The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-05
RIVER NEWS.

lhulChIeu 10 A'N'
slowly
The Courier did not arrive from
Parkersburg until late yesterday morn
ing. She returned to the same point in
the afternoon.
The R. w. Skillinger passed up from
Cincinnati for Pittsburgh.
The Granite State from Portsmouth, Is
due to-day.
The Forest City did not put in All APP
pearance yesterday. Probably the ice
was too heavy.
The Express is the Parkersburg pncket
this morning at 10! o'clock.
The river was full of floating ice yes
terday, ane to an extent that knocked
the packets out of their regular time.
A number of towboats with coal pass
ed down yesterday.
Business about the landing was very
good yesterday.
A special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial, from Pittsburgh says:
The Youghiogheny river still remains
firm, and P0oi No. 6, in the Mononga-
hela, has not come out, As was reported
Yesterday. 1t is rumOred this afternoon
that the gorge in the Allegheny at Free
h.
The hull ofCaptain McGeary new boat
for the Upper Missouri has reached the
wharf from the boat yard, and will be
completed as soon as possible. Captain
Burieighs new boat "Carroll,' also for
the Upper Missouri will be ready to COM
mence business shortly The only adj
ditional coal departures are rs follows:
Ny Choice, Enterprise, Tom Dodsworth,
Reindeer, and John Dippold.
The Pittsburgh Commercial publishes
a suggestion that vast loss of property
along the Mononghela and Ohio rivers
might be saved by the expenditure of
few hundred dollars in blowing up the
great masses of ice piled up for three
miles along the YoughiOghcny. The ice
is from twenty-five to thirty-fiye feet
high. and almost 1t solid mass, and
when this barrier gives way the destruc
ton will be great. We are afraid the
expenditure Of few hundred dollars will
not prevent the threateded disaster. We
have expended few hundred dollars III
II similar attempt here, but the disastrous
food is as much apprehcndcd now rs
before. Gunpowder, nor giant powder,
nor any other kind of explosive material
will effect the desired purpose A week
Of warm sunshine, without rain, would
be far more effective, and that cannot be
secured BY resolutions or appropriations
by the council Cleveland HeraLd.
by Telegraph.
PITTSBURGH, March 4.-Riycr feet
lOinche- and on stand. Weather cool
and pleasant.
CAIRO, March 4.-Arrived-Alice
Brown. Memphis; Great Republic, New
Orlean.; Chas. Brown, Pittsburgh; W.
j. Lewis. st. Louis; Mary Alice, New
Orleans; Vint Shinklc, Memphis. De-
parted-Carrie Kountz, New Orleans;
Vint Shinkle, Cincinnati. River 80 feet
Q inches and rising. Weather cloudy;
mercury 30.
ST. Louis, March No arrivals.
Dcpartcd-St. Gencvicvc, Ficksburg,
The ice is still running above the mouth
of the Missouri river.
CINCINNATI. March 4.-Rivcr 81 feet
4 inches and falling Weather clear and
moderating. Arrived. ID. Parker,
Memphis: c. b. Church, New Orleans.
Dcpartcd-Charlr, Morgan, New Or
leans.
MEMPHIS, March 4.-The river rose
30 inches. Weather clear and pleasant. .
Arrived-Arlington, Cincinnati. De
partcd-Bcllc. Lee, Atlantic and barges,
Thompson, Sam Hale, the latter two last .
night.
EVANSVILLE, March WEATHER
cloudy and mercury Is to 2l0; wind from
the east and north. River risen | foot;
s. feet on guagc. Up-Gcorge Roberts
and Idlewild. Down-Bowlng Green,
Dick Johnson and Morning Star. Bust
ness lively.
LOUISVILLE, March Weather cold /
and modcrating. River Is feet & inches .
in the canal. and II feet & inches in the I
chute. Business active. Arrived-MIn- /
nicola. Cincinnati Departed-Mnneola.
Memphis. -.
NASHVILLE, March River falling
with 80 feet scant on the shoals. Wealth /
cr cloudy and cold. Arrved-Shann"s,
Cincinnati. Departed-Bronsford, upper .
Cumberland.