The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-20

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to recede slowly at this point yesterday,
and al 3 T. N. the marks showed four
feet ak inches, large, In the channel.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh gave the
stage there as two feet four and falling.
It was showing and raining there yes
terday morning.
The Major Anderson, Capt Muhle.
man, got away for Cincinnati with
light trip. AT the present stage DIVA.
In the Upper Ohio, boats the size OF
he Major A. have a hard time getting
through. However, when Capt. NJ.
takes his departure for point, he gets
there.
The Rees arrived from Suufsh just as
the Major A. was backing out. She
had good trip. We noticed o large
number OF hogs and cattle were on
board designed for this market.
The Belle. for Pittsburgh, with q
lighter, passed up about 4 o'clock.
The New State came down from Pitts
burgh, Monday night, and remained
yesterday. A portion Of her machinery
required repairing, and that matter
was being attended to while lying here.
She will resume her place In that trade
this morning.
We are indebted to Cincinnati papers
Of yesterday, for the following:
We understand that Captain John X,
Booth has purchased the towb Hope,
Owing to low water; Capt. Davis has
concluded to lay up the Wheeling
packet Golden Eagle for the present.
Coming down, she only found 80 inches
at Burlington.
The pilots Of the Ohio No. 4, say that
the little Government boat Green back
Is fast taking snags ont OF the Upper
Ohio-dolng q splendid work, indeed.
She Is now engaged In raising sunk
en- flat at the foot Of Richmond. Success
to her.
It Is told US, by good authority, that
large boats, such as the Nick Long.
worth, John KIlgour, z. W. Strader,
&C., will be able to pass through the
canal at Louisville In very short time.
The next move ought 10 be, to make
the canal free. We will keep our read.
els posted.
Captain HIner's little screw steamer
Revolution, plying between Cairo and
Mound City, exploded her boiler, Mon.
day, three miles north ofMound City,
killing woman living on a 1atboat,
TO which the steamer was moored. A
party OF young ladies and gentlemen
from here and Mound City had Just left
the boat, or the loss OF life would have
been greater, No details as 10 damage
TO the boat.
The J. W. Garrett and barges had
not departed for New Orleans when we
left the wharf last evening, but were
fast getting ready. Instead Of taking
two bRrges, as announced In the pa.
pers, she took three. This may or may
not be true, as we Understood that the
Hope would take two Of her barges 10
Cairo. Sullivan and Evelyn pilots.
One side Of one barge Is loaded for
Vicksburg. The Garrett has not less
than 1000 tons.
The Charmer will be In port this
morning, and will return to Evans
Vile this evening, as usual. The re-
ported sale Of the Charmer Ia denied,
on the authority Of her owners, and she
will continue regularly In the trade.
The Armadillo, Capt. Geo. Wolf, Is
announced to depart for New Orleans
this evening.
T. E. Barnes, Of Rochester, Pa, has
bought the Tom Morgan, now lying at
the wharf, for g, 500, from Capt. Scobee,
and will take her South, TO run as q
Forked Deer River packet. She was
running lately In the Missouri, but
proved too small. Capt. John Moss,
formerly Of the Importer, will arrive
from Pittsburgh, Tomorrow, and take
command of the Morgan.
The New Orleans Bul(ettn O! Thurs
day says:
The Mary Houston arrived at our
landing, last evening, from Louisville,
having made one OF the quickest low
water trips on record, namely, six days
and twenty hours, and lost twenty six
hours by fog, and waiting for daylight
10 cross the bars, there being but six
feet water in the river.
The Vicksburg Herald says:
The Countess, while en- route to
Greenvllle, picked up a snag last We'd
nesday night, which pierced quite
hole In the larboard guard, the Office
floor, and the hurricane roof beneath
the texas. An iron safe, kept under the
Office desk, was pushed aside by the
snag and upset. Mr.. John Donovan,
second clerk OF the boat, who was In
the olHce asleep at the time the mis-
chief was going on, met with a narrow
escape, the bunk upon which he was
lying being smashed into pieces.
A Cairo correspondent OF the Com.
merciat writing on the 18th says:
The Salado filled out here with so
tons way freight, principally for Mem.
phis. The Maggie Hayes has a fine
cargo, perhaps too fine for the water In
the lower Ohio. Her manifest Is in.
closed. She brings the report that the
W. r. Arthur, bound from st. Louis
to New Orleans With big load, ran on
the rocks about ten miles below Cape
Gtrardeau, during the fog on Saturday
morning, and still remains there In a
sinking condition. A large quantity OF
freight had been thrown overheard,
and all her horses and other stock have
been taken ashore by the Bismarck,
but her bow still remained on the rocks,
and there seemed but slight hopes OF
saving her. The Shamrock lust arriy-
ed with a fair trip. Manifest inclosed.
She reports principal holes stopped In
the hull OF the Arthur, and Capt. Rusk
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