The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-10
RIVER Nxws.-The river is full of

RIVER NEws.-The river is full OF
floating ice. rendering navigation diff
cult if not dangerous, and almost en-
tirely closing navigation for the present.
1t is still very cold. The Thermometer
standing yesterday morning at eight
degrees above zero.
Yesterday the wharf was deserted,
not steamer lying there-not even the
Express, which was as certain to be at
the levse on Sunday as Sunday was to
come.
The Major Anderson got away on Sat
urday with o light trip. She had en-.
gagements below, however. sufficient
to fill her up, if the ice will allow her
to reach them. If the weather con-
tinues cold she will lay up near Gin
matt.
The r. r. Hudson has gone into win
ter quarters above the Top Mill. She
has a nice harbor for an ice harbor. If
there be any '1et up" to the present
cold snap, she will start for Cincinnati
on Saturday next; otherwise she will
remain where she is.
The James Rees, we hear will lay up
at Sunfsh, and the Hope at Captina
We have not learned where the Science
will find berth. The New State and
Express, we are told, will cease further
operations until the ice quits running
so heavily. The Express is laid up
alongside of the Hudson.
We noticed yesterday two steamers at
the boat yard. We judged one Of them
to be the Victress.
The Argosy has laid up at Pittsburgh.
The Venture came up yesterday, and
got one of her fatboats on the bar at
the mouth of Wheeling Creek. She
was still tugging at it to get it off when
we left the wharf last evening.
The river is falling rapidly under the
influence of the freezing weather. Yes
terday's reports from Pittsburgh give
six feet six inches as the depth Of water
in the channel there. Here we have ten
feet three inches in the channel and
falling fast.
Captain A. J. McAllister, at Ports
mouth, on Thursday, sold the Mountain
Belle to the Portsmouth and Big Sandy
Packet Company for $4,000.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Saturday
says:
The roof of the Champion took fire
early yesterday morning from the pipe
of the stove in the ladies' cabin. Some
chairs piled on the roof were slightly
damaged. The fire was speedily extin-
guished without damage to the boat.
While John Nichol, German, was
engaged yesterday afternoon in paint
ing the chimneys of the steamer Law
renee, at the wharf, the ropes by which |
be was suspended gave way, and he fell
to the hurricane root a distance Of
about thirty feet. He fell on his paint
bucket, which was attached to his side
by belt, breaking hole through the
roof. Captain Pierce had the injured
man conveyed to his residence, on Lud-
low street. He was very severely in
iured internally, and his recovery is
doubted.
Louisville wants to be made port of
entry, and a meeting of the Board Of
Trade of that city was held on Thurs
lay to promote that object.
Captain B. A. Oglebay has taken
command of the Dexter, in the New
Orleans and Louisville trade, with Mr..
Ed. Miller in the office.
From the Pittsburgh papers of Satur-
lay we take the following:
During the last year the total ship.
nents of coal from Pittsburg to lower
,orts amounted to 42,672,590 bushels,
# which 16,435, 500 bushels went to
Cincinnati Over twenty millions were
ent to Louisville, much of which was
e shipped to points south Of tina place.
The above was the product of mines To-
lated between Pittsburgh and Browns
Vile, numbering about eighty in all.
One hundred and two tow-boats, large
md small, are employed by coal mer-
chants ia towing barges and flats to
points south of that city.
The Monongahela wharf receipts last
rear foot up nearly S2l, 900, the largest
amount ever collected in the same
ength of time.
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