The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-22

RIVER NEws.-The rains of the pas
two DAYS have given the river anothe
swell. Since Saturday the river ha
risen a foot at Pittsburgh, the mark
there Yesterday afternoon showing foul
feet four inches and rising. Here WI
have seven feet in the channel, rise o.
eicbtecn inches since Sunday evening
and the prospect is fair for pretty
good rise. :,
The rain yesterday put stop to all
business on the levee and but little
freight was offering. The daily packets
all left port pretty light.
II is understood that the st. Louis
and Peoria Packet Company design to
contract. at an early day, on the Ohio
river, for o dashing side wheel PACKET
fer the Illinois river trade.
The snagboat S. Thayer pulled thirty
seven snags out of the Arkansas river
below Little Rock recently.
Captain Joseph Dalfrees, of the Rose
Franklin is coming to the Ohio for the
purpose of contracting for new boat
for the Lafourche trade.
A little girl, named Annie Corcoran,
was accidently killed at st. Paul, last
Monday, by box falling upon her, the
result of carelessness on the part of one
of the deckhands of the steamer Tom
Jasper.
The Memphis Aralanche Of the 10th
says:
A few days ago a well-knOwn river
engineer, named Edward Costello, NOR
ried a widow at Helena. Arkansas, who
kept bakery there, and who had some
property of her own. The bride and
bridegroom came to Memphis to spend
the honeymoon, and to purchase stock
for the store and some articles of house
keeping. On the second night of their
stay-Monday night-Costillo heartless-
ly deserted his new made wife, leaving
her to grieve, not only over the loss OF
his affections, but also over the more
severe loss of her gold watch and four
hundred dollars which he took off with
him.
The Lady Gay was sold by Captain
Joseph Brown to Captain J. H. Jones,
w. B. Carter and others for SIS, 900.
Referring to the trial, now in progress,
of Captain w. B. Donaldson, the st.
Louis Democrat says:
The defence failed to throw discredit
upon the testimony of the three princi-
pal witnesses, or to seriously embarrass
them on the cross examination. The
testimony thus far is terribly against
the accused, but there is no telling
what rebutting evidence will be intro
duced.
The steamer Dexter had left st. Louis
for New Albany, Indiana, where she
will tie up for the rest of the season.
Her time from st. Louis TO Cairo was
about ten hours, all in daylight, and
several hours to spare. She stopped
nowhere-not even at Cairo.
The Dubuque Herald of the 18th says:
Freight tariffs have advanced six
ce nts per cwt., and ON and after to-day
will be twenty. four cents on grain and
pound freight to st. Louis. Packet
companies claim that the advance is
necessary to compensate them for the
extra expense in crossing the rapids
when the water is low and gradually
falling"
The Pilots Association, of st. Louis,
have rendered to the Board of Trade,
free of charge, such pilots as may be
necessary to bring an ocean steamer to
that city on an experimental trip. The
Gartside Coal Company and the Big
Muddy Coal Company will each donate
1000 bushels of coal for the use of the
same vessel, and several merchants
have signified their willingness to order
goods to load the vessel at Liverpool.