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      BARGES IN A DILEMMA - ONE LOST. - The somewhat sudden though not unexpected settling in of the extreme cold weather, which has brought navigation to a close, has prevented a number of vessels from getting into port. The tug Torrent left Cleveland on the morning of the 28th ult. …

      Capt. J.H. Gibbs Drowned. - Saturday night, a telegram was received from Port Sallinac, Lake Huron, saying "Capt. Gibbs was drowned on the morning of the 15th. I started for Port Huron with the body - What shall I do with it." Later John Dunn Esq., rceived a despatch from …

      THE TWO GLOBES. - There arrived here on Sunday the Globe, now a barge but formerly the brig of that name, and at one time was acknowledged the fleetest vessel on the lakes. Captain William Dickson, an early lake navigator, though now deceased, ordered her built at Buffalo, and to …

      LOSS OF THE JAMAICA AND ONE LIFE. - The circumstances attending the loss of this vessel were so unusual that we give the following statement of Capt. David Bothwell, who arrived here yesterday noon: The vessel sailed from Milwaukee on the 15th instant, with a cargo of eighteen thousand ...

      The boat was abandoned as a total loss the next day, but was recovered by Coast Wrecking Company early in July. She was lost for good on Lake Michigan in August, 1885

      A NEW MANNER OF ADJUSTING MARINE LOSSES. - The captain of a schooner, now lying in this port, has adapted a novel method of bringing insurance agents to time, and forcing a settlement, upon real or imaginary losses. some two or three days since, his vessel received some damage, enough, …

      THE TRIALS OF AN AMATEUR SHIPPING MASTER. - One of our vessel owners had a little experience Saturday night of the difficulty of getting sailors when the Fourth is so near at hand. The vessel was loaded, but wanted three men to complete the crew, for whom both mates had …

      Marine News. - Tuesday, the 27th inst., Messrs. Rathbun & Son launched from their ship yard at Mill Point, the barge Tobias Butler, the largest ever built on the Bay of Quinte. Her timbers and siding is of the finest white oak, got out expressly for this vessel. She is …

      ROBBING SAILORS - For men who travel so much and are brought in contact with so many sharks, no class are so easily gulled as sailors. The world over they are the prey of keepers of low dives and are plucked with the least unconcern as though their hard earnings …

      A VESSEL CAPTAIN INJURED. - This morning about eleven o'clock, Captain Brotherton, of the sloop Jenny Lind, received painful injuries at the Corn Exchange Elevator, from the leg settling down over his head while he was standing on the dock, telescoping him below his shoulders. the leg, ...

      A BUSY HARBOR. - The strong northwest wind has driven a large fleet of grain vessels to our harbor, thus giving it a busy appearance which gladdens the hearts of dockmen. tugmen are in their glory too, darting hither and thither gathering dollars at every turn of the wheel. The …

      SHOCKING AFFAIR - AN OLD MAN CARRIED INTO MIDLAKE ON FLOATING ICE, AND PERISHES. - An old man, David Acker, who lived with his grandson, Edward Rider, one or two miles south of Sterling Centre, is supposed to have perished sadly on Sunday last. The circumstances were as ...

      THE SCHOONER JAMAICA. - Alderman (Morgan M.) Wheeler telegraphs O.H.Brown that he has contracted with the New York Coasting Company to raise the Jamaica and put her in the dry dock at Detroit. The terms for the raising are not given, but if the company fail they are not to …

      MUTINY ON SHIP BOARD. _____ Stormy Times Around Cape Horn ____ Mrs. Jones Opens an Oyster _____ About half past one this afternoon, foot passengers on the lower bridge, were attracted by the cries of murder, which emanated from the cabin of the ...

      THE SCHOONER W.I. PRESTON. - Last evening about seven o'clock the wrecking tug Rescue, Captain Cotton, towed the schooner W.I. Preston into this port from the Niagara River, where she has been sunk since last November. The Preston went ashore last October near Niagara, and after being ...

      A GOOD SEASON'S WORK. - The schooner Gilbert Mollison, Captain "Joe." Turner, arrived in port this morning with colors flying and dressed out as though she was entering the harbor in June instead of December. The Mollison is entitled to the broom, as she is the only vessel out of …

      THE SCHOONER WILLIAM ELGIN. - The Belleville, Jefferson County, correspondent of the Watertown dispatch writes as follows: "The schooner William Elgin, which went ashore near Armstrong's on Wednesday evening, is still fast in the sand. The deck load of lumber has nearly all been washed ...

      The tug Morey started yesterday afternoon for the purpose of releasing the schooner Antelope which has lain in-bound eight days today, but without success. She had got within a short distance of the schooner, when from some cause she stopped, and there remained till about ten o'clock this ...

      THE LAUNCH OF THE NASSAU. - Yesterday afternoon hundreds of men, women and children wended their way to the ship yard of Goble & Macfarlane to witness the launch of the new schooner, built for T.S. Mott, and arriving there formed in groups, some descanting on the "lines" of the …

      THE ELLSWORTH AFLOAT. - Capt. Williams and E.A. Mattoon arrived this morning and report that the steam barge Ellsworth, which was ashore at Wilson, floated yesterday morning about 11 o'clock. A tug was despatched from the canal to the assistance of the craft, and was backing in to give ...