The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-21

RIVER NEws.-Business on the leyee
contiRussIreeious dull. The Nora was
the only arrival up to FIVE o'clock, ex-
cept the regular packets. As we ex-
pectedt be Steamboat G ailatin has been
chartered bS Capt. Brennan, to take the
place of thSoGrey Eagle in the Parkers-
burgh Esd% She passed down yester-
day m6rniDg
The ,Efyerfs dropping pretty lively.
There Was bpt four feet nine inches in
the chsNueliat Pittsburgh yesterday af-
ternoQ1, Aere the marks show seven
feet fi% inches and falling.
The E<tls steamer Science, just being
finished forD. H. Booth & Co., had steam
made in her boilers for the first time
yesterday She will be most valuable
low wsterHsboat, as a sprinkling cart
will furnish her with water enough to
run on, she makes her trial trip on
STANDARDIZATION we win witness her per-
forma1k las we'll as the new steering
or tuE6g arrangements she is provided
with. an'..
Andy, B1Atlng, a Ygll known Pitts
burg $ndS CincinpdH pilot, has with
drawn from theSflver for the present,
having bought the right in three coun-
ties of Ohio for a patent churn. We
wish him success in his new enterprise.
Old Ben Wilson, as he was Familiarity
termed, died suddenly on Monday even
ing at his residence, Ne. 81 Hemlock
street, Cincinnati. He commenced
boating in 1919, and was an excellent
pilot, and was highly esteemed by all
his acquaintance. His age was sew
enty -four.
The Talequah has laid up at Algiers,
opposite to New Orleans, for an indefin.
lite period.
Red river, at Shreveport, at last ac-
counts, was rising, and fears were en-.
tertained of an overflow below. Above
the raft it was rising.
The Submarine No. Is, owned by the
st. Louis Wrecking Company, is being
stripped and converted into q mountain
steamer. Messrs. Bofnger g. Symmes
will start her out on Monday for Sioux
CITY and beyond. She will carry about
300 tons on three and a half feet of
water.
A passenger named Wilson, from
Selma, Indiana, who went to Omaha on
the last trip of the Henry S. Turner,
paid $1,000 for the fare of himself and
family from that point to Sacramento.
The j. w. Garrett and barges added
1000 barrels cement at Jacksonville for
St. Louis.
The steamer Benton, en- route to He
lena, sunk on Tuesday morning, eight
miles above Desoto, and about one hun
bred and eighty miles below Sioux City.
The boat was owned by Dufee Il Peck,
of Leavenwerth, valued at $4,000; and
insured. She is total wreck, but part
of her cargo can be saved. There was
an insurance on her cargo of $4,000 in the
Enterprise, of Cincinnati; $4,000 in the
United States, of st. Louis; $500 in the
Excelsior, of st. Louis; and in other
offices not ascertained.
The Evansville Journal says:
The Morning Star and Richmond took
a friendly tilt at each other on Friday
Light, and ran side, by side from New
Albany to the mouth of Salt river.
Both parties claim the victory, and as
usual the commander of each boat gives
the most conclusive reasons why he did
not run away from the other. The
owners of the Morning Star have stuck
in the Richmond, and the Richmond
was loaded with railroad iron, which
every steamboatman knows is the worst
freight to run under. We shall hold q
court of inquiry when we can get the
officers of both boats together. Captain
Neal AYERS that there were no pine
knots on the Richmond, and Bill Camp
bell, engineer of the Star, says he did
not receive the instructions sent him by
Captain Gilmore to hold the Star back
for fear she would go ahead.