Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-05-07
HARnOR AnmAnIEE.

Capt. CaprOn launches & new vessel at
Conneaut, on Saturday.
WoTkmen are busily engrged in fin
ishiHg up the new steamer Ohio. -
The straighis are reported open or
sufficiently so far getting through.
Vessels are loading with corn for Os.
wego for II cents-and 8 for wheat.
A vessel, supposed to be the Lightgdrd,
is reported sunk in the north passage,
Lake Erie.
The barge s. n Ryan that went ashore
at Port Abino last fall has been broken
up by the ice.
The Sch ooner Frank Pereo il is stated
has undergone thorough repairs and is
ready for service.
The Buffalo Courier says that the pros
pect is that navigation will be open in
abouttwo weeks.
The schooner I. NJ Foster has gone iu-
to Stephen & Persley's dry dock for in
spection and repairs.
Schr. SaDdusky left Chicago on Mon
day bound for Buffalo. with 80, ,lS2 bush
els of corn-frst clearance for below.
The schooner Sophia Smith, ashore
twelve miles below Amherst burg was got
ten off last week and taken into Maiden.
Oswego is clear of ice and Lake Onta-
rio Is supposed TO be. Several Vessrls
had left for the upper lakes on the 2d
inst
. The Props. Philadelphia and Arizona,
of the Anchor Line, will leave Buffalp
for Chicago the last ofthe week, ICE per
mitting.
The Tug WinsLOse and two steam pumps
are at work on the schooner Exchange al
Kellev's Island. The prospect of geitin
her of Is said TO be doubtful.
The United States revenue cutter Mich
lgan will leave Erie for Detroit this week
where she will go into dry dock and have
her bott ON cleaned and repaired.
The boats comprising Wards Lake Su-
perior Line are nearly ready far business.
Great pains have been taken this season,
in putting them IN frstrate condition.
The first coal of the season was brought
in and deposited on the docks at the har
bor on Tuesday last. Both sides shared
in this preparation for the seasons trade
Capt. 81. W. Thompson, formerly of
the steamship Minneapolis, has been ap-
pointed pilot of the revenue cutter An
dreD johnson, in place of Capt. Lewis,
who has charge of the lighthouse at Port
Washington.
The scow Perry While, Capt Baker,
started for the Islands and a load of
stone on Saturday last, and unless she
found port on the way must have seen
rough weather before reaching Marble
head. The wind towards evening was as
strong as on Thursday previous.
Among the disasters of Saturday the
first, the following are reported in Mon
days Herald:
The schr. L. a. Gilmore ash ore at Avon
Point.
Scow n TWttEs left the Islands with a
load of stone-has not arrived or b.sn
heard from.
The telegraph gives an account of the
loss Of the schooner eonsusIEO, with five
lives. Her cargo was block stone She
sunk off Marblehead on Saturday last
Those lost were Captain Hausser and
wife, William Law, William Clay, and
Carlos Peterson who were washed over
board and drowned. Fred Donahue,
mate, and James King, seamen. were saw
ed by taking TO the rigging and were res
cued by Clemons brothers, at Marble
head.
The schooner Palmico, which left Chi
cago last summer with cargo of COR n
for Queenstown Ireland, and which /
most foundered while attempting a re.
turn trip last fall, has been rebuilt IN
England, and is now on her way back to
the lakes. Mr.. PrindIville, her owner,
thinks she will arrive about the middle
of June. No vessels will be sent to
Europe this season, as last years venture
proved disastrous to most of those W ho
made the experiment.
The storm of Saturday night and Sn n
day may be the cause of longer delay In
the opening of our harbor. ALI the ice in
the lake seems jsmmed in at this nd. 1t
extends from shore to shore, and up the
lake as far as the eye can reach. A vet
eran of the lakes says he never saw it
packed in here so heavy before. 1t is
feared that 1t has become SO firmly an
chOred on the bottom that no ordinary
east wind will move it. There was very
little running down Niagara River, Mon
day.-RHfaIo Courier.
The boisterous character OF the wealth
er has thus far prevented q beginnin g of
work upon the bar, of the piers, at the
harbor, but on Wednesday morning, it
was quiet and no time lost in making a
start. What the freshet and ice failed to
take out, Twill be Immediately removed,
and the channel sunk to its usual depth
of fifteen feet, and kept clear for the sea-
son. The readiness of the Cleveland pa
psrs to speak disparaQinglY of the capac-
ity of the harbor of this place, will hard
Iy subserve the end desired-to mislead
shippers to that port. As good water
was had at this harbor all last season, as
Cleveland could offer. and our means ol
discharging and giving ready dispatch to
vessels, were altogether better than Cleve-
land could offer. The same viii be true
the present season.
ASHTABULA COUNTY NEWS.
FROM OUR OWN CoRREsPoNDENTs.