The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-11


RIVER NEws.-BuSiness on the levee
is most undeniably dull. A transient
steamboat is altogether out of the CON-
mon. The Golden Eagle reached the
wharf yesterday morning. She returns
to Cincinnati this afternoon.
The ]. w. Garrett and barges are
announced for st. Louis this afternoon.
Shippers will bear this fact in mind.
The marks in Pittsburgh show six feet
seven inches and falling. Here nine
feet six is the mark and falling slowly
About eleven o'clock on Sunday
night the old towboat Grey Eagle
sprung leak and capsized near Stag
Island, in the Mississippi river, about IS
miles above st. Louis, and Patrick
Hall, the pilot, and Henry Clerges and
James Sims, raftsmen, are supposed to
have been drowned.
The Charleston Journal says that the
Echo went out of the Kanawha, having
in tow 10000 barrels of salt. This is
the largest tow of salt ever taken out
the Kanawha river.
Capt. Dowery expects to have his new
boat, the Mamie d, in running order in
week or two, when he will put her in
the same. trade the Energy was for
merly in. The machinery, cabin, &C.,
of the Energy, is being transferred to
the new boat at Mason City.
The following are the names of the
steamers lost on the Western waters for
April, viz: GA. Thomson, Ollie Sulli-
van, Antelope, Nina SimmS, Urilda, st.
Elmo, Tennessee and Nick Wall. Total,
eight boats.
Captain Z. B. Martin, an old Tonnes
see river steamboatnan and wealthy
citizen, died suddenly, from apoplexy,
in Chicago, on the 22d ult. He was a
citizen of Florence, Alabama, for thirty
years, and was one of the pioneers of
steamboating on the Tennessee river.
Mr.. Ben B. Taylor, an old river clerk,
died at his residence in Madison, Fri
day morning. His death was not unex-
pe0ted, as he had been confined to his
bed for some weeks. Mr.. Taylor was
we'll known among river men, having
filed the position of clerk on the mail
boats many years ago. 1t will be a
qualification to his friends to know that
he had his life insured for the benefit
of his family for $4,000.
The Government snsg and dredge
boats are now all on their way to their
snag boats first built are too heavy for
the Missouri in low water, but now they
have started up that stream to work
wherever they can. They are accom-.
panied by the dredge boat Ostavis,
which will make a channel in shallow
places. The last boat built the S. Thsy-
er, is on her way to Arkansas river, for
which stream she was bulls expressly
Captain E. P. T Hollcroft has retired
from the command of the Tarascon, and
Captain James Mather, of the Rose
Hite, takes his place Captain Frank
Hurry is now in command Of the Rose
Hite.
Heretofore the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company have pee, 0een
paying pilots $3.50 per month. They
are hiring them now at $50.
Hon. James Williams, who made for
tune by steamboat enterprises on the
Tennessee river, died at Grstz, Austria
April 10th. His two daughters married
Doblemen in that country.
Captain James K. johnson is building
boat for small service on the Tennes
see river, to ply between Decatur sno
Guntersville, Alabama.
The immigration to Missouri and
Kansas was larger this year than ever
before, and grain brings better prices al
points in those States than it would II
New Orleans.
The St. Louis Republicans of Saturday
says:
Business is not brisk, but most uneom
fortably dull. There seems to be plenty
doing, but when one takes into consid
GRAFTON the immense amount of tonnage
represented at our wharf, it needs nc
elouuence to convince that things are
not as they should be. To New Orlean;
and Memphis shipments have decreased
wonderfully, and in the upper river:
| freights are scarce, both arriving sn0
exporting. To the mountains but little
is Offering ontside of Government
| freights, and there are only two steam
ers receiving, one to Fort Bs1ten, the
other to Fort Buford. To ArkSnsas
river there are some offerings, but littlo
shipping. To points on the Ohio treign'
is scarce, with no prospect OF an lnme.
date Improvement In the Aissoull
river there is quite an activity m way
business and nearly all the "O7 Line
Packets bring down large cargoes o.
grain to Kansas City and LesysnToEtn'