VOL. no: 17 CLEVELAND. O., APRIL 24.1884 M.0O Pu Aitxuw Sixoi.1 Copihj 5 Cam %dB0WW TEE LAKES. \ CLEVELAND. The steamer X. K. Fairbanks Is loading coal for Chicago. The biifgo Conrud Reed, whlcti wits slightly aground nt Herson Island, whs re- l«ased without dninuge. The Bteumb'iirg.; Culuuibiii is In the Globe drydock netting a new Philadelphia wheels her bottom calked nnd u jipw piece of keel. Captain T. N. Van- Vlilkenberg, United States supervising Inspector, finds many Hie preservers that will/not bear Inspection. The offli a of Ward's line of steamers Is open to receive freight lor Detroit, Port Huron, Saginaw, and all Lake Superior ports. There Is prospect of an abundance of freight for upper lake ports As soon as navi¬ gation opens. Reports from all merchants are to that effect.. The steambnrge Cormorant is chartered for coal from Cleveland to Milwaukee at 70, and the Cumberland, coal, from Cleveland to Chicago on pi Water Urms, The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Naviga¬ tion Company have adopted standard time. Boats will leave here at 8 30, but at 0 o'clock, us heretofore, according to city time. The William Edward*,Captain MiilloiyT which left Buffalo on Tuesday night, arrived at this port yestei day morning, She took on fuel at Barnhisel's dock and sailed loi Chicago In tl|e evening. , The report ciinent this week that the car¬ go tariff Is broken bus been confirmed. The rate from Chicago to Bullulo Is 60 cents on steum and sail alike. It is understood that W. T. Baker A Co. ship most nf the wheal. Captain Philip Mlneh, according to a par¬ agraph In a city dally Is in a bad fix. It Bays that he made affidavit before a notarj that he lost all his charters last fall when the Sophia Mlilch went ashore. It is to be hoped that it meant charts, as they cairbe replaced. Local Inspectors B. F. Stanard and T. Fltzpatrlck, after inspecting the tugSprague, departed pn slmllai business for (.onnenut. They will exanifno the Kasota and Slidden today. Messis. Stuniird and Fluputrlck have been very busy during the present inonjh, having inspected foity-nlne vessels since April 1st. The following steamers will run In con¬ nection with tho Cleveland Forwarding line, George Chnniberllo, agent, No. 1 Superior street, viz,. Atlantic, Flora, Saginaw Vul- ley, Oconto, Sunlhie, Arinenli, Cuba, Cali¬ fornia, Garden City, Oscoda^ S. C. Hall. Kalkaska and Peterson mid freights will be carrlld with cheap and quick dispatch. The schooner St. Lawrence, Captain Do- vllle owner and master, Is lying in the river In the vicinityo( Columbus street bridge. She hug beon laigely Improved In appear¬ ance during the wintoi, painted outside and ln,nowsallB, now gear, now kelson, new celling, etc., tin lacti thoroughly reacly for liuslniss, Imvlng already brought a cargo of grain from Detroit. AnEastTnwns dispatch of the 21st re¬ ported the Ogemaw and her barges, the Cltj of the Straits and Roberts, were at that port. It any barge la wrecked at Point an Barques It mint be one of the consorts"bt the William Rudolph, as three of her consorts brokendrilt m Lake Huron, am1 the wreck-' ago which floated down the ^t. Clair river -may be from one ot them. The schooner Donaldson has nrrlved nt this port. She will be converted into a bargo and will tow behind the Cuba. She is load¬ ing coal for Chicago. The following additional charters have beon reported: Schooner S. H. Foster, conl, Sandusky to Milwaukee, 70c; Raleigh nnd Lucerne, conl, Lorain to Milwaukee, 75c; Alcona and 8nn DlegoT^aiTTolcdo to Mil¬ waukee, 75: Cheney Ames, coal, Lorain to Brockvllle, H.25; Swnlne, Maxwell and John O'Neil will loud coal lor Lnke Super¬ ior ports. The exploded tug Peter Smith has been brought to this port and now lies nenr the upper end of the old river bed. After get¬ ting her Into her present position she wu» sufficiently hoisted from the water to admit of some examination of her liifll. In doing so the body of James Rancour, one ofjlie three men who~ lost their lives In tho disaster, was discovered in tho hold not far from the location of the bursted boiler. A libel was filed In the United States Disti let Court on the 19th Instant by Ed- Ward B. iimith and Townsend Davis, in¬ surance agents of Buffalo, N.Y., against the wrecked schooner John C. Johnson her boats, tackle, outfit, apparel and furniture uT>u lying at Vermillion Ohio, in which the libelant set forth a claim for salvage to the amount, of (8000, w Itli Interest from De¬ cember 1st, 1883, and further compensation and reward. The property bus been seized by the United States Marshall, and the court has made an order for the sale of the same at public miction. The sale will take place on Monday next at 11 o'clock u. in. Rosel Dow iter, submarine dher, who was In Cleveland this week after having com¬ pleted the work of raising the exploded tug Peter Smith and taking her Into Vermilion, gives a mining account of Ills narrow es- caj e from if watery grave w Itli his armor on. On descendirg to tho wrcik he was caught among the flues ot the boiler which present ed much the appearance thanu mad porcu .pine would, and which caught and held hliu fast, tearing hfs suit and letting the water tl|l his armor. Ho Immediately telegraphed to he drawn up, Imt^dld not reach the sur¬ face until after he becaino'nncoiiBclous. He was laid out on the deck of a barge and re¬ storatives applied, wlieti he recoveied With his usual detcrinlninatioii to prosecute the business upon which he was benr. lie again descended to the sunken tug and his effort* were crowned with the suiccss merit de¬ serves, and which is described above. DKTUOIT. Special to the Marino Record Drrnoir, April 22. Cold Hoathcr has prevailed constantly for a week past, and on Saturday night a north¬ east gale set hi with consiaeruble force, which, beyond .a ddtibt, has prevailed tlirooghout the extent of the whole chain of lakes, uridine results \vlilch usnallr fol¬ low may bo expected, although nt this writ¬ ing nothing strictly definite has come to hand. The stennior Algomah, which mot with nuiiieioiia mishaps in the Straits dftilng the winter, and lastly the loss of her rudder was supplied by-s new one sent from this city by rail. NoW that the Ice will be no longer a source of annoyance, It may be presumed that her tioubles are at an end for the pres¬ ent at least / ' Cnptaln Thomas D. Allen, of this city, has purchased tin Interest in tho side wheel steam er Ivauhoe, and la at present fitting her nut for a passenger route. She formerly plied on Lake Superior. Captain Allen will com¬ mand her, but where she is to ply Is not yet definitely settled upon. The new steambnrge Schoolcraft) built at Trenton, has been towed to this port and is receiving her machinery on board. A new nnme, entirely-out of. the usual routine in such matters, has been found lor a new craft towed here from Diesden a day or two since. Mie has been called the United Lumbermnn'and Is intended for the lumber trnde between Georgian Bay and ports east¬ ward. She It 150 feet long and 33 feet beam, with a low pressure cylinder 82*32. Her boiler Is 8x14. Trovlce & Morden-were the builders. The United States steamer Dahlia has left durante westward to attend to the placing of buoys nntl stakes which belong to her dis¬ trict. The Ice embargo which prevailed for so long n time at the St. Clair fiats has entirely disappeared, We have, lying at one of our docks at this port, a vessel with five masts, otherwise a five-muster, Now this, of course, Is nothing new, as there are sevetul of them on the lakes. Yet If there Is one absurdity above another appended to a vessel It le the craft which carries that fifth obstacle to hertlt-onf, and It Is to be hoped there will be less of them In the future. In earlier times full rigged ships, to the number of three, all told, were put afloat on the lakes, yet they were short lived nnd found not to be (the sort of craft foi fresh waters. The same may be said C barques and brigs, which have almost entirely disappeared. Considerable work has been going on in the repairing of wharves along the river front, which was much needed. It Is expected that on th6 opening of the Straits a large fleet of ves'ols will be on the passage down, and In view ot such an emergency nearly all the tugs have been put In reiidlnes to attend to them. The opening 01 the Wellund canal Is fixed for the 28III lugtnnt, yet It la probable vessels will deparfsonncr. There were no depart¬ ures Inst 5 tnr until May tiih from that port A Detroit dally, in Its niailne depaitineirt, informs the general reader that Captain 11 P. Unlllnii will command- the sieambarge Annie Smith this Benson, and almost In llio snmo brcuth it announced that Captain J. T. Ilulton will command the same steam¬ er. Ouptnln J. M. Jones, chip broker at De¬ troit, and Airs. S. E Hudson, also of this city, Mlave pure based the schooner Grace Murrn) from Leu Is Bhilu. The price stated wits $2,500, a decidedly low purchase. Captuin A P. Collins takes command of the tug John Martin. Latest—The steamer City of Cleveland has just returned to Detroit from her trip to Matklnaw City. Captain A. Stewart in formed your lorrcspnndent that through much difficulty hosucceedud In leaching the much dealt id haven by taking tho south pas Biige,and on his return voyage took the north ohanncl, encountering much Ice on both routes. Wlu'e atSt.Iguaceho was Informed that two steamers were visible from that point lying under St. Helens, downward bound. The Ice, although plentiful for a distance of about ten tulles, whs si pie what porous, and with a strong wind from either course, would give way nnd'afford n passage through. The steamer on her return voy. age encountered very henvy weather but snW no vessels In distress anywhere along the const. I x The schooner Helvetia, which wintered here but halls liom Cleveland, has left for the latter port per the tug P. L. Johnson. The propeller Oconto, laden with lumber nnd lath, reported stranded In the river St. Clair last evening, anived here this morning- all right, en route to her destina¬ tion, sustaining no dnmnge. Morgnn & Rice efected a contract for the shipment of 20,000 telegraph poles from Poit Huron to Monroe, Mich., at 10c each. The first'sail vessel to arrive here from the . west was the schooner Smith &. Post with a cargo of lumber from Alpena. She took hei departure from here, as noted in my last correspondence, Borne days since, meet¬ ing with no delay either way. The steambnrge Win. Rudolph and con¬ sort passed down this (Tuesday) morning, both lumber freighted. The departure from Port Colborne, yes¬ terday, "f the schooners Grace Whitney and Albany wns reported here last last evening, and,with the north shore of Lake Erie clear of Ice they will doubtless etlect a passage through' to the Detroit river. A dispatch received here last night from Maklnne annniiiieei the arrival at that port of the Btoamer City of Cleveland, and It mil} be asstimed that the passsuge through the Straits of vessels from Chicago Is near at hand, and possibly ere this is in type the feat has been accomplished. The reports of disasters on Lake Michigan ciune to hand lust evening nnd tills (Tuesday) p m.. news from Lake Huron are also at hand. The schooner City of the Straits Is re¬ ported a total loss at Point au Barques, hav¬ ing broken loose from the steambnrge Oge¬ maw, with others, Including tho schooner*! Win. Young and E. C Roberts. Tho City of tile Straits is 302 tons bin den and wub built "at Detroit In 1800, by Captain J. M 'Jones. It is not at present known whether any liven have been lost, but it is rendered al¬ most certain that the vessel Is beyond re¬ covery. The schooners W Young and E. (.Roberts were both well along In j ears, the fnimer hii\lng been 21 }ears In service, the latter iH years. The storm Is just uboul at Its,terminus, huvtug been iu forco for three days, and In due course of [lino fur¬ ther reports of casualties will come to hand of the first gale ef the season. . J. W. H CHICAGO. Special to the MariM Jttcord * The shipping office of the Chicago Vessel Owners' Association, has removed to 5J South Market street, second floor, and E. Miller, their ugunt, will lurnlsli ciews foi nil class of "" vessels, on short ndilce, free. Captain Peter Peterson of the schooner Wlnnl* Wing towed over tlilneen spar logs, on Ills last tilp from Peutwater, foi Miller Brothers. The scow Forest of Racine, Captain Sam¬ uel Mart inwiis towed Into thisport.on Sun¬ day last by the tug Tlios. Hood, waterlogged. She wiiHout luetic licavy galo Saturday night and lost part of her deck loud of cedar posts which she had brought from Ahlinpee. She was in considerable perlf outsldu and barely escaped enpsUing. Lnrsen Brothers, vaclit and bout builders [Continiurion 4'h page.\