The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-13
RIVER NEWS. The all nervadinU ex.

no al pOANoN1h6 "a
element on tie levee yesterday, and
only topic or conversation, was the
great fire among the steamboats, at Gin
cinnati. Owners of boats. living here
were asking "what boats have been de-
stroyedi Was the Hudson there Was
the Major Anderson in the crowd Was
this, that or the other boat burned ?"
As the telegr aph brought the names of
the destroyed vessels our boatmen
breathed easier, and talked more. A
full accounts Of the fire will be found in
our telegraph columns.
There were no arrivals yesterday out
side of the regular packets, and bust
ness was not very lively with them.
The marks here show seven feet nine
inches and falling. At Pittsburgh there
is but four feet two inches of water in
ths-ehannel. Wheeling will soon be
the head of navigation again. Weather
warm and indicating rain.
The Cincinnati Enquirer SAYS: The
Alice Dean has been chartered for pic
mic parties on Thursday, Friday, Sun
day and Monday. She goes out with |
the Grand Army of the Republic on Fri
day.
The new steamer Pioneer is offered
for sale at New Orleans. She is only 65 |
feet long.
The enterprise of new line of boats
between Minneapolis and st. Cloud has
been postponed to next year.
Mr.. Bateman, of Pittsburgh, died of
hemorrhage of the lungs on the steamer
Belle Vernon, at Burlington, on Friday.
He was with his family on his way to
st. Paul to regain his health. The fam
lily have gene with the body by rail to
Pittsburgh. g,
The Frank Pargoud Is to be withdrawn |
from the Bend trade, and, with the r. |
Z. Lee, will make q few trips to st. |
Louis, when they are to lay up to re-
paint.
A green young man who had never
before seen steamboat, fell through |
the hatohway into the hold of the State |
of Maine, and, being unhurt, loudly ex-
pressed his surprise: "Well, if the
blessed thing amt holler."
Captain VIM. P. Hight, of the Sucker
State, is not over sixty years of age, yet |
he has been boatman on the Missis-
sippi for thirty years. In 1S49 he ran |
the old Franklin, and used to make fire.
queHt trips to the Falls of st. Anthony.
was then unknown, and |
haH huf |
while st. Paul was but little village |
or trading post. He says he has wit
messed the growth of this Upper Missis-
sippi country from bowling wilderness
to q rich and populous country. He
also ran on the old Franklin up to
within a short distance of Spirit Island,
and could easily have gone further. |
The old Anthony Wayne approached |
the nearest to Spirit Island of any boat
on the river. He is as familiar
with the Mississippi river frem st. An
thony Falls to Cairo as boy is with |
the way to school.
The st. Louis Times of Monday says
Weather pleasant. River steadily |
going down at aHaccelerated rate. The
Upper Mississippi and Illinois steadily |
declining. The Missouri is reported
falling at all points below Omaha. The
wild rush of river business was short
lived. Now it is quiet, but steady. If
st. Paul packets are not crowded with
passengers from or to this point, they
perform wonders in the way of freight
and passengers during the eight hun
bred mile trip. Occasionally there is
fine Missouri river trip, but in general
terms little freight is going mp that
stream, except lumber and iron, and
emigration seems at stand still.