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finds he gets out of pocket by keeping her ‘running. Mr. Thomas Miller, of the firm of Miller Brothers, shipbuilders, has gone on an ex- cursion to San Francisco with the Knights ‘Templar. ; The cabin and pilot-house of the tug Charmer, which sunk Sunday, has washed ashore at South Chicago, lf the east wind continues she will likely go to pieces. The fine schooner Chas. E. Wyman, of Grand Haven, Captain Alex Smith, which has been engaged in the lumber trade, went to Sarnia with a load of corn on Friday last. The propeller New York collided with the steambarge Abercorn whilst the latter was on the market last week, doing a considera- " ble amount of damage to her planking, plank shear and bulwarks amidships. Grain freights are rising steadily and we hope soon to record them at 5¢ and upwards from thia port to Buffalo. Lumber freights remain unchanged, and it is ahard job to make vessels pay their way at present rates. On Sunday, about noon, the steambarge ‘Nellie Torrent capsized and waterlogged near the mouth of the harbor. ‘Too heavy a deckload of shingles was no doubt the cause of the trouble. Divers are engaged upon her getting her ready to be pumped out and set afloat again. General Superintendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving Service, accompanied by Sena- tor Conger, of Michigan, came here on Fri- day last and inspected the life-saving station. The Chicago crew went through a thorough drill and were very highly commended for their efficiency. The life-saving station at this port is to have one of the Higgins & Giftord Cape Cod ‘surfboats sent on for experiment, and if it * proves a success others will be sent to the various stations comprising this district. ‘These boats are pronounced the best in use, and have been adopted at all of the stations on Lake Huron. They are constructed of cedar with an air tight compartment in bow and ‘stern and are. pointed at both ends. They are double banked and carry eight oars. j Grain freights were again firm yesterday at 314@4c corp to Buffalo. On corn to Mid- Yand and Sarnia, the rate was 2144@2!c. In one instance a small vessel got 3c on wheat to Sarnia—the schooner Adventurer. The. mominal rate on wheat to Kingston was 7}¢c. ‘The demand for vessels to Kingston (as to all ports) was good, but the vessels in port had not discharged their up cargoes and were not yet ready to go to the elevators. On wheat to Montreal, the propeller Prus- gia obtained 10c, the highest figure paid this season. The echooner A. G. Morey is in Miller Brothers’ drydock receiving a new keel, new “tpottom and some general repairs. Schooner William Jones is receiving some new frames cand part new bottom. The barge Berrien of Benton Harbor is being calked. Schooner Ebenezer (late the Watts Sherman) has had a thorough rebuild at a cost of $5,000. The tug Tarrant has had a new wheel. Schooner North Star had a leak stopped aud some ealking. The schooner Mary B. Hale had a leak stopped. ‘I'he tug Boscobel got some new brasses in her stern bearing. Steam- barge Tempest had her wheel tightened. “The steamer John B. Lyon is having her topsides calked and some repairs to her -stern. A new windlass is being made for the schooner Evening Star. DETROIT. the Marine Record. ete Wik Mocking Bird was towed here with a broken shaft. The tug Sweepstakes took her tow of five schooners to Lake Erie. The steamer Mary runving between this port and Toledo, broke her shaft near Am- wheratburg on the 13th. She will be re- paired here. The tugs Champion and Sweepstakes re- leased the schooner Wayne Sunday, aground on the head of Harson’s Island. The cause of her grounding was the parting of the tow- cae freights remain firm at 2}¢c to Buf- falo. Steambarge Fortune was chartered for cedar ties from Tyon’s Head to Court- wright at 10c; Schooner Benedict, cedar ties, Sauble Beach to Cleveland, 10c; scow Rosebud, paving cedar, Fishing Islands to Detroit, $2.25 per cord. Last week we gave a description of the new steamer City of Makinac, to be run on the Detroit aud Cleveland Steam Naviga- THE MARINE . RECORD tion Line. She has proved to be a pertect success in regard to speed, as she made the run from Port Huron to Detroit in three hours and thirty-eight minutes. She left Detroit on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, as announced, and has made the round trip to Mackinac and return, getting back to De- troit on Tuesday, as stated, at 10:30 when the regular time set down for her to get in was 2 p.m. She was three and a half hours ahead of her regular schedule time. As to comfort and safety the reputation of the De- troit and Cleveland line is sufficient assur- ance. ‘I'he City of Mackinac will alternate with the City of Cleveland in running be- tween Detroit and Mackinac, this new ves- sel leaving Detroit on Wednesdays and Sat- urdays, and her companion leaving on Mon- days and Fridays. SANDUSKY. Special to the Marine Record. ‘The barge propeller City of Rome, nearly equalin size and carrying capacity to the monster Onoko, arrived at this port on the 15th with 1,869 tons ot ore from Marquette. She came in drawing fourteen feet forward and aft, and had no difficulty in entering the dock or getting up to thedock. It is a fact worthy of. ndte in this connection that more large, deep-draft vessels have arrived at this port this year than heretofore. The largest craft on the lakes, the Onoko, had no trouble in getting into this harbor with 2,370 tons of ore. Schooner Thomas ‘P. Sheldon. arrived from Marquette with ore. Schooner Foster arrived with hard coal trom. Buffalo and cleared light for.'Toledo. Schooner@Selkirk arrived from Escanaba with ore. Schooner Teutonia arrived with ore. Scow-H. Hine arrived light and cleared with coal for Windsor. Scow Belle Eliza arrived light and cleared with coal for Detroit. Scow John Leone arrived light and cleared with stone. Steambarge . Hattie arrived with 50,000 barrel hoops for Hudson.- Steam barge City of Rome arrived with 1,869 tons ore from Marquette. Barge Colorado ar- rived from Bay City with lumber, cleared’ light in ‘tow. of steam barge Dickinson. Barge Lathrop’ arrived with lumber and cleared for Chicago light. Schooner Cous- uello arrived with lumber, cleared light. Schooner India arrived light and loaded coal for an upper lake port. Schooner Kil- derhouse arrived with grain from Chicago, cleared light for Alpena. Schooner H. F. Merry arrived with coal from Buffalo, cleared with grain tor Erie. Schoonere, C. G. King, Wabash, Monitor and Johnson cleared for Prince Arthur’s landing in tow of tug Samson. Barge Shadwell arrived with ore from Marquette. Barge Wolver- ine arrived from Bay City with lumber. Propeller Annie Young, Anchor Line ar- rived and. cleared with mixed freight for Chicago. Barge Fulton arrived with lum- ber from Manistique. BUFFALO. It is said that the contractors who were to dredge the channel in the Blackwell Canal to a depth of 17 feet below low water mark have completed their work—that is, have ceased doing further dredging. And yet it is impossible for a vessel to go through the canal that is drawing over 14 feet 5 inches, even when the water is ata good stage. The Courier says Captain ‘Thomas May- them’s new tug, J. L. Williams came out Thursday. She is one of the largest, best built, and most powerful of our harbor tugs. She was built by O’Grady & Maher, who. have lately been doing some excellent work in this line. Her length is seventy-three and one-half feet, beam sixteen teet, hold nine feet fourinches. Her engine has a cyl- inder 19x22 inches, and was built by Sutton Brothers; it ia a well finished specimen of marine machinery and cannot but do good work. Her boiler measures thirteen feet in length by seven feet in shell, and was for- merly in the steamyacht Titania; it is prac- tically as good as new, and makes steam steadily and economically. The wheel is six feet ten inches in diameter. It will be seen that'in engine, boiler, and wheel the Will- iams has the advantage of other tugs. She is of handsome model, is well finished and arranged, and consequently makes a very fine appearance. Captain Ed. Maythem will run her for the present. STURGEON BAY, Capt. Dan Sinclair has purchased the barge E. Tyson from the Marinette Barge ) Line Co, It is not known what the new owner will do with the craft. The Green Bay Docking Co. has been awarded the contract for taking care of the buoys in the waters of Green Bay and tribu- taries for the year ending June, 1884. The tug Gregory will be transterred to her new owners, Rand & Burger, Manito- woc, on the léth of this month. ‘The fact that the boat had been purchased by this firm was published in these columns some weeks ago. ‘lhe consideration is said to have been $6,000. Atthe chattel mortgage sale of the tug Thomas Spear, which came off at Green Bay last Monday, the boat was bid in by Geo. O. Spear, of this city, for $6,000. It ia understood that Capt. Burnham. will bring the tug here this week, and she will take the place of the Gregory in canal towing. The schooner C. H. Burton, which has been ashore on Fisherman’s reef, Washing- ton Island, has finally been released after nearly two months’ work by an expedition fitted out for that purpose.: ‘The vessel was takén into. Washington Harbor, where tem- porary repairs were made, after which she was taken to Manitowoc for general repairs. OSWEGO. The tug association complain of bad busi- ness this season. : , The barge Michigan has gone on Goble & MacFarlan’s dry dock for minor repairs. The steambarge Saxon has gone on Mitchell & Gallagher’s dry dock fora new wheel. = Nate The steambarge Reliance, towing ‘the schooner Clara White, was - forced to put back on account of heavy weather. Charters—The Flora Emma takes coal for Oshawa from the D. L. & W. trestles, and the Mary Taylor for Belleville and the Flor- ence Howard from Kingston from Ontario and Western trestles. The schooner George Steele takes coal for Chicago, the E. Fitzgerald for ‘Toledo, the Annie Mulvey for Toronto, the B. W. Fol- ger tor Kingston and the Herbert Dudley for St. Catherines from D. & W. trestles. _ MILWAUKEE, George C. Calwell, of Harrisonville, Mich., hag purchased the propeller Aconto of the Goodrich Company; for $17,500. Three steam pumps were placed on the steambarge Potomac, on the beach at Ahna- pee Falls, to lower the water in the hol¢, and her cargo will be removed. Only 2,000 bushels of her cargo of 38,000 bushels were saved dry. Her timbers are sprung, and it is doubtful if she can be released. The Leader says the propeller Poto mac, of Cleveland, valued at $45,000, insured for $35,000, and loaded with rye worth $26,- 000, is on the beach near Ahnapee, Wis., with 12 feet of water in her hold, having stove her bottom on arock. She has -been abandoned tothe underwriters. ‘The wreck- ing tug, Levianthan has gone to her relief. Grain carriers were in good demand yes- terday, but no vessels were on the market and no engagements were reported. Rates are very firm, and vessels could have pro- cured 4 cents on wheat to Buffalo. It was reported here yesterday that shippers were paying 334 and 4 cents on corn to Buffalo. Ore freights are firm with « good demand for vessels, and rates at $1.15 from Escanaba to Ohio ports. PUT-IN-BAY. While the little yacht Lillie, of Middle Bass Island was giving a pleasure sail yes- terday, and when about midway between Middle Bass and Put-in-Bay Islands, a sud- den squall struck the boat, capsizing it and throwing the occupants, Mr. Capper and Matt Morgan and family, all of Cincinnati, into the water. The water was rising at the time, but several row boats and the steamyachts Inaand Ida May hastened to the spot. The first to reach the spot was a small row boat containing Will Molyneux and Harry Robbins, two Cleveland youths, who are at the bay to attend the Seventh Regimentencampment. ‘This party, togeth- er with a small boat which was fastened to the Lillie when she capsized, tovk up the party of nine persons, none of whom, ex- cept Mrs. Morgan, was any the worse for the ducking. Mr. Morgan lost a valuable watch and $20C in money which were in the yacht when she capsized. Mrs. Morgan was taken to the home of Mrs. Dr. Webster, on Put-in-Bay Island, and promptly restored from the insensible condition into which she had fallen from the excitement. 5 DULUTH, ; Capt. McDougal has forty men at work on the south shore picking up logs, The Paclfic has been laid up and the crew discharged. A number of men are engaged in building a one hundred foot crib at elevator A dock. It will be ready for sinking in about one week, The work of filling in the second section of the Ohio Central Barge and Coal dock is going forward rapidly. The frame for the large oat elevator on the lake shore, near elevator A, will be raised about the first of the week. EAST TAWAS, The tug Relief lett Ang. 11 with a large raft of loge, containing one million feet, for Evans and Killmaster, ‘Yonawanda. ‘The schooner Granger, loaded with salt, leaves for Milwaukee. ; The barge Dan Rogers, which left yester= day for Cleveland, put back and lies at an- chor. The tug Balize is here waiting for, weather to take a raft of logs for Charletton, Buffalo. TOLEDO, The British schooner Emerald, a ship tim- ber carrier, has gone into the grain trade, She is putting in bulkheads fpreparatory to loading wheat for Kingston. The schooners Riverside and Mineral State, and the propeller Chauncey Hurlbut, take wheat to’ buffulo at 24Zc. Schooner William Shupe, wheat, to Buffalo, 2c; barges Arcturus, coal, to Detroit, 35c, and Icsman, ‘coal to Saginaw, 40e; schooners Erie and G. W. Davies, and propeller J. M. Osborn, wheat to Buffalo, 2'c. PORT HURON. The steambarge R. Wallace, towing the schooners, H. A. Kent, Thomas Gawn'‘and Joseph Paige, did serious damage August 13 to the Grand ‘Trunk railroad wharf, and the former lost her bowsprit, and jibboon, The Paige lost her headgear. During the trouble the Wallace got, the Kent’s tow line in her wheel and was delayed some hours before it was taken out, The cause of the collision was that both. vessels took a sheer while the steambarge was trying to clear a small schooner that was at anchor abreast of the elevator at Sarnia. ; GRAND HAVEN. The schooner Alleghany of the Anchor line, when about the middle of Lake Michi- gan to-day was'seen to hoist a signal of dis- tress. ‘Ihe steamer City of Milwaukee on her regular trip, saw and went to her assis- tance and found on arrival that her foremast head and also part of her rigging was gone. The City of Milwaukee tried to tow her in, but the hawser parted and she was forced to abandon her. When last seen she was headed toward Chicago, : ESCANABA. The steamship Chisholm took quite a fleet, having in tow when she left, the City of Cleveland, the Ahira Cobb, and the Scotia. The City of Cleveland took out 2,500 tors of ore on fourteen feet six. She’s a carrier. Propeller H. C. Akely, schooners, City of Green Bay, Bertie Calkins, Frank Perew, and Golden Fleece, coal laden, arrived on the 14th. Propellers, D. W. Rust, Minne- sota, schooners, Francis Palme, Kingfisher, Massasoit, D. K. Clint, Green Bay, Frank Perew, departed. RACINE. The schooner Alleghany, grain loaded, lies out in the lake nearly opposite Racine, dismasted. The fishing tug at Kenosha brought in a dispatch from the master of the Alleghany for a Milwaukee tug. | BAY CITY. Clearances— For Cleveland, on the 13th, steambarges Sanilac, 1,900,000 shingles; Oakland, 310,000 feet lumber, 200,000 lath ; barge W. R. Clinton, 300,000 teet lumber; for ‘Tonawanda, barge Faseet, 700,000 fee lumber; steambarge Curties, 575,000 feet luinber. Cleared on. the 16th, for Tonawanda, steambarges Caldwell, 475,000 feet of lum- ber; George King, 485,000 feet lumber; Mayflower, 335,000 feet ot lumber; Nelson Mill 412,000 feet of lumber; Mineral Bock, 500,000 feet of lumber; Robert Holland, 375,000 feet of lumber; barges Levi Raw- son, 475,000 feet of luinber; Buckhout 465,- 000 feet of lumber; tor Buffalo, barges Hol-. land, 750,000 feet of lumber; Bahama, 390,- 000 feet of lumber; Dobbine, 600,000 feet of lumber; for Cleveland, barges Lester, 359,- 000 feet of lumber; for Fremont, barge Arizona, 185,000 feet of lumber; for Macki-~ naw, steamyacht David Sutton, light.