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TO COMMERCE, — $2.00 PER ANNUM SINGLE Copirs 5 CENTS, __ CLEVELAND O, OCTOBER 25, 1883. Vesselmen sHoOULD HAVE OUR MARINE LAW BOOK, Containing all points of MARINE LAW as de- teymined by the United States Courts —ON - —_— Seamen, Owners, Freights, Charters, Towage, Registry, Collisions, Enrollments, General Average, Common Carriers, Duties of Seamen, Masters & Owners, Bill of Luding, Wages, &c. ‘Bhe volumn is handsomely bound in stif? Board eovers, and tine English cloth binding. Books of this kind generally cost $3.00, but we will send it to an address, postage paid for $1,00, or with the MARINE RECORD for one year, both for only $3.00. Address MARINE RacorD. Cleveland 0. To the Editor of Marine Record: OFFICE OF LIGHTHOUSE INSPECTOR, On or about November lst the lighthouse tender Dalilia will begin removing’ the iron AROUNDTHE LAKES. ELEVENTH DISTRICT, ean buoys marking the dangers to naviga- NOTICE. 'TO MARINERS. Derroir, Mich., Oct. 18, 1883. “tion ‘in Lake Huron, Straits of Mackinac and substituted, and allowed to remain. until carried away. by ice. By order of the Lighthouse Board. F. A. Cook, Com. U.S. N., Inspector Eleventh Dist. STEAM FOG WHISTLE AT WAUGOSHANCE. Notice is hereby given that on and after Oct. 19, 1883, a steam whiste will be sounded at Waugoshance light station during thick and foggy weather; giveing blasts.of 5 sec- | onds at intervals of 25 seconds. By order of the Lighthouse Board. Cnaries E. Lh. B. Davis, Captain of Engineers U.S. A., Lighthouse Engineer. | CLEVELAND. John Gilman has sold his interest, one- quarter, in the tug John H. Martin to W. H. Harmon for $1,125. The schooner Ogarita, while being towed up the river Monday, accidentally struck a propeller and lost her cathead. The steambarge Sanilac had her rudder post twisted off this port and was broughtin here by the tug 5. 8. Stone. The barge Hamilton Mills and the schoon- er Young America, ore laden for Buffalo, were obliged to seek shelter here on ‘Tuesday. Rumor says that Captain Clark, master of the schooner Erastus Corning, will next sea- gon manage one of the large transportation lines at Buffalo. Captain John Van Alstine has again as- sumed command of the schooner Preston, which he relinquished a short time ago on account of ill health. The iron steamer Onoko left Escanaba on Sunday morning and arrived at this port at 2 o’clock on the 23d, on the way to Fairport with 2,565 tons of ore, which is certainly a quick trip. The assignee, I. O. Crissy, of the Commer- cial line, thinks the injunction on the Ruasia and Scotia will be dissolved on condition that the boats be laid up for the remainder of the season. 4, Lhe schooner George Sherman, ashore and full of water at Grand Island, Lake Superior, has been released by the tug Gladiator, | which will tow her to Cleveland. One pump is sufficient to keep her free. A part of her | cargo was lightered, H The steambarge Progess, aground a short | time since at the entrance to Ashtabula har- | bor, proved quire an inconvenience to vessels | trying to make the port, the steamers John | N. Glidden, George H. Warmington and | Ruleigh being detained quite-a while. the schooner Geo. Sherman, ashore on Lake i Superior, and she is now enroute with the} tug Kate Williams for this port, ‘The Glad- jator, in the meantime, has gone on another | mission, The Williams left Grand Island with her charge on the 21st, Sunday, The steamer Keweenaw, which took her | departure from. here a week ago last Sunday | for Lake Superior, has been heard from, having arrived at Marquette on Saturday, Captain Daniel Lester, of Marine City, one | which, considering the stormy condition of of the pioneers ot Jake navigation, and now | the weather in the meantime, is not bad about sixty years old, wasin the city this | sailing. She is expected here to-morow or | the proper color’, will be} _A. Morse, coal from Sandusky to Escanaba, week. Captain Lester is hale and hearty, ! and is actively engaged ss manager of the Saginaw and. Cleveland. ‘Transportation Company. At Globe. drydock, since our last report, the following vessels received repairs: Steambarge 5. E.. Hill gota new rudder; schooner Frank Perew had her butts calked and a lenk stopped in the keel box; barge Ira | Chaffee got a new stern bearing brass; the schooner D. P. Rhodes is to have a misteri- ous leak stopped. Freight ratesare still strong at the highest figures, coal rates being especially firm at $1.00@1.10 to Milwaukee Chicago and in, one instant $1.15. being paid. Rates on ore WO TrOih Marguetié in $1.45. from Escanabe to Lake Erie ports, and those on grain steady at previous figures: Franz Seigel was reportrd on Monday, coal, Cleveland to Port Arthur, p. t. On Tuesday G. M. Case was chartered, ore from St. Ignace to Black Rock xt $1.70. The following charters were made yester- Steamer John N. Glidden and consort | G. H. Warmington, coal trom Buffalo to Milwaukee $1.25; the same tow ore back from Escababa to Obiv ports, p. t.; steamer Thomas Palmer and consorts Emma L. Coyne and Ogarita, coal from Buffalo to Milwaukee, $1.25 for the first two crafts, and $1.45 to Racine for the last; schooner Fred | p. t.; schooner H. J. Webb, coal from Cleve- land to L’ Anse p. t.; same vessel, ore back to Cleveland, $1.75; schooner Three Broth- | ers, coal from Cleveland to Milwaukee, $1.15; schooner Pewaukee, ore from Esea- naba to Cleveland $1.45; schooner ‘Thomas P. Sheldon, ore, from Escanaba to Cleveland, siderable notoriety for speed and sea-going p. t.; barge J. EK. Mills, coal from Lorain to | Port Huron, 5Ce. The Buffalo Courier ot yesterday says: Coal freights continued firm yesterday at $1.25 to Milwaukee and Chicago. Engagements: Steamer Lehigh, schooners C. J. Wells, G.S. Hazard, Charles | Foster, F. L. Danforth, 10 Chicago, $1.25; steamer Nahant, schooner Clara Parker, to Milwaukee, $1.25; steamer Sibera, George ‘I. Hope, Hela, to Duluth $1.25. DETROIT, Special to the Marine Record. The steambarge J. H. Jennie, brig Louisa, schooners blazing Star, Josephine, and M. | P. Barkalow are at present in this port. The steamer City of Cleveland, just in the day following. — At various points vessels are beginning to lay up tor the season, several of them hay- ing been engaged in the lumber trade. Others will soon follow, there being no mar- gin for vessels at present rates and the in- crease of seamen’s wages which, at Chicago, | are reported at $3.50. There isan abun- dance of grain in Chieago, but nothing to stimulate shipments. : The Detroit Drydock Company have the keel Jaid and a number ot the frames up for a new steamsbip much on the model of the W.L. Frost, which has already gained con- qualities. She will be 257 feet over all, 37 fet beam, and 17 feet depth of: hold. She ia designed for the Vermont Central line, of fine model and superior strength of build. In the meantime her machinery will be got in readiness for the entire completion of the work on or before the opening of navigation ensuing. Arrivals here from Lake Erie report a flee of vessels weather bound at Kelley’s and |! Pidgeon Bay, respectively, some of them be- ing driven back two or three times. The weather has been decidedly dismal for a few days past with cold, northeast winds which have been without precedent this season, owing to their continuance. Snow flurries were experienced on the river St. Claira day or two since, aud notwithstanding the weather report predicts rain, the contrary is by far the most probable. Gossip has it that the Detroit & Cleveland | Navigation Company are to have a large iron steamer censtructed to supply the place of the steamer Northwest. The contract wili be proceeded with as soon as possible. | The boat will cost somewhere about $306,- | | for the missing vessel. 000, and is intended to carry about 500 tons of freight on deck. She will be propelled by acompound beam engine with feathering wheels. She will be supplied with an up- per row of staterooms as on steamers plying , on the Sound. Economy of. fuel will be an importaut feature in the get up of this craft, and in all she will be unsurpassed in finish and speed on the lakes, Freights are at about the same standard as last reported. The schooner Erie Stewart | took wheat from Leamington, Pidgeon Bay, | to Kingston at Ge; Fannie Campbell, coal, | sea-going qualities. from Mackinaw, reports baving the roughest | Sandusky to Owen Sound, 90c; steambarge | passage of the season, notwithstanding her | Handy Boy, cedar posts, Alpena to Detroit, trip was continuous and not delayed at any | $2.25 per cord; barge Waverly, lumber Al- | point. | pena to Detroit, $1.75 per M; scow Grace | The propeller Ontario, ashore recently at | Amelia, telegraph poles, St. Joseph Island Port Elgin, Lake Huron, was brought here | to Monroe, $800 for the voyage. ‘The scow | by the tug John Owen, and is now in the | MaryHattie is taking on supplies here for St. Detroit drydock. ‘I'he extent of her injuries | Ignace. She is presumably chartered for the is not definitely known, ‘The steambarge | trip. Propeller Europe takes wheat, De- Abercorn, which recently struck on Spee- | troit to Montreal, 7!gc¢; schooner W. IL. | tac’e reef, is also in dock for repairs. Oades, wheat, Detroit to Oswego, d!oc3 Marphy Bros. are in receipt of a dispatch | schooners Belle Hanscom and Wm. Hamet | from the tug Gladiator, which had released | iron ore, St. Ignace to Detroit, on p. t. ‘her The weather continues cold with strong winds chiefly from the northeast, and asa consequence, mishaps among the shipping naturally follow. A collision oceurred be- tween the schooners J. H. Mead and J. Kel- ; derhouge on the St. Clair river, both losing jibbooms and headgear. The barge Saginaw lost her deckload of lumber on Lake Huron and the schooner J. R. Noyes her foreboom. ‘The schooner ‘I'wo Fannies is minus an an- chor stock; schooner C, A. Wyman, a jib- boom; schooner Skylark, her foresail, and tue barge Colorado, foresail, and) fureboom. A rait belonging to Alger & Smith was lost from a tug below Point Au Barques. ‘These are all the casualties tnat have come to hand at this writing. It is now blowinga north- east gale and several craft are housed at Port Huron and Sand Beach, respectively. At Amherstburg on Saturday the steamer E. B. Hale, schooners ‘Thos. P. Sheldon, Ellen. Spry, E. Jones, bound up, were weather bound, also the steambarge Mary Pringle, bound down. Captain Daniel Meisel, of the tug J.P. Clark, was taken’ severely to task, a few days since, by the master of the barge Wm. Treat, wrecked recently, north of Goderich, on Lake Huron, It was charged that Cap- tain M. displayed gross inhumanity in not making diligent search for the missing craft, which had been under his care prior to being ost. Captain Meisel, ina morning paper here, gives an account of his stewardship much after the following manner: The tug had in tow the barges Seminole and Wm. Treat, which he was obliged to cast loose, owing to the tempestuous state of the weath- er, and seek shelter with his steamer at Sand Beach. On the following morning, the weather having somewhat subsided, he started outin search of the lost. tow. He was successful in finding the Seminole, but not the ‘Treat. On arriving in the St. Clair river he was informed by a marine roporter at Port Huron, that the Treat had passed down in tow of the steambarge George King, and with this information at hand it was deemed unnecessary to make further search Captain M. is well known in this city, where he has long re- sided, and his statement is accepted by all. That he would desert a ship in distress no | one believes, if there was a possibility for her rescue. The steamer City of Mackinaw, while ‘erossing Luke Huron, en route for Detroit, a few days since, during a seyere gale, had a good opportunity of demoustrating her While numerous craft bound either way were in shelter Captain McKay had made up his mind that as he was bound for Detroit, that port she must reach without any fooling about it. It (is true afew cars of fish capsized on the main deck, making it rather slippery for | the tme being—passengers with upturned | stomachs—-she came on nobly and faultlessly asa heavy weather craft, reaching here on accustomed time, Sailor’s wages at this port are $3 per day. During the entire season of 1843 there was received at Buffalo 917,517 pounds of flour, 41,979 pounds ef pork, 25,329 pounds of beef, 8,749 barrels of whiskey, 1,827,241 bushels of wheat, 223,963 bushels of corn, only one cargo of oats of 2,489 bushels, and only one of rye of 1,332) bushels, 3,500,000 staves. The total quantity of wheat, reducing the _ Continued on sth page}.