The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-10

49, 10y SS''y ySAehyt oho"ih6
little over six feet in the channel at
dark. y HIS swelling a little 2 at Pitts
burgh with about four feet in the chan
pel Wewere in hopes that the late
rain would give lis at least twelve feet
of water here, but the Pittsburgh pa
pers say thai the mountain streams are
all falling, so We need not look for
much Of a rise. tsr.
The workmen on the new packet Ex-
press No. 2 did not get along as fast
with her as was expected, consequently
no steam was raised on her yesterday.
She will not make her trial trip now
until Saturday.
We were informed yesterday that the
engines for the new boat to be built at
Wilson, Dunlevy & Co.'S ship yard, for
Capt. Carlton, will have twelve inch
cylinders and four feet stroke. She is
to have two boilers twenty feet long.
AS we stated Yesterday Hamilton x Co.
win put up the machinery.
The Hudson will arrive to-day and
will take her departure tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. Her great POPULAR
ty with the travelling public renders it
unnecessary for us to do more than an
nounce the hour of her leaving.
The Cincinnati Commercial of ye5ter-
day says:
The ship-carpenters having compro-
missed on 1926 per day wages, have re-
sumed work again in the boat yards.
Capt. Asa Shepherd, clerk of the
Arlington, at present laid up at New
Albany, arrived from Louisville yester-
day. and left for Pittsburgh in last
nights train. Capt Moore is still at
New Albany waiting for something to
turn up.
The gunboat Pittsburgh. Admiral
Foote'S flagship at the hattie of Donel-
son, and more recently used as wharf
boat, now lies an abandoned hulk at
the Rock Bar, above Smithland.
A story is told of Captain Dexter, of
the Evansville, which illustrates his
admiration of an honest man. One
evening he was walking the deck Of his
fine steamer, when he was accosted by
a stranger holding in his hand three
dollars, who offered the money to him,
remarking that lie owed it to the Cap
tain for passage when the latter was in
command Of the Bower, before the war.
"Old Opposition" rolled his cigar over
in his mouth, nervously twitched his
right shoulder, looked at the man in
astonishment, but declined to receive
the proAered money. He had taken
many impecunious wayfarers during
his long career as steamboatman, all
of whom promised to pay, but had
never paid, and this was the first man
who had offered to make good his
promise Captain Dexter requested the
stranger to sit for his picture This,
framed, now hangs as an ornament in
the Office of the Evansville, with this
legend in bold letters under it: "An
honest man.
The Cincinnati Chronicle of Welnes-
day evening says:
Capt. Finks new Wheeling packet
Potomac was launched yesterday from
the Marine Ways The hull is 257 feet
on deck, 81 feet beam, &c feet floor, with
6 feet ] inch depth of hold. The ma
chinery comprises a battery of5 double
fiue boilers, with concave heads 81
inches in diameter, and % feet long, the
cylinders being "a inches in diameter,
with I feet 4 inches stroke, working a
pair of OBJECT water wheels, with l3l
feet length Of buckets 2S inches deep
She has a full length cabin, with ac-
commodations for 100 passengers, and
texas 50 feet in length
A dispatch from Washington says:
Senator Scott has introduced an
amendment to the Bridge bill for the
Ohio river, providing that spans shall
be continuous and ninety feet in clear
above low water; that the channel span
shall not he less than four hundred feet,
and that the bridge shall cross in such
a way as to have the piers perpendicular
to the line OF current for one thousand
feet above and five hundred feet below
the bridge. All spans which do not
conform to the requirements of the act
are to be increased and the Govern
ment is to pay the cost of the change,
provided they have been constructed in
good faith under the previous law. An
amendment also provides for the REIN
bursement Of certain Pittsburgh coal
dealers for $4,000 paid the Baltimore
and Ohio road for increasing a single
span of the Parkersburg bridge