The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-12

RIVER NEws.-The following cores
pondence will explain itself:
OFFICE OHIO RIVER IMPROVEMENT,
.PITTsBURGH, October 25, 1867.
III, The Ohio River Pilots and Captains,
who are interested IN The imp OUeRlent
of the channel on the left side Of Bru-
ilOps Island.
GESTLEaES-The United States Gov
eminent made a contract not long ago
with Captain John Rodgers for the re-
moval of boulders, roots, and other OBJ
structions to navigation on the left hand
side of Brunot's Island. He has since
been industriously engaged at that
work, and has, we think, made a very
important improvement, both for low
water and coal boat navigation.
He Is DESTROYS that Il number OF you
should make an examination OF the
same and report to me your opinion
and shall be glad 10 receive II.
Yours respectfully
w. MIINOR ROBERTS,
experimenting Engineer Ohio RiUeT Inn
proUenncnt.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30, 1867.
To ". 3Gl,tor Roberts, .SupeTiHteHding
Engineer Ohio River improvement:
SIR-At the suggestion OF Capt. John
Rodgers, and in accordance with the
wishes proposed in your communica-
ton of the 18th inst, We have made an
examination OF the channel on the left
of BrunOt's Island, and t1nd that Capt.
Rodgers has made complete ;JOD OF
clearing out the channel, and that IL
has at least one foot more water than
the Glass House channel at this time,
and will be an excellent channel both
for extreme low water boats and for
coal boating. We consider il very
important improvement Of this part OF
the Ohio river. Very respectfully,
CAPT. JOHN a. WOOD,
And iny-four others.
Business was not very brisk on the
landing yesterday. Steamer Leni
Leoti arrived from Parkersburg at 81
o'clock and departed for Pittsburgh
with good trip; Steamer Rebecca
departed tor Parkersburg at IL IA. mr.
with excellent freight and passenger
were aground on Wheeling Creek Bar
last evening between and Z o'clock.
Booth, Battelle & Co. were looking for
the Potomac all day but up to dark the
music boat had not made her appear
ance, but will be found at the wharf in
the morning. Persons wishing TO travel
by the river will hRvean excellent OPP
pOrtunity by securing rooms on this
popular steamer, which will depart for
Cincinnati this evening at p. IN. The
ever popular and accommodating
Clerk, Chris. Young, will be found in
the Office and will see that passen-
gers will want for nothing.
River ) feet 7 inches and falling.
Boats departing to day:
Express, Capt. AushutZ, for Parkers-
burg at IL n. m; Sallie ", Capt. Pat
terson, for Marietta at 10I6 a. M. Capt.
Patterson says that the Sallie V. is GO
ing TO stay in this trade, leaving
wv TAaEIaNr
and Saturday at l01z a. m; Potomac,
Capt. Muhleman, for Cincinnati at 3 p.
NJ; Leni Leoti, Capt. Hamilton, leaves
foTIParkersburg at 10 O'Clock tonight.
The II. r. Hudson, from Cincinnati
for this city, passed Pomeroy on Sat
urday, and should be at the landing
this morning,
We clip the following from the Gin
cinnati Gd=ette received last night:
The river has risen fourteen inches in
the fOrty-eight hours preceding 6 o'clock
last evening, at which time there were
seven feet and seven inches of water
in the channel. To-day 1t will proba-
bly, be stationary, and tomorrow fall
ing, as the rise. from recent rains, will
then probably have passed by.
The new steamer st. Mary's arrived
from Wheeling at noon Saturday. AZ
ter the disaster on her last spring by
the explosion of her niger boiler, de-
heT Sdpkdlu 9"ttuey
took her to Wheeling, where he has had
full length cabin placed on her, and
she now has Unsurpassed passenger
accommodations, She has forty-eight
state rooms, which are large and COM
modious, and furnished in the best
style. It Ia the Intention to introduce
her as a regular weekly packet between
here and Wheeling, as soon as there is
assurance OF water. Captain t. g.
Sweeney commBnd with Mr.. Morris
Dorsey and Captain w. II. Cecil asso-
ciated in the office.
Some thief entered the office of the
d. NJ. Sechler, Friday night, and went
through the pockets of her clerk, Mr..
Alt. Davidson, but didn't get anything
but acounterfeit half dollar, some keys,
and few other articles OF little value.
He was probably after the safe key.
During the storm on Friday night,
while the ]. W. Garrett was lying at
LaWrencebuFg, a deck hand of the boRt
fell overheard and was drowned before
could be rendered.
Friday nights storm caused boats
coming down the river to take to the
bank; while those coming up were en-
nbled TO weather it by keeping their
heads well against ii.
A NEw VERSION OF "oLD UNCLE Md
There was an old dysPeptic, and they called
And he suffered, Oh he suffered pain and