The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-16
RIVER Nrws.-The quill heavy wealth

RIVER NEws.-The Gull heavy wealth
er and low stage of water have oon
bined to make our: wharf anything bal
a lively place. The river holds itself tt
about four and half feet of water with
psrtiuacity that is wonderful. Al
Pittsburgh the river is reported falling
with twenty-three inches in the chan
mel.
In the suit against the Louisville
Mail Line Company, by those who losl
relatives by the collision between tne
United States and America, In Decem'
Der last, the Judge of the Jefferson
County, Kentucky, Common Pleas, de.
cided saturday that the case was not
one of admiralty jurisdiction. The suit
will be argued next February. !,
The amount of grain and -four that
has passed through the Dunleith ele'
vator this season has been greater than
ever before. During the month OF DC
tober the books show the following
amount:
Bushels wheat. ~ -
Bushels wheat same month last year. -.235 OOC
Showing balance in favor of last
month of 257,225 Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
The st. Lous Democrat of Saturday
avs:
Three beats loading to leave to-day
had nearly fall cargoes engaged well
in advance of the period of their depar-
ture. Rates by the Mary Houston to
New Orleans, and probably also by the
others: Flour, Csc; pound, 40c.; cabin
fare, $50; deck, SIS. All the rivers from
Benton, st. Paul, Lasalle, and Pitts
burgh to New Orleans are on the down
ward grade. Freight abundant on the
Illinois, and no boats to take it. Only
couple of dinkies, or three at most,
now navigate that important artery OF
commerce. The Upper Mississippi Is
falling faster at st. Paul.
Charles a. Merry proposes that If the
merchants of st. Louis will raise S2O0,-
600, he will build a first. class screw
steamer, to run between st. Louis and
New York. He will add $4,000 more,
guaranteeing that steamer OF 25OO tons,
drawing ten feet water, will make the
trip to New York in ten days.
A new and apparently practicable
plan for improving the mouth of the
Mississippi river, so that large vessels
can enter freely, bad been suggested by
Mr.. Montage, French civil engineer.
The proposition is to make a canal Six
miles long, on the east side of the river,
so miles from the mouth into Bay Bonde,
where there is continuous deep water,
from twenty-five to thirty feet, which is
enough for the largest ship. The canal
will be so wide that ships can pass each
other in several places, and q railroad
will be laid along the bank, on which
locomotives can pull at the ships by
chains OF ropes, and carry them forward
at twelve miles an hour, or from end to
end of the canal in half an hour. The
difference of the fresh and salt water
levels is only two or three feet, and but
a single lock will be required, located at
the river bank. On the seaside there
will be work to prevent injury to the
canal, but nothing more.
A correspondent writes from New Or
leans: "There appears every prospect
of the freighting business being over
done in the South this year, there being
a plethora of boats and still rushing
here in shoals from the Ohio, Kanawha,
Tennessee and every other river.
Freights are very low, with good deal
of competition that promises to bring
them still lower before the season is
over. Almost all the st. Louis boats
here are losing money, and wish them
selves afely tied to their own wharf,
Red river rates are two thirds less than
from st. Louis, and freight in all direc-
tions very scarce. Some of the weaker
brethren will have to 60 to the wall"