NEWS FROM PORT HURON. - The FREE PRESS correspondent at Port Huron writes Nov. 5th. The severest gale of the season is prevailing in this vicinity and the wind is apparently increasing in velocity. A light drizzling snow is falling which is half rain. Should the quantity of snow increase, we...

    The Canadian schooner Abeona is reported lying where she struck near Port Austin, on the 10th, and likely to be a total loss. She had on board 30 m feet of lumber and 102 m shingles, and was insured for $1,000. ...

    THE BENSON. - The schooner Benson, previously reported ashore on Middle Island [Lake Huron - ds] is high and dry on the main land near Alpena. It was reported yesterday that a Canadian propeller had gone to her assistance, which, according to international law, she is prevented from doing. ...

    THE ALBATROSS. - The tug Winslow, which has been at work for some time past trying to effect the release of the schooner Albatross, ashore on Middle Island [Lake Huron - ds], returned yesterday afternoon for another steam pump, the two now on the schooner having proved inadequate. Capt. Swain...

    ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. - Monday afternoon the Northern Transit propeller Milwaukee, in making the wharf at Put-in-Bay, ran into the steamer Chief Justice Waite, striking her on the port side forward of the paddle box, breaking through her rails and into the kitchen, the ...

    WRECKS. The figure-head and bowsprit of the schr Emma L. Coyne, which were cut away at the time that vessel collided with the schr Hippogriff, drifted ashore in the late gale, at Wilmette. Their discovery led to the story that a wreck had occurred, and rumors were afloat in consequence. ...

    BUFFALO ITEMS. - A dispatch dated Buffalo, Oct. 23d, says: The largest number of vessels that ever came into this port arrived to-day. The advance guard reached here last evening, and all night long and this morning continued to come, one after the other as close as safety would permit. The ...