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^¦P^p FJiOPKLLER I'lICE^IX, CAPT. Ti, G. 1845, Detroit, Sept. 27.—A despatch has been received from Norwood from Capt. Franklin, agent of the Boston Marine Insurance Co., lequestiug that the wrecking tug Leviathan be sent immediately to the schr Mocking Bird, ashore at that point. Xhe Vessel is Insured for £1,700 in the Boston Marine. (The Leviathan left on Monday with a full wrecking outfit. The barge McGillivray is sunk in twelve feet of water at Portage Lake, loaded with coal. The new steamship Siberia at Cheboygan Is disabled by cracking her high pressure oylinder. The steambarge Huron irifcy, reported ashore on Eagle harbour reef. has. been'tieleased aud is at Lake Linden discharging her cargo. / Thsprop City of St, CatMarines is pumped out ready to be towed to Port Huroti.MSut is detained at Sand Beach by heavy weather. Buffalo Notes. Buffalo, N. V.. Sept. 27.— The new iron steamship H J Jewett will leave for Chicago this evening on her maiden trip. Valentine Truss' now vessel* has been named the Golden j Age. She was launched at Milan, Ohio, on Saturday after-* noon. Her keel length is 287 feet, over all 2'6F> feet, beam 39^ feet, hold 21} feet. Her carrying capacity is placed at ' l'2o,ooo bushels of corn on fourteen feet of water—the largest capacity on the lakes. She will likely not no into commission this season. Charters and Freights, / Drtboit, Sept. 27. —Yesterday's charters .—Schr Guiding > ^—•" i," ~\. f Star, Wheat to Buffalo, at. 2c : steanibarge Mary Mills and -< toing her nest barge Worthington, lumber, East Saginaw to Detroit, at going rates : barge Arizona, lumber. Bay City to Detroit, at *1 50 ; schr Home, ties, Presqu' Isle to Fairport, at 10c each ; scow Clara, coal, Sandusky to Detroit, at 35c per ton. Kingston Notes. Kingston, Sept. 28.—The Seamens' Union,'at a meeting la:st night, raised the rate of wages from 31 5o to §2 per day om the lake. Buffalo Notes. Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 28.—The new iron steamshi p H J Jtewett, of the Lnion Steamboat Line, started on her miaiden trip at 4:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had on all told 1,800 tons, and draw 12 feet forward and 12 feet 6 inches aft. The Jewett's machinery worked splendidly and there was hardly a motion to the great ship. It is predicted that she will be able to make fifteen miles an hour readily. The schr Brooklyn was towed up from Black Rock yester« day and went into the Mills' dry-dock. Her bottom was found all right. The heavy fall winds are delaying vessels more or less. The prop St Louis, which should have left for Duluth last night, was 54 hours late, aud the .Empire State had fallen behind 31 hours. The tug Dolos Graves, which was sunk in the Canal below Black Rock, was rallied by means of scows on Tuesday night. She was pumped out by hand, and steam was made and she ran back here all right. A despatch was received from the office of A. W Colton, I Toledo, last night saying that the J C Gault, which left this port ten minutes later than the Fountain City on Tuesday afternoon, beat the latter an hour in the run to Point (Au Pelee. The Fountain is claimed by her people to be the fastest steamer out of Buffalo, and perhaps she was not Bttffaxo, N.Y., Sept. 27.—Canal freights unsettled : boats scarce : shippers and carriers apart. Quotations nominally as follows :— Wheat at 6Ac and corn 6c to New York : lumber to New York at $2 65 @ *3 25 per M. and H2 65 to Albany ; staves at Si S7£ per ton to New York. Nothing doing in lake freights. 'The John B Lyon and Bchrs .1 M Hutchinson aud J G Masten came in this morn-iug with over 220,000 bushels of grain. Shippers are offering il 10 on ore from Escanaba to Lake Erie ports, but vessel-owners do not seem inclined to charter their vessels on account of the scarcity of coal at Lake Erie ports. Detroit, Sept. 28.—The schooner Nellie McGilvray [cGilvray met V The Canadian tug Admiral Po/ter is at David Bell's yard, Chicago, for repairs to her engine. Jer Brothers, of Port Huron, have taken the contract of delivering the boiler and engine of/the tug Mayflower, at Windsor, for $600. / The wrecked schr Mary Merritt, formerly a Canadian vessel, but lately repaired ancLrteciared American, has been re-named the Dot, and is now entered on the Cnited States register. Some engineers of Dundee. Scotland, have tried with suc« cess a new gun for throwing a line to a wrecked vessel. The gun is about two feet long. a,nd has a bore of two and a half inches in diameter, and the cord is coiled in the form of a cop and put inside a steel canister, which is fired out of the gun, leaving the line streaming behind it. Two ounces of gunpowder carried the end of the line at least four hundred yards, and would have taken it further if the line had been longer. During the past few days at Chicago there has been a good demand from shippers of grain for vessel-room to Lake Erie, especially Buffalo. The carrying rates, however.have not been tempting, 6c a bushel being the price offered on whet to Lake Ontario ports. There is talk of some owners laying up their vessels iu ordinary unless prices improve and there seems litsle prospect of such a desirable change. Receipts of grain by rail continue small, and are mostly last year's yield, though some new wheat is being received. Shippers have been offering £1 10 on ore, from Escanaba to Lake Erie ports, Jat Chicago, but veasel-«wners do not seem inclined; to charter their vessels on account of the scarcity of coal at tho-e ports. Chicauo, Sept. 27. —The schr Jennie Mullin is in port with 5,431 cedar ties from Presque Isle. The steambarge Thomas W. Palmer began yesterday to unload her cargo of t.400 tons of coal, which she arrived here with on Sunday bernoon from Erie. The Canadian schooner Lillie Hamilton is in Chicago. le is commanded by Capt. Tim Crowley, formerly of the iooner Fellowcraft. Capt. Crowley is well and favour-{• jly known all around the lakes, being an old veteran in ( ake navigation. As soon as unloaded the Hamilton will be placed in one of the Chicago DryvDock Company's docks for a thorough recalking. Capt. Montgomery, of the tug Thistle, reports that on Wednesday morning, while on his way down to Colling" wood from Hope Island, he saw a large three-masted schooner among the Witches Island. He put back and enquired if they wanted a tow out. as they were in a very dangerous position, but the Captain said he thought they could work out all right. Capt. Montgomery says that if the wind changed to Lhe west and north-west the schooner would be in great danger of getting ou the rocks. He did not know her name. The Canadian schr Midland Rover, Capt Patrick Crokin, which has traded between Chicago and Georgian Buy for .the past two seasons, has been chartered to go to a Lake Ontario port with a load of grain. Capt Crokin has been . very lucky with the Hover so far, and his many friends hope that he will he equally so on his new route. The Hover will probably bring bacJt a cargo of barley. The prop Tole/o, of the ftew England Transportation Company, CapYrfn Sidney Scott, now has an entirely new cylinder, valves, and cross-heads of the latest style. J B Fospesb.il, the engineer, is also a part, owner. Her speed on the trial trip was 10J miles. She is carrying grain from Chicago to Collingwood. Collingwood, Ont, Sent. 20.—It now appears th.it the lost propeller Asia had V12 souls on board when the ill-fated craft ! when down last Thursday. Of this num- | ber 97 were passengers, though the craft was only allowed by the inspectors to carry 40, though permission to carry 150 had been applied for. The steamer Northern Belle, which was sent from Parry Sound to search for bodies of the lost passengers aud crew has returned witli thebodtes-of Capt. I. W. Savage, first mare John McJJermid, John Little, of Sault Ste. Marie, and J. MeAlyin, of Gore Bay. A Wauhasheu special says the body of Robert Sparks, a surveyor, of Ottawa, has also been recovered. There were known to be 30 shanty men on the Asia bound for McDougall^ camp on French river, and this fact accounts for ber having been where she was when the accident happened her, which was about 35 miles northwest of Parry Sound. ADDITIONAL VICTIMS. Among those believed to have been lost are the following, known to have been in the crew: Capt, Savage; first mate, John McDermid; second mate, A. McNab; wheelsmen, M. Davis and G. McKay; watchman, James Smith; deck hands, John McIIroy, James Nolan, "Win. Stinson, C. Innes; first engineer, T. K. Bruce; second engineer, M. Windover; foremen, H. DeGroat, James Lamb; steward, Stephen Carter; waiters, Isaac Bennett, A. Watt, T. Lawrence; porters, R. Walker and T. Hill; ladies' maid, Mrs. Walters; cooks, Wm. Jackson and J. Tackson; purser, John McDougall, No 'es of passer gers other than those here-*iven are yet attainable. with a serious collision upon entering the harbour at Portage Canal. The schooner struck the end of the pier.sniash-img her how bo that the water began to pour in, She sunk slhortly afterwards. The topmasts are sticking out above : tlhe water. The captain and crew had just time to escape ": im the yawl, and were safely landed. Fortunately the Mc-1 GJilvray had no cargo aboard. She was wholly uninsured, ¦^ tlhe policies having recently expired and not been renewed. I Assistance will be rendered in order to raise the sunken uiraft. She is owned in Cleveland and was considered g:ood staunch vessel { r - ¦ It is probable that the burned steambarge Alber.t/4 on Big Point Sauble wiil prove a total k The receipts of wheat amounted to 48.ooo bushels yesterday, and there are now in store in the elevators here 177,ooo bushels. Charters and Freights. Buffalo. Sept. 28.—Coal freijtflts not much changed, rates ruling at 6oc to Chicago; receipts Increasing. Charters —Schooner Krautua Corning, to Chicago, 6oe: props Lehigh aud Juniata, same, Boc ; schr Mary Lyons, to Detroit, 2oc Canal freights steady. Wheat 6Jc, corn 5£c, oats 3£c to New York. Lumber to New York, $2 65 to §3 25 pur M, and $2 65 to Albany, Staves, SI a7^ per ton to New York. Canal shipments—wheat, 39,2oo bush: oats. 11,Soo bush. Lake exports—Ooal 8.65U tons : cement. Soo brls, Oswego, N. Y.. Sent. 27.—The schr B W Folger was unloading barley from Gananoque at the North-Western ille-wator yesterday. She got ifclc. The schr May Taylor is chartered to go to Belleville for lumber at 90c. The barley t;rafhc« commencing to boom. Chicago, Sept. 27.—Yesterday the following lake chart-i«rs were made :—For Erie—Prop Alaska, flaxseed, 45,000 bmah ; schr Elizabeth Jones, flaxseed, 40,ooo hush. Prescott, schr Stampede, corn, 18,ooo bush. Sarnia, schr Sun-irise. corn, 30.ooo bush. Montreal, prop Prussia, wheat, 110,000 bush. Midland, schr Lady McDonald, corn, 18,ooo tough. Kingston, schr. M L Coyne, wheat. So.ooo. The rates were 2£c on wheat and flaxseed to Buffalo and other .Lake Erie ports, and 6ic on corn to Prescott. Coal rates are ;—Erie to Chicago, 75c ; Fairhaven to Chicago. 31 50 : Erie to Milwaukee. iiOc : Buffalo to Green Bay, 92ic. Detboit, Sept. 28.—Yesterday's charters .—Schr Willie Keller, wheat to Buffalo, 2}c : Brooklyn, coal, Buffalo to Mackinaw, 60c per ton, and lumber, Charlevoix to Detroit, 8c for the trip. Mlsci'Ilnneous. The schooner St. Cbfir has been seized at Chatham for infraction of the Cajradiau revenue lawn. The'longshoremen at Port Ropy, at a late meeting, decided to demand in future au advance of rive cents per hour on their present wages. The hue schooner Annie M. Peterson left Chicago Tuesday evening for Lake Superior to load lumber for that port. She took on a quantity of oats at Chicago and wiil put in at Manitowoc for hay, which she will discharge at Ashland. Once more sail vessels are entering the grain trade between Chicago and Lake Erie- Following the schr F L TJanforth are the schrs Sunrise, Nellie Gordon, and Elizabeth Jones. The large schr Emma L. Coyne takes wheat to Kingston, The schr E Fitzgerald, Capt Langan, made the trip from Chicago to Kingston in nine days. Notwithstanding the fact that she was at the docks of the Montreal Transportation Company five hours before the schr Floretta, the latter schr was unloaded first and was thus enabled to load coal first at Oswego. Capt Laugan estimates the loss by delay at S75. There were several jams in the river at Chicago on Wednesday, but fortunately none of them proved serious. One of the tugH of the Independent Line was nearly all day going from the lumber docks to the vicinity of Eighteenth-street bridge, near which one of the jama* occurred. At the Chicago and Alton railroad bridge vessels were jammed in for two or three houra. Credit is due the harbour masters for the energy they displayed in separating the craft which were squeeze! in and preventing any accident. Capt. H. Zealand, of the propeller Gleutiubis, has written a letter to the authorities at Washington, thanking them (or the good conduct of the live-savers at Thunder Bay Island. Bake Huron. The captain says that on the night of the 7th of September tha shaft of the propeller broke in a heavy sea. He whistled to other steamers hut received no assistance until the life-boat came out. They were three miles off shore and drifted ten miles before their anchors heid. The night was cold and stormy, but the life-boat stayed by them until morning, when they left and rowed to Alpena, ten miiea, whence they sent a tug which brought the Gleunulas to that oort. Charters and Freights. Chicago, Sept. 25.—There was a tolerably good demand ffor carriers to Canadian ports yesterday, the shipments being about equally divided between wheat and corn. •Carrying rates were unchanged, that to Saruia being 12c for corn. Very little has been done for some time past iu carrying grain to Lower Canadian ports on account of the heavy toll and tug charges through the Welland Canal, and there is likely to be no change for the better in the near future. Yesterday's charters were :—For Montreal, prop Ocean,, wheat, 18,ooo bush. For Collingwood, prop St Paul, corn, 25.000 bush. For Saruia, sciir Sunrise, corn, 30,000 bush. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 29.—The following charters were reported yesterday .—Prop Lake Ontario, wheat to Mons treat, 6fcc. Schr Grantham, timber, Detroit to Port Metcalfe, 55c per l,ooo cubic feet. Scows Mono, lumber, Harris-vlUe to Wyandotte, SI 75 : Conklin, lumber, Marysville to Cleveland, $1 l'J; on boards and Si 15 on bill stuff. ffiBuFD'ALo, 2* Y, Sept 29.—Later marine notes :—Canal freights lower. Wheat 6c, corn 5Jc, to New York ; lumber to New York, $2 65 to S3 25 per m, and $2 65 to Albany ; staves at $1 87» per ton to New York. Buffalo Notes. Buffalo, Sept. 29.—The steambarge Siberia, Capt Sam Thornton, is coming down, with grain, partially disabled. Her high pressure cylinder head «ot cracked above Lake Huron, but she is working along slowly. Trout is making a new cylinder and will place it on her arrival here. The steamship BL Jewitt made the run to Cleveland in I5J hours, an average of 12 miles au hour. She made 60 turns a minute and carried 80 pounds of steam. Her allowance it; 120 pounds. When her machinery has worn off its newness we may look for some tall running. Detroit Notes. Detroit, Sept. 29.—A meeting of tug owners was help. in this city yesterday, at which it was unanimously decided to raise towing rates to the old card rate, which was in force last season. The new order of things goes into force on October 1st. As considerable trouble lias been caaied by some vessels being remeasured and their tonnage reduced, it was unanimously resolved that all tow bills be cal* culated from the old tonnage. In order to do justice to schooners not yet remeasured, and to save confusion next season when all schooners have to be remeasured, a new card will be compiled with the new tonnage of each vessel placed opposite her name, and tawing rates will be calcu* iated on the new basis. The steambarge Sauna ran short of coal on Lake St. Clair yesterday and had to leave her barge and come to Detroit, for a sunply. MARINE INSURANCE MATTEnS. A movement which has been on foot since last July,)-, lias recently culminated in the organization of a new association of marine underwriters. The association, whineh is called the National Hoard of Underwriters, is the succcessor of the Association of .Marine Underwriters, which extpired by limitation on July 1, after an unsuccessful existence of one year. The new Board will confine itself, to miutual protection iu the various phases of inspection, adjustment, salvage, and so forth . Twenty-eight companies are ahready enrolled in the organization, which includes all but. two or three in thi3 city, both domestic and foreign. Otftleers have been elected and committees appointed on adjustment, salvage, and inspection, it Krai hoped a year a,nd a half ago that the downward tendency of rates woulid be checked by the organization of the Association of Marine Underwriters, all the member:' of which were pledged to maintain an agreed tariff. The effort was in vaiu. however. Although it is said that the practice was frowned upam by the foreign companies*, their agents here were able by at surrender of a part of their commissions to insurers t. cur. under the tariff agreed upon. The association, having tried the experiment for a year, gave it up. The leading imarine insurers show a general unwillingness to admit that urates are much lower now than they have been for several years. yet it is true that such is the case. REMARKS. / X,- Kingston .Votes. Kingston*, Oct. 2.-Schr Annie M. Foster has arrived from Oswego with a cargo of 15o tans of coal for the Hon* treal Transportation Company. Schr M. Fillmore load-* iron for Fairhaven. Schr North Star with lath and lumber laden at Rathbun's sailed for Oswego. Prop Bruno from lVedo discharged 8,ooo bushels of wheat and proceeded to .Montreal. Schr Singapore from Detroit is reported inwards with 12,ooo bushels of wheat. The St. Lawrence and Chicago Forwarding Company's barges Nebraska and Senator have arrived with l.loo tons of coal from Fairhaven. The coal goes to Montreal. The barges Europe, Minnesota, and I) have returned frolu Trenton, where they delivered iron rail;;. The prop Europe, due on Saturday night, did not arrive until last niiiht, having in a fog run aground at Gallop fiapids, but gone light on. About 15o tons of pig icon were unloaded into the barge McCarthy, aud then tugidcArthur pulled her off. The Montreal Transportation Company's arrivals :-Schrs M Fillmore, Chicago, 19.000 bit corn : M A Muir, Chicago, 12,606 bu wheat : Sligo, Chicago, 19,7o9 bu wheat ; Hyderabad, Detroit, 2o,olS bu ffhwtt : tug Active with John Gass kin and Gleuora, Detroit, 80,000 bu wheat and corn. Tug Glide leaves this evening for Montreal with six barges Carrying 80,000 bu giaiu and l,2oo tons coal. Tug Champion arrived with sis barges light. Schr Muir suffered the wreck of her sails in a gale on Lake Michigan on the 13th September while en route from Chicago to Kingston. When off Manitous the wind suddenly changed from south-east to north-west, increased into a gale, and before the canvas was taken in the mainsail and jib were torn to pieces and the staysail considerably riddled. The schr Glenora on entering the harhonr to-day ran aground on Carruthers' Shoal and was forced six; inches out of water. She Was pulled off undamaged. Barge3 are now allowed to go through the St. Lawrence canals on Sunday except between the hours of 4 a.m. and 9 p.m. Formerly the locks remained closed during tha entire 24 hours- Schrs Fillmore and Sligo left Port Dalhousie Monday morning aud did not arrive here till Saturday night, meau-time making loo miles, a trip which with the wind from the right direction could be done in 24 hours. The Slight encountered three big blows, losing her mizzen sail on Lake Erie. j-|mi -i—'-mi ..... r ~T---------TTir-rr aniscwllancous. The Canadian schoomer Lilly Hamilton waBi; dry-doek at the Chicago Company'^ on Friday. The splendid new propeller Jewett is *»™*$J* »g and handsome ; her emgmes, although new, J«™J au smoothly, aud enabling, he.'to make a good twelve, mum « hour, making sixty turn:......'¦ ,. ._ make a _ with eighty pounds of lte» The"'sTeambarge G.odhit comm^ced^^ ^^8? Napanee Saturday, ^^^^^^L Ambarge U*con« couiiucuvwu ».-.------r. -r_____Saturday, and after taking on about 4,000 push. i'i>::iaieuced leaking is the Beams, and wet about 3,ooo bu.ih. The balance was taken) out dry. The barge is now tied to the dock in the hopea >of keeping her from sinking. The new tug Beatrice, built by William John McT-ouald in his shipyard at Wallaceburg, for Messrs John Green & Co., of London, was launched Saturday afternoon. She is strongly built, has at fine model, and is a credit to her bnildern. Captain >\eil McDonald will command her. They eipect to have luer finished iu a short time. A desperate Btrttggttfl occurred on board the schooner Midland Rover Thursday at Chicago between the master and mate, who are brothers. The former for some reason split the mate's head open with a belaying-piu, the result of which was a general liignt amongst the entire crew, The — 1—1. ;,, the melee. rufialo Notes. BiiFFALoTOct. 2.—Schr G S Hazard arrived on Friday '¦ evening in a badly damaged condition. .She was tewed down by the prop Jay Gould, both Vessels belontdog to the Union Steamboat Company. Meeting a hard, heavy wind on this lake they put hi under Rondeau Point. Karly Hist Tuesday morning*the Gvulri ran into the harbour, aud the Hazard anchored outside about a mile and a half fiom tho pier. At 2 o'clock on Thursday afterno.-u the weather being clear and calm the Gould came out to pick up the Bcuooner. She was making directly f-r her at a speed of four or hve miles. When two or three lengths off Captain Fletcher of the Hazard seeing the propeller coming right ahead called out for her to reverse her engine. It was too late however, aud the Gould crashed stern on into the port side of the Hazard, striking her between the fore and main I masts abreast the keel box. Everything on that side was broken frocn thw nil to the bilgv. Her deck ptonks were started, and the starboard Bide opposite Was i'oived ou.wM.rd, The Haaard at once began leaking badly, and in ten minutes had made eight inehus of water. Sihe had ou 55,0yU bushels of wheat worth over. -*tio.ooo. OJapt. Fletcher had canvas drawn tightly under1 the bottomi, and then being lowered by KOfies into the water he worked with hoard nails. oaKura, and tallow to close up the leaks for full 2 hours aud3o minutes. So well did he succeed thiat when under way the vassal made only about au inch pair hour. She discharged 34.4S4 bushels of dry wheat at tine elevator, thus wetting only 51(5 bushels. The Hazard is uninsured, but the grain was fully covered, ^Capt. Fletcher's bold, promj.t, and wise action tea* the meaua of mritag both rente} and cargo. ^¦¦¦^•¦¦•¦^^^^¦^ David Dell has finished repairs on a Canadian tug, Ad» miral Porter, aud she loft port ou Saturday. It is reported that the sonooner Senator Wood, coal laden, recently run from this port to Dr-troit in 27 hours. Tho passenger steamer Idaho arrived last evening about 9 hours late. It is likely that she will be hud up at once, as the passenger Reason is over and there is notbtog iu freights for boats of her capacity. Thu Fountain City will probably also be retired on arrival hero. These boats are favourites with lake travellers, and for three months or so did a lively business in this directlen. The steamship Siberia left early yesterday morning for Chiotigo with about 2,ooo tons of coal. Her cracked high pressure cylinder was drawn down with a clamp, and she will try to make another' round trip before getting a new oue. ./ The propeller 'Oakland sprung a leak ou Lake Erie on Wednesday night, i^ia came near going to the bottom. She is in the Springwells drymlock being caulked. The steamier Alaska yesterday brought up 2,8oo basket* of peaches; and grapes from the/islands. The revemue cutter Geo M Bfbb is at East Tawas inspecting, and bias found craft^yjfrithout papers and with other irregularittues. She found the tug Larkwithoutpapers.no small boat or life-preservers, and no engineer, the Captain acting as commander and engineer. The boat was put in charge of the Custom officer, but wid probably be released, as the Captain claims he has papers at Port Huron. Misoliaiioons. The schrs Midland Rover and Stampede sailed from Chicago Thursday morning for Prescott, Lake Ontario. It will he of iuterest to know which vessel reaches her destination first. The Stampede is an American and the Mid* land It'iver a naturalized Canadian, and both vessels fairly smart sailers. Stormy weather on Lake Ontario durinc the next few days is prognosticated by some knowing ones, the captain of one lake vessel going so far as to predict that the worst gale of the season will r.trike the western end of the lak* before the brat of October. The prediction is not born* out be present appearances in Toronto. The schr Prussia is having trouble in Brockville, Ont., where she arrived some time ago with 713 tons of coal. It appears that when the captain went to sign the bill of lad« ing he found therein no stipulation that he should be com* pensated for demurrage, and refused to sign unless such a stipulation was made. This was refused, and he accord-Ltutty sailed without signing the bill at all. After being in Brockville twelve days he was offered a place where he could unload one hatchway at a time, but upon asking for com* peusiition for demurrage, was refused by the Grand Trunk Railway Company, to which the cargo was consigned. The captain thereupon refused to deliver the coal until the claim was settled, and hero the matter rests. De has now been U*" I sBuli li lilln fin liflimii fltrni >d i Jf6^ essel's s#e»d between the The It should be noticed by those in that as much depends ou the proporti length and breadth of the vessel aa on the model. mammoth ocean steamers 600 feet long by less than sixty broad make from fifteen to eighteen knots an hour, while smaller and sharper vessels having a greater breadth in proportion to the length do not make as good time. It has been said that the steamship Onoko, because of her bluff bows could not make time." As a matter of fact she is 302 feet long and only thirty*nine breadth of beam, or a little less than eight feet long to one broad. Having the necessary power, she has a great advantage over other ves- | sals simply because of this proportion. Captain Pringle's j assertion that she makes fifteen milss an hour is not dis« 1 puted until there has been a test to show he is wrong. THE DEAD ADRIFT. TEE VICTIMS OF THE ASIA COMING* TO THE SUK-FACE. Owen Sound, Ont., Oct. 2.—The tue Ann. Long arrived here this morning, having on board the following bodies, lost off the ill-fated steamer Asia: John McDougal, purser; F. Soarbs, Ottawa; Jackson, a farmer from near Lisiowell; Mrs. Kirk, Clover Hill; Sheppard, and one unknown, supposed to be Silas Bernard. Two unknown bodies were buried at Killarney. Captain Noble, of the tue Ana Long, reports that a large number of bodies were floating around near where these were Dicked up, and that they could be easily recovered if a lue witn proper appliances for che purpose was dispatched at once. . _ t a general liignt amongst the entire crew. mate was not the only person hurt In the melee, but his condition may yet priwve fatal. No arrests took place. , The quarrel is said to haTffi arisen through drink. / A quantity of Hfe^pireservers marked "propeller c/icago,' also canvas and pieces; of boards, all supposed to^hb part of the Chicago, were om Friday found on the beat* between Whitefish iiay and Jomeph pier. The wreckage is doubtless from the olo propelliar Chicago, which burOed and sank at the foot of the lake some time ago. It has perhaps been drifting about since the disaster, yr it may be that the burned hulk has broltaen up. The old schooner Australia is in the docks of the Chicago DryvDock Company for caulking preparatory to taking chances iu the fall gales. The Australia was built in 135*2--thirty years ago—amd ha3 dropped down at both enu\s, so that she presents a straight Hue from stem to stern. Still there are more dangerous crafts afloat than she te. every one of which is au argument iu favour of a law to condemn vessels after they befflome so old and rotten that the uudei* writers cease to class and insure them. / The Marine City Siiave Company's new steamer.the Miry, Captain Harry iJale, is one of the most handsonu/and staunch vessels on ttue St Clair River. She is 135 feet in length over all; her engines are the QO«tf pieces of machinery ever run on the hakes, and have made 124 revolutions with her seven-foot wheel when carrying only eighty pounds of steam. Her equipment in the way of pumps, boats, life-rafts, and lit'c-jjvuih" apparatus generally is very complete ; the internal fittings awe couveuient and handsome, and her speed is above the awerage. The present season has been an unusually barren one for Teasel-owner*. At ©hlcago it Is thought that after owners of sailing craft have [paid all their debts they will not be able to figure out amy profit from this season's business, and in many cases wiill find that they have lust money, Orahi freights have tncver got beyond 3} cents a bushel to Lake Erie ports, audi taking the season all throuch the average will not bee over 2 cents a bushel. The opening rate Was 2£ cents a butshel on corn (paid the schooner Wells ! liurt, the first vessel chartered in lS&'Z to carry! grain to liuffalo), since which tinie the rate bus varied ail the way from 11 to 3t cents. Eates to upper Canadian ports have never exceeded 2 cents a bushel, most of the time ruling at 1J to 1J, while the rate to Lane Ontario porta has varied all the way from 4j£ to <>,;. cents. It will be seen at a glance by those who know anyfthing about the expense attached to Sailing a vessel that these rates will leave no margin to owners, aud that tine determination to lay their vessels up is a wise aud aensibUe move on their part. Kingston Notes. Kingston", Kov. 1. —(Special.) — The schooner Philo Bennett cleared last evening for Oswego with 7,000 bush of baHey at 2>c. T.ie steamer Cons.ican passed down the river to-day. The Spartan goes down to-morrow? both ou their last trips. Messrs Lett Bros., of Bedford Mills, have the finest fleet of vessels on the Rid<eau Caua1. The steamhargeB and coa^ sorts are now encased in carrying ties and lumber to Kingston or Cape Vincent. Capt Yott, of the Achr O S Storrs, denies that the cook fttempted to commfit suicide. The occurrence in Oswego harbour was au accident, and she did not jump overboard at Trenton. The steambarge Ctarlisie got stuck in the mud near Belle Isle this morning. The tug Kate pulled her off after some hard work Detroit Jottings. DETBOIT, Nov. I.—The first, ser'ous mishap of the season occurred at the Li.iueliihi Crossing yesterday forenoon. 'The steambarge Ban-nUiU. for Milwaukee with coal, ran on the rocks near the Kiln. She was released hi the afternoon by the tugs Master and Maughan after lightering part of her cargo. The tuu Hackett also pulled ou her. The propeller Saamuel F Hodge arrived down yesterday morning from LakeS uperior behind time because of the heavy weather. Captain ' jUmmihgs reports that on Thursday he was forced to take shelter at Graud Island. The Sweet" heart was there, ami also the tu„' Martin Swain, The leak in the Sweetheart had been stopped before the Swain ar-» rived, and nothing was left for to do but to pump her out. The weather was so bad that it was thought she would not loave for Duluth until Saturday. The steambarge V Swain was caught in the same storm, and suffered considerable damage. Herco&aorfc lost her topmasts. When the Swain arrived at I'ort Huron she had considerable water in her hold, mod was with much difficulty brought iu without sinking. S,he is now iu dry-dock at Port Huron loaded with irou on* . A'.l efforts to relate the schooner Ely. ashore at Detroit, have failed. She hais htjen abandoned as a total loss. She Was Coal laden for JlftulUth. Th° barge Peck, im tow of steambarge Antelope lr>st h er rudder on Xake'Krfce and was towed to Springwells dry d.v ck to receive another. She got away yesterday. The Toledo tug Sipi.mey brought the barge City from Toledo to Windsor leading badly. The City is loaded With coal, aud had aboui four fee: of water in her when she arrived up. A despatch from (Capt. Shanks of tha schr Frank Craw'-ford, dated Po-p-age Point-, announces that the vessel drugged ashore when stttowas loading near Garden Hay. Xo assistance had beam sent at last account*. The schr Geo A (Crawford, laden with cedar, went ashore on Saturday at Patients Bay near Point Au'Barges, and is reported iu had shaipe. John Murphy, (employed on the dredge Toledo, was drowned In the Calluinet River at a late hour on Sunday night. The body w/as recovered. The steambarge'.n'ruesilell, which went ashore some days ago near Oharlevobx, h/h been released, through the efforts of the Inspector ffor the Boston Marine Insurance Company. The remainder of her cargo of pig iron was.tuken out on Monday 'ti;* ascertain the full amount of damage sustained, which, lit isthoujht, will not be so great as was at fii'st supposed. The Vessel Ownears' Towing Company at Chicago received a despatch from tlhe Captain of Hie barge Butcher Boy. that thij vessel was w.ater=-logged at Mauitowac and wanted immediate relief. This was promptly furnished by the Company, the tug Protection being sent to her aid. She is loaded with lumlbev. The Protection will tow her l o Chicago, where shte will be thoroughly overhauled. KvKiHng--Uown- Props Jay Gould, Atlantic. Steam-barges S C Shehdon, Yosemite and bai-ge. O Townsend, Vhdna aud consoirt. Schrs Tilden, S P Ehyi lied White and Blue. T R Meirritt, Edward Kelly, Queen of the Lakes. Buffalo Notes. BnFFA.1,0, Nov. 1.—Nothing had been learned of the whereabouts of GSaptaiu Edward Fitzgerald up to last night- A number of vesssels hound out were waiting for weather yesterday. The wind was fresh down the lake. Portions of the outer breakwater have «ot out of Hue and partially tippwid over by reason of the action of the water in stormy weather aud the wasting away of tjhe bottom upon which the cribs rest. In ordc-r to guard against any possible destr-uction of the breakwater Mr. Maurice Kiugsley, the engmieer in Cbftrue of the work here, has had constructed a tmree-comered protection crib, which has required a great 'heal of skill to put together, and cost cone siderabie money. This crib i3 to be placed in position ton morrow. It is a work of no ordinary character, aud maybe the means of staving thousands of dollars.