The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-25

RIVER NEwS,-The Hudson did not
reach here until Saturday morning,
and having fair freight trip u dis
charge and TO take on board pretty
heavy shipments within a few hours,
made matters quite lively on the land
ing.
The short line local packets were on
hand as usual, Saturday. The Express
did not get up until last evening. She
will return to Parkersburg this morn.
Ing promptly at II o'clock.
Last evening the river was rising
slowly, with four feet three inches In
the channel.
Saturdays Cincinnati papers furnish
the following:
Mr.. Charles Booth, formerly clerk on
the Golden Eagle, will go clerk on the
Allegheny Belle, Of Booths Barge Line,
Capt. Booth will launch new barge
Monday or Tuesday.
The Allegheny Belle will be ready for
business In about ten days.
The Wheeling packet, Major Ander-
son, did not set O spar while on the
round trip. The sallie departed Tor
Pittsburgh with light freight.
The Golden Eagle, for Wheeling, de-
parts this evening, Capt. Chas. Muhle-
man In command, and Messrs. Young
and Knox clerks.
During low water the Wheeling
packet, Major Anderson, will only 20
as high as Pomeroy and Parkersbure,
leaving on her first trip this evening
under the new arrangement.
The snag-boat Green back left again
this morning for the Upper Ohio, to
tug snags. We now understand our
river men when they say we need more
'greenbacks" TO improve navigation
It Is q few more snag-boats like the
Greenback.
The Major Anderson reports 9h feet
to Wheeling, with Bullngton's and
Carpenters bars the worst places. The
towboats recently aground In the latter
place having stirred the gravel up 90,
makes the channel difficult 10 find.
The improvement Of Strengthening and
scraping the channel at Burlington Is
progressing favorably, and Il ls thought
will be OF great benefit,
The freight Of the sunken st. James
was taken of by the ChIlo packet,
Mary Ament, which extended her trip
TO Maysville. The freight received no
damage. There was no hull fisk on
the st. James, being insured against
FIRE only. She will be hauled out on the
Marine Ways and Immediately repair.
ed. The st. MaryB left at noon yester-
day In place OF the st. James, In COM
mand OF Capt. Morgan, and o. F. Shaw
In the Office, with all the crew OF the st.
James on board. The St. Marys has
recently been painted and fitted up In
splendid style.
Work on the bridge at Louisville Is
being pushed forward with renewed
energy. The trestle work over the In.
dian chute is completed and ready for
the iron. Piers 10 and II will be finish.
ed In a day or two, leaving only one TO
be built, and II Is half finished, so the
bridge will be ready for the passage OF
cars by January LIST. Work on the dam
is still being prosecuted, but as the
weather Is getting most too cold for
working In the water, the work will
have to be suspended, It is feared, be-
fore Its completion.
A child at WinIerset, Iowa, swallowed
oNAV" 80 AASA Avail wv AAAo 4ub 5Al@
fered any inconvenience. It should be
educated for propeller.
A machinist belonging 10 the arsenal
at Naples has invented an instrument,
which he calls an Rmlsmograph, which
indicates with precision the velocity at
which a vessel is travelling. the changes
in the direction and the deviation OF the
compass.
The W. R. Arthur arrived at st, Louis
Thursday afternoon, steamlng along at
fast rate, as II nothing were the mat
ter with her. Indeed, any casual OBJ
server would not observe that anything
allied the steamer; would not suppose
that so straight and handsome vessel
was 80 recently stranded upon bank
OF rock with huge holes in her hull, and
the Shiny Mississippi among the freight
In her hold, aud the boat in imminent
peril Of going to pieces. The accident
has been very seTious in the loss OF
freight which was thrown overheard 10
the extent OF many thousand dollars.
Her decks upon arrival here were COW
cred with freight, that on her boiler
deck and roof having remained unmo.
Tested,