The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-21
River News.

The water in the channel last evening
was II feet @ inches, at a stand. Weather
rainy and prospect ola rise. am..,
The Arlington and Anderson arrived
yesterday afternoon, the latter coming IN
1e minutes ahead. ..' r ="
From RS Cincinnati Gazette Of Saturday.
The meeting Of citizens at the room Of
the Cincinnati Board Of Trade, on Thurs.
day night, was not as large as the impOr-
tance Of the matters to be considered de-
mandcd. The business men Of this city
who arc most interested in those matters
were not there. Tho subjects discussed
were tho widening Of the Louisville and
Portland canal, and the obstruction Of
navigation by the erection Of short span
bridges. When tho question WIS asked,
what were the largest spans Of the bridges
ut Bclhirc and Parkcrsburg, nobody pres.
eIit was able to answer positively, The
largest span Of.tle Bellaire bridge Is $50
feet from the center ofthe plOPs, and it has
no span Ofless than 200 feet. In refer.
ence to the length Of span Of the bridge at
Parkesbtlrg, we will quote the following
from the report OfR speech delivered in
the Pennsylvania House Of Representa-
tives, by Hon. Joseph Walton, Feb. 10,
1870: 'FFf n
The report of the committee sent to
Washington on the nth Of April, 1859,
was here read, with number OF reSOlu.
tons the last Of which was as follows
"Rea0lred, That Simpson Homer, Capt
N. J. Bigley and W. Fl. Brown are APP
pointed a committee to confer with the
officers Orthe Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad
in regard to the placing of piers in the
Ohioat Bellairc and ParkerSburg," =
Now, Sir, the result Of tho labors OF that
committee was, that they could not induce
lin u. W. GARRETT to alter his mind, but
still persisted In building the bridge with
800 feet spans. And, sir, they found that
this company had already located the
piers In the river, and that they were al
most an entire blockade as far as the con
trade was concerned. They (the commit.
tee) desired the company TO let them To-
cate the channel span so as to interfere as
little as possible with navigation; hut this
they utterly refused to accede to, where.
Upon the committee induced tho company
to make another span next to tho Ohio
shore, which had always been the regular
channel for heavily laden bargcs. And,
sir, for the ulosof this privilege they paid
Mr.. John w. Garrett, President Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
$4,000 Ispeak, sir, from the book, for |
paid, ofthat amount, 81 1888 90, which was
found to be my proportion, a
From ne Eaqrdrsr Of Saturday,.
The Kanawha sprung q leak s miles be.
low GallipOlis and sunk in 10 minutes,
turning bottom up, smashing her cabin
Under her. No lives lost The WatChman,
Charles Kerr, was in his stateroom asleep
when she went down, and strange to say
he crcpt out and SWAN out all right. Her
bargcS are safe. She lies in sixteen feet
water. She was owned by the Kanawlla
and Ohio Goal Company, built at Wheel.
Ing four years ago, cost $50, 900, and was
insured for $4,000 IN Western companies.
Clear and pleasant, ora ~
Tho loss by the sinking Of one Of the
bargeS Of the Hope at Wheeling, loaded
with Wheeling manufactures, has been
submitted to arbitration, and Captain John
Booth will leave for Wheeling to-day to
attend to tho taking Of dispositions In the
NARn E0fs 10 1917 2