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ne " Reported by E. L. Harper & Coy THE MARINE RECORD. active and proved that they wanted none of the talents of the most expert sailors in the most dangerous moments. ‘lo them all as well as the Captain the undersigned pas- sengers tender their most sincere thanks. ‘The boat was at the mercy of the waves until 5:30 o’elock ‘Thursday morning when she beached « short distance above the light- house, when the passengers and crew began to debark, which was effected without the loss of lives or any material injury. Some idea may be formed of the storm when it is known that the boat, being laden as she was, was thrown entirely on the beach: Alanson W. Welton, Jedediah Hunt, Thomas Palmer, Oslando Cutter, Wm. Berezy, Silas Merian, Mary A. W. Palmer, Rhoda Lattimore, Catharine Palmer, = Martha Bearey, Chauncy Barker, Geo. Williams, Thomas Gay, Elisha N. Berge, John S. Hudson, Edson Hart, James Clark, George Throop.” J. W. 4H. ovo IRON MARKET REPORT. CLEVELAND, Oct, 25. — The market has been exceedingly dull, no transactions of importance having been made, The opinion is expressed that no material change will be made in Gemand or price until after January. ‘The sales during the week were of small lots for immediate consumption. We quote Nos. 1 & 2 charcoal... Nos. 3, 4, and 5 charcoal 25 00@27 00 No. 1 all Lake Superior ore, coke foundry 21 00@22 00 No. 2, all Lake Superior ore, coke foundry 20 00@*%1 00 Mill irons... wa AT 50@18 50 No.1 American Seotel 22 50 No. 1 Soft silvery...... 20 50@21 50 Cincinnati. Notwithstanding the financial misfortunes that have overtaken some of the furnaces, and the much talked of *‘dullnese,”’ the mar- ket is well sustained, und prices rule quite tirm. There is no supertluity’ of standard grades of coke, foundry and mill irons, and the trade is beginning to realize it. We quote ssa prices current: FOUNDRY, Hanging Rock Charcoal Nos 1. Rock Charcoal No. eutral Coke No. 1 American Scotch, No. 1. GREY FORGE, strong. Neutral Coke. old Short... Lake Superior “Vulcan” all grades Southern Car Wheel, strictly cold blast A lifeboat has reently been invented, the hull of which is preferably made of sheet iron, The‘horizontal sections are circular, with the exception of a segment, which is eut away from each of the two sides to ad- mit the puddle wheels. ‘he sides of. the dout next to the wheel are vertical, aad the sloor over each wheel serves as a seat or stor- -age room inside. A cut-water. a keel, a stern-post and a rudder are formed cutside of the circular. contour. The hull of the bout is provided with sides forming 2 verti- val cylinder, and with a nearly spherical roof joining the upper edge of the cylinder, Around the roof are sealed lights, and in the center is a cupola perforated for ventilating the interior. At one side of the roof isa sliding door, for entrance or exit, which is made water tight by packing. ‘The interior is provided with seats, and straps and buck- les are secured to the wall to draw over the bodies of oceupants to.sustain them in very rough weather, and loops are placed below the seats for the passengers to thrust. their tect into. The paddle wheels are attached to short shafts provided) with pinions into which engage spur gears mounted on a crank shatt revolving in bearings secured to the boat, the crank extending across the hull in 2 location to be conveniently worked by the oveupants. ‘This boat may be carried by ships and used to escape from them in case of accident. A large number. of persons with the necessary provisions may be car- ried, it Is claimed, in the roughest water without danger. The new tug W. L. Proctor, Captain Will- iam Leonard, is an unusually fine looking craft, and her appearance elicited many ta- vorable comments from vessel men. She was built by George Hall & Co., of Ogdens- burg, and her complete cost is $25,000. Her length is 115 feet; beam 20 teet, and hold 10 feet. Her engine is 26x30 inches, built by Donaldson & Whitman; her boiler is 9-16 inch steel, 17 feet long by 814 feet shell, and was made by Ritter; her Wheel is 8i¢ feet in diameter with 104 feet piteh. She is built in Notter’s best style, and more could not be said in her favor. She will be used for tow- ing between Ogdensburg and Montreal, tak- ing the place of the burned Gardner.—Bur- falo Courier, Oct. 18. The first bridge pier on the chain of lakes was built by a Mr. Cahoon at Kenosha in 1840, [ Co neluded from Ist page.) flour to its standard of tive bushels, gives the aggregate landed at that port during the year 1843 at 6,414,826 bushels. The steamboat Walk-in-the-Water made the round trip between Detroit and Green Bay. July, 1821, in thirteen days. ‘lhe dis- tance was considered to be 1,200 miles. A corporal of the United States Infantry, who was a passenger on the boat, was drowned in attempting to swim the Fox river at Green Bay. Arrivals at Detroit October, 1819: Schoon- ers Franklin, 73 tons, Captain John F, Wight; Geo. Washington, 99 tons, Captain Daniel Dobbins; ‘Tiger, 40 tons, Captain Ww. Keith; American Eagle, 48 tons, Cup- tain Wm. Gaylord; Aurora, 60 tons, Captain , Chas, Fitch; Black Snake, 21 tone, Captain J. Wilkeson; Boxer, 16 tone, Captain D, Wilkeson; United States Cutter Split Log, Captain Gilbert Knapp; Elizabeth, 27 tons, Captain Morris Tyler; Friendship, 59 tons, Captain Cliff Belden; Dove, 13 tous, Cap- tain H. G. Cooley. KINGSTON, ‘The second steam pump belonging to the Dominion Wrecking Company lett to-day for the Sam Cook. The company has one at work there at present, but it is insufticient to raise her. The schooner Annie Sherwood arrived at Erie, Pa., on Friday with her foremast car- ried away and her mainmast broken oft from the effect of the south-east blow on Wednes- day night. Since the month of May last fifty-two ships have -atrived at Port Colborne for lighterage, carrying 1,818,330 bushels of grain. Ot this amount there. was lightered at the Welland railway elevator, carried over the road, and reshipped at Port Dal- housie 514,000 bushels, ‘The schooner Julia, which was consigned by Richardson & Son to Oswego with 7,500 bushels of barley went down at the pier’s at that place in forty-five feet of water on Saturduy night at-nine o’clock. ‘The vessel and cargo are insured in the Continental, The former. is valued at $4,500, but she is only insured for $3,500 and. the latter is insured for.70c per. bushel, She is owned by Captain Courson and Timothy Hartnett. She struck the piers while entering the har- bor, and went down. ; BUFFALO. The dismasted schooner Annie Sherwood was broughtin early on Saturday morniug by the tug J. L. Williams. She was taken to the Union shipyard to receive new tore and mainmast. John Quirn, a diver from Detroit, is in port, getting ready to rescue the -schooner¢ John Wesley, which lies on the beach opposite Buffalo, He has the Canadian per- mit to wreck in foreign waters, and was looking for a lighter at last accounts. Grain receipts by lake for last week amounted to 2,258,080 bushels, and ship- ments of coal by lake footed up 38,680 tons. ESCANABA, Special to the Marine Record The James Davidson went to pieces cn Thunder Bay Island, a total loss. So far as Tecan learn no building ot ves- sels is going on around hereabout. The Quinby made the passage from Cleve- land to Escanaba in 47 hours. Good time. The new wrecking tug Delta, belonging to the ‘lowing and Wrecking Company, ar- rived here this week to stay. United States revenue steamer Johnson is stationed at Escanaba, and will cruise at this end of the lake until navigation closes. The powerful wrecking tug Leviathan is now at home in this port, doing very little; but on account of heavy gales prevailing during the present week, there will pigba- bly be work for the Leviathan. Shipments of iron ore, pig iron, and quartz from Escanaba from the opening of naviga- tion, for the season of 1883 to and including October 17th inst., were 1,227,722 tons, of which 337,979 tons came from the Marquette mines, and 889,743 tons from the Menominee mines. Forty-three thousand tour hundred and seventy-one tons were shipped during the week ending October 17th. There isa great deal of lumber shipped from the different saw-mills within a radius of several miles from this place, amounting to many millions of feet and an im- mense amount of shipment of cedar posts, 5 railroad ties, “and wlegraph poles, yet it is impossible to gain the name of vessels and amount carried, as they do not report in Es- canaba custom office. No departures of vessels on Wednesday October 17th, on account of heavy gales from the southeast, with the following arrivals in port: Steamers Raleigh, John Otis, ‘I. W, Palmer, W. L. Brown. Schooners Lucerne, Fitzhugh, Conatitution, J. Paige, R. B. Hayes, Golden West, Reindeer, 8. L. Wat- son, Ogarita, ‘Three Brothers, E. LL. Coyne, Selkirk, ‘I. Howland, C. A. King. Departures October 18th: Steamers Massa- chusetts, Progress, Raleigh, John Otis, ‘I’. S. Palmer, W. L. Brown, Monohansett. Schoon- ers City of Green Bay, Merrimac, Metacomet, B. Hanscom, J. S. Richards, Constitution. J+ Paige, R. B. Hayes, Lucerne, Golden West, Ogarita, Three Brothers and E. L. Coyne. Departures Friday, October 19: Steamers Escanaba, Ohio, Argonaut. Schooners Fits- hugh, 'T. Howland C. N. Ryan, Sunrise, D. S. Austin and M. Martin. CHICAGO. Special to the Marine Record, The Eugene Vesta was purchased by Al- exander Quinn, for $3,000, Rates ruled at 3e on corn and 3!4¢ on wheat to Buffalo, The. schooner Ralph Campbell was run into by the tug Brothers near Madison street bridge on Saturday last. ‘he schooner had her bow stove in down to the water line and the tug sustained considerable damage. ‘The schooner Grace M. Filer, which went ashore at Cedar river, Green Buy, last week, arrived in Chicago on Monday morning, having experienced very little damage. The barge Sonora arrived here on Friday last partially -waterlugged with a steam pump on board which she obtained at Mil- waukee. She was placed in drydock and had the leak stopped. ‘The steamer Grace Grummond was towed here on Friday last from Michigan City by the tug Wolf. She was laden with fruit,’ and was obliged to put into Michigan City disabled through the breaking of her cross heads. . Captain Nels Peterson, of the schooner North Cape, has been compelled to relin- quish his command of the vessel in. conse~ quence of the severe il)ness of -his little son, who is suffering from rheumatism and drop- sy, from which complication of diseases he is not expected to recover. ‘The schooner Pensaukee, J, S. Dunham, of this port, owner, which was ashore a short time ago at Cheboygan, has been thoroughly repaired at Rand & Burger’s, Manitowoc, and arrived here from Cheboygan, lumber laden, on ‘Tuesday, the 28d inst. On Monday, the 17th, the old schooner Petrel, formerly of Chicago, but more re- cently of Milwaukee, sank near the north pier at Sheboygan. She struck the bar out- side the harbor and then ran against the north pier, and had only gota short distance therefrom when she sank and became a to- tal wreck. She was laden with wood for Burnham & Sons, Milwaukee. At Miller Brothers’ drydock the schooner Ralph Campbell got a new bow; schooner Conneaut was recalked ; steambarge George Dunbar got a new wheel; steambarge A. R. Colborne also got a new wheel; steambarge M. F. Butters received a new shoe, and the schooner Fleetwing had her stern repaired, At the Chicago Drydock the barge B. L. Filer had her bottom calked all over and a new rudder stock; stermbarge Inter-Ocean received a new stern bearing; the propeller H. E. Packer had ber ceiling calked; barge Sonora had a leak stopped; schooner Olga got a new jibboom ; schooner Cape Horn had aleak stopped; schooner Delos de Wolf got anew foreboom; schooners Ellen Williams and Rouse Simmons got leaks stopped. At the Vessel Owners’ drydock the barge Windsor got a new centreboard; the steam- barge Mary Groh got a new stern, forefoot, new iron plates, repairs to her rudder and some calking; the barge May Richards got some repairs to her bulwarks; the schooner J.B. Pentield had her bottom searched and some ealking; barge General Burnside got some new plank in her bow; propeller Cuba got part new stern and forefoot and some calking ; steambarge City of New York had her deck calked, and the scow S$. P. Wilson had her bottom calked, ROCHFSTER. A special to the Inter Ocean, October 22, says this morning at 5 o’clock the captain of the tug Barons sighted a signal of distress about five miles from Charlotte, on Lake Ontario, She put out and found the barge Pacific drifting helplessly about the lake, having lost her rudder and received a bad hole in the side. ‘The captain of the Pacific said the tug Caribeen left Montreal on Satur- day tor Fair Haven, towirg the Pacific, the John Marsh, the Eugene, and another barge. They were struck by a heavy gule, and the tow line parted leaving the barges to drift off. ‘The Pacific was thrown broadside on one of the others, the collision knocking a hole in both boats, ‘Che crew onthe Pacific sty that five minutes subsequent to the collision the light of the John Marsh dis- appeared and the vessel was never seen after. ward, She was running light and hada crew of three men and one woman, who must have perished. ‘heir names were not ascertainable. ‘The Eugene hoisted sail and reached port in safety, the Caribeen put into Oswego and reached Charlotte to-night to pick up the Pacitic. Old seamen say that Lake Ontario was never rougher than on Saturday and Sunday. MILWAUKEE, ' ‘The schooner Reed Case, which is reported ashore on North Buss (sland, left this port a week ago last night with 21.500 bushels of wheat shipped by C. J. Kershaw & Co, and insured in the Big Four of Chicago. The schooner Buena Vista has been placed in winter quarters, her owners fearing that she might go to sea once tuo often should she be permitted to run ‘the remainder of the senson. ; The steambarge Monitor came in light from Chicago and went into drydock. There isan advance of 1c in grain freights shippere offering 3!1¢c on wheat to Buffalo. The engagement was the schooner Path- finder, for 40,000 bushels of: wheat to Buf- falo, at 344c. ‘The schooner Moonlight and H. M. Seove were chartered for ore, Escanaba to Cleveland, at $1.40. The Wocoken is disabled by a broken crank pin and will have to be towed to her destination.on Lake Erie, or to Milwaukee or Chicago for repairs. FAIRPORT. F The steambarge D. D. Calvin, light, and’ schooner J. S. Richards, ore for Ashtabula, wind bound here on the 23d. SANDUSKY Special to the Marine Record. The echuoner Reed Case arrived here on the 22d from Milwaukee with wheat. She went aground on Sunday night off Middle Bass Island but was released after lightering a portion of her cargo. She sustained no damage. . DULUTH. The storm on Lake Superior Friday even- ing is pronounced by vessel men to have been the worst of the season. . President Villard, ot the Northern Paci- fic road, denies that he is contemplating the building of steamers to run between Duluth and Buffalo in conneetion with his road. MUSKEGON, The schooner Elbe, with hardwood lumber for Two Rivers, collided with the schooner Capella off Muskegon in the storm of Friday night. The Elbe lost her topmast and jib- boom, and had her foreboom broken, and the Capella’s dolphin striker crushed into her cabin. She drifted helplessly in the northeaster till off T'we Rivers, where she attempted to anchor aud was picked up by the life saving crew. TOLEDO, Captain MeNelly, of the steamer Waite, reports having seen the schooner Reed Case, wheat laden from Chicago, ashore on North Bass Island, last evening, on his up trip from the Islands. The tug American Eagle had gone to her assistance. The schooner L. C. Crocker, reported as having lost her deck load of lumber on Lake Huron during the recent storm, arrived here this morning in good shape, and with cargo all right. CHEBOYGAN. The tug Bob Anderson picked up the barge Lilly May on Lake Huron, where she broke away from her tow, and towed her into Sand Beach. The propeller Fountain City was picked up by the propeller Avon on Lake Michigan, d‘sabled in her machinery, and towed her into this port, where she is awaiting orders from her owners,