The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-20

OhOoo VI Guo IeauiuR ouOe uEns.
RIVER NEws.-Business on the leTee
yesterday was from fair to middling,
considering how cold and clustering the |
weather was. The st. Marys, Active
and Mountain Bell passed down. There
were no boats up outside of the regular
packets. The Becky" is the regular
Parkersburg packet to-day. At Pitts
burgh coal is being loaded as follows:
For Cincinnati-Coal Valley and Coal
Hill, l3 barges and 10000 bushels. For
Louisville-Sam. Roberts, 9 barges and
20 900 bushels.
The river at Pittsburgh has but five
feet four inches. Here the marks show
eight feet eight inches.
The wrecks of the steamers destroyed
by the great fire at Cincinnati few
days since were on Tuesday morning
sold at auction by Mr.. James Wilson, at
the following prices: Clifton, $500;
westmoreland, $145O; Darling, $3.50;
Melnotte, $1,000; Cheyenne, S1875; Mary
Erwin, 1865.
The members of the Ohio State Board
of Public Works, Messrs. Barrere and
Herring, are now examining the Miami
Canal, with a view to reporting upon
the feasibility of so widening it as to
admit of its navigation by large steam
ers and ships. 1t is understood that it
is the intention of the Board to report
favorably on the project.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
The Armadillo arrived from st. Paul
in the evening. When a short distance
above Madison, about one o'clock yes.
terday morning, one of her deck hands
struck another on the head with n stick
of wood, killing him instantly. They
we're engaged in carrying coal from the
ruards aft to the coal-bOx, when they
GOT into an alteration. Captain Nc
| Cartv placed the murderer, whose name
| ia Ed Mines, under surveillance, and
handed him over to policeman on ar
rival here. They were both colored
men. Mines shipped at Pittsburgh, and
the murdered man, whose name no one
on the boat seemed to know, shipped at
! st. Louis.
TIE Antelope collided with the Rock
Island bridge last Tuesday. She tore
off her Giant tall" broke the "cam rod"
and played the mischief generally.
The Peoria and st. Louis Packet Com
pany have sold their half interest in the
steamer Admiral Farragut, to G. G.
Russell, for $500 cash. Captain Russell
will load the Farragut for Sioux City
and Fort Benton.
On Friday a new boat, the Mountain
Belle, arrived at Pittsburgh from
Brownsville. She was built and is
owned by Captain Smithers and others,
and is intended for the Gallipolis and
Kauawha river trade. She has the
cabin and machinery of Cottage No. ?.
On Friday, deck passenger, name
unknown, fell overheard from the John
Lumden, at GAINESVILLE, and was drown
ed. He got aboard at Nashville, and
was supposed to be Northern emigrant
looking for home.
The order for the sale of the Evans
Vile Dry Docks, which was made some
| time since at a meeting of the stock
holders, and upon which order the decks
were sold, was rescinded on Wednesday,
and another order passed for the sale of
the Docks at auction. The sale will
take place at the Dry Docks landing at
ten o'clock A. NJ. on the 22d inst.
The st. Joe Gazette of the 14th says
"Fhe dredge-boat Octavia was at
Smiths Bar last evening, hard at work
making channel. She has been clean
! ing out all the bars on her way up. At
one bar she found three and half feet
of water, and after working six or seven
hours, left six feet of water on the bar.
! She will continue on up the river.
The frame of new Red river packet
was to have been raised at the Madison
Marine Ways yesterday, and in q few
days another will follow for the same
trade. This speaks well for the cotton
planter of the Red river country.
The Belle Vernon was fourteen days
in making the trip from Petersburg TO
st. Paul. She is loading along the
Upper Mississippi for points on the
Ohio.
The City of st. Paul arrived at St.
Louis oD Saturday, having in tow, from
St. Paul, barge containing 10000
bushels of wheat, bound for New Or
leans, an I'd thence to Liverpool. 1t was
shipped through by Henry Eames, who
will follow this with other heavy ship
ments.
The Canada collided on the way
down with the Clinton bridge, by
which the barge "Biliy Gray in tow of
the steamer, was stove 90 badly as to |
sink upon being towed ashore. The |
barge. was loaded principally With |
-four, considerable Of which was dam |
aged before being got of. The freight |
was transferred 10 the steamer.
This week." says the EeardstoWn !
IlliHoiSdR, Captain Dowler has made |
two trips with his miniature steamer, !
the Revolution. The first trip was made |
with the new patent psddle-wheels at !
tached. The trip was made to Freder. |
| lex, with party of ladies and gentle |
men aboard, in the short space Of TWEEN.
| ty-ive minutes, and she returned in /
twenty minutes. On the second trip /
he attached the old. fashioned side pad
dle-wheel, with the same surface Of
bucket aud weight of steam. The trip
to Frederick took ifty-fve minutes,
while the trip down was accomplished
in forty-fiye minutes. This was regard
ed BY those who are experienced in such
matters as a true test of the merits sfi
the two kinds of wheels, and the superb
ority of the new patent seems TO be
demonstrated"