The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-05


RIVER NEws.-The river is still fall
ing, and the marks last evening showed
six feet ten inches in the channel. AT
Pittsburgh there is scant five feet Of
water.
The Carrie Brooks was obliged to lay
over yesterday because OF some defect in
her machinery. The New State being
to-days Parkersburg packet, the Brooks
will not get away until tomorrow.
The Hudson will arrive tomorrow
from Cincinnati, and will return on
Saturday afternoon at 3o'clock.
The Belle is this mornings Pitts
burgh packet. She will leave at :
o'clock.
The Allegheny Belle, with barges Of
iron ore, was looked for last night.
The st. Mays, with cargo of iron
ore for Pittsburgh, arrived at Cincin-
matt from ST. Louis, yesterday. She
was compelled to Tighten to ascend the
falls
There is again some talk Of tearing
down and rebuilding the Monongahela
suspension bridge. The new structure,
we understand will be ten or twelve
feet higher than the present one, and
will ADMIT boats passing under it i'll Or
binary stages Of water without lowering
their chimneys. Every boatman will
be rejoiced to hear this, and we can only
hope it is not all talk.
The body OF man, identified a. that
of Asa Woodward, pilot of the towboat
Raven, and one of the victims of the
explosion on that boat in front of the
city about three weeks since, was found
in the river below the mouth Of Mill
creek, near Cincinnati, Monday after
noon. The body was embalmed, placed
in a metallic coffin, and forwarded on
the Annie Laurie, on Tuesday, to Point
Pleasant for burial.
Captain Paul, OF Memphis, purchased
two-thirds Of the steamer Mollie Graft,
on Saturday, at the rate Of $500 for
the entire boat
\ bridge over the Illinois river at
Shippingport is contemplated The
railroad interest are a-bridging our nav
igation facilities as rapidly as possible.
Captain George w. Winder, aged 80
years, a well known steamboat passcn-
ger agent in New Orleans, died of pneu-
monia at Shreveport, La, Oh the 18th
ultimo.
A writer in the Shreveport NerS
saws there are 10000 bales of cotton
raised in the valley Of Red river above
the raft, and that the planters pay an
average Of eight dollars per bale to get
it to market
The Belle Ida Il sand boat, was sold
at st. Louis, last week, by GrifIiths Il
LAWYER to VIM lIuddlcstonc, for $1,000.
She enters short packet trade.
Captain Kcnisan has contracted with
Howard Il Co. for the hull of u new
boat for the bayou trade, 10 feet long,
Sc feet beam and five and Onc-half feet
depth Of hold. She is to be completed
bv the LIST OF October.
The suit OF Mrs. Eliza Spcigeberg
against the United States Mail Line
Company for 500, 600, for the loss of her
husband, who lost his life in the disas-
ter to the America and United States,
was decided in favor of the company on
Monday
The latest adviccs from Red and
Ouachita rivers are that they are in fair
navigahlc condition. There are several
light-dratt packets in the red rivcrtradc,
beside all Of our large class packets.
Many OF the light-draft packets have
gone above the raft for cotton, and will
doubtless return to Shreveport with full
trips, and there transfer to the large
class packets for New Orleans.
Ar nhotoUraphs made at fine Par