The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-26
RIVER NEWS.

last evening indicated feet and inches
in the channel.
The Express did not get of for Park !
ersburg until the afternoon yesterday
having been detained in getting here by
"big business
The Forest City was also behind time
in arriving from Steubenville, having
been detained by big trip.
The towpoat Tom Lysle passed down
Yesterday morning with large tow Of
coal. She was the vanguard of the coal
fleet.
The Mallie Ragon will leave for Pitts
burrh this morning at seven o'clock.
The Courier is the Parkersburg packet
this morning.
The r. r. Hudson will arrive from
Cincinnati tomorrow.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
The Granite State has retired from the
Louisville Line, and will resume her old
trade between Portsmouth and Pittsburgh
in charge of Captain Wash Kerr, Provid-
ing Captain Honshell don't require her
services for the Pomerov trade.
a special dispatch from Pittsburgh
says:
The wharf presented n very busy APP
pcarancr to-day. Freights were moving
pretty lively, and then the river in front
of the CITY was full of towboatS getting
their tows htched up. som" of them VIII
double trip through the worst part OF the
river 1t is impossible to state rs yet how
much coal will get out on this water. but
it will be large, aggrcgating several
million bushels. There is not enough
water to let ont Coalboats. but there Is
rood barge water, and it is thought that
about every tOwboat will get tow ol
bargrS. although good deal depends
upon what the water does tonight. The
Iron Mountain departed for Burlington
this evening 10 assist the lronSldcS UP
from that point The Messenger will de-
part for st. Louis tomorrow with full
cargo. The Wild Duck loads for st.
Louis ahead of the Rover. The hull for
CAPTAIN kountZs new steamer was 10
have been launched to day. FrcightS are
Offering more freely than was expected.
by Telegraph
PrrTSBURGu, November 2j-River 9
feet and falling slowly. Weather cloudy
and cold. The following lows of coal
leave on tbs rise: For Cincinnati, %
steamers. boat and $40 bargcs, con-
tanning 100000. For Louisville, l.
steamers > boats and 2Oj burGrS, con-
thinning two and onc-half million bushels.
| For Cairo. steamer and II bargcs con-
tanning 10000 bushels.
| EVANSVILLE, November 25.-Wcathcr
! clear: mercury 10 to 30'. River rising
with feet ON the gungr. Down-Sandy,
/ Il. W. Dugan, B. Ii. Coolc, Florence"
Lee. l.. l.. Davis and ASkanSas Belle.
Up-Slvcr Thorn. Business active.
! LOUISVILLE. November 2j.-Rivcr
rising slowly with feet | inch in the
channel and - inches IN Indian chute.
/ The large boats ON the IlrndcrsonviIlc
line have again taken their places
| Weather clear and cold.
CAIRO. November 2j.--Arrivcd-
Samc> Gilmore. Ohio river; ldl"wild,
Evansville. Drpartcd-Grand Tower,
st. Louis; John Means, Cincinnati.
River feet inches aud rising; clear;
mercury 800.
ClNcINNAT November 2j.-Rivcr 1
| feet ten inches and falling. Weather
clear and cool. Dcpart"d-R. w. Skill
lingcr, Pittsburgh; shippers Own, Evans
vlllr; Minncoa. Memphis; Thomas Shcr-
/ lock and Cherokee, New Orleans; K. H.
Hudson, Wheeling.
: ST. LOUIS. November % Arrived
Colorado Virk>hurg; Fannie Lewis,
Missouri river; Colossal and Northwest
crn, Kcokuk. Dcpartcd-Susi" Silver,
New Orleans; 81 Gcncnicy", Memphis;
Colossal and Northwestern, kcokuk.
River falling; weather clear and cold.