The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-12

RIVER NEws.-Business on the leyee
yesterday showed little more ANNA
ton. The arrivals were the st. Marys,
R. C. Gray and Maggie Hays for Pitts
burgh, and the departures the Julia for
GAINESVILLE and the Golden Eagle for
Cincinnati. The Maggie Hayes had the
biggest trip of the season.
The water-msrks here show eight feet
nine inches and falling. In Pittsburgh
there is scant five feet ten inches in the
channel and falling.
A thief entered the state-room of n
passenger on the Ohio No. 4, Saturday
night, and got over one hundred dollars
in greenbacks.
Information has been received that
the steamer John D. Perry was burned,
at Duvalls Bluff, Arkansas, two or three
days ago. She was valued at SIS, 900,
and insured for $4,000.
The Gray Eagle, which capsized Mon
day night, was valued at $1,000.
Captain H. J. Brinker has again as
sumed command of the LOttawaEna in
the Red river trade.
The wharfboat of the A. and NJ. S. s.
Co., at Cairo, which was sold to the
Memphis Packet Company, has been
sold to Chas. T. Hinde for q fair price,
and Messrs. Hinde & Halliday now ewn
h. ,yhorfhaotc ot Cairo
Captain Barry, of the New Orleans
and Red river trade, is in Louisville for
the purpose of contracting for a new
boat for that trade. Captain B. last
commanded the Caddo.
The tug eve Come to Stay" was sold
at New Orleans last week for $500.
The New York Wrecking Company
are about to raise the sunken and burned
steamship General Grant, at New Or
leans. She has keeled over and is now
lying in FIVE fathoms of water.
The Nick Longworth will be laid up
ut Louisville temporarily, for the pur-
pose of being Overhauled, repaired,
painted and retitted for the summer
campaign. She will come from the
hands of the mechanics in as good con-
dition as the day she came from the
hands of her builders.
Captain John Wilson, of the tiat-bOat
Hetter Ellis, committed suicide on Mon
day night aboard of his vessel, lying at
Mobile, by taking q large quantity Of
arsenic. Captain Wilson was thirty
years of age, and an Englishman by
birth. No reason for the rash act is as
signed.
James Anderson, second mate of the
steamer Virginia, had one leg broken
and the other badly bruised while that
boat was taking on hay below on the
Lower Ohio. He was taken to Louis
vile.
Mr.. George II. IIoughton, of Lonis-
vile, has been appointed Supervising
Inspector of Steamboats, for this (6th)
district, in place of Colonel J. V. Guth-
RE. Mr.. HOughton is at present a mem.
Der of the Board of Local Inspectors Of
that port and is a practical steamboat
man and will make an efficient officer.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says:
The Havana came down yesterday
morning with 300 tons pig iron, taken
on board at Betsy's town. She received
100 hhds at this place for Evansville,
and departed with the largest trip OF
the season.
We notice several shipments of strips
during the past week TO Liverpool and
London, via New Orleans, on through
bill of lading issued by Gracey 4 Bro,
agents for Asbridge, Smith 4 Co., of
New Orleans, at A and % shillings per
hogshead.
The shipments of tobacco have been
very heavy, with scarcely enough ton
mage to carry it out.
The st. Louis Republican of Sunday
says:
The weather continues warm during
the day, and cool at nights. Rain has
been threatened during the week, but
as yet has failed to come. Business on
the levee was brisk to-day, comparative
". The departing steamers were well
laden, and some of the arrivals brought
good trips. To New Orleans shipments
were fairer to-day, and the steamers
aud barges had naught to complain Of.
In the Upper Mississippi river passenger
traffic is increasing, and freights are
better. To Omaha good way business
helps along, but through receipts are
scarce. In the Illinois river there is not
much doing, except by passengers.