The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-26

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with abaut four feet four inches in the
channel. Twenty-three inches is report.
ed as the depth of water in the channel.
at Pittsburgh and falling.
The favorite packet Major Anderson
will leave this afternoon at three o'clock
for Cincinnati. The Anderson, under
the command Of the ever-popular Capt.
Muhlemab, must ever be q favorite With
passengers.
The New State leaves this morning
for Pittsburgh. She manages to get
through when no other packet can.
The Hope will leave for Matamoras
aud intermediate points this morning
at 10 o'clock. She always gets off on
time.
The Science will leave at 10 o'clock
for Matamoras. Our handsome, long,
beaming friend Admiral Huseman,
makes everything pleasant in the office.
All the daily packets got in on time
yesterday, for the first time for long
while.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday
says:
The Palmetto, queer looking craft,
ITO feet long, built at Aberdeen, Ohio,
for YaZoo river, arrived from Maysville
with 1000 plows and $50 barrels apples
for New Orleans. She has one boiler
and two engines, with eight-inch cylin-
ders and three feet stroke; her wheel
is in recess. She has no passenger
accommodations. Captain Campbell,
who built the boat, is in command, and
will run her in Yazoo river, if he can't
sell her to advantage. She leaves this
evening.
Henry Morton & Co., Saturday, sold
the steamer West Wind to parties be.
longing to Mount Vernon, Indiana, for
$4,000. Her new owners will run her in
the Lower Ohio.
United States Marshal Slack, of West
Virginia, advertises the steamer T. j.
Pickett for sale, at the suit of the Ka-
nawha Coal and Salt Company-sale to
take place at the foot of Main street,
this city, Monday, November 18th.
The property of Thayer's circus, being
in the hands of the Sheriff here, and
likely to remain so for some time, the
three months charter of the Spray by
that troupe falls to the ground.
The John Lumsden broke her shaft
below Evansville, Friday.
When the explosion of the boiler of
the Revolution occurred, fragment
was propelled through the cabin of the
flatboat lying alongside, killing q
woman who was near her end with con-
sumption. The terrible missile then
plunged close to q party of picknickers
on shore, covering them with dirt and
sand. Captain Dave Heuer had inst
left the boat, and was only sixty feet
away from it when the boiler burst.
The boat sunk, but will be raised and |
repaired, and the machinery recovered. |
The Arkansas river is still very low,
and there is No indication of improve
ment. The water in that river has not
been so low as it is now in eighteen
months. Boats with any kind of load
have much trouble, and spars are indis.
pensable. White river il in good con.
dition comparatively, and has FIVE feet |
to Augusta, while thirty inches are hard
to find in the Arkansas to Little Rock.
Latest advices from Red and Ouachita
rivers are that navigation in either is |
attended with great deal of trouble,
such as laying up at night, getting
aground, breaking large hawsers in pull |
ing from one point to another. Should
the rivers in question recede further, an
advance in the rates of freight will be
the result.
Captain Whitfield, OF Texas, is at
looking for boat for Trini-
ty river. He inspected the Henry A.
Jones, built by Captains Frank and Dan |
for that river.
The st. Louis Democrat says:
LOOK Our FOR WINTER.-In 1S43 ice
an here in the river on the 18th of No
1ember. On the 5th ofDecember wag-
ms crossed on the ice. On 10th of Jan.
larry, 1874, the ice broke up, aud on the
st of February the river closed again
ce fourteen inches thick. Ice melted
With the heat of the weather on the
9th of March, and boats left with only
hree feet to Cairo. The first boat, John
Aull, left for the Missouri river on the
It'll of April.