The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-24


RIVER NBws.-There is nothing soinf
on Che wharf. The river has fallen foul
feet in the last twenty.four hours, -ant
last evening the marks indicated clever
/ feet in the channel. At Pittsburgh si1
feet six inches is the record.
There have been no arrivals. outside
of the daily packets, except the Argosy
up for Pittsburgh.
The Science will leave this morning
for Matamoras. Shippers and passen-
gers will remember this.
The packet Hope will also leave for
Matamoras. She is one of the most
popular packets on the river, and offers
extraordinary inducements to passen-
gers and shippers.
The New State will get away at seven
o'clock for Pittsburgh. She is prompt,
reliable and safe.
The following is the manifest OF
freight taken frou the books of the
steamer Hope, July 23d 1869:
81 hhds tobacco for B. o, R. R.; co sacks
corn for Dodson Bros; SIS sacks wheat for n. &
o. jackson: $500 feet lumber for Samuel Smith;
% sacks wheat for M. j. Pollock ! COW,
calf. 9 b1s chickens, do eggs, do butter, l
sack rags and do feathers for Michael Nefflsy;
Jacks flour for J. Jahen; 1900 feet lumber for
Thomas Smith; l box chickens, do eggs half
Dbl eggs, I key sang and sack rags for Simpson,
BOYD & Co.; IS buckets berries, box chickens
w 1o1 for Tn Rinh
ards; 7 bbls apples for D. Moore; hlf Dbl eggs
I box butter for J. X. Botsford; jar butter for
Jos. Speidel skiff for j. Moore; 3 bbls apples
for B. W. Buohbeit; 1s buckets berries, 90 bbls
apples for q. & H. skiff fer j. McKeene; 2
bbis eggs for steamer Petrolia; 5 sacks wool for
J. W. Harry Dbl stoneware fer VIM. GOWN;
coil rope for M. Nichols. List of passengers
for this day numbers 81.
The Arkansas River Packet Company
has leased the railroad from DuvalPs
Bluff to Little Rick for one year, pay
ing $4,000.
The Illinois is in many places six,
seven and eight miles wide, and it is
said there is no warehouse on what
were its banks, from its mouth to Peo-
ria, but is standing in water which
reaches in some instances, to the second
story windows. When the last boat
came uOWu vi Cuuody ouo 0hohuayJ ohO
Illinois was still swelling. A gloomy
feeling pervaded the people all along.
The attention of engineers is called
to the following, enacted at the meeting
of Supervising Inspectors, held in Wash
inpton, in January last: "when an en-
gineer gives up the charge of the en-
gineers department of steamer, by
resignation or otheSWise, he shall Ger.
tify in writing as q the condition of
the same, said certificate to be kept on
board the steamer, subject to the in
spection of the United States inspectors
of steamers, and the succeeding en-
gineer. Also, when an engineer as
sumes the charge Of the engineers de-
partment of vessel, he shall examine
the same, to see if it is in good order,
and in accordance with the specified
condition in the certificate given by his
immediate predecessor, and if not, re-
port the fact to the United States in
spectors of steamers in the port where
he belongs.
Fast Boats.-Says the Pittsburgh Com.
mercial
The time of the j. NJ. White, built at
Pittsburgh in 1874, has never yet been
approached. Notwithstanding the large
number of boats built in Cincinnati,
Louisville, Madison, New Albany and
other places, Pittsburgh still has the
honor of building the fastest steamer
that ever foated on the Western waters.
Here is the time of few of the fast
boats: