The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-23

RIVER NEws.-The river is nearly
stationary with four feet large in the
channel. At Pittsburgh there is twenty
two inches as the marks there show.
The K. Z. Hudson was at Marietta
yesterday at 3 o'clock. She will be at
her place at the wharf to-day and will
leave this afternoon at 8 o'clock for
Cincinnati.
The Hope will leave at 10 o'clock for
Matamoras and intermediate points.
She Is good and reliable boat, and
passengers will be made comfortable,
on board of her.
The Science is up for Matamoras and
call along Shore" this morning at 10
o'clock. Shippers and passengers will
find our long-legged partner Admiral
Huseman on hand ready to attend to
them and their interests.
A side-wheel steamer is being built at
Wilson, Dunlevy 81 Co.'s boat-yard for
the Northern Line Packet Company.
She is designed to run between st. Louis
and st. Paul. She is to be 240 feet long;
3S feet beam; 6 feet hold; engines of %
inch cylinders; 6 feet streke. She is to
have five boilers each of 80 inches diam
eter, 26 feet long and double flued. Her
wheels will be % feet in diameter, with
12i feet buckets. Her guards will be Is
feet in width, making her total width
60 feet. 1t speaks well for Wheeling
boat builders when all the boat-yards on
the lower river are passed by and the
contract for this large steamer is given
to our workmen.
The Cincinnati and Maysville packet
st. James sank near California, IL miles
above Cincinnati, Tuesday afternoon.
The boat was bound up, and when pass
ing through the chute just below Cali
fornia, about halfpast three p NJ, she
struck an obstruction, which broke
about thirty feet of her bottom timbers.
She was ran up on beech above, where
she sank in about one hour after strik-
ing. Captain Morgan went down to
Cincinnati in buggy, and about twelve
o'clock Tuesday night the Champion
No. went up to her assistance. The
water was over her lower deck aft of
the boilers. Not pound of her freight
was damaged. The r. r. Hudson and
Mary Ament took off her passengers and
freights.
The Rob Roy, Captain Kane, has en-
tered the Attakapas trade.
Captain James Timms, an old steam
boatman, but for the past two years
President of the Little Rock Gas Com.
pany, died Tuesday at Little Rock.
Ed Gray, pilot, who was close to the
scene of the Arthur disaster, says that
boat was still on the rocks on Sunday
night, but the prospect was good for
raising her, as the damage was closed
up, and interior of hull dry. There had |
been thrown overheard $500 barrels of
flour, whisky, pork, &C., all of which
was no doubt picked up by the people
who will consider the goods belong to
them by virtue of the law of foatSunl
and getsum.
E. C. Carroll e. Co., transfer and
agents of Vicksburg, have
purchased of the Mississippi Valley
Company, the wharf boat
lately used by them at st. Louis. Mr..
Carroll has for many years been closely |
identified with the steamboat interest,
and has a most extensive and favorable
among river men, which
must result in making the enterprise
The Secretary of the Red River Pilots
Association of New Orleans, denies that
the pilots of that Association have re-
fused to go on any boats from st. Louis,
up Red River, and says they
are open to engagements by boats from
any quarter,