The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-18
NOTES on NAVIGATION.
stage OF Water and Movements OF Boats.
The River Interests.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Parkersburg. LIBERTY, Il a. m.

The Lexington will not come out un-
ell next week.
The Liberty came up from claring-
ton hast night. arriving shortly after
midnight.
The island float of the ferry is high
and dry on the Island shore In pretty
bad shape.
The Darlington boat. Jewel, will not
resumed next Monday. She Is rather
light to fight the ice.
The first sternwheeler that ever nayl-
gated the Allegheny river was In 1852.
She was named Allegheny.
The marks at p. M. showed I feet 5
inches and slowly falling. Weather.
cloudy and warmer. Indications favor
Ing rain.
The Ice in the river Is now very thin
and not much OF It. The warm weather
of the last two days has got in It's work
in good shape.
The first Pittsburgh coal to arrive in
New Orleans In the past ten months,
reached there Thursday. II was the tow
OF the Elmer E. Wood.
An old time river captain writes the
Tfute6-Star that the slowest time ever
made between New orleans and st.
Louis was made by the Maid Of Iowa In
1876. She was bought by the Mormons
for the special purpose OF taking them
UP the river. She made the trip In
thirty days.
Captain John X. Booth, OF the hber-
~. was In the city yesterday and dc.
cIded to bring out the Liberty for Par
kersburg this morning. She will depart
at her regular hour. II a. m. and has
offerings that will insure n good trip.
Captain Booth says that though the
shore ice Is rather bad in several places
he will be able to make all landings.
with che exception OF two or three.
This will be the first boat out OF Wheel
Ing since last week.
Rlvermen are making unhed Kick"
against the exorbltant wharfage rates
charged by the Wheeling authorities,
An Interesting article regarding a case
to test the matter, in n suit brought
to collect wharfage under the present
rates aginSt n prominent steamboat
captain will be found elsewhere In this
paper. At the rates described In this
article Wheeling ought 10 have her
wharf paved with pressed brick. AS II
is It Is about the toughest and poorest
kept wharf along the river, says the
ClarinEton Independent. and that's no
joke.
Captain Booth. OF the Liberty. was
telling OF the Morgan raid In go, yes
terday afternoon. He was then in com
mand OF the Allegheny Belle, which had
been impressed Into government ser.
vice. The morning the "confeds" tried
to get across the river at Buillngton's
Island. his boat was tied up ut the foot
of tho island. and many Of the Invaders
got across into Virginia during the fog
OF the early morning He saw many OF
them swimming across Just rs the fog
was lifting. The union forces had big
notilla OF steamers. each having one or
two pieces OF artillery. and with these
the attempt OF Morgan to cross to Viz
glnin wns frustrated. Morgan, too, had
artillery. but us the pieces could not
be depressed greatly they could not be
brought to bcnr on the Allegheny Belle
which escaped without o scratch.
Pittsburgh-River 81 feet and sta
tionary at the dam. Weather clear and
warm.
Greensboro-RIvcr feet inches and
falling. Fair and thnwlng.
Warren-RiVeF II inches and falling.
Clear and cold.
Morgantown-Rlvcr frozen. Clear
and warmer. Ice melting.
OIL Clty--River 2 feet inches and
failing. Weather clear and mild.