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THE MARINE RECORD, 5 joading and unloading heavy timbers. G. W. Pontine, shipbuilder, has given the barge Victor some general repairs amount- ing to $700, and the schooner Wanderer a new centerboard box. He willalso give the schooner W.R. ‘Taylor some repairs and the schooner Fanny Campbell a new rail and general repairs. The schooner Pandora, Captain B. H, Cooper, has got a new rail, new stanchions, pulwarks and a general overhauling. and calking. She wlll go to Toledo shortly and load coal for Sarnia. The Northwestern ‘Transportation Com- pany’s steamships will be commanded as tollows: United Empire, Captain E. Rub- ertson; Quebec, Captain J. B. Symes; On- tario, Captain H. Zealand. BUFFALO. Captain A. W. Reed, who ccmmanded the racehorse steamship H. J. Jewett, of the Union Steamboat Company last season, got her ashore in the fall, it will be remembered. The company professed at the time to believe tha: the compass was the cause of the disaster, but they now indicate their true belief. ‘hey offer Captain Reed the. command of the propeller B: W. Blanchard, knowing that he will not accept, and he goes out of their employ. ‘The command of the Jewett is given to Captain Walter Robinson. The trouble with the Jewett is that her com- mander is always instructed to make fast time. Captain Reed is a good man, and he has already been gived the command of the new steamship George ‘I’. Hope. Captain John MeLoch, who was in the Hope last season, gets another steamer. Captain Pope, also a crack steamboat mas- ter, met with trouble last fall. He was in command ot the steamship Mercur, of the Lehigh Line, and she stranded. Captain F. l). Root will .command the Mercur this season. Whether Captain Pope has a com- mand yet for this season in not known. Vessel owners and Buffalo shippers are unable to agree on the rate for coal cargoes at the openings The former are asking ’75 cents per ton to Chicago, and the shippers are oftering but 60 cents. There are no in- dications of 2 compromise. Messrs. Hingston & Woods will begin work on the Tifft farm: with their tull force of four dredges to-day. Captain Robert Greenhalgh of Cleveland was in the city this week. The schooner J. H. Mead has sailed from Milwaukee to Sheboygan for a cargo of wheat to Buffalo at 414 cents. Captain Amasa Stowell, master of the schooner George M. Case last season, has been appointed Government Hull Inspector for the Oswego district. Captain Peter Wex, owner ot the wrecked propeller Potomac, which has been laid up at Chicago since last summer, has gone to begin repairs on her. Charlotte appears to be the most active port on the lakes so far. The schooner Ross has discharged 18,000 bushels of wheat und the steamer Van Allen 20,000 bushels. Captain Lorenzo Dimmick gave bail in the insurance cases in $80,000. Following is a list of vessel transfers re- cently recorded at the Custom House: Schooner Ataunto, Henry O’Brien to Rob- ert Drury and Lena Laury, one-half, $3,000 ; Pelican, Winslow to Pat Donahue, one eighth, $3,125; F. B. Gardner, the Halsted estate to Connelly Bros., $9,000; Champion, Watson to John Mulline, one-sixth, $4,000; Thomas P. Sheldon, Fish eatate to Kelder- house, one-half, $8,000; propellers Cuba, Cornelia Hamilton to Donaldson et al., nine- tenths, $76,500; City of Rome, Winslow to Smith & Davis, twenty four forty-fifths, at the rate of $102,600; barge Cohen, Connelly Bros. to Bridget Collins, whole, $3,000. Captain D. P. Dobbins, superintendent of the ninth life saving district, left on the 7th for the purpose of opening up all the stations in this district. N. Mayo Dwyer, commander of the tenth lighthouse district, states that all the lights on Lake Erie, west of Conneaut, are in operation. Lights in this immediate vicinity will not be worked until the ice disappears, Masters in the Leigh line this season will be as follows: Steamship Clyde, Captain Edmund Congdon; Oceanica, Captain William Dickinson ; Tacoma, Captain F. N. LaSalle; Fred Mercur, Captain F. D. Root; Harry E. Packer, Captain J. A. Beckwith; R.A, Packer, Captain Louis Bogart. CHICAGO, The insurance on the schooner George C. Finney has at last been paid. The lighthouse supply steamer Haze com- menced to place the buoys in the lower lukes on Wednesday. The steamer Dahlia, which will be employed in the same work on the upper lakes, will not start out before May lat. ‘The propeller Remora has received all new upper works, new stringers under promenade deck, and has a new engine frame. Her carpets and cabin furniture are entirely new, She will probably be running on her course between Au Sable and Alpena the latter part of the week. As already announced, there is x move- ment on foot to induce the general govern- ment to buy the Sturgeon Bay canal and assume charge of it. As long as this canal remains under the control of a private com- pany of course tolls will be charged all craft passing through. The argument for the transfer is that the canal should be free; that it is a most important short cut from Lake Michigan into Green Bay, and that tolls should not be charged craft using it; that it is a public highway, although opened up by private citizens, and.that government regulations should be in force and govern- ment officers should be in charge. The steambarge Buckeye has been cha- tered for two cargoes of lumber from Mus- kegon to Chicago. . Captain George Warner, of Cleveland, has bought the tug ‘Thomas H. Quayle, pay- ing $11,000. Moffatt & Cornwell have traded the steamship ‘Tecumseh, at the rate of $35,000, to McArthur Brothers, and taken the tug Porter in exchange at $10,000. ; Captain Louis Olson, formerly in: the Maine, will command the Norman this sea- son. There will be a considerable. quantity of grain to be shipped from Port Arthur east this season. ' The Muskegon lumber fleet is arriving, the schooner David Macy in the van. The feeling among sail vessel owners in the lumber trade is that rates shovld open about as follows: cago. $1.50; Grand Haven to Chicago, $1,50; Manistee to Chicago, $1.75; Ludirgton to Chicago, $1.6244. While the steambarge C. H. Starke was crossing the lake during the heavy storm of Tuesday night Thomas McGrath, second steward, was lost overboard and drowned. He was 20-years of age. The steamship Lehigh goes into drydock at Miller Brothers’ shipyard. The tug G. W. Gardner is leaking and will go into drydock at Miller Brothers’. On her cargo of wheat from Sheboygan to Buflalo the schooner J. H. Mead gets 4}4c. The echooners Annie Dall and Maggie] — Dall came in from Grand Haven with cuar- goes of slabs. The steamer Nellie Torrent arrived from Manistee with a cargo, and is at the lumber market. Manisite is open. Lake freights are quiet, with.no demand for room, and rates nominal at 4 cents for corn and 4g cents for wheat to Buffalo. Captain Hart, of the schooner Michigan; Captain James Pelton, of the schooner Mel- vin S. Bacon, and Captain John Perew of the steamship John C. Lyon, have arrived in Chicago to see to the fitting out of their fine craft. FRANKFORT, The tug recently launched has been named. Sharley Butler in honor of the grand daughter of our Deputy Collector of customs. She is a fine.craft and will run in connection with the tug Jay as ferry on Betsy Lake, the basin forming our harbor. Captain Matthews and crew will open Poiut Betsy life saving station about the 10th. Captain Matthews is a good keeper and hasa splendid record, especially in saving the crew of the wrecked schooner J. H. Hartzell, in 1881, Lake Michigan is rapidly clearing of ice. Steamers that arrive here report seeing but very little. The tug Ross has been near the South Manitou Island and reports the passage be- tween the main land tull of drift ice. The foot of the lake is full of large ice fields, and owing to the cold weather does not: waste very fast. Do not think the straits will pass a craft until May 4th, Cc. B. Muskegon to Chi-. MILWAUKEE, Work on the wrecked schooner Lillie E., now in Wolf & Davidson’s drydock, was stopped becauee of a misunderstanding about the payment of the costs of the repairs, ‘The Lillie E. was wrecked at Manistee and abandoned by the owners to the under- writers, ‘The “big four’? companies holding un insurance of $7,000 released her but she sunk again in the harbor of Muntstee. ‘This spring Captain Gunning was empowered by the companies to raise her. Then Captain Engelman, the owner, put a crew aboard and sent her to this port. The question is, did the owners forfeit their abandonment by taking possession again. ‘I'he drydock people refuse to be delayed, and will either box her up and float her out or continue work and sue for costs. The wrecked steambarge Potomac, which has been here since last summer, is to be overhauled and got in réadiness by the open- ing of navigation. . The steambarge Jim Sheriffs has been chartered by the Menominee .Mining Com- pany, at Milwaukee, for a number of trips, which will take her until about October 1. She will take ore from Escanaba to Lake Erie porte west of Buftalo. The freight is $1.10 per ton, with privilege of return car- goes. ‘The fol'owing named vessels have been chartered by the Menominee Mining Com- pany to carry -ore from Escanaba to Lake Erie ports: Steambarge «Jarvis Lord, Chauncy Hurlbut, Jim Sheriffs, Columbia and Comrade; schooners F. W. Gifford and Sweetheart. Capacity has. been taken for 150,000 tons and the rate is $1.10. Some will make special trips and others are chartered for the season. : The owners of the barge Butts are to bring ‘suit against the Thames & Mersey, Boston Marine, Mechanics & ‘Traders, and Con- tinental companies to recover the repair bill on the barge Butts. ‘The insurance companies complain that additional repairs were made than those called for in the survey. MARBYVILLE, Special to the Marine Record. : April 7.—Captain F, A. Ellery commenced to loud the propeller J. E. Mills to day for Cleveland with lumber for M. Mills & Co.’s yard he leaves Wednesday night of this week» ice permitting. The propeller Point Abino is going to bring from Stag Island two loads of gravel before she loads foi. Cleveland. N. and B. Mills are putting up on their dock a large derrick for loading timber. It will pay them will for they have very much timber to load on their boate. Captain Phil Ellery who sails the schooner Mineral State leaves next Monday to fit her out. She is laid up at Detroit, loaded with grain- for Buflalo. OSWEGO. The steambarge Van Allen and the schoon- er ‘T'wo Brothers arrived trom Port Hope with barley. The ice in the Bay of Quinte is reported very rotten, but the cold weather of the past ten days has retaraed its breaking up, and there is now little or no prospect of its doing so for some days to come. A letter received here Saturday from E. W. Rathbun of Deseronto, states that there is not much probability of the bay being open within ten days yet. Saturday evening about eight o’clock a schooner was sighted off the harbor and it proved to be the Marcia Hall from Oakville, under command of Captain S. McRae. The schooner brings 4,501 bushels of barley for Smith, Murdock & Co. The schooner Belle Mitchell isin shape for the summer, A new dock has been built by J. J. Delaney at Grindstone Island. PORT COLBORNE, The lake is all clear off this harbor. The canal Is expected to be open about the 28th of April. Itis the intention to arrange to keep twelve feet of water at all times over the aqueduct during the season of haviga- tion, and lighterage rates over the Welland railway are to be the same as last season, SANDUSKY. Special to the Marine Record. The steamer Alaska will begin making regular trips between this city and Detroit on ‘Thursday, The steamer Cooke left here on the 6th for the Islands, her first trip this season. Messrs. Wehrle Bros. & Schmidt, the coal shippers, sent the first cargo of coal out of this port last Saturday. The steambarge Solon Johuson clenred for Marine City with 250 tons of coal, loaded by this firm. The steamer Eagle arrived at this port on the 6th from Pul-in-Bay, having in tow the barge Iosco, recently sold by V. Doller & Co., of Put-in-Bay, to Saginaw parties, The barge will undergo repairs at Monk’s shipyard and will then leave for the lumber regions, The steamer Philip Walter left here for Toledo with stone. The schooner Page te fitting out, and will leave next week with coal for Milwaukee. Contracts for shipping 200,000 tons of coal trom this port have already been made by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. PORT HURON. Special to the Marine Record, ‘The steamer Pick Up, Captain Wm. Da- vis, engineer, G. L. Boynton, is running be- tween this port and Algonac, calling at the different landings on the way up and down. Passengers and freight get excellent atten- tion. x The steamer O. D. Conger, Captain Wm. Curtis, engineer, Geo. Millen, is running on the route from Port Huron to Algonac, and other places between, taking the place of the Mary, which will soon resume running on that route. A new tug. recently built at Marine City, owned by G. L. Caldwell, of Harrisville, Mieh., and in charge of Captain Stomler, was towed from Algonac by the tug G. - Hand to this port to receive her new boiler, which has been built by Love & Schofield. Captain Stomler will take her to Sauble, Lake Huron, to vo towing as soon as she is completed. The propeller City of Concord, Captain F. Hebner, has had some repairs to her boiler and a new smokestack, and her deck ecalked. She went to the elevator on Monday.to take on a load. The fine steamer Idlewild, of the Star Line, has been put in first-class condition and will commence running between: this port and Detroit as soon as the ice permits. Captain D. McLachlan is in command; M. EK. Smith, mate; W. Huff, chief engineer; Geo. Lawrence, assistant engineer; E. L. Lawson, steward; E. A. Parsons, clerk. With this really excellent boat'and able and genial commander and officers excursionists may look forward to a very good round of enjoyment during the coming summer, Captain E. Fitzgerald, shipbuilder, has put a new mainmast into the schooner L. L. Lamb and taken out and altered her fore- mast. ‘he schooner Wm. Young had her two masts taken out and three new ones supplied in place. of the two. ‘The steam. barge Baldwin received a new mast and the schooner Green Bay will have a new fore. mast. Captain Fitzgerald has sold the sight ot his shipyard to the Port Huron Elevator Company, who will build an elevator there- on. Captain F, Hebner and W. F. Botsford purchased a one-half interest in the schooner F.J. Dunford from ‘TT. Dunford and Cap- tain F. Downer. The schooner A. J. Rogers, Captain A. C. Reimers, is fitted out ready to start for De- troit, where she will load wheat: for Ogdens- burg at 6}ge per bushel. Heavy ice is moving down St. Clair river this (‘Tuesday) morning. Cold winds have been prevalent and the ground is covered with snow. The barge Old Concord, Captain Frank Holland has been getting new decks, some new deck beams, new hatch combings, and fitted up in good shape. The steamer Mary arrived here on Mon- day on her first trip up. She struck a heavy piece of ice soon after leaving Marine City, which tore some ot the fron off her stern and did considerable damage thereto, which will necessitate her being placed in the Wolver ine drydock. ‘The Mary has a new. steel boiler 74 feet diameter and twelve feet long, which stood a pressure of 195 pounds to the square inch, and the inspector allows her a working pressure of 129 pounds. ‘This handsome steamer will now be able to almost fly. Captain J. P. Hodges is in command; Arthur Little, mate, and George Merrill, engineer, — —— The lighthouse steamer Haze begins set» ting buoys in the lower part of Lake Erle on Wednesday next. It is thought that vessel owners and une derwriters will soon come to terms.