Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-24
MARINE NEWS.


About 42,eOo tons Of ore are now on the docks.
Over "a, 600 tons of iron ore have been received
at Ashtabula harbor during the present season.
The Tug Triad Of Cleveland has arrived, and
and for the balance Of the season win do towing
at this port.
The tug Dexter has been out of commission dur
ing the past week, having her boiler repaired and
her fues cleaned. She will be ready foF business
again on the 23d.
The tug Dragon, which left here about ten days
ago for Buffalo, for new boiler, is expected here
next week, when she will again be employed in
towing.
The fine. staunch propeller Inter-Ocean, of De-
troit, with her consort, Agropaut, arrived here
light last Wednesday morning. for cargoes of coal
They loaded at the upper docks Of Andrews,
Hitchcock q Co., and were visited and admired
by many persons.
AsHoRE=The little schooner Harriet Ross, of
Buffalo, While trying to make this port last Tues
day night about 10 O'Clock, missed the harbor and
went ashore just west Of. the piers She left this
harbor abou four o'clock of the same day. with a
cargo Of coal for Buffalo, and was leaking consid
erable water, but her captain thought he could
make Buffalo withou- much trouble; when outside
fey hours her pumps gave out and she contin-
ued to leak very badly; she was then headed for
this port, where she met with this accident The
tug Triad went out to her assistance about two
O'Clock Wednesday morning, but she was imbed-
ded in the sand to such depth that the tug could
render her no assistance. A telegram was sent
to her owner, Thomas Collins, Of Buffalo, notify
ing him Of her condition, and tug with steam
pump on board left there LAST Wednesday morn
ing to get her ahoat. Should the sea be no heav-
Ter than it vas last Wednesday, she will proba-
bly, get relief, and her cargo be saved. The vessel
was insured for 5000, WHICH is about all she is
worth; the cargo belonging to Rhodes . Co., was
also insured.
The PAHLIoo REACHES CHIoAso.-The schooner
Famlico about which much anxiety has been
manifest ed. and which had been given mn as lost
reached Chicago at ten O'Clock last Thursdav
night, safe and sound The wind was blowing a
gale When she arrived at the entrance of the har-
Dor, and there was no tug to tow her in Yet such
was the anxiety Of her captain to get in that in
spite Of the nerce wind and the roaring waves he
sailed in and succeeded In making the harbor in
safety. The Pamlico. II win be remembered left
Chicago May 10th, 1874, with a cargo of corn for
Queenstown. She got there without trouble but
in canning back she came near laundering off
Newfoundland and was compelled to go back to
England for repairs. She was then Thoroughly
overhauled and transfer med into a brigantine.
Her second attempt to ross the ocean was as
disastrous as the first, and che was again COM
PEELED to return to England minus her mainboOm.
Being repaired again, she left for the thiEd time
June 9th, 1875, and succeeded In reaching Quebec
after having been out ffty-four days. The captain
states he had heavy weather after leaving the
Channel, and had dead head winds to the Banks.
FROM there TO St. Pauls, N. F., he had somewhat
PETER weather, but from st. Pauis to Quebec, he
nad again head winds At Montreal he had to
ad ms cargo and take It in again at Kingston
tsIea kain X IN 70 lighter 1t at Port Dalhousie and
an IaL He tne OF the gale, Sept. 9th he was not
| Tbnndsr RaT RlUhIIgan, as had been feared but at
not very viayssIt lake ~ huron, where the gale wac
on trd1s mSKg ltS teShlgan until off Milwaukee, when