The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-21

RIVER NEWS.-Inere is notnlng new
to report on the levee. Business at
| this season of the year is unusually dull,
and the fine river we are having per-
mits every ounce of freight to be car
ried off by the regular packets, so that
none accumulates for want of tran s.
portation.
The river is still rising and under the
rains of yesterday must so continue.
The marks here indicated seventeen
feet nine inches in the channel last
evening and rising. A dispatch from
Pittsburgh says the pier marks there
show thirteen feet five inches and rising
The manifest of the Matamoras packet
Hope, which we give below, did not
reach us in time for yesterdays issue.
1t shows, however, that she is doing a
fine business.
AZ hhds tobacco for B. e. O. R R.; II sacks
wheat for NJ j. Pollock; Is bbls do for l. hol'
dren; q bbls do for VIM. williamson So Hour
barrels fer Jno. Bevsr; bbls applos for Jno.
hcCluskey; 10 bbls do fer M. Mcintosh; lot
lumber for NJ. jackson; box butter, Dbl eggs
for NJ: Jeffers; ! skiff for n. Nickland; l sack
wool for s. Workbench; ! box chickens 1or D.
w Williamson, 8 bbls apples for K Morrison;
s pkgs hides for g. LObenstein; 10 SACKS corn ior
DodsoR Bros. skiff for G. Dunlap; chest, Dbl
apples for j. L. Scott; bbls apples apples;
buckets blackberries for q. g. H. MOVING for
MI Laughlin; 100 sacks for M j. Pollocki -
bbls apples for A. Umenseter; bbls Tor Jesse
Moore. List of passengers for this day num-
bers So
The tow-boat Uncle Sam was burned
to the waters edge at Hickman, eighty
miles above Frankfort, on the Ken
tuck river, on Thursday. She has been
laid up at Frankfort, but was run out
from that port by unauthorized parties,
and run aground and accidentally set
on fire. She was an old boat and was
valued at four thousand dollars, and was
insured.
Mr.. l. N. Richards, formerly of the w.
F. Curtis, is in charge of the office of
the Petrolia, running between Pitts
ourgh and Parkersburg.
barges, built for st. Louis and New Or
r. Shaler, at st. Louis.
ne ATkdnSdS, " ulJc auu Sb. IdHCIS
are falling, with plenty of water for
boating.
Captain J. Slut. Neal, commander of
the Richmond, gives it as his opinion
that the tonnage of the ste- nj boats ply
ing on the Mississippi and the Lower
Ohio rivers will not be adequate to the
demand that will be made upon them
during the coming fall season. The
growing crops throughout the South
and West promise to be overwhelmingly
large and abundant in quantity, and
excellent in quality. A great revolu-
ton in the shipment of grain is being
fast inaugurated. The enormous ship
ments of Western grain that have here
tofore been made to Europe by way of
New York, will, under the new order of
things, 60 down the Ohio and Mississ-
ippi, and find egress through the port
of New Orleans.
The whole number Of steamers on the
Western rivers during the past year was
90, valued at $24, 200 600, and with a
registered tonnage of 1872, 900. Of this
amount, st. Louis is credited with one
fourth, and owns over one-third, or
SS,S30.000. The ocean tonnage of the
United States exceeds that of the lake
and river tonnage by 1,755,0S6 tons, or
being ~ lilo per cent of the whole. The
registered tonnage of the city of New
York is | ,047 1864 tons, against l ,099,774
tons for the entire lake and river ton
mage, being only $3.50 tons less than
the latter. The tonnage of the interior
is gaining on the sea going tonnage, bat
it will be some considerable time before
it will exceed or equal it.
The Memphis appeal of Saturday says:
Some three hundred armed negroes
were about to take possession of the
steamer George w. Cheek, on Friday
night, as she landed below here on the
Arkansas shore. They were hunting
for Clarence Cellyer, who killed Cap
tain Haynes, at Marion, that evening.
They were assured that he was not on
board, but it was hard to keep them
frCm taking the boat.