The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-13
RIVER NEWS.

The marks at the wharf last evening
showed 10 foot ! inches il. the channel
and rising.
Tas Express left at the usual hour for
Parkersburg.
The Cherokee arrived from Pittsburgh
yesterday, and took 5000 kegs of nails
from the Riverside mill and departed
for New Orleans.
Tho Ed Hobbs and barges expected to
get Oft for ST. Louis last night She also
takes large number Of nails.
The New HUDSON was at the Belmont
and Benwood mills yesterday afternoon
loading with nails She will leave this
afternoon at 3 o'clock.y
The Malle Ragon leaves this morning
at o'clock for Pittsburgh.
The Courier is the Parkersburg packet
this morning at 104 o'clock.
The Carrie Brooks will arrive from
GAINESVILLE Sunday morning and depart
for Pittsburgh.
The Granite State, from Portsmouth
for Pittsburgh, will be due here to-mor'
row.
The Salt Valley, from Ironton for
Pittsburgh, is also due here tomorrow
The new Hudson, which makes her first
trip to Cincinnati this afternoon, is one
of the handsOmest and most complete
steamboats, ever built in Wheeling, and
is credit TO the city, as well US her
owners.
Business about the landing was very
active yesterday.
Huge cakes of ice along the landing
n the vicinity of the wharfboat makes
things look chilly in that neighborhood
Capt. Johnny Crockard wants it to re-
main, and thinks he will be saved the
expense of taking ice next summer.
by Telegraph
PlTTsBURGH, March 12.-River rising
with 8 feet s inches in the channel
Weather clear and pleasant today.
LOUISVILLE, March 12.-The weather
is pleasant with signs of raiu. River
rising with - feet 10 inches in the canal
/ and II feet 10 inches in the chute,
MEMPHIS, March l2.-Departed-
Katie Kountz, st. Louis; City Of Alton,
/ New Orleans; Colorado. Vicksburg; Fan
ME Lewis. st. Louis. The river has at
tanned its highest stage on the present
rise, after advancing % feet in twelve
days and reaching level within Al feet
of the extreme high water mark. The
danger of an overflow are for the present
dispelled.
EVANSVILLE, March l2.-Alternately
clear and cloudy; wind from the South;
mercury ~ to 50 degrees; river risen
| one foot, with 80 feet on the gauge
Port list down-Morning star, Bermuda
Tarascon, and Robert Mitchell. Up
Mary Houston, George Roberts, Arkan
sas Belle, Wild Duck and BargeS. Bust
ness good. Two corn boats with 9,OOC
bushels of corn, sunk yesterday at Ca
SEVILLE by the heavy wind Insured 70
$1,000 in the Citizens, of Evansville
$4,000 in the Globe, of Chicago, ant
$500 in the Enterprise, of Cincinnati
1t was the property Of James Simpson
NASHVILLE, March l2.-Riyer still
falling with 20 feet on the shoals
Weather clear and pleasant. Arrived
Bransford Upper Cumberland. De
parted-Alex Kendall, Upper Cumber
land.
CINCINNATI, March l2.-River 80 feet
8 inches and falling. Weather fair and
mild. Arrived-Skillinger, Pittsburgh
Shannon, Nashville; Arlington, Mem
phis. Departed-Andes, Wheeling.
CAIRO March l2.-Arrived-Charles
Bodman, New Orleans; Idlewild, Evans
Vile: Minneola. Memphis. Departed
Bodman, CINCINNATI Gerrett, New Or.
leans; Idlcwild, Evansville; Minneols,
Cincinnati. River 40 feet inches and
rising. Weather rainy.