The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-21

RlyER N.ws.-The river was at
stand last night with about nine Zee
and a half in the channel. We shall no
be surprised if we find considerable OF I
swell in the channel to-day, yesterday
rains carrying off what snow was iei
pretty lively. -.
The Major Anderson reached th
wharf about three o'clock yeSterda!
afternoon, aud tho Arlington whlstis'
about half an hour later These tw'
,n,aekets had a very lively: time of i
coming up. They left Cincinnati to
getber, and the ,Pittsburgh boat triet
her best to lead the Anderson to Wheel
ing, but it vas no 60. The gallan
Major was not to be subdued SO easily
An immense crowd gathered on th'
wharf to see them come In! They start
ed for little brush from here TO MAI Mar
tinsHillle, but Just above the bridge tb'
Anderson ran away with her pilot ane
bumped on the bar, compelling her tt
give M all hopes of catching the Ar
lington in the short distance she had tt
make. ry-
As the Anderson came up, sue passed
the tow boat Kanawha, bottom up, about
ten miles below Gallipolis. She was
in a tremendous hurricane that
prevailed in that region on Thursday
last. She still had her coal tow fast to
her. We are informed that there were
no lives lost by the accident, the officers
and crew of the steamer saving them
selves by jumping on to the coal baTges
as she went over. The Kanawha was
built in Wheeling, and is owned by the
Kanawha Coal Company.
The packet Phil Sheridan left Cincin'
natl on Saturday at noon and will prob
ably reach here to-day. We understand
she is intended to. ply regularly in the
trade between Pittsburgh and Cincin-
natl. If this be true she will make the
seventh regular packet between this
port and Cincinnati, viz: the Major
Hudson, Argosy, Juniata, AT,
lington, st. Charles and Phil. Sheridan
We suppose they'll all get rich.
The steamer Hope aud two bsrges OF
iron, Captain Booth, is on her way uF
the river. We learn that Captain John
Booth has submitted the loss by the
sinking of one of the Hopes barges, al
Washington mill, some weeks since, tc
arbitration, and that he will be in thi:
city to-day for the purpose of taking
.....
1t is, perhaps, not generally known
that up till the year 1916 Fulton and
Livingston held a patent for the entire
right for navigation by steam of all the
rivers in the United States. II. NJ
Shreve was the first person who openly
denied this grant, and after much effort
he succeeded in throwing open the nav.
igation of the public highways to al
competitors. The first steamer used on
our Western wa-ers was built nnder the
Immediate supervision OF Robert Full.
ton, at Pittsburgh. 1t was called
the Orleans, and departed from Pitts
burgh in October, ISL, arriving at its
des tination, which was Natchez, abost
January |, 1912. This boat ran between
Matches and New Orleans for about two
years, making the voyage to average
about seventeen days, and was finally
wrecked near Baton Rouge. Up till
1919 there are but forty.one steamers
recorded. The forty. first, called the
United States, was built at Jefferson
vile, owned by Hart d. Co., and bad
two separate engines, which were made
in Englau She was of seven hundred
tons harden. The Mr.. .Shricve just
was honored, on the
9th of April, 1917, with grand din
ncr given him i'll Louisville rs tes-
timOnial of the consideration in which
he was held as n steamboat navigator
and particularly to congratulate him
on the very expeditions voyage he bad
made from Louisville to New Orleans
and back. This trip was made by the
steamer Washington, aud only occupied
forty-fre days! 1t is said that at thi:
dinner Mr. Shreve predicted that trir
from New Orleans to Louisville would
yet be effected in ten or twelve days;
but this was looked upon rather as the
dream ofan enthusiast than as the sober
calculation of Il sagacious man.