The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-08

RIVER NEwS.-There is but little to
record by way of business on the levee
here now. 1t is sufficiently dull for all
purposes, for except the regular packets
the arrivals of steamboats, are like an
gels visits. The weather was cool and
showery. The marks show ten feet and
three inches and falling. At Pittsburgh
the marks indicate six feet ten inches
and falling slowly.
The Argosy came down to the Top
Mill yesterday from Pittsburgh with a
good trip. The Gallatin went down on
Thursday night, and the Express left
Parkersburgh yesterday. The Hudson
had good trip up from Cincinnati. She
leaves to-day. We can recommend her
as good boat and her officers as eff
Gent gentlemen. The Venture left a
barge load oflpig iron here for the Cres-
cent Mill.
The tow-bo Greyhound, Tiger and
Peerless left Pittsburgh for Cincinnati
with an aggregate of 25l, 900 bushels of
coal. Grand total on last rise, 2, 800, 900
bushels. The body of man who went
to Pittsburgh as a deck hand on the
Argosy, was found on the levee last
night by the police. His name has not
as yet been ascertained. He shipped on
the Argosy at Cincinnati. His death is
supposed to have been caused by Excess
sive drinking.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: The
storm on the river Wednesday night is
represented as being unusually severe.
The steamer Glasgow was compelled to
land at Patriot until it passed over
When she was leaving, the Waterman,
Lewis Alwine, fell overheard and was
drowned.
Captain Thomas Murdoch and Cap
tain Catf'rey, of the towbeat Charleston,
arrived on the Annie Laurie from Kama
wha. The transfer of the ownership of
the Charleston from Captain Murdock
to Captain Caffrey was completed just o
day or two before the boat sunk at
Cabin Greek Shoals, in the Kanawha,
as reported few days ago by telegraph.
While the boat was coming down
through the chute of the shoals,
Sunday morning, she was driven
by stress of wind out of the
channel and stuck fast on the wall
of the chute. She was spared off,
and swung round across the channel,
and was carried by the high wind pre-
vailing to broadside on the rocks at the
fOet of the chute, tearing out, it is sup
posed, half her bottom, as she went
down in about five minutes. Captain
Cafrey, who was at the wheel, succeed
ed in running her on bar below before
she sunk. The river was rising rapidly,
and as the boat was lying across the
river, there was danger of her cabin
being carried away. Her tow was lying
belHw the shoals.
The attempt TO sell the Nightingale,
yesterday, was not successful $4,000
was the highest bid, but her owners
value her at a considerably higher fig
ure, and refused to let her go at that.
The 'Losal Inspectors at Louisville
have revoked the license of William r.
Wicks, engineer of the Leclaire, upon
proof of interfering with and obstruct.
ing the main safety.yalve" of that
steamer. f,1... .-'a...f .
A railroad will soon be built connect
ing Providence, Tennessee, and the Lou.
isville and Nashville Railroad, that will,
when finished,, it is said, greatly in lure
the Cumberland river steamboats,.
The Armadillo arrived at st. Paul
Sunday morning, having left Pittsburgh
on the 18th of March.
1t is reported that the Milbrey and
Llewellen will soon resume the old Pa
ducah and Nashville packet trade.
The W. IL. Brown, Tom Rees, Liberty
aud Grand Lake are ali detained at 81.
Louis, waiting for iron ore for the Ohio,
which is reported as coming into the
"pile" very slowly, and in guam
titles not adequate to supply the
demand; there are at present seven
steamers, willing and waiting to load
with mineral, and there is not enough
ore at Carondelet to fiji up more than
one barge. s .HaI-
The Upper Mississippi people are see
ing to it that they get their share Of
benefit from the general appropriation
for hsrbOr and river improvement made
by Congress. Senator Ramsey writes
to the ST. Paul Chamber of Commerce
that the dredge- boats Montana and g. j.
Caffray will be employed in the Upper
Mississippi this year, aud concludes
"As there was no special appropriation
! for this improvement, it may be inter
esting to know that the Secretary Of
War will use of the general appropris'
tion as much as is requisite for this ne
cessary work"
vDr. F. DIN DaHnelly, now of this
city, formerly Professor of Physiology