 stranger think the man that owns 1t
the luckfest fellow in that immediate
neighborhood. But there is II fine ngri-
cultural country lying back OF those
wooded crests, and thicEly peopled,
which ono hls only to make an etfort
las Mrs. Chick says,) TO sec, and
cease his wonder, us to where
tho material comes from that en-
ters into a profitable carrying
trade. There arc fine orchards that
hardly ever fail to produce a filir crop.
rich fields of grain and nice patches OF
tobacco, while even the upromisinl
looking hills, in the proper Selson, Yield
loads upon loads ofiberries! Capt. Ben,
Goodwin, with u little boat called tho
!1GytonId, made the first attempt to estab-
lish q trade from Wheeling TO Sunfish
about the year 1851. She not being Of
much account, he afterwards bought
another small boat, of about thirty or
forty tons capacity, called the YOMIhio-
0hely, and not much longer than her
name, which he ran in tho trade for
some some, time; Bor some reason Capt. Ben.
Withdrew his boat from the trade and
Il lay about loose, with no! one 70 take
1t up, until some time in 1852, when a
very lively competition sprung up, a
generous rivalry, TO propitiate the flir
one that had been somewhat neg
leited. Captain Mike. Davis went
Shortly afterward Capt. John X. Booth
put in the ViIoqlG, d boat Of about a
hundred tons, md ran the Tom Scot
out OF tho trnde. Capt. w. George &
Co., then bought the Allegheny Clipper
out of tho Parkersburg trade, in favor
of whose comparatively elegant accom-
Inodations tickle fortune soon len the
HiroQMd. The Booths, however, were
plucky rivals and determined not to be
driven out of the trade without n good
tight. They bought the Stephen Bdydrd,
and with an eye to lucky days, COM
menced running her on the Fourth day
OF JulylS52, and continued in nTtheitrndeI
for over two years, when they refitted and
wentinto the Parkersburg trade. Capt.
Morgan, Of New NGRFtinsyille, and
Freeze, OF Wheeling who owned the Tom
&hTiDGT, put her into tho trade, ran four
or five months and drew of. Captain
Ia 4 ,k,RF -
and courted the Sunfish trade, but as
every trnde claimed its sacrifice the
Alfchi0nIl, in this instance, proved to be
the victim demanded of fhtey and after
short career was sunk at Knte's Rock,
above AIoundsYille.
The SilU6r S,pir, n little boat built out
of the Fort PIT, then ran in the trade
four or five months nntler. Capt. Perry,
OF Cnptinn. 1t Is n little remarkable
that although none of these companies
were able 10 obtain complete control of
TINS tfnde for any length of time vet
view. In the Spring of 1857 Cap
tain Jack Harrison, Jerry Cochrane,
jake Cramer, Theodore Le Baron nnd
g. Booth bought the YirogMd and REIN
stated her IN the Sunfish trade, and
either from their number or their good
LOOKS succeeded In capturing the fair
thing, and remained in undiaputed con-
troll. They ran the VIrO9Ha about
three months, when they bought the
4uTiLLG Wood, for which they paid four
Thousand dollars, O. Booth leaving the
Company. They ran her about a year
when, Cramer went out, and Capt. Steve
thompson, Jerry tGochrJi1e and I,e-
Baron built the InO0Rdr, at a cost of
ten thousand five hundred dollars. She
wus the only boat ever built eSpeclhIly
Tor the trade. Her owners succeeded In
so otngratattpg themselves with the peo-
pie on this route, TINT they donst seem
to know anybody else in the shape of
steamboat officers. They run the .iNgo-
mar tilf the fall of 1862, WHOM they sold
her for what they considered a big
price, twelve Thousand dollars a step
which they and their customers soon
regretted. In short, the people pined
lor Jerry, and Jerry had an afIectionate
Boats, however, had risen to fabulous
prices, and the company could not get
n suitable bont for any reasonable
amount ofJmoney. l''sss
After the sale of the Ing0RtdF the Sum
fish trade lay at loose ends, with now.
and then some little craft mnlkinG a
trip or two, until some time In 1868:
when Capt. Tom Reed, John Morgan.
Sim Woods and Tom Taylor built the
Odd FekLOIU, and ran her few months
TO Capttnn. She was a good boat, but
the war hnd turned things INSIDE down!
tho water andsthe spirits OF tile people
were low, trade, although lively, wls
not upPermost in their minds Just then,
and she soon len, the trade; in, fact the
prevailing low Tvnter OF TIM season laid
up all boats of any size. About this
time the river people were treated to the
sight Of a model low water craft in the
shape of the Rather, n little side-wheal-
tlnh Hosed attatr, with a saw mill engine
IN her stomach, driving her wheels 5y
means of belts. She was owned Inv
Hurd q Messerly, of fSunfish, and could
be hghtened over tho most troublesome
bar by q couple of good sized store
boxes, She proved a valuable atixii-i
larry to trade during the low water, lintla
nnde money. She continued in the
trade till March of tho present wear.
when Capt Kimble, Jerry, Cochrane.
Geo: Lame and be Baron Bought the
Leslie GoHtbsS for s. 900, and went into
the trade with as much enso. as 4, man
gets into an old suit or ,clpt pthes.i Jerry
has as merry a. twinkle i'm his eve ~
money they might have niade II; thew
hadn't sold themselves out Tor q soTif
We expect to conclude our river Ft,-,
view in another article. -
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THE New York Ifmes' London cor.
respondence hns the following: The
Feniin exoitement Ind taken one cnfi-
ous effect. 1t has compelled Mr.. Bourci5
cault to suspend, as he does next week,
the representa- ation of ArraIi; ma EPopne
IN London, and IL will, no tinnbt.f he
stopped for q time throughout the King
idomI 1t was all eVerys well ITO kifln.
13WearinP of the 9faaf "a I'm. Ti3a CrI1Is1