The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-19
RIVER NEWS.


indicated feet inches in the channel.
The Mallie Ragon departed for Par
kers at the usual hour Saturday morning.
The Hudson left for Cincinnati at 5P
N. with good passenger list.
There was no Pittsburgh packet Satur-
day evening, the Salt Valley having laid
up on account OF low water.
The Science took the Concoriia Sing
ing Society to SteubenvilIe yesterday.
The c. w. Hornbrook departed for
Pittsburgh Saturday with tow OF
freight.
The Market Boy will leave for New
Mstsmoras this morning at ten o'clock.
The Science will be the Parkersburg
packet at log o'clock.
The Andes is due from Cincinnati this
afternoon.
The framework of the new hull to be
built by j 5. PRINCE, at West Browns.
VILE, for the owners of the steamer james
Rees, has been set up. The new steamer
will ply between Wheeling and Sunish.
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Cincinnati Commercial Repub-
lican says:
While the record OF Governor K. b.
Hayes as a gentleman, scholar, soldier,
statesman and friend OF the great inn
portant interests of our inland waters is
vii that could be desired, AS an available
candidate FOR the Presidency OF the
United States, we are reluctantly COM
PEELED to state that the Republican nom
inee Tor Vice Psesident, VIM y.
Wheeler, of New York, is noted as the
deadly enemy and opponent of the in
terests of the Western ard Southern
rivers He has fought this interest TO
the bitter end in Congress. Wheeler
lives upon q little spring branch away
UP in Northeastern New York, without
any knowledge whatever OF the
magnitude OF our mighty Western
rivers, and without mind of sufficient
cap acity to comprehend their value or
Importance. In everything pertaining 10
Western commerce he has shown lack
of knowledge that would disgrace II
country school boy. To talk OF states
manship i'll connection with such man,
is AN insult to the intelligence OF men
familiar with National affairs and Gov
ornamental policy. When committees,
appointed by commercial organizations
having thorough knowledge of the i'm
portance and value OF the commercial
interests OF this country, have appeared
before the committee of Congress which
he dsgraced rs chairman, they met with
nothing but insults, thus proving not
only his incapaclty for the position which
he was att mpting to occupy, but his en-
tire absence of any knowledge OF the
amenities between gentlemen or
the cUurtesies due 10 men whose
knowledge OF the questions before
his committee were entirely superior to
his own. In the case OF the Louisville
and Portland Canal, especially, his con-
duct was so nj variencc with what the
committee having that subject in charge
had right 70 expect, that the committee
were almost forced To the conclusion that
1t was not mere ignorance of that subject
mat prompted his uncivil and ungentIe-
manly treatment OF them. Every man
who floats pound oil cargo upon West
ern or Southern rivers, or who consumes
pound OF such cargo. cannot, in justice
TO himself and to his friends, do otherwise
than oppose Wheeler to the bitter end.
Although the tool Of he is even worse
than Roscoe Conklng, who is the ac-
knowledged enemy of the river interest