, 1878-03-16
From the Daily of Monday,

From the Daily Of Monday.
FURTHER FROM THE SHIP GRACE
DAR11NG.--The San Francisco Bulle-
tin gives the following concerning
the Ship Grace Darling, we'll known
in this port, which was doubtless
lost during a recent storm: "The
bakentine Melanoton. which arrived
from Portland on the 9th inst, spoke
the Grace Darling on the Goth OF
January. 1t was dark, and terrible
gale was raging when the snip was
spoken. The vivid flashes of light
ming enabled the barkentine to make
out the ship, and the vessels were so
close together at one time that the
Captain of the former was called up
to prevent fouling. When day
dawned q lookout was sent to the
masthead, but NO sign of the ship
was discovered. The Grace Darling
had cargo of Wellington coal con-
signed to Bergman Il Doyle Of this
city. She was owned by Middlemas
& Boole also of San Francisco, and
was partially insured. She was
built at Boston in 1854, and was L.
O42 tons register. with two decks,
and copper and iren fastenings. In
1875 she was metalled, retrunneled
and refastened in this city. Her
dimensions we're. length. 185 feet;
beam, 81 feet; depth of hole, % feet
and 6 inches. Two or three years
ago she was stranded ON the Austria
liam coast, but escaped without seri-
GUS damage. The ship cleared from
San Francisco for Departure Bay,
Vancouver Island, on December IA,
1877. The records in the Custom
house contain the following list of
of her officers and crew at that time,
and no changes, SO far as known,
were made subsequently: A. Har-
rington, master, native of Nova
Scotia, age % years; jerome B.
Jones, first mate, age AZ, native of
the United States; August Ander-
son, second mate, age %, Sweden;
Patrick Hume. carpenter, Ireland,
age 81 years; John Wallace. cook,
age 3S years, native of England;
Thomas JOEL, steward. England, 3S
years. The following are the sea-
men: Kenneth Mckenzie, Nova
Scotia, aged 80 years; August John
son, Sweden, aged 30; William Mat
terson, Denmark, aged %; William
Burns, American, aged "a; William
Lawson, Norway, aged %; Cornelius
Woodland, England, aged 40; John
Nelson, Norway: aged %; Albert
Thompson, Sweden, aged %; F.
Mccormack, P. E. Island, aged 25
Thomas Roach, Newfoundland, age
81; William Reese, Sweden. age 25.
The CITY CHARTER.-Ths petition
which was presented to our city
council last week praying for the re-
organizing of our city government,
has been rendered null by the with
drawal of a number of the signers,
who say their names were obtained
from want Of proper understand
ing of the issue. Learning this the
persons interested in this scheme for
unsettling the financial condition of
the city are circulating another pc
tition, and there is but little doubt
but forty voters can be found in
Seattle who will sign this or any
other petition. If these forty voters
compe; us to re-organize the city
government at an expense of from
81 900 to So, 900 under the act of the
legislature, we will find ourselves
after this move in the same condi-
ton we now are, less the money ex-
pended. Our present city charter
was authorized by the Territorial
legislature, and if that body could
not then legalize our city govel lnment
it cannot do so now. The proper
way to do is to await the reversal of
the decision of Judge Lewis in the
matter, or the passage of the bill
now pending in Congress to define
our position.
PuyAL1UP Coal. The Herald tells
US that at the Puyallup mines some
first class coal is being taken out
now, but the company are cautious
about allowing it to be sent abroad
as a fair sample of the Puyallup
coal, as it is, of course, inferior to
that which will be produced when
the veins are properly opened" We
advise those mines to send out few
bushels of their first-class coal, and
not to be 80 particular about waiting
for the double first-class quality.
They might at least send out at the
rate of say ton per month Just to
let people know they were at work.
PoTAToEs.-Within two weeks the
retail price of potatoes has risen
from 60 cents to 81 per bushel, and
bids fair to reach still higher fig
ure. But now that high prices OBJ
tain but few of our farmers have
any to sell, the greater portion of the
potatoe crop having been shipped to
San Francisco last fall at 40 cents
per bushel. One of the fortunate
men Just now is Mr.. r. G. Smith, OF
White river, who holds 1000 bush
els of potatoes.
SHOP AT LA CoNNER.-Among the
passengers on the steamer j. B.
Libby down Sound this morning,
were Frank Ledger ana D. A. Whit
man. who go to open a boot and shoe