The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-19
RIVER NEWS.

The marks at the landing last evening
indicated feet inches in the channel
and falling.
The Hope, Bolter, Elda, Jim Brown
and Joe Walters passed up.
The Express departed for Parkerabdrg
at the usual hour yesterday,
The Granite State from Portsmouth
for Pittsburgh passed up yesterday
morning.
The Ashland from Pittsburgh for Gin
cinnuti, is over due.
The MalIie Ragon will be the Park
ersburg boat this morning at II o'clock.
The Tempest will leave for New Mar
tinsville at 10 clock this morning
Business about the landing was dull
yesterday.
Pilots report snag in the OHIO at
Glen Rocks, near Sardis, which will
prove to be dangerous obstacle to boats
not aware of 1t. A dangerous sand bar
is reported near the mouth Of Fish Creek,
where some OF the steamers sunk some
boats during the last rise.
The steamer John L. Rhoads, Captain
Vandergrift, is proving herself reg
ular clipper. She made the run from
Pittsburgh to St. Louis in six days and
twelve hours, including sixteen hours
lost in fog and ten hours at Louisville
waiting to go over the falling, making
her running time five days and ten
hours. Her time from Cairo to 81. Louis
was 80 hours.
The BoATMEN'S CoNyENTIoN Al
LOUISVILLE NEXT MoNTH.-lt is to bc
hoped that every man Interested in
! freight and passenger steamers and
| barges, will attend the Boatmen's Con-
vention, which will be held in Louisville
in the ensuing September. Though,
perhaps, not as much good resulted from
the meeting in St. Louis last year aa
was expected, there is no denying the
fact that, Notwithstanding the extreme
dulness of the past year, much benefit
was derived from it. Keep up the or
! ganization; us many MS possibly can
! should attend the. Convention, and adopt
rules by which they can agree to be gov
/ erned during the next year, which, II the
! signs of the times are IN be needed, viii
be one of the busiest boatnen have eX-
porienced for many seasons. $50 mote il
! e.-Commcrcial
Bv Telegraph.
CISCGNSATI, August lS.-River j.
feet 8 inches and falling. Weather part
" cloudy and cool. ArrIved--Rosa
Miller and Utah, Pittsburgh. Departed
Pawn. Evansville.
NASHVILLE, August Is. River still
rising with six feet one on the shoals
Weather clear and worm. ..-.
MEMPHIS, August ls--River fell one
holt inch and is now IS feet II inche'
flush on the guage; warm and showery
Arrived Chester, ST. Louis. Departed
Parker, Cincinnati; City of Nicksburg
St. LOUIS.
CAIRO, August .1S.--Arrived-Thos
W. Means, Fearless, st. Louis LionesS
st. Louis; Julia, ST. Louis; Coal City
New Orleans; Charles Morgan, Cincin.
haiti. Departed Means, Ohi"
Julia, Vicksburg; Fearless, st. Louis
Coal City, Pitts burgh; Lioness, st. Louis
River SO feet and falling. Weathe
clear and pleasant.
ST. LOUIS, August lS.-Arrived-
johnson, Lagrange. Fearless and bargcs
Pittsburgh; ST. Genevieye, Nicksburg
Mary Boyd and Lady Lee, Peoria. De
parted-Bel, Lacross, st. Paul, Crane
Tower, Memphis; Lady Lee Peorl"
River has fallen 3 inches. Weather
cloudy, showery and cool.
EVANSVILLE, August 1S.-Weathor
cloudy with light ram; mercury 20 to 20
River fallen 81 feet with 2ll feet on the
gauge. Up-ldIewild, Raven aud tow
George Roberts and Alice. Down
Grey Eagle. Very little doing.
LOUISVILLE, August lS.-Weathei
cool and clear after the heavy rains
River feet II inches in the canal and
feet i inches on the falls. Arrived-N
j. Begley, Memphis. Departed BIG
SInaowcr, New Orleans, Charlie Brown
and tow, Pomeroy.
THE GREATSHOW.