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The wind was souith yesterday, and tlew hard all day, increasing in violence as darkness set in ilast night. The tug Miller, which picked nip the schooner Richard Jlott and sloop Rambker off Highland Park during the afternoon, coulld not. tow them straight alonj,' for the harbor, atnd had to "bear." All of Mr. Richard Stupe, of this city, called at trie j Daily News office this morning wery anxious re- (^ garding the fate of the Manistee. He has a postal card, dated Nov. 14, from his breather, known as Albert Price.having assumed their mother's name, written on board the Manistee,, then at anchor near some island. The weather wnis reported very the few craft making poort say the weather and »»«*, the vessel considerably daxmaged by the sea outside were very severe. The propellers St. waves, and the captain lost. Th»( card was evi-Jo_cpb. and White & Fvriant. from the east shore, , dentIy wrI"en " A™°r tw0 Previoms to the heavi-got in last night, and rreport very rough usage. e»* or the storm prevalent at What time, and as Among the arrivals werre the steamer Bremen and nothing has been received sinoje it is thought barge Northwest and tthe steamer Argonaut. The !ike'y that the vessel, already in a. crippled condi-c. earner Edwards and tthe schooners Donaldson, tion, succumbed to the force of tliie waves.-C/a-Mettopolis. and Covili :sailed early in the day. eago Daily News. The tug Mosher left in. the afternoon for St. Jo- , Tne ab°™ story of a pos scpti to rescue the schraoner Reg ulator. She must ' " Chicago....... . S 17 Milwaukee.... . S_7 Grand Haven. S.-0 ESC naba..... .S W10 "Uur.uettc___ . S 14 V'nlntn........ . W 8 ^Mackinaw — . K 11 . S 13 tori Huron... . W14 fciroit........ . S10 Wind. Thr. . W — ?;i . S 7 :;ii .BW B HI . IV - ;u . W10 :u .s w - ;;:: 5* 0 UK .NW S u .K W 11 have had a rough time: of it. Five schooners, bouiud for Chicago, wore seen off Waukegan yesterrday morning. They were driven back down the iiake. The Perrett and her [barges made Chicago last night. A private dispatch amnouueed that the schooner Skylark, Captain Coumeer, had put into Kaoine. A special from Cap.taiu Blackburn yesterday morning aunouneed tinat he was leaving North-port with thoresoued schooners \\ aftertown and H. D. Moore. He womld have the tug tow them to Manitowoc if pot'sittile. THE STO-P.M GENERAL. The wind and therrmometer at. 2:18 o'clockyes-terday afternoon were as follows: Wind. Tlhr. " i.HToledo..... ;;>; Sandusky. US Cleveland. 33 Erie........ •..•<; Buffalo.... L'O,Toronto... :;7 Oswego— 29 Kingston... '-'.t.Hociieater. 38j POOR GOVEIRN^IF-NT SBEVTCE. The observer in Chitcago always gets the wind much slower than it rceally is. He- says it was fifteen miles an hour yesterday afternoon, when it was at least thirty miiles. UNKNOWN VESSEL CRIPPLED. Special Telegram to Tlhe Inter Ocean. Fraxkfort. Mich., INov. 27.—Captain Mathews, of the Point Betsy life- station, sends the following: "A large black tlhree-and-after, with mastheads and jibbcom gconc, and foresail and peak of mainsail and for-estaysail %.t, and with his colors ar, the mizzen, mniou down, passed Station No. -i this morning. I sent patrol to notify the Frankfort tug Hall. TThe tug picked her up, and is towing her to the Mlanitous. The vessel is of large size, carries a square sail and has a new foresail." The gale has shifted! to southwest, blowing a tempest. The stancih little propeller Sanford has just made this hairbor in safety from Pent-water. The steamer Weston, tug Arctic, and s^llOOTlPT "Mormon arc in nrn-t HOW FEEHGHTS HAVE RULED. From tlhe T. affalo Impress. *'The season has promise of being a very successful one," was tlhe general verdict on lake and canal business ab.out the middle of summer. Freights were lrig_h and everything was fairly booming. A man »who owned a good lake grain carrier, or its equivalent in boats, began for the first time in years> to be thought a lucky fellow. But the season aidvanced and the boom slowly collapsed. A compHete failure of the foreign demand for grain set tfreights into a decline. Down they wont, inch b>y inch, until canal boatmen we re making little above expenses, and the lake craft was depending on up freights for profit. The good figures realized on coal did much to maintain good fdealing. Ore, also, was doing somthing; lumber very little. Had the export demand kept up as it promised at one time, there wouid have been bint one limit to the earnings of lake and canal craflt—railroad competition. The terrible stor:m that has swept the lakes, until it has crippled the tonnage in a way scarcely Known before, mak;es it almost impossible to>say what the lakes hav.e done for the general prosperity of the coumtry during the past season. If a vessel-owner has escaped t:he storms, it is fair to say that he is a fffQQd deal more in pocket than when the season oipened. If he has bought his vessel late in the reason, on the strength of the general good feelimg that then prevailed, only to see" her now lying fijigh and dry on some lee shore, the case is Quite different. In all this the shipbuilder doubtless sees a Providence, and longs for good freights next spring to fill his yards with the ribs of new vessels about to try the depths. CAUS1E OF DISASTERS. Where is the JVlairiue Commission to take evidence as to the caiuse of a vessel outriding a storm or going down befoire it? Mere individual opinion, backed up by <error,or formed on faulty linos, will doubtless builld marine coffins again next year; but it is safe:- to say that fewer vessels of that class will corate out than ever befoie. Tne amount of sail craflit that has gone to pieces where steamers have escaped is another verdict in the ... same direction a* the general tendency. The n.uestion will not b.e why certain sailing vessels went down; it willl be in regard to the conduct of .. the steamers; why/ one went to the wall when another rode through! safely. CARELESB^ INSURANCE RATINGS. There has lor a long time been serious complaint among the owners of stanch steam-vessels that the insurance companies are doing great harm by theiir careless rating of vessels etc., seerms to be a manufactured one. The Manistee wras safe at Bayfield Nov. 14 and 15, and a letter written by Captain McKay, and dated at Bayfiesld, Nov. 14, was given in The Inter Ocean several days ago. The disaster is horrible enough without false stories of bottle notes and postal cards. X, LATEST DISPATCHES. The following dispatches were received in Chicago at 5:30 o'clock yesterday after noon. There is nolonger tho faintest hope for the Manistee or her crew: * Marquette, Nov. 26.—Leopold & Austrian, Chicago: The Captain of the steamer Hackloy reports running through portions of wreckage of the Manistee between Ontonagon and Portage Canal, fifteen miles off shore. Hancock, Nov. 26.—"Leopold & Austrian, Chicago: The tug Maythamhas arrived here. She followed the course laid out, and also went through Grace Harbor and made dilligent search and inquiry, but saw no wreckage nor trace of the crew. The propeller Toledo arrived from Duluth. She saw no wreckage. John Trelease, Agent. The propeller J. L. Hurd, of Leopold ^-Austrian's Lake Superior Line, arrived in (Chicago yesterday from, points on Lake Superior. She brings no news not anticipated by tlhe dispatches. There is no longer any hope for the imissing propeller Manistee or her crew. The schooners Jessie Scarth, M. "E. Tremble Pewaukee, Michigan, Annie M. Peterson, Moonlight, Ml. 8. Bacon, Golden Fleece, Patlhtinder Homer, Metropolis. M. A. Muir, and. Lak.<- Forest arrived in Chicago yesterday. The Nichollson has not yet made her appearance, but is all riiiri.,!. The schooner J. I. Case, which had beten published by some of the papers as a. total boss, has been rescued from the rocks at Hog Islaand, and is safe in Beaver Harbor. The schooner Annie Sherwood, grain frnnn Chicago, which was driven into Traverse Bay, has arrived at Brie. THE SLIGO SAFE. The schooner Sligo, out from Vert Islamd, Lake hupenor, since Nov. 7. arrived safely in (Chicago yesterday (Sunday). She is minus some- of her canvas but otherwise is all right, and her crew are all well. PULASKI AND OTHERS. The schooner Pulaski, so long overdue, lias arrived safely at Milwaukee. The Boston,.Minnehaha, Hiawatha, Fred Mer-cur, tug Delta towing Floretta, ttie Our Son, M W. Page, Nelftejteddington, J. D. Sawyer, Christina Nilsson, L. Tan Valkenburg. Lottie Wolf and Ada Medoru have arrived in Chicago. STTL GOING. STEAMERS FOR BUFFALO—LUMBER FELLOWS, The steamships Johu B. Lyon and William Ed-Wards were loading grain yesterday for Buffalo. The propeller Cuba was about leaving with a cargo of 49,000 bushels of corn (at 4c) and package freight, and would touch at Milwaukee for more of tho latter. The propeller Roanoke, which, has been running in the Ogdensburg line, may take a cargo to Buffalo. , The schooners C. J. Wells and J. G. Masten, chartered for Buffalo several days ago, have stripped and laid up here. i3j.iec.iai j.ttiexram lu iu>; _..__.**.._- v. .-<..___. Washington, Nov. 25.—The following is an abstract of the report of the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service: The establishment embraced at the elose of the last fiscal year 194 stations, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 .aij the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. The number of disasters to documented vessels within the field of station operations daring the year was 300. There were 3.792 persons on board these vessels, of whom 3,777 were saved and only 15 lost. The number of the shipwrecked who received succor at the stations was 651, and - to these 1,879 days'relief in the aggregate were afforded. The estimated value of the vessels involved in^tkese disasters was $5,100,925, and that of their cargoes $2,075,615, making tM total value of property imperiled, $7,176,54dj Of this amount $5,611,SOO was saved/and 564,740 lost. The number of vessels totalis was 6S. In addition to the foregoing there have been 116 disasters to smaller craft, as sailboats, Towboats, etc., on which were 244 x>ersons, 240 of whom were saved and 4 lost. The property involved in tJie latter disasters was $60,] 80, or which $59,930 was saved and $6,280 lost- Tho results of all the disasters within the scope of the service aggregate, therefore, as follows: Total number of disasters............. 41 6, Total value of property involved......$7,2-1_2,7201 Total value of property saved........., 5,671,700) Total value of property lost........... 1,571,020 AT RACINE. Bactne, Nov. 25.—The wind began blowing at a high rate from the southw.est last night, and has continued ail day. At 8 o'clock this morn- in" no sign of the stranded schooner Jones could he seen except small y>ieces of wreckage *-,J"att' *» very generally stripping, and the sail found cm the beach at North Point. At 7 o'clock 1°™ are busy stowing away canvas, etc. The b-,v freights offering on lumber from Lake Michigan ports to Chicago have tempted several of i he lumber fleet to remain in commission The schooner J. M. Hutchinson will load grain and go down m tow of the Lvori. The propeller Portage will take corn to Buffalo, and the propeller Wissahiokon takes a cargo of fla i Erie. The steamship X. K. Fairbank t cargo of corn to Sarnia. The rate on corn to Buffalo is 4c. Marine insurance expires Nov. 30, at noon, and extensions are then allowable. found cm the . the wind shifted to cast; then back to southeast. The tug Sill, with two of her crew in a yawl boat with ropes and other tools, left at noon for Beaver Island to tow the schooner J. I. Case to, Manitowoc. The schooners Mary Ludwig and Jessie Martin arrived from tae east shore with lumber, and the schooner Z. G. Simmons arrived from Chicago light and will go into winter quarters. The schooner Lauretta cleared for Milwaukee with corn taken from the schooner Jones. The schooner Elizabeth Sauos is still in port. The Joseohine Dresden, one of the Racine fleet reported lost, is in port. The steambarge Belle Cross is in port with one of her tows from Chi-cagO and is waiting for a fair wind to start below with tho Clements and Chicago Board of Trade. THE TUG PROTECTION. Special Telegram to The Inter I ¦¦ Saugatuck, Mich., Nov. 26.—As my telegram of last night indicated, the tug Protection was not released. The steam-pump was at work for about three hours, until 10 p. m., when it was found they could not keep up steam, for want of fuel. Some impression was made on tho water, but no sooner had the pumping ceased than she rapidly filled. With the wind going to the westward about midnight, things looked bad for the boat, as a heavy sea at once began to roll, and all haste had to be made to get the scow safely inside. A visit .\2: TH*7' TTr° PROTECTION. BDecial Telegram to The Infer Ocean .SAUOATCTOK, Mich., Xov. 21,-The tug Protection is still on the beach, and it looks s as if she will winter there. True, there .-inch hawser here, and a 14-inch pump arrived 1 his morning, but. present indications do not point to a speedy release. To be plain, a man is wanted here to superintend the work—one who can think and act as well. The one here now seems unable to do either. He has been fooling around here saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung. Yesterday he had a lot of boya baling the boat out, paving them 40 to ,>0 cents anhour for the work and the boys rather like it. The. water was lowered for a time only. This morning a boat brought a, steam to the beach this ponrD and there is-not a scow there to bake it i__._i___._-. _._ _ .____.__. . the wr-renlr Tho _-i__c__. ,._,----1._ i____ __ _ -, .he wreck. The boss should have had! a scow and everything in readiness to transfer at the mouth of the river. As it now is, it wan; taken up the river to Martel's yard and left th-ere. To save the expense of telegraphing he hir-ed a rig find drove off a distauae of twelve miles in quest of a. scow, when it is known hers that one ea.nnot be obtained there at present. Your reporteir visited the wreck this afternoon and took an inventory of stock, which consists of twenty bncfeets, six hand-pumps, part of a bale of oakum, a bushel m basket, a shovel, a lot of old sail belonging to the it could be seen that she struck more heavily schooner tortnne Trial, pieces of rope, and other each time. She has dug a hole in tho traps. One end of the big line is attached to an sand and has a bit of play room there, she being Jmprovised anchor In the sand, then passed Lfternoon by your reporter showed tho seas mak ing a clean sweep over the boat from stem, to stern and she rolling quite a bit. Prom the looks of things, it would not be at all surprising to see the pump and boiler washed oft" by morning, as the connecting pipe from boiler to pump was severed and the gap between them had materially increased. Each plunge that the boat made it appeared as if the boiler and pump could be seen to shift some. Watching it closely for some twenty minutes the move had been very perceptible and entirely free and is tossed back and fro with each succeeding wave. The prospects for saving her become smaller every hour, and if she gets out of this blow whole she is a better craft than she appears to be. Every one here should like to see i:0 the pawl-port of the tug, and finally fastened to a capstan planted oil the shore-to keep her from floating away perhaps. The rail on the starboard side is about a foot under water. Low long it would take her released, and all agree thai, it is the poorest l0 bail her out at that^ rate ia not estimated. The i ever seen or >ya-t*r ,iad been shut off by putting a log across i r* v lenethwisetiver which a sail was thrown. piece of business that they have ever seen or Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Jf tj}}G V, O. T. Company desire to save the Pro- SAUGATUCK, Mich., Nov. 26.—With the break lection they will have to send aman here who has of day a large gang of men went to work to get So,1"e 1"ea as $Q what wrecking business the steam-pump on board the tug Protection, a the schooner Experiment, recently in trouble scow having been procured during the night. It here, was taken to Holland Thursday, where she was not until 4:10 p.m. that Are was started, and W1" be hauled out and repaired, at 6 o'clock pumping had not vet begun, at which N °he oi the home boats have laid up here yet time your reporter left for home, picking his way hough it is learned that the barge C. W. Moore through the woods. The weather to-day could has gone into winter quarters at (hand Haven in not possibly be better tor the work in hand, the order to ao some repairing to her machinery wind being off the land, making an even sea. - ho steamer Douglas cleared for Chicagdthla Soundings taken this afternoon show that the evening. tug lies inside of a bar, over which there is but *•----- four feet and four inches of water; on the second INSURANCE CONTESTS bar there is seven feet of water. Do not believe ____ _ _,„ _. ___.„„ she will be off to-night. . ^ ™E L0S r *anmse blade, There are indications (hat the underwriters will contest paying the insurance on several of the vessels lost in the recent gales. One of these Is the schooner Yankee Blade. Two sailors who wanted to go to work ashore at Point St. Ignace EOPT FOUND—NEWS AT SOUTH HAVEN. rather, that they ftorm their estimates from im- Special Telefram to The Int^r Ocean. proper sources. T.hey say a new steamer is Al, South Hanen, Mich., Nov. 27.—The body of a and an old one (down in B, whether the Al is> man was found this forenoon a mile and a half actually seaworthy or not, and however much or i-otrh of this harbor on the beach byThomas Bid-lit tie the other hats softened by age. There are die. of West Casco, Allegan Countv. Had sandv , . vessels, they say, tthat are practically unmanage- mustache, dark blue shirt, jeans pants worn at deserted the Yankee Blade there, and to justify able on account of faulty steering- gear or awk-. the knees, and heavy shoes. From his dress he ' themselves [they had signed articles for the round ward bin hi; there are others sound as a nut. after ja supposed to have been the fireman on the Pro- I tl lP> they swore the vessel was unseat* orthy. The years of service. 'The companies, It is claimed, tcction; aDparently been in the water two weeks, contest on the insurance is based on The acUdavits dojuotpayonougln attention to these facts and A Coroner's inqest has been held, but the result of these men. the result is .there; are any number of unsea- is not known yet. ¦___¦¦!.mn tluWr«~~L..i^*mm worthy craft afloait ready to go to pieces when Vessels now in harbor are: Stmr Grace Grum-the storms come. This throws much unneces- mond.nrop Marv Groh, tugs Cupid, Kittie O'Neil, sarycost on the better classes of vessels, for Mamie B., schrs Annie Thorine, Mary E.Packard, they are pracfcidalHy,obliged to pay for the ves- Mary Ludwig, Wm. Smith, Thos. C. Wilson, Len Iligbv, Billie Arnot. Mamie, Nellie Winlack, Nel- sels lost in unfair rates of insurance. THE LUCY J. CLARK DISASTER. A claim was put; in yesterday to the underwriters concerned om the lost) schooner Lucy J. Clark for $5,610. 'Of this, $3,000 is for the steam-pamp lost, $600 for services of steam-pump, $2,000 for use of tug S. S. Cox, and $10 for coal. Wolf & .Davidson, of Milwaukee, are the owners of the piump. CLOSING TJP. THE LAST THIROUGH CRAFT LEAVING. , Hull insurance exppires on Friday, and the last | craft in the throiugh trade are.now loading or i leaving port. Fromi Friday, hull insurance can ! be extended five dayys if auy of the craft now leaving require it, am d the probabilities are that a number of them wrill require it. The insurance on a cargo leaving piort now, of course, continues until the cargo is de.livered. If the craft should be compelled to pint into'any intermediate port and winter there tthe insurance on the cargo holds good until it hs delivered at its destination in the spring. th;; late birds. [Steam and sail craft will make trips on Lake Michigan and the otther lakes for % month yet, and a number willl make trips all winter, whenever the absence (of ice from the mouths of harbors will.admit oof It, but the class of craft more especially allucded to in this article consists of those engaged im the through trade between Lake Michigan and .Lake Superior, and Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.] The dispatches elsewhere give the names of steamers and vesselis leaving Buffalo and other ports for Chicago amd Milwaukee. A number of craft are leaving Chiicago for below. The steamship J. B. Lyon, witth the schooner J. M. Hutch-insondn tow, both £?rain-loaded, left on Monday for Buffalo (aud, bar the way, must have already experienced roughi usage.) The steamship William Edwards, grraiu for Buffalo, left yesterday; also the steanuer Walter L. Frost, grain for Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence Biver; schooner Donaldson,- grain fo-r Sarnia, and the schooner Metropolis, for Traverse Bav. The following charters for Buffalo were made yesterday, and the steamers will get awaj wmo time to-day : lie and Annie, Wm. Finch, Andella, Henry Cowles, and sloop J. C. King. The most of these vessels have laid up for the winter. Vessels yet to arrive: Schrs Charles J. Smith, Alert, Walter Smith. Cnlrl ft."-....* --^ All^v.„ ARRIVALS—NEWS REPORTED. The propellor Starucca arrived in Chicago yesterday from Buffalo. The schooners C C. Trowbridge and Waukesha arrived from Lake Huron. The George Steele and M. L. Higgle are also among the arrivals. All arriving craft report peve re weather outside. The vessel seeu dismasted off Point Betsy Is believed to have been the Ida Keith. The Bailey, Keith, L. C. Butts, Halted, V. B. Gardner, Ellen Spry, Samana, and a number of others are all on the way up with coal, ana are long overdue on this lake. The steamers Lycoming. George T. Hope, (Dceanica, Hurlburt, and Peerless, bound for Chicago, left the Manitous on Tuesday morning, but were driven back again. The Peerless ran to Northport for fuel. Captain James Davidson, the owner of the Bteamshins George T. Hope and Siberia, arrived in Chicago Ves terday. The Hope is bound here with coal, and the Siberia (aud Osceola) left Duluth yesterday with whpat -for Buffalo. There was heavy ice in Duluth-harbor. The schooners Julia Larson and Lalla Bookh, ashore at Pentwater, are both fc..mall craft. The tug Mosher made St. Jostephin safety. , FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. ROUND THE LARES. The schooner Lookout towedi in from the outer breakwater last night. The sloop Rambler goes tro the Mississippi River. She arrived here yesteriday. Grain in store in Chicago (with navigation about closed), 11,673,406 bushels; at this time last year, 5,034,579 bushels. Rozel Downer, the submarine diver, has left for Cross Village, to examine the wreck of the Lucy J. Clark. He took passage on the steamer Lawrence. The dead body of a woman was found yesterday morning on an oik hulk in the harbor at the foot of Erie street. The woman had died, seemingly, from exposure. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS. THE CUYAHOGA IN A. SINKING CONDITION. Dispatches were received in Chicago at noon yesterday saying; "A vessel is lying off liere in sinking condition. She has a signal Of distress up. For God's sake send out assistance." The dispatches came from a point in Lake View, near the Marine Hospital. The V. O. T. line sent ont the tug Union, which arrived back last evening with the vessel in tow. It proved to be tho schooner Cuyahoga, laden with cedar posts for Chicago. She had encountered all the stormy weather of the past several days, and had sprung aleak. The crew were worn out, and the water [ri the hold was gaining fast. The Union reached her just in time. The wind last night was a gale again from the northeast. Ipeeial Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Mackinaw Citt, Mich., Nov. 9.5,—The schooner Bligo was here the 17th. and left the 18tli; have not seen or heard of her since. Bpecial Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Cheboygan, Mich., Nov. 25.—The Leviathan reports that the schooner Sligo was at Beaters last Wednesday, the 21st, and is undoubtedly at the South Manitous now jrjfh a nnjnl_-gr of others. ANOTHER NOR'WESTER. A PIERCE GALE, WITH SEVERE COLD. During Sunday night the wind was heavy from the southeast and south. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning it went to northwest, and continued so all day and up to a late hour last night, blowing a fierce gale and the weather freezing cold. A large number of sail vessels are outside on this lake, and also the propellers Perrett and Favorite, with tows of barges from Green Bay. The steambarge George Dunbar started out for the east shore in the afternoon, but was- compelled to run back for shelter, and went into one of the slips at the mouth of the harbor,, where the steambarges Starke and Emma E. Thompson, als bound cut, kept her company. The sea on the east shore yesterday and last night must have been tremendous.x The tug Miner broke her steering gear off the harbor during the afternoon, but got inside safely. Total number of persons involved.... 4,036 Total number of persons saved........ 4 Total number of persons lost......... 19 Total number of shipwrecked persons succored at stations................. 651 Total number of days' succor afforded 1,879 In addition to those saved from vessels, there were 22 persons rescued who had fallen from wharves, piers, etc.. and who would have perished without the help of the life-saving crews. Investigations held in each case establish that' tho 19 persons lost were entirely beyond the reach of human aid. Of this number, 9 were drowned by the sudden capsizing of vessels at some distance from land, before assistance could reach them; 7 were lost in endeavoring to get ashore by their own efforts, while the life-saving crews were hurrying to the rescue; 1 perished from beine thrown overboard by the shock of lision; 1 was washed overboard from a stranded vessel, and one died as soon as landed, owing to previous exposure on a wreck. The report gives full and specific accounts of all the circumstance connected with the loss of these persons. of disasters d or exceed by seventy-one the number of disasters of the teding, which was considerably larger than that of any previous year in the history of the service. The amount of property involved 6,493 greater than in the preceding . year, but the amount lost was $8H.7.:>0 loss * that of the preceding year, while the amount saved was $2. ore. The number of lives lost was seven more than in the preceding year, but in proportion to the number of persons on board the ve; ¦;;;;g disaster it is con- siderably less, the ratio of reduction being 6 per cent. The assistance rendered during the year in saving vessels and cargoes has been much larger than in any previous year, 337 vessels having been worked off when stranded, repaired when damaged, piloted out of dangerous places, or similarly assisted by the station crews. There wero besides 125 instances (thirty-nine more than in the preceding year) where vessels running into danger of stranding were warned off by the night signals of the patrols, most of tliejn thus being saved from partial or total destruction. The following general summary is given of the statistics of the operations of the service from the date of the introduction of the present system in 1871 to the close of the fiscal year. ' It will be observed that the loss of life as stated includes the number of those who perished at the wrecks of the Huron and Metropolis, which, in strict justice, are not chargeable to the service: Number of disasters................. 2.108 Value of property involved...........$36,521,434 Yalue of property saved.............. 23,737,052 Value of property lost................ 12,784,382 Nnmber of persons involved.......... 3 8,760 Number of persons saved............ 1^,33-! Number of persons lost............... 420 Number of shipwrecked persons succored at stations................... 3,729 Number of days' succor afforded..... 10,308 Since the last report seven additional stations have been completed, one at HunuiweU's Beach, Me.; one at Muskeget Island, and one at Cos-kata, Nantucket, Mass.; one at Brigantine Beach, N. J.; one at New Inlet, one at Cape Hatteras, and one at Ocracoke, coast of North Carolina, Four other stations are in process of construction and approaching completion, one at Lewes, Del.; one at North Beach, Md.; one at Wallop's Beach, and one at Parrauiors's Besch, Va. have been nine sites selected for new stations, which it is proposed to construct next year, provided titles, which have been promised, are "obtained and sufficient appropriation shall be made ! by Congress, namely: One at Brenton's P 1.; one at Grand Marias, Lake Superior; one at i Frankfort, one at Pentwater, one at the mouth of White River, one at Holland, and one at South Haven, Mich.; one at Michigan City, ind., and one at Sturgeon Bay Canaft Wisconsin. Sites are also now beintr selected for the remaining stations authorized by Congress. During the year the service had an exhibit, upon invitation, of its boats and apparatus at the International Fisheries Exposition in London, (life-saving operations having acolU'leral relation thereto) and was awarded a gold medal. Tlie general superintendent attributes much of the high efficiency of the service to its Utter exemption from political influences, and states that the statute enacted in 1882, declaring it non-political, has made it an easier task for him to conduct life-saving affairs with sole reference to the public good. RECKLESS RUNNING. THE DISASTER TO THE H. .T. JEWETT. Various comments are made on the stranding of the hue steamship H. J. Jewett, and they are not at all complimentary to the commander. Captain Reed. People in marine circles think that if there had been nearly the necessary caution the disaster would not haveoecurred,the great; steamer,worth $250,000, would not have au. such heavy damages before being resou< valuable cargo thrown overboard would no been sacrificed, and the huge wrecking bill would not have to be paid. The truth is . hat the Jewett goes too fast—there arc other steamers on the lakes which might make the same quick time the Jewett does if their owners and masters saw* fit to run them "wide open" all the tin. reckless way the Jewett is run. Ic may be the orders of the owners, the Union Steamboat Com- ' pauy, but the commander of the Jewel her too fast. Thb Inte l has repeatedly pointed at this fact, and oniy t wo weeks ago pre- ¦ dieted that she would ¦¦ rcrafton these crowded lakes or " 'uiing" on i the beach or on the rocks. She did ¦ and hull, tho;.: ¦ is not lessthau .^50,000. Th1 Detro before it knew of 'the rescue, said: "A. brough, agent he pany, received a dispatch yes-ten Captain of the Jewe was resting on a fial der her, in an average of water, and with the ¦ above the floor, i • of ! barrels of salt bad been ;i tain hoped to have her op a. laps got to work. She was drawing about feet six inches .when s! tains and vessel men yesti i '--• ' expressing their opinions ,. put this splendid Ste; iions position. One cap ¦ should hava been sis or seven m.h o\xt, s and he could easily have found * : jn- I the use of the lead. We hav< . . i ad 1 lines this summer in feeling ojn Uga i fogs. If the shore steam..-; ¦ they would bo a. ¦¦ the time.*"