The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-28
M. GUTMAN & CO.'S.

RIVER NEws.-The river is rising
very rapidly, the marks last evening
showing twelve feet nine inches in the
channel, rise of seven feet in twenty
four hours. We may look for twenty
feet of water at least on this rise.
A very large coal fleet is ready at
Pittsburgh and in a week or two the
river will contain acres Of boats loaded
with "black diamonds" on their way to
ports below. The people of Cincinnati,
Louisville, Memphis and New Orleans
will rejoice as well as steamboatmen al
the present most opportune rise.
The Express is to-day's Parkersburg
packet. Capt. Phil. Anschutz and Ed.
Anschutz. the clerk, two OF the most
popular men on the river, will be pre-
nered to take all who wish 10 make q
trip on their fine boat, and make them
comfortable.
The Andes, Capt. Charley Muhle-
man, left Cincinnati on Saturday even
ing for this port. She will arrive here
to-day, and will leave for Cincinnati to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock. The
Andes and her gentlemanly captain and
clerk are too well known and too popu
lar with shippers and the trading pub
lie to need an extended notice at our
hands.
The favorite passenger packet Carrie
Brooks will resume her place in the
Pittsburgh trade. She will leave here
tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock for
Pittsburgh, and every Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday thereafter. Capt. II.
Darlington is in command, and our we'll
known fellow citizen Morris Dorsey
has charge of the Office.
The Petrolia, Captain Mclaughlin,
will continue to run between this port
and Pittsburgh. She will leave every
Monday and Thursday.
The R. R. Hudson went up to Pitts
burgh, yesterday, where she will load
for Cincinnati. She will be ready to
leave here on her regular day-Satur-
day-probably, but Of thatwe will have
notice hereafter.
The Courier left for Psrkersbu-g on
Saturday, and the Science reached here
Yesterday and laid up.
Captain Wash Kerr will run the
Granite State between Portsmouth and
Pittsburgh hereafter, in her old trade.
We hear that Captain Fletcher will
put the Argosy in the same trade and
that the Anna will run there also. This
will make things lively in the Ports
mouth and Pittsburgh trade.
Capt. Asa Booth left here on Friday
for St. Louis. He goes there to bring
the Liberty No. around.
The Ed. Hobbs and barges is up for
Louisville, Evansville, Cairo and St.
Louis. She receipts for freight to
Memphis and New Orleans. Shippers
will apply to Ed. Hornbrook, at the
office of the Wheeling Towboat and
Barge Company, No 80 Water street.
Inthe Pittsburgh Commercial, Lieut.. F.
A. Mahan reports the following work
of improvement as having been accom-
plished on the Upper Ohio: "At Duck
Chute the dam has been raised about a
foot and a half, and widened to about
fifteen feet. 1t is now high enough to
hold nearly seven and hall feet. Al
Glass House the wreck Of the bowIdcr
boat that has 80 long INSTRUCTED the
channel at this point has been removed.
At Merriman's, Mr.. Carpenter, the Su-
perintendent of Dredging, says in his
report: Three cuts have been carried
through the bar just outside Of the line
of buoys, making a channel OF some
ninety feet in width, and depth cor
responding to the marks at Pittsburgh.
Cutting through the bar on the line OF
buoys has made decided change in
the direction of the current, diverting it
80 that it does not strike the northern
shore below the bar, as it did formerly.
Rats and heavy lows of coalboats will
therefore be in less danger OF grounding
at that point.