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THE MARINE RECORD. ‘The most prominent insurance compantes which are taking cargoes of grain at 50 cents to Georgian Bay and Buffalo are the Union Marine, of England; Commercial Union, of England, and St. Paul Fire and Marine. By working her wheel while lying at the wharf in the harbor, the steamship Oceanica caused damage to the schooner Glad ‘Tidings, towing by, which it will cost $300 to'repair. ‘The survey on the schooner Watertown at Miller Brothers’ Drydock has been com- pleted. She will be recalked all over, out- side and in, receive considerable new plank- ing, ete. Captain Johngon’s fleet of five vessels sailed for Green Bay on Monday—the Alice, Olga, Goodman and Clara, A diver is at work on the schooner Otta- wa. She will be towed to Michigan City with a steam pump on board. It is thought that the owners ot the Bar- num will be called upon to pay the cost of docking of the steamship Onoko. Although it is not evident that she has received any damage from the ponderous blow given her, it is said that the nsurance companies would refuse to pay either the hull or vargo insur- ance should she founder on the voyage to Buffalo, for which port she has cleared with the largest cargo ever carried by a lake craft. Had the Onoko been a wooden vessel she would doubtless have been cutinto. Itis not often that the colliding vessel sustains all the damage. : In regard to the smoke consuming ordi- nance, the decision of the supreme court will soon be announced. T. W. MILWAUKEE, Special to the Marine Record. ‘The schooner Morning Star has been sold by A. McNeill to A. Elliott for $5,100. The gale on Lake Michigan on Sunday was the most severe since that of October 16, 1882, and continued through the night ata thirty mile gait. ‘’ An examination has been made of the wrecked schooner Belle Brown, docked at Wolf & Davidson’s main yard at a late honr . on Saturday evening. Her bottom was found to be considerably chafed, and the oakum had all started from the seams. She will require a part new keel, some new bottom planking and bilge strakes and re- calking. The work of repairing her was com- menced.at once. 7 The propeller Wisconsin, on her arrival will go into drydock here for repairs. In the meantime her place on the Grand Ha- ven route will be taken by the steamer City of Milwaukee. On Monday next the City of Milwaukee will begin her regular sum- mer trips between this port and Grand Ha- ven. She will leave here every morning and return in the evening. The propeller F. & P. M. No. 2, Captain Duddleson, was docked at the Milwaukee shipyard Monday morning, had her old wheel removed and received a new Sheriff wheel. Captain John Evenson’s tug is well ad- vanced and will soon be ready to launch. She is 64 feet over all, 14 feet beam and 71g feet deep. Her boiler, which is being built at Davis’ is 5 feet 8 inches in diameter by 11 teet long, and her engine, 15x17, is already here. ‘The new tug will be used in harbor work at this port. The steamer John A. Dix, which for sev- eral years past has run in connection with the Goodrich Transportation line between this fort and Manistee, has been withdrawn from the line, and this season will run as an excursion boat out of Chicago. During the winter the Dix has received considerable overhauling, her boiler has been put in thor- ough repair, and she has been repainted. She leaves for Chicago about May 15th, and there is no doubt but that she will receive a large patronage in her new departure. The steamer Corona, of the Goodrich line, takes the place of the Dix on the Manistee route. The Corona is in good condition and well adapted tor the route. She left Monday night for Manistee on her first trip, and will alternate with the propeller City of Luding: ton in forming adaily route between Man- istee, Ludington and Milwaukee. ‘he Good- rich company have now a daily line between Milwaukee, Manitowoc and Chicago, and as Soon as the steamer Sheboygan comes out will have two boats a day from this port to Chicago, OGDENSBURG, The tug R. M. Fairfield is having her en- gine and boiler repaired. BUFFALO, Special to the Marine Record, Wm. Moses, who has been chief engineer of the Anchor Line propellers for twenty years, died recently at Thomasville,Ga, His home was in this city and he will be brought here for burial. He was at one time engi- neer of the passenger steamer City of Buffalo and afterward a government inspector of boilers, and was highly respected. Captain John Manson has received orders to plan the craft to be used for a light on Bar Point immediately. Work is being pushed on the new United States lighthouse tor Bar Point. It ts to be known as Point “Kitna, The schooner R. Hallaran has been char- tered, coal to Milwaukee at 75c. George C. Finney, of Chicago, is here to force the payment of the insurance on the schooner Finney, so long delayed. A new development in the marine insur- ance muss was that Judge Sheldon on ‘Tues* day granted a motion tor Receiver Crosby to transfer the books of the Continental In- surance Company to the general manager of the company, ‘also removing Crosby as re- ceiver of the firm of Crosby & Dimick, and appointing Delevan F. Clark as receiver, with a bond of $5,000. The criminal pro- ceedings against Lorezo Dimick in the po- lice court were adjourned. until the 30th. The ice blockade in the harbor was lifted yesterday, and the schooners George M. Case and Mineral State from Detroit, and steamers Anna Smith and Edward Smith with barges entered. - No vessels left port yesterday, but quite a number will sail to- day. The Union Steamboat Company are load- ing the H. J. Jewett with non-union men. OSWEGO. ; The Senator Blood has. received needed repairs and been repainted and presents a fine appearance. She is owned ‘and will be sailed by Captain John R. Preston, who ex- pects to leave port with his trim looking craft about the first of May. ‘The Senator Blood will probably take coal to Detroit, but has not yet been chartered. : The schooner William Home will be sailed this season by Captain H..A. Germain. ee Captain James Hicks, who bonght the William Homie here, has taken command of the schooner Belle Hanscomb. The canals of the State, the Erie, Cham- plain, Black river, Oswego, Caynga and Seneca, will open for the season Tneaday, May 6. In previous years the canals have opened on the same day, in 1857, 1867 and 1868. On six occasions the canals have opened at later periods, the most backward time being in 1875, when they opened May I8th. Last year the canals were opened May 7th, and the previous year April 11th. Since 1824 the opening day has occurred 27 times in May. The Oswego ‘Times says the State assem- bly canal committee has reported favorably upon Mr. Lewis’s bill allowing the Hudson River and Western Transportation Compa- ny to lay a railroad track on the bed of the Erie canal for a distance of five miles, for the purpose of testing in a practical way the advantage of D. W. Cook’s system of towing by tractor or floating locomotive. ‘The sys- tem is to be tried on a stretch of the canal to be designated by Superintendent of Pub- lic Works Shanahan. : KINGSTON. Dr. Bowen’s steam yacht Annie will ply between Seely’s Bay and Ottawa this season. Gaptain C. Hinckley, of Cape Vincent, has purchased the scow Carlton of Captain Sheeley. In connection with the opening of naviga- tion it may be said that freight rates from Ottawa have been reduced both to American and Canadian ports 10 per cent. To Albany the rate will be $3.25 per thousand feet and $3.20 to New York. . AMHERSTBURG. The Dominion government tug ‘Trudeau, with the dredge Challenge and two scows in tow, arrived her on Saturday, and re- mained here waiting for weather. ‘They are bound for the Kingsville harbor, and will probably be engaged thare for three months, removing clay from the shallow places. ERIE, The excursion steamer Massassauga, Marine City, Mich,, arrived light. ‘The Massassauga goes to her recent purehaser, the Hon, A. C. Blood. Captin M.C, Dunlap launched a steam fish boat here, of 1x tons buthen and chris tened the Crown Prince. SANDUSKY. Special to the Marine Record. Sanvusky, April 29. This being my initial letter this season from Sandusky, your correspondent deems it policy. to speak of the great advantages of- fered by the harbor at this port to vessels sailing on the great lakes. A large body ot water bounded on two sides by long penin- sulas and on one other by the main land, af- fords a place of shelter from the heaviest of gales for the largest of vessels, A chan nel nearly seventeen feet in depth extends to the principal docks. The unloading and londing of vessels by the latest. improved machinery is a main feature. ‘The steamer Louise, which recently bent her shaft, is on drydock here for repnirs. The barge Iosce, recently aold by V. Dal- ler & Co., of Put-in-Bay, to Lake Superior parties, has just come off the drydock, hav- ing received extensive repairs. The steambarge Westford has received al- most a complete outfit of new machinery at, this port. Captain Den C. Clary, has com- mand of the Westford again this season. Several coal laden vessels. have already cleared for the upper lakes, but few arrivald have been reported. The Plummer Lumber Company expect eleven vessels from the lumber regions this week, The B. & O. R. R. Co. anticipates ship- ping 180,000 tons of coal this season to other ports. The schooner Joseph Paige is lay- ing at the B. & ©. dock loaded with coal, awaiting orders from her owners at Milwau- kee. Coal rates to Milwaukee from this port are quoted at 70 cents and to Bay City at 40. Many of the Recorv’s subscribers at this port wish to know why no distinction is made in marine reports. concerning the ar- rival of vessels at Cleveland from the islands and Marblehead. Almost invariably a craft is reported as arriving from the islands, when in reality she cleared from Marble- ‘head Peninsula. The government boat Haze is in port. Ohlemacher Brothers’ new’ propeller was launched from Captain Monk’s shipyard on Monday. Her dimensions are as follows: 100 feet keel, 110 over all, 22 feet beam and 7 feet deep. She has been christened the Norma. : The Shawnee Coal Company has es- tablished a general oftice at Sandusky with Mr. M. L. Marsh, as agent, a gentleman thoroughly competent for the position.. Mr. Marsh expects to handle 160,000 tons of coal this season and the shipments will be to upper lake ports. A vessel brokerage office is run in connection. Cc. P. W. BAY CITY. The barge J. A. Smith, belonging to the Turner ‘Transportation Company, Detroit, struck a sunken pile in the river at this port, staving a hole in her bottomand sinking in sixteen feet of water. ‘The propeller Arundell, of the Bay City and Alpena line, broke her shoe while back- ing. . She goes into drydock. PORT COLBORNE, Navigation in the canal was opened on Monday the 28th April. Vessels began lock- ing up at Port Dalhousie at noon. The harbor here is all clear of ice. The westerly wind has driven it down the lake and jam- med itin towards Buffalo. The schooner Venus, with coal from Cleveland, and the tug Bob Anderson, from Detroit, are the first arrivals. “ESCANABA. Arrived on the 28th, schooner C.P.Minch. Sailed, schooners E. Corning, C. P. Minch, C. C. Barnes. An affray occurred between the rival gangs of ore trimmers, Firearms were used and four men were wounded. More trouble is anticipated. STURGEON BAY. The schooner Charlotte Raab, on enter- ing the canal, Saturday night, ran into the north pier, and stove a hole in her bow above her water-line. She has been re- paired. During the heavy northerly gale on Sun- Jay night, the propeller Favorite went aground opposite this city. The tug Mar- shall pulled her off Monday morning in three hours, and she continued southward with her barges. She is uninjureds DULUTH, Special t the Marine Record, The ice at this end of Lake Supericr bas just commenced to show signs of breaking up, having moved a little southwardly under the influence of’a heavy north wind. It is badly honey-combed, and with the first veering of the wind to the N. W. will go out and break up, In the anticipation of this event the Quebec, of Sarnia, is adver- Used to sall the 30th inst. Meanwhile the Bay of Duluth: is open, dredges are at work in the harbor and tugs and small crafts are bugy fitting out, for the summer campaign. ‘The following steainers and vessels are now fitting out in Duluth harbor for the lower ports: Steamers Quebec, Capt. Symes; Osceola, Capt. Murch; Egyptian, Capt. Lyons; Wallula, Capt. Lowe; D. M. Wilson, Capt. Hollister. Schooners Pellican, Capt. Donahue; Guido Phister, Capt. Burke; Newcoinbe and Manatowac, captains not yet named. , Capt. Alex. McDougall is at present en- gaged in accurately mapping Duluth Har- bor trom actual soundings, for the special information of the different elevator and coal companies, etc., ete, At the instigation of the Board of ‘rade of Duluth, a petition is now being circulated and signed by our marine men generally for the establishment of a local Board of Steam- boat Inspectors at this port. The petition also requests the appointment and main- tainence of 2 Marine Hospital Surgeon at Duluth. The petition is signed by nearly 100 owners and agents. . The Duluth Chamber of Commerce is for some unaccountable reason delaying action on the matter of the removal ot the Duluth Custom house to St. Paul, as proposed by Congress thia present session. A report of their special committee was ready over a week ago, but since then no meeting has ‘been called and no action taken. Meanwhile Duluth is liable to wake up to the import- ance of this matter when it is too late. .CQ FI. PORT HURON, The tug Kittie Height, of the Moffat Tug Line, is hard aground just ahead of the cut on the Canada sidé. She is about three and ahalf feet out, and is listed bed. The tug Beatrice is | working on hér. The wind- bound fleet got away yesterday. The Commercial says Capt. J. R. Jones, of the steamer Flora, has every reason to be proud of the early and successful beginning of; his season’s work. With his popular steamer freshly painted, with flags flying, with a full load of passengers and freight, he pushed up to Alpena, the first boat of the season, and actually returned to start ahead of the others on their trip up. ‘The Flora bas been well overhauled, and with her new cylinder is abie to make better time than be- fore and both captain and boat now enjoy more popularity than ever. KENOSHA. The schooner ©. North, boubd trom Chicago to this pert, had all of her sails blown away in the gale on Sunday, and was brought in the harbor by the life-saving crew. Chicago tugs were off here picking up vessels. . CGRUMMOND’S Mackinac Line, For Mackinac, St. Ignace, Cheboygan, Alpena, Oscoda, Port Huron, Detroit and intermediate lake and rive: ports. Steamer ATLANTIO, Oapt. D. Nicholson, Leaves Cleveland every Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The Steamer FLORA, Captain J. R. Jones, Same line, leaves Toledo for above ports every Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock. For further information apply on board boats or to CLEVELAND FORWARDING CO., Agents, Office and Dock, Foot of Superior-st., Cleveland. CAPT. J. W. MILLER. CAPT. R. B. MONTAGUE MILLER & MONTAGUE. DULUTH, MINN. Vessel Brokers and Marine and Fire Insurance Agents, and Board of Trade Weighmen. Snecial attention paid to Chartering Vessels; alco weighing and Trimming cargoes of grain. Correspon- dence solicited, FOR SALE One Iron Stocked Anchor, 2372 Ibs., and Two Shot { 1-2 Inch Chain. Apply to C. A, CHAWiBERLAIN, Foot of Griswold-st, Detroit, Mich.