The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-05

RIVER NEws.-The arrival of the
Glasgow, Grey Eagle and Hudson, yes
terday, in addition to the regular daily
packets, gave little more animation to
our levee. But there is no denying the
fact that things on the river are dull,
and we see but little prospect of their
getting any brighter until another crep
comes in.
The water continues to fall rapidly.
The pier marks at Pittsburgh yesterday
indicated six feet four inches in the
channel. Here we have eleven feet and
falling.
The Annie Laurie struck the rocks at
Red House shoals, in the Kanawha, and
sunk, Teesday., She was loaded with
salt and miscellaneous freight, for this
port. The Annie Laurie was owned by
parties on the Kanawha, interested in
the Kanawha Valley Salt Company,
valued at $4,000, and uninsured. She
was built in 1864, and never carried q
dollar of insurance. The Mountain
Belle took off her deck freight.
,aAbe Coy, first engineer of the steamer
Gem, on Monday last, got badly cut
with knife, in q personal encounter
with an old enemy.
The wreck of the Henry Adkins, which
was fshed up by the submarine boat,
consisted of a lot of old iron and canned
oysters and syrup, was sold at st. Louis
for $500.
Captain Sam Houston, recently ap-
pointed Supervising Inspector of the
Sixth District, has arrived at Louisville.
His commission is in the hands of Sur
Teyor Leise, who, under instructions
from Washington, will held it for the
1present.
The Great Republic on the last trip
from New Orleans had 1900 tons of rail-
road iron, pig iron and miscellaneous
freight.
The Cora S., which was recently sunk
at Fletcher's Landing, on the Arkansas
River, was raised on the 9th. Her of
fcers succeeded in building a bulkhead
around the hole made in her hull by the
snag and got her afloat through the aid
of her siphon pumps.
Joseph Campion, Esq, has resigned
his position as General Freight Superin-
tendeut of the Louisville and Cincinna-
ii Mail Line, at Louisville, position
which he has held for over twenty-sev.
en- years.
A negro employed on the General
Lyle fell into the river from the stag
ing, while the boat was lying at the
Louisville wharf, Tuesday, and was
drowned. His body was not recovered.
Supervising Inspector Guthrie has
sustained the appeal from the decision
of the local board at Louisville, revok-
ing the license of William r. WiCks, as
first-class engineer, for alleged tamper-
ing with the safety-valve of the steamer
L6claire No. 2. He says: 81 find the
charge was not preferred against Mr..
Wicks until more than three months
had expired, after his connection with
the boat had been severed and the valves
had been under the control of other
engineers during that entire time, and
not until they had been arrested, tried,
and convicted. This looks liBe desire
TO shuttle the responsibility upon Mr..
WiCks to exonerate themselves from
blame. Mr.. Wicks was not notified of
charges being preferred against him,
nor cited to appear before the board
until the evidence of the prosecuting
witnesses had been taken. In this the
board erred, as their first duty is to
serve the notice and citation, that the
party accused may be present, if he so
desires, at the examination of all wit
nesses, and suggest any proper ques-
tions, &C." The license of Mr. Wicks is
restored.