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PKOPELLER PHOSNriX, CAPT. B- G. SWKET, 1S45, PROTEST AND WAENIN&. THE OEE MEN AND THE VESSEL-OWNERS. To the Editor of Tie Inter Ocean. Deteoit, Mich., Nov. 6.—la the utter indifference to vessels* rights, and in the utter disregard of their promises, the ore companies and brokers that work for thein cannot be excelled. I venture to assert that those craft that were ensaeed in the ore trade in 1881 and this season have had to submit to such detentions loading ore, and especially at points of its discharge, as to consume their entire freight money' and leave no profit to owners. The boats have been so humbugged by shiDpers of ore that demurrage could not be enforced. Charters have been made when they knew that docks at ports of destination were already lull, and few, if any, cars ready to relieve them so that vessels could be unloaded. The fraudulent excuse xor not allowing demurrage has been the strike of rolling-mill hands, preventing the mills receiving tha ore aud railroads not supplying cars. Notwithstanding these alleged facts and excuses, these ore companies have continued to charter vessels, aiways promising dispatch, which they found brokers ready to indorse, and thereby help to sacrifice owners and their property. -As an experienced person in this lake transportation business, I can say, from actual experience for years m the grain and ore trades, that, owing to the deceptions and frauds iu way of detention and short weight in ore, that a vessel can always make three grain to two ore trips, and often cau \t make two gram trips to one ore trip, for the ore goes generally to Cleveland, Ashtabula, aud Erie, and their facilities for unloading coal are J not better than for unloading ore, while at Buf- „ faio tbey unload grain and load coal " with excellent dispatch, and dispach enables acceptance of lower rates, while lost time in the ore trade makes high rates imperative. I have written you these facts to warn vessel-owners, and advise them that on account of the assured dispsficn in grain and / coal cargoes at Buffalo, and on account of the ( '^c delays in ore and loading coal at other ports, the ore should pay $1.25 per ton freight ordinarily, when grain pays 2*30 freight on corn, and I challenge any one to confute me, with the experience of the last two seasons as a guide to my figures. Very respectfully Vessel OWneb. Charters am! Freights. Cuiccago, Nov. 6,—-There were but few arrivals yesterday, andveery little doing in freights or charters. The scar Belle vwalbridge took a thousand bushels of oats to Stur« geon UJay at current rates. The propeller Cuba was chartered yesterday to take wheat; to Bnffalo at 2^c per bushel : and the schooner Abbie L Andrews tha same place at 2gC : the Bell Hansom, to arriive, is chattered for a load of wheat to Ogdensburg at 6 eentta. BuBXFAlA Nov. 7.— Coal freights are firm and very little doing. The late charters reported are the schrs Red White and Bllne, -Minnehaha, Francis Balms, barge Brunette, and props'W L Wetinore. Hecla, and Hiawatha to Chicago at SI 00. GHHO4G0, Nov. 5. —The B S Marsh gets 3£c on flaxseed to Buff alio. Kingston Notes. Kingston. Nov. 7. — Special—Forwarding companies are closing up business. Thy schooner Herbert Dudley is loading rye for Walker* ville an 6c. There have been no charters iu Chicago or Ogd eusburg since llitth October. The schooner Julia is loading peas for Oswego at 24c, aud t,he schooner A. Falconer barley for Oswego at the same irate. The steamer Louise, of Rideau Canal fame, has been purclnased by the Deseronto Navigation Company. She will bte towed from Ottawa by the steam barge Nile to Kingston, thence to Deseronto,, where she will be thoroughly overhauled. The schooner Sybella, which went ashore in the Upper Gap im 1878, is going to piece-The j1 • tug Glide has been detained for two days at Gana*-noque: with a tow, the water being very low in the Galop Rapidds on account of the wind blowing up the river. Messers. Richardson are shipping grain as follows: — Dudley. 15,ooo bu rye to Waikerville at Gc ; Julia, 8,ooo bu peas too Oswego at 2ic : Falconer, 13,ooo bu barley to Oswe-> go at 2'2iC : and Lancaster a mixed cargo for Montreal. " r iv Buffalo KntvK^B—mm****^ Bufffalo, Nov. 7.—Recognizing the fact that iron ore must) De carried more cheaply in the future, Mr. Peck has decideed to put compound engines in his steamships Forest City iund R H Hackett. His coal bills so far this season for these; steamers amount to ^jl5 OJO, much of which will be saved by compounding the engines. ^j^aMHKMNN oteaiu barge i\i M Drake has just made the run from "this piui't to Amherstburg in *J4 hours. This is good time for a boat that was not intended for -peed. The steam barge Queen of the West has had a leak stopped at the Mills Dock, and the propeller Milwaukee is in for a new wheel. No news has been learned of the missing Captain Fitz- BISASTERS. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 6.—A private dispatch received to-day reports the steambarge Oregon ashore at Middle Is¦ and, Lake Huron. The steambarge Queen of the West is in drydock repairing a leak caused by striking at the lime-kilns. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. East TAWas, Mich., Nov. 6.—A heavy southeaster has been blowing since Saturday night, during which time the steamer Metropolis sheltered at the Charities. She arrived here Sunday morningand attempted to go up shore, but was obliged to return, and is still here. The eteain-barges Gratwick, Donaldson and consort, W. L\ "W. Powers, Colwell and barges. Bay City, Dobbins, Ogden, Fale. WorthinRton. Montgomery; schooners B. Bottstord and Mary Hattie are nere. Bain is setting in at 5:30 p. m. COMPETENT OFFICERS. A MOVEMENT THAT SHOULD BE CAUKIKD OUT. The following petition is a move in the right direction. It i3 bsing' extensively eisned at the various seaports. Why "coast-era" are excepted, however, it is hard to imagine: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled: WHEKEAS, There are many masfcorB«Jfcud mates of vessels in the United States merchant marine who are incompetent to perform the duties oE their respective stations; and Wheeeak, By reason of such incompetency, much loss of human life and property has resulted; therefore. We, your petitioners, do humbly pray your honorable body to enacr, a lav/ subjecting all candidates for the positions of these offices to r5 proper examination, and making it imperative upon every such officer, save and except those on board of coaster, whalers, and fishing vessels, to have a duly attested certificate that he ¦ has passed the said examination with credit. And we further pray your honorable body to take measures to devise and pat in execution an efficient system ior raising, up and training American seamen. Here on the. lakes all vessels "plying1 between American ports are (uv the customs | officials) called coasters. A craft making trips from Duluth, the head ' oi' Lake Superior, to Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence I Ttiver, is a •"coaster;" and, according to the same foolish department parlance, the passage of. a little scow across the river from j Detroit to Windsor, Can., is dignified into a ¦"•foreign voyoee." It is to be hoped that tgr'ess will take the subject up, and will include all coasters, at the same time assuming control over said vessels (the same as : steam craft) for inspection as to seaworthiness and equipment for life-saving in case of disaster. ui) la-ke wind continued yesterday. Old sailors say that m the wind was from the north-east when the sun crossed the line, it will be the prevailing direction for the , Bliocevding three months. We certainly have had an unu" -I sual run of such winds this fall. Smiith & Davis yesterday received a despatch from Capt. Geo. McLeod, their wrecking muster, spying he had towod j the nail laden schooner Goshawk, which was in a leaky Ciiiidittion at Marquette, to Duluth with the tug M Swain. The Sweetheart was taken to Marquette by the Swaiu, and the stceani barge Smith Moore is towing her down. Detroit JotMn-s. Deitroit, Nov. 7.—A heavy south-east gale has been blowhiug on Lake Erie since Saturday night. The following crafts : are sheltered at Amherstburg :—Stearabarges Porter | Ohanihberlain and three barges. Wm Rudolph and two bargea.s, Empire and two barges, O H Green and four barges, Alleghheny and one barge. Tugs Music with four barges, Stranjqrer and four vessels, steambarge Pacilic and tow, and steamibarge Ogemaw. Pigeon Bay is also covered with, ' The new steamship Oregon, towing the barges Plymouth t, and R:. N Rice, ran on the Middle Island reef on Saturday Knd was pulled off by the tug James Reed. i'b, following is the total lake shipments of iron ore Some of the vessel men at Chicago anticipate a late close of navigation. They think ice will not accumulate until late in December or the 1st of January, *o that vessels can hn,ve a free passage through the Straits until then. The case of the tug Favourite (for blowing her Madoc whistle a mile off Chicago harbour) was continued by Justice Wallace to Nov. 8. The question is. Can the city prosecute tugs for whistling outside the harbour, and a mile out on the lake -has the city jurisdiction in such a cane ? A meeting was held in Mr, William Beatty's office at Owen Sound on Tuesday evening for the purpose of discuss* ingthe advisability of organizing a joint stock company to buy or build a suitable steamboat to ply between Penetan* guishene, Midland, and Parry Sound. A large number of gentlemen were present, and the scheme was thoroughly approved. Jfc is proposed to start the company with a capital of $25,000 to 535,000, and it is thought that the amount can easily be raised. Many jokes are flying about in the marine columns of the leading Canadian and American journals at the expense of the " fine-weather sailors." most of whom are now said to have become " sick " and incapable of doing duty on lake craft. There is no wonder at their retirement when one reads of such incidents as that recorded in a Milwaukee despatch, which states that the Crew of the Powat&amie on Saturday could devise no other means of stopping the leaking of th.-ir disabled steamer than by tearing up their clothes and stuffing the shreds into the crevices of the over-strained craft, thus keeping her aiioat until she was sighted and rescued by a life-saving crew. No, there is no use in denying that the gentry referred to In those sarcastic para* ayhs would feel out of their element on the lakes at this son of the year. from upper peninsular ports the present season up to and including Nut. 1st:—Escanaba, 1,622,054 ; Marquette, 8/5,768 : Lanse, 62,491 : St. Ignace, 51.529 : total, 2,612,440, showing au increase of 162,445 tuns over the same period of last season. On Friday morning the light on Standard Rock was extinguished for the season and the keeper and assistant quitted their lonesome posts until the opening of navigation next spring. They left at eight o'clock iu the morning in a sm:ill sail boat provided for their use, and reached Mar-quctte at ten o'clock the same night after a rough trip. For a month prior to the date of leaving the lighthouse they hmd been watching a chance to get off, hut there was not a ajlnglo day the lake was calm enough until Friday. The lighthouse will probably not know a human presence again imitil next spring. The tug Winslow left Detroit yesterday with five steam pumps* to rescue the fine schooner George H Ely, aban» doned at Detour. Miscellaneous. I Theiprop Canada continues on the Chicago and Collingwood rroute. The scow Pearl, which is aground on Fish Poiut, has been sttripped and abandoned. The Goodrich propeller Menominee has gone to Lake Superior with a cargo of supplies, shipped by Leopold & Austrian, The propeller Cuba, while being towed down the Chicago River Saturday, struck the south pier, but did not sustain severe damage. The tug John Dwan lost her wheel on Lake Huron, and parsed down by Port Huron yesterday afternoon for Detroit n tow of the tug Kate Williams. The schooner Nevada, which arrived at Port Colborne yesterday morning, was leaking badly, having lost her centreboard in the gale of Saturday last. The tug Gregory, of Sturgeon Bay. arrived at Milwaukee on Saturday, with two scows and a pile-driver to be used in the construction of a new bridge at that port. The steamship Jewett is stuck in the draw of the bridge at the glue factory, Chicago, where she has been since Saturday noon. The steambarges Britain and Snook are delaveid. The? barge G.F. Curtis, of Toledo, has air- "\ rived, at Buffalo with lumber from Saginaw-, ', her hirst trip to that port. She will lay after unloading, and during" the winter will I be svupplied with machinery. The Curtis j was 5built at Marine City by David Lester, j for tlhe Toledo and Saginaw Transportation Commany. She came out the latter p; of -huly as a tow-barge, but her hull || was finished iu steambarge shape. Hw lengtflh is 1-SG feet, beam o3 feet, and hold 1 I. feet. H. G. Trout, of tho King Iron Works, j Will ffiurnish her with a duplicate of the I Merciur's engine, which is a fore-and-afb % compound with cylinders of 2(1 and IS incheas, and 42 inches stroke. Her bo will Ibe made of eleven-sixteenths steel, and. | will be 12 feet in shell by 17 feet long-, i Whem thus equipped the Curtis will be powmrful towing- steamer, with a capfici of 5UU),000 feet of lumber. The Toledo and Sagrimaw Transportation Company also oitearnbarges P. H. Eirckhead and T uest, and tow barges Isabel Reed, N. C Hall, | T. S. Vassett, Katy Brainard, Troy, Dayton, F and one on the stocks at Bay City. ^ Charters and Freights. CHICAGO, Nov. 7.—"Very few charters were made yester-. day to any ports, and only one to Canada, the schr Arabia taking 31.000 bush corn to Midland, the rate to which port was 2Jc. The nominal rate to Ogdensburg is Gc. Kingston Notes. Kingston, Nov. 8.— Special—The schooner H. M. EaK low has arrived with 80 tens of coal from Oswego. Mr. Thos Martin paid the charges of H. Sprague and Frank M. Riley, of Henderson, for the steam barge Good-hit §5,200. The Goodhit measures 114 tons. The schooner White Oak gets 25c a ton on coal from Pair-haven, and has to wait a week in order to unload it. The schooner G. Thurston has been abandoned at Eyng Inlet, but she has been stripped of property by the superintendent of the company, now here valued at §2,500. Captain Donnelly thinks the lighthouse system on the Georgian Bay is very defective. Miscellaneous. The steam barge Belle Wilson is loading lumber at Port Whitby for Oswego. The Chicago branch of the Seamen's Union will shortly Celebrate the closing^ftne season by a hop. The tug Erie Belle has arrived in Windsor from Georgian Bay where she has been stripping the schooner Geo Thurss ston, sunk on Oct. 21st. Lake Michigan is pretty well strewn with lumber and shingles from the deck loads of vesse s caught iu the storm. The barge Clenwttis broke away from the steambarge A A Turner on Lakfl/Erie on Sunday aud had to sail up. The scow Frank Smith, which was sunk in the harbour at Belleville on Saturday by the tug Bonar, was pumped out yesterday, and will go to Deseronto for repairs. The revenue cutter Andy Johnson will leave Milwaukee to-day for a cruise to the Manitou, Foj:, and Beaver Islands. She will be on the look-out for vessels in distress. The master of the tug Potawatomic, winch broke her shaft outside Milwaukee on Saturday, and came near going ashov on Monday filed a wreck report, placing her damages at $200. While the prop Ocean was loading flour at Welland Railway dock, Port Dalhousie, Tuesday night, she was found to be making water, iind went back to St. Catharines to go on dry-dock for repairs. The wind being very strong from the south-west on Mon* day the arrivals at Chicago were not numerous. Those vessels which made the harbour were much behind time, and many schooners were driven away from port by the blow. The large steambarge Jewett, which idnce last Friday has been hard aground in the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River, was ou Monday lightered off and left for below with a smaller cargo than she originally took on board. On Monday afternoon the tug Hackley towed two boat loads of stone to South Chicago, which wore deposited in the new piers recently sunk at that port for the purpose of holding them down during the fierce gales which are em peeted during the fall. On Monday morning while two fishermen were cruising with a sail boat off South Point, Milwaukee, they discovered part of a vessel. They pot a line to it, towed it into the harbour, and it was hauled out on the beach. It was about twenty-iive feet long, part of the bow and sides, with stanchions, bulwarks, rails, and string. It is undoubtedly part of the ill-fated tug Wetzel, which blew up off Oak Creek recently! none of the unfortunate victims of which have yet been found. ... • Vessel-owners who nave been carrying ore during the present season appear to have a grievance in the unconscionable delays experienced in unloading their cargoes at Cleveland. Ashtabula, and Erie. Some of them maintain that it may be accepted as incontrovertible that a vessel can make three grain to two ore trips, if not in the proportion of two to one. The causes assigned are the miners'strikes and the crowded state of the above-named docks, though neither of these Reasons can entirely account for delays complained of. S~Vessel movements. RAPID SAILING. \^f 7s EEMARKABLES TIME OF THE SCHOONER HIGGIE. \ -The schooner Higsie (formerlv Higgle & £ Jones) has just distinguished herself by making the most rapid round trip on record. She left Chicago Oct. 27 for Buffalo, and returned here Tuesday, Nov, 7 (in time to vote), making the round trip in 11 davs and 18 hours, including eight hours at anchor in the Straits and thirty-four hours in Buffalo unloading grain and loading coal. This is the fastest time ever made by a sail vessel between Chicago and Buffalo, and places the Higgie away up "in the front ranks" as a runner. Captain Bill Higgle is in command, and this fact, of course, has a frreat deal to do with the behavior of the craft. Vive la Baggie! Detroit Jotting. Owpt, *Th« wm"' khe k**rB«»b« Dowd and tug John Owen., lhe Williams had uart of her nort,wib> «t«.«lr S th' TTi'e n"W'1 '"" a h<*10 »'"'-o in hor's"S,» d lido and the John Owen was minus her whp«l Whii,. ,-,-Jl;.,, u„tl,eDow,l the WilliM13 ,™, tl r !•«, a^aU t ho si ff in.iael.1 ihe Bowd is not leaking. She is now unlo . nnr her can-so of iron ore at Hanitramack. unloading A special frora Hancock. Mich., says R Snitton nf K jUBttOn, Canada second porter „„" the ('ity o £ee°."ont eve,"taghe8aaS Plank aad was downed a! that port S jaa^'safScsrt&'j*out «*•«* *»ii««- tua bomauzas in that locality. --.-—« «". mt iriiioo-ji me lower ith.M^o^' iltirie- hereby stopping the THIS MODOC SCKEECH. THE CAS5E AGAINST THE TUG PAVOHITE. The captaini of the lake towing steamer Favorite was sumimoned, at the instance of the Citizens' Association, for an alleged violation of the ordinance wiith regard to the use of steam whistles, by the excessive and unnecessary use of her steam fog-wmistle on the nigur. of Wednesday, Oct. 18. while signa ing for the river tugs to come out and take her barges when she arrived off the harbor in the lake. The captain pleads that at the time he thought he was justified in blowing this screaming whistle, as he believed his tow was in danger by reasdn of another tow of barges that was bound for the river t and close after him, making it necessary for him. j to get his relieving tugs at once to bring his I barges id out of the track of the approaching vessels. He stated that the use of this sereech-ing whistle shall be abandoned in the future for "f signaling purposes, unless uuuer such circum- ( stances of weather as would, iu jeopardize life or property by its omishiou. The suit has been dismissed. . — '"¦"'TlivV'Elir SOUND. A Propeller Burned Owex Sound, Nov. 5.—The propeller Josephine Kidd was burned off Cape Commodore last night. She left here about eight o'clock in the evening- with a full cargo of merchandize, including a large quantity of mill supplies for Lion's Head. After calling' at J?resqu'isle. where she took on board fifteen tons of hay, she proceeded on her way to Wiarton, thence bound for Lion's Head. When a few miles from Cape Commodore fire was discovered in the after cabin. Captain Thorburn first made an effort to extinguish it, but finding it gaining too much headway headed the vessel for shore, where they succeeded in beaching her. The crew attempted to use the pumps, but were driven from their posts. The ladies' maid had a narrow escape. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The crew were allt picked up safely by the steamer Myrtie, that hap-' pened to be en route from Wiarton to this place, and taken to Wiarton early this morning. The cargo is valued at upwarda of §4,000, and not insured. The Josephine Kidd is a small propeller of 108 tons burden, built at Port Stanley in 1879. She was owned by Kidd & Co., of Goderich, valued at §6,000, classed A 2. She was insured, but at present the amount cannot bo ascertained, nor the company. Charters tin! Freight*. Chicago, Not. 8.—The only charters to Dominion ports yesterday were prop Oneida, 24.2U1 hush corn and sundries to Collingwood, and the prop Canada.',which took 17,427 bush corn and sundries to the -same port. BUFFALO, Noy. y.-<.'oal freights at 11113 port are firm at $1 to Chicago and Milwaukee. There are few Teasels here, and no charters are reported. . Detkoit, isoi. 9.—Charters rather scarce yesterday. The following were reported :—Schrs Leighton, Wm Young, and L L Lamb, lumber Alpena to Ohio port.-* at #2 : steambarye Jewess aikI barges, Sweepstakes, and Wyandotte, lumber Cheboygan and Alpena to Detroit aud Han« dusky at «2. ._^__:~ DISASTERS. bpecial Telegram to Tfa.e Inter Ocean. Pobt Hun ON, Mich., Nov. 9.—The schooner Wm. Crosthwaite reported here to-night to make repairs in her pumps. Tne propeller Benton ran aground last uiffht below St. Clair, and was released this morninj:. The steambarge Oregon broke her wheel and steeling gear by gettins on Middle Island retf this trip down. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Colchester, Ont., No*. 0.— The schooner Canada, of tic Cathariues, timber-huleii, ran Colchester Reef this/mornm^, caused by the r iightshiD hiinff of^of place. The captain has <f gone to Amhertsburg-for assistance. Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean. Pn TON, Ont., Nov. i).— The stern and cabin of a vessel called the Carrie and Cora c^me ashore yesterday at 'Gull Harbor, near Point Peter, in this county. The shore was strewn tor some distance with fragments of the cabin and fixtures. DETROIT MABINE'HOSPITAL. Louisville, Ky., Nov. y.—Dr. VV. H. Long, surgeon of tieUmteU States Marine ' Hospital, m this city, ^as been ordered to take charge of a simitar service at Detroit, tie will b ¦ succeeded here by Dr. W. H. H. iiutfi#j|* it present on d'utv at Detroit station. Kingston Sotos. Kingston, Not. 10.-(Special.)—Work 1 'V-2~6*.}fif£~2o FREIG-HTS. Corn to Buffalo, 3c; wheat, [ilic; steamers obtained 3*20 ana corn. The schooner M. E. Tremble gets 3c on her cargo of wheat to Sandusky. On corn to Collingwood, the schooner Waukesha obtained 21ac. The charters were; to buffalo. Bushels. Steamship R. A. Packer, corn..............47,000 Steamship Tacoma, corn..................70.000 Propeller Arabia, corn......................25,000 TO SANDUSKY. Schooner M. E. Tremble, wheat............45,000 TO ERIE. Propeller Philadelphia, wheat.............25,000 Propeller Wiseahickoh, corn...............14,000 Propeller Conemauuh, corn...................... COLLINGWOOD. Schooner Waukesha, corn.............'....20,000 COARSE FREIGHTS. Bpccial Telecrnam to The Inter Ocean BUFFALO, ST. Y., Nov. 8.— Coat freights fairly active. Rated firm at SI to Chicago and Milwaukee. Engagements: Prop Chisholm, for Milwaukee; stnur Isaac May and consort, barges Severn, Mosikoka, Waubanshene, for Prince Arthur's Lao dang, $2.75 per ton. Special ! eleer.'iun to The inter Ocean- Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 8.—Charters: Schr H. A. Kent, ore, Escanaba to Cleveland, on p. t.; stmr H. Chisholm, coal, Buffalo to Milwaukee, $1, free; sclhr S. H. Foster, ore, Escanaba to Cleveland, on: p. t.; schr Emma C Hutchinson, coal, Clevelamd to Chicago, 4*1; schr M. S. Bacon, coal, Clevelamd to Chicago. discontinued upoiVTli^shoals tiiis'morii'nw.""Ag a reBiilt of the work so far accomplished the water over the shoals has baen deepened two feet. A new tug will probably b o built this winter for the M, T. Co. The steamer Nltt and one barge haye arrived from Ottawa loaded with laths for Rathbun ic Son. The Nile had the steamer Louise in tow. the hitter bo it was lately bouaht by Eathbun & Son from the Ottawa and Montreal Forwarding Co., and will be used as a ferry boat on ihe River Trent. The dredso at Portsmouth has oompled its work. It (fill be brought to Kingston to dred-e out a place for Cayt. Eraser's dry-dock. The schr Forest Queen came In on Wednesday evening with 2 ,0 tons of Bloasburtf coal for Jas. Swire. The pron Georgian is ashore at Uiib Island, Georgian E-iv She" has 2,51)0 bids of hour in the hold and a deck load of coal. Capt. Douuolly has bean telegraphed to take her otf The iteanibarge Water Lily ran on the sunken schooner American, lying off the K. & M. Forwarding Compaay*0 wharf. The tug Active pulled her off, Captain ConnorB, of the schooner Watertown, sot into trouble at Cleveland recently. He cleared from Ogdensburg to Chicago byway of Kiugston, where he loaded ore for Cleveland. He made the trio in quick time. At Cleveland the Customs authorities made him surrender both hii American and Canadian manifests, besides demanding &w:Q for tonnage dues. Captain Connors paid the amount under protest. The captain intended loading coal at Cleveland forChicago. The authorities at Ogdensburg saidhecoulJ do so without any trouble. Charters and FrelghtH. CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—The schr Waukesha took 20,000 <» inrfc-mmir bushels of corn to'ColIingwood at 2£c BUFFALO, Nov. 10.—Goal freights steady and unchanged, but no further advance is probable, as tonnaue will soon be got in plenty, Charters .—I'rop rf Chisholm, r.o MUw»n&M at si; peons J H Fairwell and Wm Kdwards aud schrs J Godfrey, j H Rutter. Michi-an, K A Nicholson. Ciiarled Koster, and M W Pane, to Chicago at -Ul : prop L W Drake and barge Iowa, to Prince Arthur's Landing on p. t.; Col Cook, salt to Cleveland at 6c, Detroit Jotting*. V Detroit, Nov. 10.—Mr. Kirby has started the work of laying down the new iron steamship which the Detroit Dry Dock Company is about to build. This ship will be built with a carrying capacity of 2,500 tons in 11 feet of water, aud will have a water bottom capable of holding 7-iO tons of water. She will have a steel bottom, and her ironwork will extend to the upper deck. She will be furnished with gangways and wide hatches, so as to tit her for every depart' mant of lake business. Her machinery will consist of a fors .and aft comyouud eugnie. "•"-^nwoM** »-TC^fe*w*sceam barge, not yet named, was launched at WW & Davidson's, shipyard on Wednesday afternoon. She is 192 feet over all, 38 leet beam, and depth of hold 16 feet. She has a compound engine and two steel bailers, and has a capacity of 40.000 bushuli of grain. She will be finished ready for the spring business. The barge Ely was found to have gone to pieces, and has been abandoned by the tug Winslow. The body of Captain E. Wilkinson, of the schooner Nellie May, W*8 found floating In Tawas Bay on Wednesday. It was taken to East Tawas for burial. Miscellaneous. The schr Maedala is lyimg at Port Whitby looking for a load. /^/V*9V#>£j Miscellaneous. . T.ll,<f,'f=hr:panada, of St. Catharines, ran on Colchertar roof llhui-aday .iiornins, and cam,„l t]10 !, .|,t"l,i„ to °, t out The stern and cabin of a vessel called the Carrie and Cora came ashorre yesterday at Cull Harbour, near Point Peter, in Prinze 1-Mward county. The shore was strewn fur some distance with fragments of the cabin and fixtures. Report comes .from steamers up the hike that the steam* barge Oregon, bemud down with the barges R R Rice and Plymouth, ran ashore ou Middle Island Reef and was pulled oft'by the: tuWftS Reid. The (Oregon was disabled while ashore, aiud gave her barges to the tug Swccpatakea. The arrival of grain cairriers at Belleville is anxiously looked for. The dredge Goliah arriwed In Weller's Bay yesterday mqrning to dredge to quite au extent on the site of the Mc-> _Viu!leu docks, which are t*> be commenced as soon as pqs* ¦ ¦ The schr Ella Murton. TTommy Armstrong, master has just made the fastest tiuno on record, makin* the run from Toledo to Burlington* Piers in four hours less than -*l»»e.rtftys. carrying a full I read of coal. The tug Cherokee reportss the steamer Georgian aground between Yeo and Club Islatuds, Georgian Bay. but no par-> ticulars as to her condition i as yet have come to hand. It is thought, however, from hecr locality that *he will prove a total loss. The Georgian was chartered by the C. P. IV, and was laden with a valuaahle cargo of supplies for Algoma Mills. ^^_______r-____________ I who will tow tn^n to U, mmm