The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-30

experience that searching for Items was
anything but pleasant.
The river was rising, last evening,
with eight feet, strong, In the channel;
at Pittsburgh In the afternoon the
stage was reported six feet seven Inches
and swelling.
The Major Anderson arrived about 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and went
on up to MartInsvIlle 10 discharge lot
OF pig iron for a firm In that place.
The A. will leave for Cincinnati this
afternoon. and will continue In this
trade % long % the water will permit.
The Julia No. 2 will be here tonight
at IL O'Clock en- route to Z2nesvllle.
She Is a favorlte packet, and Is In
charge Of gentlemanly and careful
officers. '....r..
One Of Capt. Booths barges was at
the landing all day yesterday. A small
army Of men were engaged in storing
away wagons &c., In the monster, while
an equally large force were. busy fill
ing up lie mate lying at the Belmont
landing. II possible, the Liberty and
her twin arks will leave this evening
for New Orleans. Shippers should
hurry down their freight as Capt. B. Is
anxious to get away. No finer oppor.
tunity to ship to the southern country
will present Itself this season.
Yesterdays Cincinnati papers fur,
nish the following:
business was very active on Satur.
day inall the trades. Last week was
remarkable In the history Of the past
TWO years for It's heavy shipments TO
New Orleans by river, and the good
rates that were obtained. There is like.
~ to be more business this week than
we Will have tonnage for, as the rail.
road blockade TO New Orleans still ex-
lists. This blockade Ia occasIoned by
the immense amount Of Eastern frelghtB
for the South that ia passing through
here, by rail, and Louisville, in prefer.
ence to going by sea. To Memphis the
railroad ID now open, and freight IL 20.
Ing through from here, bat Il is not
probable that this will continue many
days. To-day the rates 10 Memphis BY
rail will be advanced to the following
figures: First class, $50. per cwt.; So
cond class, $780,; third class, $780,; fourth
class, $780,; fifth class. ESQ.,; flour, 76c,
per bbl.; pork, 81 06. The Nashville
steamer that departed Saturday eyen~
Ing loaded at 5Oa60c. per cwt. on heavy
freight. The departing New Orleans
steamer had nothing on board ut less
than Coo per cwt.
The river rose inches up to Satur.
day noon, but fell z inches arterward,
At O'Clock last evening there were l2
feet Inches water In the channel nv
the metal marks at the Water Works,
According TO a dispatch from Capt,
Pink Marble, received last evening, the
81. Marys will be able to descend the
falls Thursday. This indicates that the
bridge obstructlons will be removed
by that time, all reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
The Argosy left for Pittsburgh SAt~
urday.
The new wrecking boat IT. +. Eekert,
Will be completed In about two weeks,
If the weather Is favorable.
The Sallie left Louisville last Satur-
day, at 5 7. NJ, tor Pittsburgh, She
received considerable quantity OF
tobacco, consigned to Parkersburg, W,
Va. v
Capt. Pink YarbIe telegraphed last
night that the bridge over the Falls
would be removed Wednesday or
Thursday, permitting the st. Marys
aud other steamers TO descend the
Falls. Mr.. Jno. Lazier, formerly Of
the brig. louisville, goes out freight
clerk Of the 81. Marys.
Capt q. A. bravo arrived from Pitts.
burgh yesterday, and will start the St. |
Charles to Pittsburgh this evening On
her first trip this season.
Capt. Sweeney, Clerk Dorsey, and
the crow OF the ST. Marys will arrive
from Wheeling to-day.
The 81. Marys will come down from
Fulton this morning, aud take few
lots OF freight for New Orleans, She
will re.enter the OuachIta river trade,
A tow boat last week sunk a barge
near Ceredo, containing 5000 bushels
OF coal, winch broke in two and will
prove total loss. Thesa boat sunk
another OF her barges on the bar at
south Point, containing 1900 bushels,
winch has since been raised and most
OF Its coal saved.
Water runs into the last Golfer dam
placed In the river by the Newport and
Cincinnati Bridge Company faster than
It can be pumped out. The leak is at
the bottom OF tho dam and difficult to
get at. ~
On the 23d, the steamer Rubicon,
bound up the MississIppi, when at
Craighead Point, Arkansas, sunk and
made a total wreck of the Lowboat st.
Louis, owned by Emory Kirby &
Brother There was no insurance on
the boat. Mr.. Emory Kirby called on
US last evening, and states that the
damages being estimated at $1,000, a |
demand was made on the owners OF the |
Rubicon, who, knowing the justice OF
the claim, at once settled the matter by
handing over the cash. The Messrs, |
Kirby were amazed as much as they
were pleased by the summary and ad.
mlrable method OF making them feel
20. X Certainly the Rubicon was In
bad luck the last trip. However, she
will soon recover from the losses re.
Gently incurred. r. .rf
A party Of Government surveyors,
who for some time past have been em-
ployed In taking observations prepara-
tory to removing obstructions from the
Illinois River, have been engaged in
noting the location and extent OF the
sand bar at the foot Of the lake. All
dredge boat has been sent up the river,
and now lies at Henry. but has not, as
yet, commenced operations.
The following Information has been
obtained from the President OF the
louisville Bridge Company. The COM
pany find 1t impossible 10 remove the
trestle work OF the Indiana chute sooner
than the middle Of next December,
The span from the back. bone toward
the middle chute Is open and rncon.
nected, and the bridge cannot be COM
pleted this year. The heavy tImbers
obstructing the Indiana chute render
the passage OF the falls impossible, as
the working roadway along the base Of
the bridge remains intact. This en-
bargoes TWO or three new boats now
ready at Louisville to start south, and
they will be compelled 10 lie i'd at the
wharf until the passage Of the falls Is
free, as they are too large to 60 through
the'canal locks.- l-
THH EIR6T HTpA 1FuhAT ontraa