The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-20
RIvER NEWS.

Z The marks at the landing last evening,
showed rs feet in the channel and falling.
The John Dippold passed up yester-
day with tow of empty bargos en- route
for Pittsburgh.
The Abner UNeal resumed business
Yesterday in the Wheeling and Steuben-
Vile trade.
The Star of the West made her first
trip from Bellsire yesterday, since the
breakup.
The Hornbrook was undergoing fur
Their repairs, yesterday.
The Market Boy arrived last night,
and will leave for Mstamoras this morn.
ing at 10 o'clock.
The Smoky City went down as far as
Sardis to get some barges, and gathered
several along the shore as far up as Bel
laire, where she laid up.
The tiger is lying at Postum, fixing
her barges, which are in n sinking con-
dition.
The Sam Brown, Veteran aud John
Henna got through the ice safe and are
lying at Newport. They were all out OF
coal, but caught barge belonging to /.
c. Fisher & Co., which supplied them.
Tho principal loss at Steubenviile from
the break up, was at Swift'S coal-works
Two bsrges containing 10000 bushels Of
coal were sunk, and four others loaded
with shout double that fosted of. Five
empty bsrges went of, the pump boat
Modoc was sunk and other damages done
to the amount in all of probably $4,000.
The wharf boat was slightly damaged.
The New Cumberland Independent
says that the keel boat Dtora Lee, owned
by Freeman and jenkins, of that place,
and having on board one hundred dol
lars worth of freight, belonging to e. w.
Stewart, was swept away in the gorge at
Cincinnati. The boat is Il total wreck.
Neither goods nor boat were insured.
In speaking of the recent break up,
correspondent Of the Steubenville Herald
says OF the safe hsrbors and the manner
by which they may be obtained: "You
speak of the harbor at Steubenville as
beng the best on the Ohio river to guard
against running ice. a like security may
be had at all boat landings by adopting
the plan OF security in use here, which is
the throwing out of breakwater wharf.
running out into the river some 300 feet
at angle of As degrees, slopng down.
ward with the stream. The Ell
feet will be to throw the current to the
opposite shore, and in the giving away
of the ice, will carry it with the current
until the current is exhausted upon the
opposite shore The break-water should
be placed above the harbor, and paved
with large stones. And at the point of
termination, large stones should be en-
beded below the bed of the river, to
guard against the cutting of the ice"
lBy Telegraph
PITTSBURGH, January 19.-River 10
feet and falling. Weather cloudy and
! mild.
LITTLE Rock, January 10. james
Thomas, well known river man, died
to-day of consumption. Weather mild
and rainy.
LOUISVILLE, January l9.-Rrver will
soon commence to fall; y feet in the
| canal and 2 feet less on the fails
CIscINNATI, January l9-The river
has risien l inch, and fallen inches
since last evening. Weather cloudy and
damp. Depsrted-Rober Mitchell, Now
Orleans; Gen. Lytle, Louisville; Virgie
Lee. Kanawhs river. Departed Tele
graph, Pomeroy; Bostona, Huntington;
Gen. Lyle, Louisville.
MEMPHIS, January 19.-The river
rose three feet three inches to-day. The
gorge at Fort Pillow broke yesterday
morning at two o'clock. Arrived Susie
Silver, Cairo; Charles Morgan, Cincin-
natl. No departures. The ice Is run
ming heavy.
EVANSVILLE, January l9.-Cloudy and
signs of rain Mercury IS to SO degrees
River 81 4.10 feet and rising slowly.
The Hotspur, John Means, Arkansas
Belle, Robert +. Lee andJames w. Goii
came out of Green river to-day. The
Belle is loading for Cairo; the Maggie
Smith is up from Henderson; the Chero-
kee Is expected tonight. Business opens
up lively.
CAIRO, January l9-River 20 feet
inches and rising. Weather cloudy and
foggy, mercury Al degrees. A dozen or
more coal barges passed down in the
Ohio to-day, most of them sound or but
little injured, several were landed by
tugs. The ice is very heavy, J. W.
Garrett and barges went to Cape Girar-
desu this morning after n load for New
Orleans.