The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-13

RIVER NEws.-The river continues TO
recede rapidly nj this point. Last ev.
eniug there was scan! four feet in the
channel. At Pittsburgh the marks In.
dictated one foot ten inches, which
stage virtually snspends navigation.
The New State In making her last
trip from Pittsburgh, broke her wheel
at the Glass house rifle. This accident
detained her several hours, and she
did not arrive here until 12 o'clock
yesterday.
The Rebecca has been withdrawn
from the Parkersburg trade and is now
lying at the foot OF Quincy street. She
will be thoroughly painted and re-
paired before the fall campaign. The
New State took her trip, yesterday, and
departed for Parkersburg. The Rebscca
was detained by fog on her last trip up,
and did not get here until II O'Clock A.
M, the hour she should have left on her
return. r.. .... ...
The Rees had large trip, yesterday,
and did not reach the landing until 8
O'Clock p. NJ. She left about Ave for
Sunfish.
From our exchanges received last
evening, We CLEAN the following:
The Ironsldes, on her up trip last
Saturday, sunk one Of J. L. Remley's
coal boats, at Parkersburg, with her
large waves. '..
The Annie Laurie IL laid up at NAL
den, In the Kanawha, the water having
become too low for her to run.
Capt. A. Il. Shaw has sold three
fourths OF the steamer Arkansas TO Miss
Lucinda Little, OF Pittsburgh, for IS, 900.
A floating chair mandatory has ar
rived at Muscatine, Iowa. 1t 10 good
sized furniture shop, which floats down
the Mississippi. gathering willows from
the banks, making cheap chairs for the
million. rE' ..
Travel on The Upper Mississippi was
never better than this season. Every
boat is crowded beyond Its capacity for
comfort, and those passengers who are
fortunate enough 10 secure state room
are indeed lucky. Even sleeping room
In the cabin commands a premium.
Positive Information has been re-
ceived that the Peter BRlen was de-
stroyed by fire below Camp Cook on the
22d OF July. A letter nom Capt. Rezln
Bell contains the following particulars,
which very nearly coincide with the re-
port In the Helena Herald OF the 2Slh ;
II appears that the boat took ere In the
laundry, and was In flames before the
officers were hardly aware that she was
on fire at all. no.. t
The water In the Mississippi has so
far subsidized that work again is resum.
ed on the canal around the Des MoInes
rapids, above that place. Considerable
damage has been done by the floods to
the earth embankments, and several
hundred men have been waiting for
employment. The Gate City says work
Is now being prosecuted with greater
vlgor than before. l ... I'D. .t..,
Close observers Of public works
pronounce this canal the finest i'm.
provement now going on In the United
States. The work on The lower lock 10
TO be commenced In few days.
About the time the gold fever broke
ont In California, some twenty years
ago, Captain ]. O. AinBworth, who COM
manded an upper Mississippi pack ct,
running from 81. Louis to Dubuque, de.
termined to seek his fortune In the land
Of gold. With barely means enough to
cross the plains, he started, and to-day
is living in princely style ut Portland,
Oregon, He built the 1irst steamer 10
that lar distant Territory, and Is now
President Of the Oregon Steam Naviga-
ton Company, which owns and con-
trolls all the steamers In the State Of
Oregon aud Washington Territory. he
has over million invested In the line;
and Is still the polite, affable but hard
working Captain, who had many friends
while treadlng the deck OF Missis.
aippi river steamer.
The Cumberland River having dried
up and gone to grass this Is the only
irst-clasa river item In Tuesdays
Nashville Times:
A few days ago q fishing boat, oppo-
site Johnsonvllle, capsiZed, and four
men were left struggling helplessly In
the river. There was no means of saw.
ing them, and a number OF people on
the bank witnessed the spectacle, but
did not seem inclined 10 make an at.
tempt at saving the drowning men.
Presently a gentleman with wild look
ran down TO the waters edge, and cried
out In most plteous and frantic man.
nor. %, save the man with the red
hair; for Gods sake, save the man with
the red hRirl' His appeals awoke a
sort Of enthusiastic philanthropy In the
bosoms Of the bystRnders. A ran was
quickly rugged up from logs, and In a
short time the poor fellows were
brought to land, almost dead. The ex-
cited man then became pacified, and
drawing q long breath, he said: He
owed me S. -
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