The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-04
RIVER NEws.-Af,er reaching twenty.

RIVER NEws.-Af{er reaching twenty
seven feet, it's highest point, the river
commenced recsding yesterday and
twenty-five feet two inches was inai-
Gated BY the marks last, evening. Re-
ports from Pittsburgh say there is
fourteen feet six inchesin the Mononga-
hela and falling. TEEO7
The tow-boat Sampson, No. O. jast
built, and on, we believe, her first trip,
which left Pittsburgh on Thursday
with sixteen barges containing over
100, 900 bushels of ceal sunk fourteen OF
her barges near New Cumberland, on
Thursday night. As we are Informed
che was trying to land head down
stream and her stern lines parted. As
her engines were being backed log got
in the wheel snd Ebroke,out all the
buckets but three. A "cam," on the
larboard side, was also broken. Thus
almost. helpless she drifted down the
river, clearing the steubenville bridge
nicely, and was not landed until she
reached Warren. The Forest City and
New State rendered her all the assist
ance in their power.
The favorite packet r. r. Hudson,
Captain Russell, arrived last evening
and will leave this, afternoon at 3
o'clock for Cincinnati. Passengers will
find her comfortable and reliable boat.
The wreck of the Cora SIS cabin al
Shawneetown was burned of. on last
Sunday. i+ ,lsE+5i a..
The steamer Louisiana was sold at
public auction q few daysago, and was
sought I'D by Mr.. Crawford, one OF her
owners. ,-., s-.s..s ~ 5i.r. -.1....
The South is so thickly infested with
robbers that hardly q boat arrives at
New Orleans, or leaves there, but one or
more of the passengers are, robbed OF
money or jewels. i...
Captain Marsh Miller has resigned
the cOmmandership of the Des Arc, and
is succeeded by Captain VIM. Elliott.
{ There is probility of the Great Re-
public soon entering the trade between
Memphis and New Orleans, taking every
alternate Wednesday with the Magenta.
A good deal of New Orleans freight
has been shipped from Pittsburgh re-
Gently by way of Philadelphia, and
from thence by steam. The Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company is operating in
connection with steamship company
between Philadelphia and New Or.
leans. scr
The Dubuque Times of Saturday says:
Although the whistle of some adven-
turous steamer is now occasionally
heard Resembling over our bluffs, yet
navigation on the upper river has prao-
tically closed for the year 1869. Lake
Pepin has closed up for the winter, and
this, of course, puts stop to all through
line movements.
The collision that took place some
ten days since between the steamers
Lulu d. and Rose Franks has been in
vestigated by the Board of Inspectors
at the Custom House in New Orleans.
Their decision throws the blame of the
colliding on the steamer Lulu D. She
rang bell which was answered proper
ly by the Ross Franks, but just as the
Ross Franks was about passing the
Lslu D. changed her whistle, and hence
the collision, The pilot of the Lulu d.
has been suspended by the Board for
thirty days.
The Cairo Evening Bulletin OF the Goth
ult. says: "a report is in circulation at
various cities that there is no coal at
Cairo for steamboats,, and steamers have
been much Inconvenience by filling
out with coal at places above and below,
under the impression that they could
not supply themselves here. This is
great mistake. We have at all times
plenty of coal, from the Ohio River,
and also from the Illinois mines, and it
is scarcely within the bounds of posi-
bility for Cairo to get out of coal.
Pittsburgh coal sometimes becomes
scarce here, as it does at Louisville and
Cincinnati, bnt the Ohio River and
Illinois coal can always be obtained
here"