The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-23


RIVER NEws.-There was very little
business transacted on the landing yes.
terday. The Express did not get here
from Patkersburg until 8 O'Clock, hAvu
Ing been detained by fog. She left
about her regular hour, II A. N. The
other local packets arrived and depart.
ed As usual.
Last evening the marks showed four
feet In the channel and falling very
slowly. A drizzlIng, dlsagrseble rain
storm commenced about 0 o'clock last
night, which may result In q rise In the
river, ifit was general.
Late Cincinnati papers have the fol.
lowing:
The United States snagboat Green.
backs. Captain Shouse, arrived here
vest erday morning, and will start up
the river again this morning. She has
been doing good work In this river,
having, since July 29Gh, taken out 40
snagB, 8 Sunken coal boats and baTges
! Bunken canal boat, and / sunken
steamboat. Many Of these obstruc.
tons were very dangerous, and had
been the means Of destroying hundreds
Of thousands OF dollars worth OF pros
perty. The next snRg that she will
tackle will probably be the one that
sunk The ST. James, OF the existence Of
which the Greenbacks probably did not
know, although It has been In the river
there for some time. The Maggie Hays
struck Il last summer, bat che pilot,
fearing he might have been q little ont
Of the channel, said nothing about It
OF the time. The Bostona has mar
rowly escaped It once or twice, and the
Mary Ament has frequently rubbed It,
More money 10 needed nom the Gov
eminent TO prosecute the work Of I'm
proving navigable rivers. Such O snaE.
boat as the 8. Thayer, now operating In
the Arkansas river, with machinery to
Work by steam, or even two or three
such boats, are needed In the Ohio river
all the time. These boats can be opera.
ted at very little cost, and such men "a
Captain Shouse, who knows the river,
can easily be secured to run them dur.
Ing low water. As we said before, the
Greenbacks has done good work, and
done It cheaply, but she can not do 1t
all. Her district extends from Pitts.
bnrgh to the suspension bridge.
The Maysville and Cincinnati packet,
ST. James, left here shortly after the
dinner hour, on Wednesday, with O
large number OF passengers and light
trip Of freight. About half past three
O'Clock, when ct q point twenty-five
miles up the river, called California,
Kentucky, as stated In our local
columns yesterday morning, she
struck log when under full Roadway,
and broke 70 or 80 tlmbers in her hull,
making q hole perhaps 40 feet long.
There are two chutes In the river at
that point. that pilots run-the Ohio
and the Kentucky chute. 1t was In
making the crossing from the Ohio to
the Kentucky side, TO take the latter
chute, that the boat struck. The Ohio
No. was the last boat In port from the
scene Of the accident, and from her ON.
GERS, and also the clerk Of the St.
James, Mr.. o. +. Shaw, who was q
passenger on the Ohio, we learn that at
10 A. N. yesterday the snnken boat was
lying with her head on shore and her
stern standing out In the river, with
th rec feet OF water on her larboard side.
The Champion No. 8, at 10:l5 A. NJ, yes
terday, was pumping at her hull, and
will probably have her raised and
towed to the Marine Railway, this city,
by this morning. The passengers who
were on the st. James were transferred
TO the Wheeling packet r. r. Hudson,
and proceeded on their journey. Her
freight, without damage, was afterward
transferred to the Chllo packet, Mary
Ament, which extended her trip 10
Marysvllle. There was no hull lnsur-
auce on the st. James, being insured
against fire only.