The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-08

RIVER NRws,-The marks indicated
full hve feet water In the channel last
night. Business on the wharf was
quite lively Saturday.
The Hudson left for Cincinnati with
o good trip.
The Express did not arrive until late
Friday evening, and needing some re.
pairs will not leave until to-day.
The other local packets arrived and
departed on time.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Pine BluH made two sturdy Of.
isrts 70 raise the Cora 8, "wednesday,
but failed. A diver with BubmarIne
armor has been sent for 10 examine
the wreck, when another effort will BE-
made. The Pine Bluff took OF lot
Of her freight.
By o telegram to an exchange Il IA In.
timated that the grounding Of lie sub.
marine Captain WashlnRton's BOAT
was not altogether accidental. Il looks
rathef queer ~ she had no freight and
was running very light But we sup
pose captain Washington can get affi-
dGyits to exculpate him.
A German passenger on the Great
Republic, who escaped from the illfat-
ed Stonewall, was 90 much affected BY
that disaster that he jumped overheard
when the bank fell In upon the Repub.
Lie on Monday night. He was With
difficulty rescued, but again Jumped
overheard Tuesday morning, as The
boat was underway, and the last seen
Of him he had reached terra firma. and
We hope, all right.
An Engllshman, correspondent Of
the London Times, who recently tray
eled BY rail from Chicago 10 San Fran-
CISCO had an opportunity Of seeing the
celebrated Mississippi river. he de.
scribed It a. % ooffee-colored, smooth.
faced river, on which there was q hleh
backed white steamboat ascending Il,
like dirty swan Wlthouka neck
On her recent down trip from ST.,
Paul, the Tom Jasper sunk one barge
loaded with sacked grain by Btrik Ing
bank near Sabula, and another BY
striking one OF the piers OF the Bur.
llnEton bridge. Both barges viii be
raised and the freight saved In n dam.
ebVA SNAAAllOul
W. L. Maddy, OF Mason City, has
been awarded the contract for towing
the Kanawha salt for the Ohio River
Salt Company for one year.
The Evansville Journal, Of Thurs.
day, says:
Major suter directed Captain Thomas
Trunnel, with the snag boat J, J.
Albert, up the Ohio, and she has got as
far as Walkers bar, TO which point
she has cleared out everything, remoy.
Ing o number OF snHRs, one or which
was the largest Hhe has ever hitched on
to.
The octavia, Captain Charles Horton
commanding, and with Major Suter In
command Of field operations on board,
also came up and dfedged at Walkers
bar for six days, and succeeded In get
ting the La Belle oyer and assisted
seven other boats. She has had 10 work
under great disad YantaRes, as boats i'm
patient 10 pass 60 Into the channel she
has partly cleared, and not only fill up
the channel but hinder her operations,
The OctAvla, as we mentioned yester-
day, has Just removed the boilers OF the
Cumberland, one OF the most danger.
Gus distractions In the river. She will
go back to Walkers bar with the hope
OF dredging the channel deep enough
10 let the Dexter over. The department
under charge OF Colonel Macombs, in
oludes only the Mississippi, Missouri,
and Arkansas Rivers, but by general
request he has directed Major Suter to
detach some boats for special duty In
the Ohio. II the J. ]. Albert finds suf-
Aoient water she will 60 up to the falls.
This information Will greatly crafty
steamboatmen navigating the Ohio, and
Il the Albert and 0otaviR are success,
the Improvement will be OF vast i'm
portance.