The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-06

RIVER NEws.-The river here ha
dropped to six feet fer the first time TIM
season. At Pittsburgh there is bnt thre'
feet four inches. The tow-boat Tiger
passed up yesterday and tho Ksnton ane
George Thompson down. The Argosy
left Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening
at A o'clock, but we could hear nothing
of her at the wharf.boat last evening
The impression is that she is fast al
Glass House.
The new steamer Molfe E. Gilpin wa.
burned at Ford's Mills, Ohio, on Wed:
lnesday.: The FIRE was discovered in the
after part Of the main deck, about nine
O'Clock, but the flames had got such 9
start all efforts to save her were fruitless,
and in less than q half hour she was en-
tirely consumed. 1t is thought she took
fire from spark from the blacksmith's
forge. She was being finished for the
New Orleans and Shreveport trade.
She was owned by Capt Chas. L. Gilpin,
of New Orleans, and was insured for
$4,000.
The st. Louis Republican of Tsesday
says;
There was a rumor current last even
ing that the Kansas City Packet Com
pany had purchased the steamer Noun
taineer for their regular line; rumor
said $4,000, but "history is not posi-
tive.D a.
The Silver Bow has entered the
Mama trade, Captain Tom Rea in COM
mand, and Charles A. Faris in the office.
The Phil. Sheridan lays over until
Thursday, the Milwaukee leaving this
evening in her place.
Captain Dan Able is in town. having
remained off the Mollie Able for one
trip. Captain William Conley went
down in command.
We were informed yesterday that the
Continental would begin loading next
week for New o rlears.
The Peter Balen affair promises glo-
rious results and sweet morsel OF news
in few days. We refrain from pub
fishing the statement made to US yes
terday, for the fact that anticipated
pleasures are always the sweetest.
The Evansville Journal, of Tuesday,
says:
The towboat Jim Watson, while on
her way here from Tennessee river, ran
against a snag, which knoked down one
chimney, went through the pilot house,
and came very near knocking the safe
into the river. She will be all right to-
day.
The st. Louis Democrat, of Tuesday,
says:
The Clara will carry $4,000 or $1,000
sacks OF grain, but Capt. Abrams says
he once had on the Post Boy $4,000
sacks. This is big boat to be running
in the lower Missouri river trade. She
is 2l2 feet in length, AZ feet beam, and
feet hold.
The Little Rock Republican publishes
the following wonderful events that
took place in the year 1911:
The first steamboat in the West was
built at Pittsburgh, in 1911, and called
New Orleans, and intended to ply be-
tween Natchez and the city whose
name lit bore. 1t reached Natchez at
the close of the first week in January,
1911. Many things combined to make
1911 the dnnuS mirabiis of the West.
The waters of the principal rivers over
flowed their banks; unprecedented sick
mesa followed; countless squirrels left
the North and pressed forward by tens
of thousands, in deep and solid pha-
lanx to the South; the splendid comet
of the year long continued to shed its
twilight over the forests; the whole
valley of the Mississippi, from the Mis-
souri, to the Gulf, was shaken to its
centre by earthquakes. 1t was at this
epoch in which so many natural phe-
nomena were combined. that the first
steamboat descended the great rivers.