The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-05

RIVER NEws-Ths river was fsitiui
very slowly yesterday, with siz fee
three inches Id the channel lat even
ing. From Pittsburgh we have the 70
port that the marks there show foul
feet and stationary.
The Salado is up for Cincinnati, Lou
isyille and st. Louis, as will be seen by
her advertisement in the proper column
She is prepared to take all the lower
river freight that may offer. Shippers
will please have their favors ready
promptly. =,
The packets Hope and Science viii
leave for Matamoras and intetmediate
points this morning at ten o'clock.
The New State is the regular Fits
burgh packet to-day. 'S' 81 a -- E.
The Golden Eagle, Captain Amos Da'
Wis, left Cincinnati last evening to take
her place in the Wheeling and Cinoin'
natl trade. 20, ..--raf 81. -
Every town on the Arkansas or White
river has one or more drummers from
Namnh;s
The CITY Council of Pine Bluff, Ar
kansas, has passed an ordinance repair
inc ALI steamboats, to land at the upper
wharf, under q penalty OF S20 to SlOo
The landing has been much improved
under the supervision of Capt. Clay
- ..d che xrada IN tho IVA arJa ed Of
is very gradual.
Captain Lloyd, T. Belt and Messrs
Wolff g. Hynes, of st. Louis, have pur'
chased the interest of one-half in the
Cornelia, lately owned by Captain
Charles K. Baker. Captain Belt will
command the boat in the unclassie
waters of the Ouschits, pronounced by
civilized people Wash-it aw.
Frank w. Jenkins, well known
steam boatman, is about to commence
the publication of an agricultural and
mechanical joHrnsl at Little Rock.
A line of tirst-class steamers between
Savannah, Georgia, and Boston, 10 to
be established, to run semi-monthly, OF
oftener if freights will permit.
Mr.. Rudolph, of St. Louis, owns one
half of Captain McCowas' new boat, the
Julia Rudolph.
The St. Paul Dispatch, September %,
says The st. Croix yesterday morning
was within two inches of the food et
1859, and still rising. The valley OF
the st. Croix is inundated. On Sunday
night o force of sixty men was engaged
in endeavoring to keep the st. Crolx
dam from going out. GOD o. . 10 {. 4
The st. Louis Democrat of Saturday
says:
Heavy rains throughout the North.
west, and a fair sprinkling here
enough to retard steamboat business on
the wharf. River falling very slowly.
The great Minnesota freshet is steadily
disappearing in the sloughs over the
lowlands and otherwise. Nothing new
from any of the upper rivers. There is
81 feet of water in the Illinois to Naples,
but less above. Advices represent the
Hawkeye on her way Down with her
guards in the water. ..-....
Mr.. Pierson, of Now Orleans, has not
yet succeeded in securing o boat for the
Red River trade. He wants one that
will pass COOper's inspection at New
Orleans, but we think he will have great
trouble in finding one that will carry
enough of the requisite Climbers OF
course) to pass that genlleman's inspec-
tion, for from what the New Orleans pa
pers say, we should judge that there is
many . boat passed by.
We are struck with the contrast in
freight rates to points on Red River
from st. Louis and from New Orleans
respectively. On barrel OF flour from
New Orleans to Shreveport it is about
. much as the original cost of the arti
90 here, while the steamer Ida, now
loading at this port, has engagements
at 81 IS per barrel to Shreveport, and
81 IS to Jefferson.