The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-01-20
RIVER NEWS.

The marks at the landing last evening
indicated l3 feet IN the channel.
The Market Boy left for Pittsburgh
yesterday morning at s o'clock.
The Express departed for Parkersburg
at the usual hour yesterday,
The Granite State from Portsmouth
en- route for Pittsburgh passed up yes
terday at $3.50 P. NJ.
The Arlington from Pittsburgh en-
route for New Orleans, passed down last
evening.
The Heatherington passed up yester-
day afternoon, with tow of empty
barges.
The Courier i the Parkersburg packet
to-day al noon.
The local packets are making their
regular trips.
The Pittsburgh Commercial of yester-
day, says:
A petition to Congress is being circu-
lated for signatures by the party opposed
to damming the Ohio river. The petition
sets forth that from the turbulent nature
of the Oh o and the immense volume Of
water it pours forth in its freshets, bear
ing along drittwood and ice with over
towering violence, the Chanoine system
of dams, now in use in France, could not
resist these crushing forces without
being more or less impaired; that every
kind of slackwater Improvement Is un.
suited TO the exceptional character of the
Ohio river navigation, which has been
demonstrated TO be of most public bene-
fit by the process OF the cheapest trans
portatior carried on upon lis waters
through the medium OF towboat fleets.
Believing that clear river, free from
impediments of all kinds, will best sub
serve the various interests using its con-
venlent navigation, the petitioners ask
the appropriations be made to remove
distinctions and improve the channel,
and that none of the Chanolne dams be
placed in the river.
The petition concludes with the tol-
lowing very pertinent remarks concern
ing the superanuated structure at the
foot of Smithtield street.
"Among the serious implements
that obstruct the navigation, the
wire bridge across the Monongahela
stands out most conspicuous. ltbelongs
to corporation who have been benfited
by it thirty years, and though it is a
perpetual obstacle and very injurious to
the river trade. they have taken no steps
towards its correction, though often So
lcited to do so, and L is feared will not,
until cocrced by the authority of Con-
gress. The proper legislation for the
purpose is, therefore earnestly request.
ed.d
lRy Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, January l9-River II
feet and rising. Weather cloudy and
mild. Arrived-Emma Graham and j.
l.. Rhoads, Cincinnati. Departed -
Emma Graham, Cincinnati.
EVANSVILLE, January l9.-Weather
clear and cooler, mercury 30 to 40 deg.
River q feet, rising over : feet in the
last "a hours. UP-Keystono, Nail
City, Geo. Roberts. Overwhelming
Star, Aggie. There is nothing doing.
The Pat Clebourne broke shaft and is
coming on one wheel.
CAIRO, January l9.-Arrived--Ber
muda, Nashville D"psrted-Julia, ST.
Louis. River &c feet inches and rising.
Weather clear
LOUISVILLE, January 19.-W Gather
cool and clear. Departed Mary Hous-
ton, New Orleans. River II feet s inches
in the canal, and 10 teetS inches on the
falls.
ST. LOUIS, January l9.-Arrived-
Mitchell, Keokuk; St. Joseph, Memphis.
Departed-Mitchel, Keokuk; Colorado
Vicksburg' st. Joseph, Memphis. The
river has fallen 10 inches. Weather clear
and cooler.
NASHVILLE, January l9.-River ris-
ing with 90 feet on shoals. Departed
Hillman, Cairo; J. 5. Bransford, Port
Isabel.
CIScINSAEI, January l9-River %
feet inches and falling. Weather clear
and cooler. Arrived-Warrior, De
parted-Glesgow, Evansville, Cons Mil
Ter. Memphis, Golden Rule, New Or
leans.
MEMPHIS, January lS.-River fell 8
inches Clear and pleasant. Departed
-Scudder, last night Csrondelet, St.
Louis; Glencoe, New Orleans: Banner
Cincinnati; Augusta, White river; Belle
Texas, Arkansas river.