The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-07

RIVER News The river is falling at
Pittsburgh, with five feet Of water in
the channel.
Here the water stood all day yester-
day at six feet nine inches. We have
no hopes that ii will get any higher at
this time.
: The Express resumed her trips be-
tween here and Parkersburg, yesterday.
Captain Phil. Absolute thinks he has
a flyer" in the Express He express
ses himself as confident in her ability
to make twelve miles an hour. all the
time.
The Hudson will commence loading
to-day for Cincinnati. She will leave
tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock.
The Garry Owen took on full load
of nails at the Top Mill yesterday after,
noon. Captain Carlton expected to get
away last night.
The new light draught packet Flora,
Captain Barksdale, had trial Of her
engines yesterday afternoon. She han
dies beautifully. Her owner, Captain
Mabis, has reason to be proud OF his
packet. She will leave at two o'clock
tomorrow for New Orleans c. H
Booth & Co, agents.
The new steamer built at Marietta
Ohio, for the Wheeling, Parkersburg
and Cincinnati trade in place Of the
Rebecca, was successfully launched yes
terday. "She sits on the water like g
duck" says the dispatch. She is to bt
called the Courier. The Express vii
bring the hull up tonight.
The W. F. Curtis is announced tc
resume her trips between this port anC
Pittsburgh. She will leave this morn
ing at I o'clock. C. II. Booth d Co
are her agents.
The Argosy, Capt Billy List, is an
nounced to leave Cincinnati to-day 70
Wheeling.
At recent meeting OF Pittsburgh
pilots, relative to Ohio river bridge oh
structions, Captain Shou said he ha(
endeavored to obtain statement of tn,
loss within the past two years, 1869 ant
1870. As nearly as could be ascer
tanned, the total losses by the piers o
bridges already built were STE, 432
During the same time nineteen live
were lost. This statement did not in
clude the extensive losses to the Goa
trade, pilots and river men generally
caused by these distractions.
Captain Pink Marble is having ,
ringbolt put down on the falls, to assis
boats 10 ascend the Indian chute on ,
three and half and four foot stage o
water.
Sixty-three years ago the first steam
boat made a trip from New York t.
Albany. 1t was one hundred and thin
ty feet long, called the Clermont, ant
made five miles an hour.
Henry c. Yeager is the name O
Commodore W. Kountz's mammoth
steamer-the largest stern-wheel boa
on Western waters; length 237 feet
beam, 81 feet; hold, feet; drew wher
launched, Is inches.
Captain Mcdonald new towboat wa
. launched at Belevernon on Saturday
Length, IT'S feet; beam, 80 feet; holc
6 feet; engines, "a inch cylinders,
feet stroke. She will he furnished wit
six boilers 40inchcs in diameter, 2S fee
long
The following are the dimensions {
the new sidewheel steamer Captai
Frank Maratta, is building at Brown,
vile: Length, $50 feet; beam, 81 feet
hold, 5 feet; engines, cylinders,
inches in diameter, 6 feet stroke; tire
boilers 90 feet long, Sc inches in diam,
ter She will have full length cabi
and will be fitted with all the latest an
best improvements, and be ready abou
the LIST of December.
A rise of nine feet occurred in Whit
river last week, and water is now pier
tiiul in that stream. The Arkansas
falling all the way from Fort Smit
down, with twelve or fifteen feet in tn
channel, and prospects Of good naviga
ton for some time to come. Both tn
White and Arkansas are much highe
than the Mississippi, and they are pour
ing out at their mouths with great We
locity