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[torn. PASSENGERS' IS, 1883, a steaim whistle will be sounded afc Wangoshance lightt station during thick and foggv weather, giviing blasts of 5 seconds at intervals of 25 secomds. Bv order of the Lighthouse Board. Charles E. L. B. Davis, Captain of Engineiers U. S. A., Light-house Engineer. _ PREETONITTIONS OF "WINTER. ICE—FILUERIES OF SNOW, There was a flurrry of snow in the air at 11 o'clock this mornimg. The wind had been from the northeast and tfcfca sky has been more or less hung with heavy cllouds throughout the day. It has been the coldest day so far this fall, and overcoats and sealskin .-sacks have been much worn on the street. It was- one degree below the freezing point in Milwaukee.! last night, and ice formed in -the vessels contaiining water which were left standing outdoors. The temperature has been 5 to 10 degrees highcer since 7 o'clock. On the other side of the iaike the weather has been about the same as here, but generally a little colder. At Grand Haven tthe official thermometer at 6 o'clock this nuornfeig indicated SI degrees above zero. M.t Escanaba it was 28 above, and at Marquette omlv 27 above. The other stations, which repmrted temperature below the freezing point, weire in the extreme northwest. Duluth, Minn., amd Yankton, D. T., both made returns of 21 above /zero. The coldest weather reported this mornixQB prevailed in Manitoba. At Suappelle it was 1® above zero, at Fort Garry 14 above, and at Minciedosa only 11 above. JDXSASTERS. AX AXAF.MING REPORT—THE ALASKA SATE. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 23.—The schooner Reed Case, which is reported ashore on North Bass Island, left tfchis port a week ago last night with 21,500 busluels of wheat, shipped by C. J. Kershaw & Co., amd insured in the "Big 4" of Chicago. The propeller Fountain City was towed into Duncan City, having been found adrift owing to disabled mackineny. A Glen Haven (Mich.) dispatch says fishermen to-day picked np a sign, painted green, bearing in gilt letters "Almska." There is an Alaska in the Anchor Line, hut it is not known that she is missing, and nothing has been heard from Chicago as yet in answer to a telegram, of inquiry concerning her. [The Inter Ocean learns that the propeller ! Alaska, of the Anchor Line, is safe, with all' hands. She passed Detroit, bound down, on Monday. The sigrn-board is doubtless from, her, but she i3 all rightt and all hands are safe.] PICKED UP DISABLED. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Cheboygan, Mich., Oct. 23.—The tug Bob An- j derson picked up the barge Lilly May on Lake Huron, which broke away from her tow, and towed her into Samd Creek. The propeller Fountain Citv was picked up by the tug Avon yestoerday forenoon on Lake Michigan, disabled, amd towed to this port, and is awaiting orders from the owners. THE WOCOCKEN DISABLED. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Escanaba, Mich., Get. 23.—The propeller "Wococken is disabled by a broken crank-pin. Her master has telegraphed for the tug Cormorant to tow the steamer to Cleveland. FLOTSAM AND .JETSAM. hnson, is becoming a very popular man among ssel-owners and vessel-masters. The; Inteb OEAN took occasion last season to critiwlse the ohnson and her commander, but it haid no ill. -•ill toward Captain Davis then, and ccertainl: as none now. Indeed, that criticism haas had ai FROM ALL QUABRTEBS. East northeast wind yesterdiay, blowing stiffly. A fleet is arriving. The schaooner George Finney, from the St. Lawrence, iss in port. The officers of steamers arrriving report that they did not see the Comancche ashore as they.,.____________________ passed by. Not looking especially for her, how- ^excellent effect. A handsome complimemt wa-tiycer'heremightea8ilybethereQ ^ ^ ""* n°"l|paid Captain Davis yesterday, and The.: InteJ Xaui in store in Chicago. 1(0,033,828 bu5hels;|°CEA* ftopou* to tell of it. Captaim Dav at this time last year, about 4^000,000 bushels, passed alone by a large group of vessel-.-owne: The owners of the damagced schooner Kalphland vessel-masters on the street, and several Campbell have libeled the daimaged tug Brothers^ for the recent collision, puttiing the loss on the Campbell at $3,000. ^____________________ "When the leaves begin to tmrn.'* The schooner Adriatic has stripped and gome into winter quarters. The yacht iEtna came in croTision some time ago with another yacht and sustained damage. The owners are now attenuating to make the other yacht foot the bills audi, pay a great deal more besides. The case has grot into court. Vessel people do not seem to thimk the suit will boj very successful. ' The schooner J. G. Hasten lhad 305 bushels of] wet corn. She was not leakimg, but had shipped the water through her hatchies on her passage down, which was very rough. The amount is not) enough to secure any insurance. A vessel captain who loaded! coal at Ashtabula? states that the next time he takes on a cargo] there he will take his wife and family along, rent! a house, and prepare to have m, good time while]I them shook hands warmly with him. The reporter said: "The Johnson and her ,connmander are evidently gaining in popularity?" "Whereupon one of the gentlemen brolfee out with: "Yes, sir; Captain Davis is making many stanch friends. The Johnson looks for vessels in distress now and is always ready to give assistance, and she gives it cheerfully and not besrudgingly. Daivis is a good navigator and steamboatrnan, too., and he knows how to go about it. which is a big item, no matter how willing the Johnson might be. Then, in the matter of reporting vessels for alleged violation of law, Davis is intelligent. He meems to keep himself posted on the law and all tthe new rulings of the Treasury Department, amd con- E ducts himself accordingly. No one need ever ex- ' pect that he will wink at a violation, but . he does not. go at his duty in a | hot-headed, over-officious way, and he does not|j i*eport vessels for hue when they have been guilty ' of no violation. Compare the conduct of the Johnson and the Perry and you cannot fail to ar S£j?« jjSSJSSSS.'S'S *San^a4| ^W.^'.^SW^:'^ tt^ licence to do any more sailing the same season.— Detroim Post and Tribune. f There is a good deal of complaint about thej. way in which steamers are pexrmitted to obstruct the wharves at Sand Beach aifter they have tin J ished their business, and thius preventing othe; boats from landing. Milwaukee #en£me7,yeBterett*y: "Coarsefreight! are firmer, and shippers are now paying $2 oi wood from Bailey's Harbor. Charters: Scbooni ers W. W. Rrigham, ties froim Two Creeks at ti* cents: EmmaLeightou, wooid at $2 and ties a 7 cents, from Jacksonport; Black Hawk, ties from. Rawley's Bay at 6 cents. Bine Belle, wooc1 from Ephraim at $2.25; ChrLS Grover, wood from BnfrJlev;s Harbor,^, _'he new composit steamer which is being buill at St. Catharines, Ont., foir Captain Sylveste: Neelon will be the largest cnaft ever encaged it the Welland Canal trade. T'he monster craft is broughttoplay on the Johnson. The Perry reports vessels right and left for violations of law and the masters are immediately fined. The owners take the case to Washington and the fine is refunded, but there has been the trouble, and sometimes there is delay of a m outh or two or three months (in the press of public business) before the officers of the Treasury can reach the cases and decide them. Yes, sir, the commander of the Perry is Ifated all over the lakes, and the commander of the Johnson is becoming one of the most popular men—all because the one is hot-headed and rash and the other is cool and thoughtful, and considers consequences." And the whole group of gentlemen agreed with the speaker. __^nj.mwuji '"'n' ' ¦"¦-T1*Hrp-""r----------r-r-nttmmmmmmmtm Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Oct. 23.—About a week Vj ago the tug Witbeck, Captain David Rumage, ™ went to Manitowoc to obtain a new wheel and to receive an overhauling. During the northeast gale of Saturday last she started for this port, but the sea was so heavy that two hours were spent in going about ten miles. When off Two Rivers she encountered a succession of heavy seas, which swept over her rail and dashed over her pilot-house. She took in so much water that there was danger of extinguishing her fires, her grates being but a few inches above the water in her boiler-room. To save her from foundering Captain Rumage put about and returned to Manitowoc, where he remained until Sunday morning, reaching this port in the forenoon of that day. There are now twelve tugs at this port, the increased business of the canal and other interests requiring recent additions to the fleet of towing * steamers. - - r^ "WILL M*5T SHIP COME IN P? SHE HAS COME IN—THE COMANCHE The schooner Comanche, recently astoore, ar- attracting considerable attention in marine err- Hved in Ohieao-n vMtpnfav Kh*» in mil 1-hIpti des, and its advent is looked forward to witl nveam Chicago yesterday. She is coat laden. considerable curiosity by tho>se who believe tha The vessel sustained no injury that is known of, .a "canaler" of her dimensioms will neverprov e j and her owners and the underwriters will no >*uccesH , ,,,,,»« doubt be much relieved to learn that fact. Dirty 'Wschooner H. G. Cleveland cleared yesterday w~patw fffinprailv and n *Wp snddfln Rmin.11 ws« at noon for the islands and was towed out of th< weatner generally ana a tierce, sutuen squall was harbor by the tug Worswiick Her foresail was the cause of the mishap. Captain Wm. Becker is set, and when outside of the piers she was strueld one of the best navigators on the whole chain of ! by the stiff breeze blowing and sheered off to the) , k_ and it is verv «pMnm h« m^t* with hurt - side of the tug, which, for fear of being rolled lakes, and it is very seldom he meets with bad over in the heavy seas, cast ctff her lines, and the schooner ran into the breakwater. Her bobstays were carried away, and the breakwater was dam Trier" 'U&b " been constructed at Cana Island and the lighthouse thoroughly repaired by Charles Dobson, superintendent of construction, and his corps of assistants. The party arrived here to-day on their way to Rock Island, in the Door, where the lighthouse is to be repaired, after which they go to Mackinac oil a similar errand. One of the O. B. Green dredges, which has been employed during the summer at Cedar River, on Green Bay, has hnished her work at that point, and is now at Menominee. At Cedar River the channel has been deepened to seventeen feet, and the bar which formerly obstructed navigation has been removed. A7essels which were compelled to anchor and receive their cargoes outside can now go up to the wharf and receive lumber direct from the mill. The dredge is now deepening the channel leading to McCartney's mill, on the Menominee River. LEAVING MILWAUKEE. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 20.—Some of the larger vessels of the wind-bound fleet got away to-day. among them the schooner Pathfinder, with grain i'or Buffalo, and the schooners Itaska, Corning, Scove, Merrill, and Lafrienier for Escanaba. A yawl boat, which is believed from the name on it to be the one lost from the schooner Arctic, of Chicago, was picked up twenty miles oh this port last night and brought here. The steainbarges 0. J. Kershaw and R. A. Packer and propellers Philadelphia and Starucca are loading 153,000 bushels of wheat and barley. Rates have advanced to 3;:4 cents on. wheat to A SAILOR'S SACRIFICE. DISOBEYING ORDERS TO SAVE THE SHIP. The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company are now projecting a new mammoth , steamer for the Detroit and Cleveland route, to be ¦ built of iron. She will be fitted out with com- l pound beam engines and have a double tier of S state-rooms, and a freight capacity of 500 tons on the main deck. She is to have feathering paddle wheels, and will make her time between Cleve-Iland and Detroit in all kinds of weather. It is the intention of this enterprising company tn make the new steamer one of the most elegant and fast-sailing steamers on the lakes. She will cost about $300,000, and will without doubt be. the pilgrim of the West.. Captain Davis, with the revenue cutter Andy Johnson, leaves for Sheboygan for the Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean. j purpose of removing" the wreck of the^choone? Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 24,-Langston, of the ?.etre,^hKCh I8 *u obstruction to the harbor schooner Mears, of Chicago, the unworthy sue- I ^^-MlhfZTkle^ J?Ans/on wiU «° dowu «» COLLISION AND DAMAGE. THE SCHOOWEKS ELBE AND CAPELLA. While endeavoring to leave Tuft3 pier at Clay-banks Friday evening the schooner Elbe with aged considerably. The tug picked her up once more, and this time the line parted. She dropped anchor and after sorae time was brought back to the harbor, where her damage was repaired, and _^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ last night she cleared in tow of a larger tug.— cessor of Captain Comstock, has sncce>eded in i ^MoS't R.Wmliams Is chartered at ""«*»«• ™ into jal, bere for a lo,ng term Fa'i^^^*0' ^eS^M* *> Toledo, to take wheat to Bufflalo at 21-20, and the The seaman, George Henderson, is a gojod navi- mating: it hazardous to" try to make thfS so? M. I. Wilcox wheat to Ogdensburg at G^c. gator, and Langston and his mate hawe never 1 ™a5 p,?ce- She was timed, and found to hlv" 8iace the esealsg of the Sturgeon Bay Canal shown any skill in that direction. Hoaidcrson ' ctctmade undent7"." ho-ur8'tho fastest ««¦* in 1879, 7,238 yesseis, uavtag a combined ton- | was at the wheel, and at a critical momemt, left it hours. She left her dock atTtfSockT^f l'y Eix and let go the main sheet. The vessel flomndered v"!'":??' T' "A \ °'0,ook Msterdav afSSSoo? about some as a matter of course, but sine floun- . on St 8g"toiJ?^fI^rl^ M thiK 1,oi!,:' She had nage of 1,786,761, passed thorough the canal to Oct. 1. Up to that date this >year 2,012 vessels, aggregating 493,781 tons, hawe paid toll. It is said that five new propel] lers are to be built hardwood lumber for Two Rivers, collided with j during the coming winter" ftor the Ogdensburg the schooner Capella off Muskegon. , The Elbe land Toledo route. lost her maintopmiast jibboom, and had main and fore boom broken and the Capella's dolphin striker smashed through the cabin. The stiff northeaster carrieid the Elbe up the la^e, drifting helplessly about adl night in the storm* Toward morning reached Two Rivers Point, tried to anchor, but dragged ashore. She was seen by the Two Rivers life-saving crew which went to the relief, and the tug Goldsmith took the Elbe into the harbor, leaking considerably. NEW LIFEBOAT. WHIAT IT IS LIKE. A lifeboat has recently been invented, the hull of which is preferably made of sheet-iron. The horrizontal sectioms are circular, with the exception of a segimemt, which is cut away from each of the two sides to admitfthe paddle-wheels. The sides of the boat next to the wheel are vertical, and the floor over each wheel serves as a seat or a storage-room inside. A cut-water, a keel, a stern-post, and a rudder are formed outside of the circular contour. The hull of the boat is provided with Bides forming a vertical cylinder, and with a nearly spherical roof joining the upper edge of the cylinder. Around the roof are sealed lights, and fin the center Is a cupola perforated for ventilating the interior. At one side of the roof is a sliding door, for entrance or exit, which is made watier-tight by packing. The interior is provided! with seats, and straps and bucktes are secured to the wall to draw over the bodies of occupaints to secure them in very rough weather, and loops are placed below the seats for the passengers to thrust their feet into. The paddle-wheels, aye attached to short shafts provided with pimions, into which engage spur gears mounted om a crank shaft revolving in bearings secured to the boat, the crank extending across the hull in a location to he conveniently worked by the occupants. 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 carried, it is claimed, in the roughest weather without danger.—Marine Record. A CEOWDED LAKE. FLEETS LEAVING EVEET POUT. If it had been stormy the past week no one could complain of m, storm yesterday. There was no wind at all. Smoke went straight up. It was a "Paddy's hurricane"—straight up and down. When the wind came, however, ye mariner hoped it would be fair for craft bound out, and a number of the long-delayed lumber fleet and some others towed out. Up to last evening the hoped-for breeze had not come, and the vessels made no headway whatever. The schooners Pensaukee, Emily Maxwell, amd C. J. Magill left light. The Florettaleft grain, loaded. The canal schooner Guiding Star left light to load again at Milwaukee for below. The Golden Fleece left grain loaded; also, the steamship Minneapolis and schooner George and the steamship Cumberland and schooner Niagara. The grain-laden schooners Jamaica, H. C. Winslow, Daniel G. Port, George C. Finney, Arabia, Helvetia and Christine Nilsson would probably leave late last night or this morning. The schooner Driver, bound for the east shore, left in tow oif the steambarge Hickox and the Maine in tow of the steambarge George Dunbar. The whole fleet will leave to-day. Fleets will also leave every otlher port on this lake, and there are also a number which will be just arriving on this lake from the Straits and below. The lake will be crowded, amd there will be great danger of collision. To incnease this danger, foggy weather has set in—the effect of the warm weather on the freezing cold wateir. Last night the fog was quite dense. THE GR.AIK FELLOWS. DETAILED OVER SUNDAY. The steamship Cit-y of Rome loaded her cram Paturdi»y night anal yesterday, and left for Buffalo. The schooner-s Samana, Millard Fillmoro George B. Sloan, ard American Union did not get their grain on Saturday, and were compelled to wait until this morning. Considering the dead cf.lm and tog, they have probably not lost much time so far as their voyages are concerned. The Sam Cooke is now abovre water. She will be taken to Ogdensburg for remairs. It is thought that at the end of a week she xwill be ready to sail. The Morwood arrived in porft this morning with her gaff topsails, foresail, andl jibs missing. She looked as if she had a hard time in the gale of last night. Her cargo is expected to he damaged also. Both the Morwood amd Rutherford have entered protests. —King s ton Mews. The charters reported at this port yesterday were the schooner Emma C Hutchinson, ore, from Escanaba to Ohio port*,, $1.45; schooner Jurs, ore, from Marquette to Cleveland, $1.75; schooner George Davis, ore, from Marquette to Cleveland, $1.75; schooner H. A. Kent, ore, from Escanaba to Cleveland, p. t.; schooner I N. Foster, ore, from Escanaba to Cleveland, $1,130; schooner Champion, railroad hron, from Cleveland to St. Ignace, p. t.; same veassel, pig iron, from St. Ignace to Erie, $1.50; sttearubarge Keystone, ore, from I/Anse to Cleveland, $1-75. It can be seen, therefore, that rates aire unchanged, $1.75 being the steady price for one from Marquette to dered out of the way, and a collision was avoided which, if it had occurred, would have smnk the Mears or the other vessel, and there would! doubt-leas have been loss of life. Langston haid Henderson arrested and taken before United States Commissioner White. The latter is a gojod deal like other commissioners along the lakes. With him a captain's oath is good under any circumstance, but the oath of a "common sailo r" is no good whatever. One of the local papers, tine Herald, says of the case: "A sailornamed George Henderson was arrested yesterday by United States Deputy Marshal Odell, on complaint of Stephen Langston, captain of the schooner Mears, who charged him with a 'willful breach of duty tending to the serious damage of the vessel.' Henderson was taken before United States Commissioner White for examination, found guilty, and bound over to the next term of the United States District Court with bail at $500. This sum could not be furnished by the seaman, and he was accordingly put in jail. "The captain stated that on the 16th of this month his vessel and three others were towed down Lake Huron. A heavy galejjwas blowing at the time. When forty miles from Port Huron and Trin- ter. Another fast trip was that made by the steambarge Robert Wallace, which arrived a1 Bs> I canaba from hero with the consort Thomas G-awn, ' both light, after a run of fifty-one hours.—Cleve' land Herald. L'Anse, and about $1.50 firora Escanaba, and two miles from shore the tug gave out, the tow-there is still an upward feelling on the rate for line was cut, and the Mears and the O'Neil UarrYin^,c3aI;~vif?K^|,"lf' t'pmdrr ftmmnmi.......i|nniHH^i ?^h then separated. Henderson was at *~ — __._-..- ... ,, ._ ,1 the helm, and was given orders to stay there and keep it'hard up.' Henderson left the helm, the The Union Drydock Compamy is laying the keell of a steamship to be_built jfor James Ash andr others, of this city. Her lemgth over'aU^Ubel^^il!*^^^?^ a»y orders, let g"^ the 270 feet, beam 37 feet, hold 228 feet. Her engines! *......" and boilers will be a little larg<er than those of thej Clyde. She is to be completed by newt spring. Buffalo Courier. main sheet and the mizzen-sail, which caused the vessel to become unmanageable and to fcet into the trough of the sea, where the waves rolled over her, and there was great danger of foundering or the men being washed overboard. After letting the sails loose Henderson went back to the wheel. *'The accused seaman had two or three wit-esses, who testified that he did what was right j under the circumstances. Henderson says that Co. and the "longshoremen assumed a new aspect ; neither tha captain nor the mate knows anything last evening. About 6 o'clock a large crowd ' about sailing a vessel; that if he had not let go gathered in the vicinity of the wharves, and the:?116 sails there would have.been another col- A SPECK OF "WAR. EXCITEMENT AT OSWEGO—THE 'LOXG SHOREMEX The labor troubles between E. W. ftathbun & pohce were telephoned for. lit appears that the Canadians who had promised to return home boarded the barge Eesolute after she was unloaded with the intention of returning, but were ordered ashore, and it was givien out on the dock that Rath bun & Co. would not allow the men to return and that the barge womld not leave port until this morning. The foreigners gathered in their quarters in the shed and quite a crowd remained outside. At 7 o'clock Mr. C. H. Bond, (Sheriff Huntington, Chief Baker, Recorder BuJger, and Captain Lee held a consultation at PolUhe Station 1. The night watch were sent to the wharf with orders to remain there all night. Mr. Bond feared that there would be trouble and demanded protection from the Sheriff. At 7:30 they visited the scene of action to look over the ground. A number of men, some of them 'longshoremen and some outsiders, were standing about, hut there were no signs of any impending trouble. The men were talking and laughing together, and showed no ¦disposition to raise a row. Af tier looking the matter over, however, the officials concluded it was best to "prepare for war in fchmea of peace," and the Sheriff immediately ordered! the Thirty-eighth separate company under arms. The men assembled at the armory promptly, amd remained under arms all night, ready for acition at a moment's notice in case of trouble. The 'longshoremen persisted! that such action was uncalled for and promised that they would create no disturbance whatever. The crowd in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the vicinity of the wharves gradually dis- of a man in the Illinois Central slip yesterday. persed and at midnight ah was quiet. At 4 o'clock Tno remains are at tho Morgue for identification. this morning all the Canadian* excepting about .,_ ,. . , , ra , „ r.„„+„j„ m„™ half a dozen turned out of ttheir quarters and At 7 ° clock yesterday morning Captain lorn boarded the steambarge Resolmte. Shortlv after Collander, of the tug McCormack, found a floater she Steamed out of the harbor;, and by this time in the ^ver, near the State street bridge. The the Canadians are in their natiwe land. The ves- r * . ^nn ., K . . sols that have lumber for Ratxiibun & Co. were ^ody was that of a man about 40 vears old' 5 feet still at the dock this morninjg, with no one at 10 inches tall, with light brown hair and sandy work. A squad of police have.1 been patroling in 'beard of about four weeks' growth. He wore an the vicinity ail day, though ewerything is quiet, [old brown coat, blue overalls, and stout-laced It is reported that another ganjgof foreigners will ishoes. There was nothing to identify the man. arrive here to-night. In thait case the 'long- QTrom appearances he had been in the water about —--^- '- -' - [two weeks. The body was taken to the Morgue bv the Chicago avenue patrol and the Coroner [notified. lision, and that alone saved the vessel. He said that for twenty-eight years he had sailed both salt and fresh water, and had been all over the world. "Commissioner White said that notwithstanding that Henderson might be an excellent seaman and possibly had saved the vessel from a collision, yet he disobeyed orders in leaving the wheel, and thereby violated the statute. The Commissioner explained to Henderson what would be done to him; that he would be compelled to stay in jail, as the bail could not be furnished, until the next term of court. He advised him to plead guilty and throw himself entirely, upon the mercy of the court. 'It is almost winter now,* said Mr. White, "and you won't lose any work by staying in jail and will save your board.5 The captain owed Henderson $51, which the Commissioner advised him to put in the hands of the Marshal for safe keeping. 'Don't let these lawyer sharks get after yon,' advised the Commissioner,' 'as you do not need their services, but save your money. Mr. Egg! est on will be abetter friend to you than any lawyer." " "When Henderson and the other seamen parted there was a feeling of friendship displayed seldom seen on the part of rough men." Vessel masters, vessel owners, and sailors generally are loud in their denunciation of "Captain" L anggton. __ DEAD MEN ADEIET. TWO BODIES BEOOVEBKD. The life-saving crew fished np the dead body Captain James Beauvais, late of the Muskegon ' i Lifc-s«ving Station, has been placed in charge of the Point Sauble (Hamlin) Station, Captain Jesse ! T. Brown, resigned. Captain Beauvais has been a member of Lake No. I crew at Muskegon since its organization. From Erie: "A year ago, against the strong pro-tests of many of Erie's prominent busr and several vessel-owners, the laud lighthouse at the entrance to the port of Erie was abandoned, I owing to the meagerness ot the government appro- f j priations. To-day the Hon. S. M. Brainerd, Con- \ greewnan- elect from this district, returned from j i Washington, whither he went to appear before the Naval Board. He expressed the opinion to your correspondent this afternoon that the light would be at once restored. The appropriation, it is said, is sufficient to permit of this being done." Detroit items: "The schooner O. M. Bond was ' seized Thursday on a claim for seamen's wages amounting to $35. She bonded. The dismasted schooner Belle Hauscomb was brought here yesterday by the tug Bob Anderson. She will bo towed as a barge for the rest of the season. Tho schooner Wm. Home has been at St. Ignace since* Monday, Oct. 15, trying to get rid of a cargo of coal. Her captain thinks she will be unloaded by Saturday night if the weather is good." shoremen say they will go qmietly to them and indeavor to persuade them too return—Oswego Palladium, Wednesday. FREIGHTS). KATES FIRM AND HUGHER. Grain rates were again firm, truling at S^c corn to Buffalo. The engagements reported were as follows: FREIGHTS. FREIGHTS FI11M AND TEND TNG UPWARD. There was a good demand and few craft offering. Bates were firm on the basis of ..! '-jc corn to Buffalo! To Oswego the rate on corn was 6c. The day's engagements, were. FREIGHTS. SITUATION OH LASALI-K STREET. Corn to Buffalo, 3c; wheat, iP-ic Engagements reported were: The large schooner Emma C. Hutchinson and others left light to load iron ore. The J. B. Lyon, with the J. M. Hutchinsson In tow, arrived yesterday afternoon. Th Buffalo on Friday. The Wells and M.arten, owing to their trouble on Lako Erie on the down passage, are not with the Lyon this time. Quinn gots $2,500 for rescuing the John Wes-,lev and delivering her at Buffalo. resolved to petition Congress concerning tha limitation of liabilities of steamboat owners, to amend the acts relative to inspection of boilers, and also the acts relating to the required test of kerosene shipped on steamboats. £. W. Gould, of St. Loui s, was elected President; Addison Iivsle, of Pittsburg, Treasurer; General J. S. Negley, of Pittsburg; J. C. Haverstick, of St. Louis, and P.. Sinott, of St. Louis, members of The tug Bruce brought to Buffalo on Thursday a lighter having on board 120 tons of op out of the schooner John Wesley. The weather thUB far lias been favorable for'working at her, ild the wind haul around to west or southwest the contractor would have trouble. It is his intention to secure the vessel at once by means of anchors and prevent her from going further on. Ore shipments, leaving out those via St. Ignace, aggregate 1,969,381 tons. The shipments via St. Ignace have been about the same as at L'Anse, say 50,000 tons, so that the total will overgo 2,000,000 tons—not a bad showing for ah off year. It is worthy of remark that nearly one-half of the amount is from the mines of the Menominee range, and that considerably more tiian half was handled here.—Escanaba Iron Port. Thursday evening the master of the fishing tug Of. R.Green, of tills port, when about I i ¦ of here, saw a yawl floating about, and proceeded to pick it up. It was placed on board aud brought into the harbor, and placed on th j island. The yawl is of ordinary size and nearly now. Painted on the stern is the name Arctic, winch is undoubtedly the name of 11 I sol to which it belongs, but how it came in the I Lake is unknown. There is a schooner Arctic sail- J ing out of Chicago.—Afil'vaukee Sentinel. The Arctic lost the yawl outside during the recent Stormy weather. The Milwaukee Sentinel of Saturday says: "To-day there will be shipped from this port about 110,000 bushels of barley, the largest shipment of any one dav from this port in a long v time. Of to-day's shipments the steambarge 0. fj. Kershaw takes 6-1,000 bushels, the Union Line I propeller Starucca 30,000 bushels, and the Anchor Line propeller Philadelphia 15,000 bushels. The Starucca came light from Chicago, and began loading yesterday, and the Philadelphia is expected light from Chicago this morning. The steambarge liflbert A. Parker yesterday loaded , 43,000 bushels of wheat for Buffalo." | Cleveland Leader, Thursday: "The only char-; ter reported yesterday was the schooner G, M. Case, ore, from St. Ignace to Black Rock. $1.70. Ore freights are steady at about $1.45 from Escanaba, and $1.75 from Marquette. Coal ;. are still buoyant with $1 to $1.10 the going rate ' to Chicago and Milwaukee. The Buffalo Courier ¦ ot yesterday says of coal rates: 'Coal rates ¦ ; firm yesterday at $1.25 to Milwaukee and Chi-' cago. There has been a great demand for tonnage to the former port, and no less than twelve \ eels, most of them large, have been placed. From Chicago the inquiry is smaller, and on this account several shippers were inclined not to ] the Milwaukee rate. Their inclinations, how-over, had no effect on the market. Everything ¦red was at the full figure. Many of tho vessels named" are to arrive within a da From Duluth there is little call aud as there is no competition in tne business freights, are quoted at the Milwaukee rates.' "