The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-28

RIVER NEws.-The- river rose foot
and half during the past twenty-four
hours, and there was full six feet in the
channel last evening and rising slowly.
The Express was detained by low
water below. The bar ut Carpenters
is getting to be serious impediment to
navigation. The, Express was detained
at that point. She. got away late last
evening.
The Major Anderson is running from
Cincinnati to Pomeroy and Parkersbnrg
until there is water enough to permit
her extending her trips to this point.
The packets Science and Hope leave
this morning at 10 o'clock for Mata-
moras.
The New State will leave for Pitts
burgh this morning as usual.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday
says:
The Charmer was sold yesterday to
Captains Ike and G. W. Thompson, for
the Marietta trade. The price is stated
to be $4,000.
Captain Sam James informs us that
he proposes to buy q side-wheel boat for
the Evansville trade, if q suitable one
can be procured; if not, . stern-wheel
boat, of greater capacity than the Char
mer, AZ the increasing business Of the
trade requires larger boat.
We learn from the Montgomery I'D
rertiser that the steamer Emma No. was
sunk about seven miles above that city,
while on her way to Wetumpka, on the
morning of the 18th. She was owned
by Messrs. Hardy and Marshall, Of that
city, and was loaded with wood, having
no passengers on board. No lives were
lost. '..-s.
The scarcity of boats, owing to the
low water, has caused an accumulation
of freight at New Albany and Louis.
vile. 1t is said that Captain Hates, of
the Longworth, was overrun with
applications from stock shippers Satur.
day, and that all the stock offered him
would have filled the decks of six boats
as large as the Longworth. One of her
pilots, Weaver, reports three feet two
inches water on Walkers bar Friday
The Dexter was still lying
above the bar with her passengers and
stock on board. f..
After the explosion of the Revolution,
Chief Engineer Kellogg examined the
iron of the boiler and pronounced it
brittle and poor. The woman killed on
the flatboat was sick, and was sitting
up in bed in the act of taking some
when the explosion took
place. A piece Of the boiler struck her
head and one shoulder, passing through
the cabin, and killed her instantly. Her
standing with one hand resting on one
Of the posts of the bedstead, when the
shocking accident occurred and, strange
10 say, was not injured. The four chill
lren, belonging to the family, were in
separate apartment at the stern of the
boat, eating dinner. Neither of them
vas injured, though their dinner dishes
we're scattered about promiscuously.
The New Orleans Times says:
The labor question at this port is be-
ginning to excite the attention of many
If our boatmen, and especially our
Western friends which arrive here one
lay and are to leave on the next. For
he past couple of weeks packets have
been delayed for hours beyond the hour
If their departure in consequence of not
labor for the trip. The cause
" not obtaining labor was not because
here was scarcity of it, for there are
Ibout tive Thousand levee laborers of
he ebony color who stand about the
anding daily, and refuse to work unless
hey get from So to S. per day, and as
ar as discharging is concerned, con-
ractors receive the order from the Cap
ain to discharge, and endeavor to pro.
ure laborers to go to work and are I'M
bile to do so OH account or those labor
rs refusing to work for less than SO or
) cents per hour.