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AROUND THE LAKE OSWEGO. Over 400 tons of merchandise were in the ware houses awaiting shipment west by the new line of steamers. The steambarge Trenton with 215,000 fe bales of hides. Over 1,000,000 feet of luniber came in towed by the tug Seymour. Extensive repairs will be made to the schooner L. 8. Hammond at Mitchel & Gallager’s drydock. <ton arrived from et of lumber aud 93 BUFFALO, The run from Chicago to this city was made by the steamship ‘Thomas W. Palmer, Captain Frank L. Bayless, in four days and fourteen hours, including a stop at Detroit of three hours. She towed the schooner Ogarita, and they trough 95,000 bushels of corn. Captain Orr placed $8,000 insurance on the schooner A. G. Morey, which ran on the reef at Buailey’s Harbor and drove a rock through her bottom. The coal freight pool has been broken, and the former rates are freely paid. ‘The charters to Chicago at 75 cents are: Propellers R. A. Packer, Oveaniea, ‘Tacoma, Oregon, John Pridgeon Jr., John Blein, V. K. Ketchum; sohooners Queen City, Nellie Gardner, F. A. Georger, J. M. Hutchinson, J.G. Master, Nellie Redirgton, C. J. Wells, Thomas L. Parker. To Milwaukee at 75 cents: Pro- pellers C. J. Kershaw, Wocokeo, and J. M. Osborn; Schooners Pathfinder and David Vance. ‘To Racine at 85 vents: Schooners Stampede and 8. V. R. Watson. CLEVELAND. ~ Freights are very firm. Shippers claim the rate for coal to Chicago is about 65 cents. Rumor says offers of 75 ceits are mede. ‘The schooner Scotia chartered to carry ore from Escanaba to Ashtabula at 90 cents. Greenhalgh’s steam lighter has returned from Fairport, having raised the schooner Tibbits and got her safely inside. ‘he deck load of stone was first lightered, the centri fugal pump was then put to work, and the stone in her hold taken out as fast as the wa- ter was lowered. The leak was discovered to be under the garboard streak, one end of which had become loosened. ‘The ‘Tibbits will be towed to Cleveland for repairs as soon as possible. A crib for the breakwater is hard aground off the mouth of the river, 250 feet north- west of the end of the east pier., It ran aground while being towed to its place by the tug Sprague. The J. K. White, owned by Robert Green- halgh, is being raised in the old river bed where she has been sunk. The Onoko loaded 160,500 bushels uf oats at Buffalo. The propeller Republic with iron ore from Marquette, ran out of coal off this port Sun- day, there not being enough on board in the morning to cook the captain’s breakfast. She signaled a tug and was towed into the har- bor. ‘ The United States steamer Michigan has arrived in Cleveland from her winter quar- ters at Erie, and is to remain several days for examination, when she will proceed to Detroit, and thence to Buffalo. After ship- builders at the three ports have had an op- portunity of looking the vessel over, they will be asked to put in bids for rebuilding her woodwork. She has an iron hull—the first one put afloat on the lakes—and was built at Pittsburg in sections in 1844, and had a rebuild at Buffalo ia 1865, SANDUSKY, Mavine business reported very light at this point Forde’s Agency only reports two charters. Barge Midnight cleared for Bay City light and will load lumber for Cleveland. Barge Sparrow loaded stone at Marble Head for East Saginaw. Tug Cal Davis lost her shoe and unshipped her rudder in the Jate storm while lying at her dock. Steamer City of Detroit had to put into Leamington for shelter during the late storm, Tug Mystic left for Gibralter to take Mr. Jay Cooke and party on fishing excursion. Barge Fostoria arrived with Lumber, Steambarge Kast Saginaw with barges Wend. the- Wave, Hinckley and Light Guard, was caughtin two cyclones on Lake Michigan last week. Iler tow line parted and the barges went into Chicago. seperatly. The Wend-the-Wave lost about 500 railroad ties which were washed off her deck. ‘The tleet was loaded with ties and bound from Alpena to Chicago. The Wend-the- Wave cleared from Chicago for here light and will load lumber at Alpena, The other barge loaded Jumber at Alpena for ‘Toledo and Cleveland. Steambarge Monitor formerly owned at Kelley’s Islund lost her entire deck load of ties on Lake Michigan during the storm. Consignees have sued the barge tor damages and she is tied up at Chicago pending the adjustment of her loss, Schooner Wells Burt which went down with all hands on Lake Michigan was well known at this port she cleared from here with the largest load of coal ever shipped from here. The B. & O. Company expect a fleet ot grain vessels from Chicago. Barge Calhone and L. B. Crocker arrived with lumber, Steambarge Schnoor Kelley’s [slund Schooner Phebe Catharines arrived light and cleared with coal. Tug Batize arrived and will tow one of Hayden’s dredges to East Saginaw to do labor work there. Propeller S. L. Hodge of Waid’s Detroit & take Superior Line arrived and cleared 2.000 barrels of lime at Hudson’s warehouses, lhe lime is consigned by the Marblehead Lime Company to parties at Deluth one of the above line will call here each week during the season for lime for the above port. The Marble Head Lime Company’s shipments aggregate 25,0U0 barrels. Barge Dacotah arrived with lumber, Barge Westly arrived from here to load stone at Marble Head. _Steambarge Yosemiete arrived at Bay’ City and cleared for Duluth with lumber. Government supply steamer Haze laid here all Sunday. Steambarge Randolph and consorts are at Marble Head. Barge Roberts arriyed 29 with lumber and shingles, loaded stone at Steambarge Kandolph and consorts are loading at Marble Head. Schooner St. Lawrence cleared for She- boygan this week with coal. Tug Sprague and lighters loading stone at Marble Head. Biemiller and Company have had an offer from Detroit parties of moré money than they paid for her. Steambarge Oswegatchie and consorts are loading stone at Marble Head. Steambarge came over here for fuel. It appears to be generally understood here that the fishermen and dealers will pay no attention to the new fish law and if the weather permits favorable fishing west of Avon Point will continue as long as is al- lowed east of the point the new law is so manifestly unjust and injurious to the in- terest of the commercial fishermen thag public sentiment will heartily sanction its violation. [tis to be hoped that the next general assembley will have the good sense to repeal this obnoxious law and give us a sensible act that will command the respect of the fishemen such a law will enforce itself and the fishermen themselves would be the complainants in cascs of violation. EAST SAGINAW. Captain Fin Clark i3 running the pro- peller Bay City to Cleveland and back in five day trips. The barges Birkhead, Brainard and Ed- wards, in to ¥ of the propeller ‘Tempest, left the river Monday afternoon for ‘Toledo. The big sand scow will be ready to launch ina week. Built at Cheeney’s rule factory. The steamer Lawrence went ashore on Mackinaw Island early Saturday morning ina fog. the Algemah went to her assistance and got her off at noon, CHICAGO. The schooner Edna, Captain N. L. Ander- son master and owner, has had new deck and deck frames, hatch combings and hatches and is fitting out ready fer sea. At the Vessel Owners Drydock the steam- ship H. J. Jewett went into drydeeck for a new wheel, she was docked Sunday after- noon and work was commenced upon her on Sunday evening at 6 p.m. and she left the dock at 8 a.m. on Monday. The iron side wheel steamer Grace Grum- mond wasin drydeck and had her bottom painted and some repairs to ber paddle wheel and paddle box, Tug Satisfaction got a new bow, wale streak and caking. Schooner Lotus had some repairs. Tug Lorena had considerable repairs done to damages accasioned by her having been run into by the steambarge Mary Groh. Schooner G. Ss. Hazard had her deek calked. Schooner Green Bay was in drydock and bad her bettom calked, Schooner Chester B, Jones went into dry- dock tohavea leak stopped. Propeller Armenen had considerabie re- pairs done to her eabin and upper works to the damages caused through her having been in collision with the sehooner Driver. The Wells) Bart has been visited by the Sub Marine Divers Captain Falcon and it is now believed that she foundered hard of her coal cargo is washed’ ont and it will be impossible to raise her as she is broken up and worked into the clay bottom. night she sunk the captain of the schooner C.B. Jones thinks he heard the captain of the Wells Burt ery “For Gods sake send us a tug, we are sinking.” On the) Schooner Georger had her deck calked. Schooner Guido went into drydeck and had her bottem calked. Schooner J. G. Gilmore had a new fore- boom, gaft and spritsall yard. Schooner Romds had repairs to her rudder and stearing gear, Tug G. P. Ferry is in drydock getting her bottom and deck calked, her rudder fixed and some repairs to her wheel. Miller Brothers drydock, Steam yacht Cora, thorough rebuild and new mast. Schooner Janete, has had outside plank- ing, new deck and frames, Steambarge St. Joseph supplied with two new wheels, Steamship Lacorna got a new shoe and new iron rudder stock, She was loaded with 61,500 bushels of core and drew 14 feet 6 inches of water when she went in. Schooner Mary had two masts, booms and gaffs, Schooner Jesse new bowsprit and jib- boom. Schooner W. H. Hamkins isin drydoeck getting a new starboard bow and calking all over, Schoo cr L. J. Comnay in drydock to be ealked all over. Schooner Maine went into drydock and had her bottom calked. The schooner M.E, Cook, Captain E. Williams, went into drydcck for some re- pairs to damages sustained by her when she was driven over the exterior breakwa- ter during the late heavy gale. ‘The only damage doue was the springing of her’ fore- footand the backing of her rudder torn away, Which “ill be repaired. She will also have new stringers 3x12 under the rail inside and out, her entire length and be re- ealked. ‘The schooner A. A. Carpenter had a re- ealking all over and a refastening. Schooner Clara Varker is getting new stanchions and rail, and recalking all over, |}. and a new bowsprit and jibboom, rendered necessary in consequence of the schooner J. I. Case in tow of the tug Winslow having collided with her when at anchor during the late heavy gale. Schooner J. W. Brown is in drydock for a general overhaulingig and partial rebuild, she having suffered greatly in the late heavy gale, although she did not loge any of her load. The schooner A. J. Morey, lumber laden from St. Ignace for Chicago, ran on the reef at the entrarce of Bailey’s Harbor, on Sat- urday night last at 9 o’clock. The new steambarge George C. Markham of Milwaukee, Captain H. W. Thompson, arrived here on Saturday from Ludington wiib a load of lumber, making hei first trip to this port. Sheisavery fine barge and was built by the Milwaukee Shipyard Com- pany. She is 148 feet long, 28 feet beam and 10 feet deep. ‘The schooner L. J. Conway, Captain Will- iam Smith, was pulled off the shore at Hyde Park on ‘Thursday by the tug McCormick, after lightering her deckload of shingles, and brought into the harbor, she was mak- ing considerable water which was however kept under water by tue aid of two pumps and she was placed in Miller Brothers, dry dock. MILWAUKEE The wreeking tug Leviathan will bring the schooner Metropolis to inis city as soon as it is safe to move her. She is now partly beached near Escanaba and they are work- ing with a diver, trying to close the opening made by the collision. No attempt will be made to remove the Lille Ik., which bas been stripped, till a heavy sea comes on, when three tugs will try to pull her off, The propeller Forest City left Buffalo for this port with 1,000 tons of coal. Owing to a misunderstanding of bell sig- nals by the engineer of the Conemaugh, she collided with the schooner Moonlight, which had her jibboom and bowsprit carried away and her kKnighthead started. The Cone maugh lost her port bridge, The scow J, M. Hill ran into the tug Ha- german, and damaged the latter’s pilot house, * DULUTH, The new propeller ot the Northwest ‘Transportation Company is named the Unit- ed Empire. She is expected to make her first Grip to Duluth, and is one of the finest vessels on the lakes, When navigation opened the Duluth ele- vators contained 200,000 bushels more wheat than the Milwaukee elevators, Matt Carroll has launched his litle steatn- geand tasnamed her Maggie after one his daughters. She draws four feet of water and will be used in’ transporting pro- visions and men town the shore and will al- so doa general harbor lightering, The water seems to be very low all over Lake Superior this year. These are busy days along the docks. ‘The Toledo, of Wards Line, is a tine boat and has made her firstappearance in this harbor. The large cargo of 80,000 bushels of wheat has been taken out by the David) Dows, of the O.C, Bo & C. Co. CLEVELAND’S GREAT FUTURE. The Cleveland Voice, referring to Cleve- land, says it is destined to be a great city. We hear it on every side, see it on every street and by way, and find its echo in the hammers and trowels that are singing a sturdy song all the week through, ona half thousand new buildings that are under Gon- struction, ‘The growth in population, the increase in manufacturing interests, the ex- pansion of trade, and the growing reputation of our industries wll show that the little hamlet that was planted less than eighty years ago will reach a population of 5,000 before the close of the present century. It is double to-day what it was thirteen years ago, and at that rate what possibilities may not be looked for? Lecation counts for much in the long run, Cleveland lies on the -shortest line of connection between the great East and the great West, and is one of the most important points on that commercial highways. It was demonstrat- ed years ago that this is the point where the iron ore fields of Lake Superior and the coal regions of Ohio and Pennsylvania can best come together for the manufacture of iron. A thousand varied industries have also arisen to show that no better point for man- ufacturing lies aiywhere within the United States. . ee | VESSEL SALES, Captain S. B. Mills has bought the little steambarge Good Hit, of Oswego. She is en- gaged in the stone trade. ' Barge Saginaw has been purchased by Al- gonac parties. ‘Terms private. The tugs Oneida, Captain J. W. Surles, and Hope, Captain Smith, have arrived-at Duluth, having been purchased by the Boom Company for towing loge, The new steambarge built at R. Mills & Cos yard, Buffalo, was successfully launched on Saturday afternoon. She is very staunchly built, being edgebolted in and out, iron strapped diagonally, and thus needs no arches. She will be a first-class coal-carrier, She is 214 feet over all, 24 feet beam, 141g feet hold, and will carry about 50,000 bushels of wheat. Her machinery will not be putin this season. She will be ready in a tew days and will tow behind the propeller Columbia. Some time ago she was sold-by the builders to J. C. Lockwoad and others for $45,000. Her name is not de- termined upon, but she wili probably be called Cotnrade.. The name of her master builder, John Humble, superintendent for Mills & Co., is a sufficient guarantee for her sea- worthiness.-- Exchange. A MARINE PRESS. A new departure in journalism has been originated by the proprietors of the New Orleans Democrat. They have fully equipped a branch office on a barge, had it towed up the Mississippi, and is now ‘fioating down the river, stopping at all points of interest for the purpose of gathering information concernirg the country along the river. ‘The barge is sixty feet long with twelve feet width of beam. Its interior accommodations comprises business, editorial, and job offices, composing and press rooms, sleeping apart- ments, dining room, kitchen, and stable for the horses used in_ making land trips back from the river. It-is practically a fully equipped newspaper establishment afloat. A KIND-HEARTED CAPTAIN, Vesselmen are loud in their praise of Cap- tain Phillip Minch, on account of the action he took to show his respects to his old friend Captain William Young Sr., when the son of the latter, Captain William Young, Jr., died recently. Captain Mineh not only had his flags at half-mast, but ordered everv one of his many vessels to remain in portduring the funeral. Captain Minch is one of the oldest seamen on the lakes and has an inter= est in a large number of vessels. He ig known throughout as one of the most kind- hearted men that sail, and this aet is pro- nounzed characteristic of him.—Leader. > A GREAT POET. Every man cannot be a poet no more than every sheep can be a goat. 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