Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. SEIZED AT PORTLAND. A Canadian Schooner
 Made Captive FOR HAVING NO MANIFEST. The Spirit of Retaliation
 Abroad.
 CREEK SOL DiERS SENT HOME
GREEK SOLDIERS SENT HOME
Preparations To Disband
 The Army.

The Army.
 THE ROOT ON -THE OTHER LEG
 A Canadian Schooner Seized at Port | land for Not Having Man1fest-Th<
 Case Reported to Secretary Rayard
 PORTLAND, Me-, May 24.-This morning
 Captain Jesse Ellis entered at the custom
 house his schooner Sisters, from Yarmouth
 N. s., with 8 cargo of 10000 mackerel take1 last Wednesday and consigned by w. A
 Kellain of Yarmouth to F. F. Clement & Go
 of this city. Ellis signed the customary oatl
 that his report and manifest correctly de
 scribed the cargo of his vessel. The frs
 deputy collector, Colonel Smith, then asked
 for the manifest. ''I haven't any," replied
 Captain Ellis. Colonel Smith expresse d his
 sorrow that the captain should have beer
 caught, but told him nothing could be done
 in his case; that he must, in the usual course
 of the law, pay his fine. ''Hew muchP
 asked the captain "It is $5O0," replied
 Colonel Smith. My God, the little schooner
 won't bring that" said the captain, he
 stood there a picture of dis tress. Nothing
 could be done for him, and Surveyor Brad
 bury sent Inspector Howe to take formal | charge of the schooner. This done, Captain
 Ellis and his crew were allowed to go on dis
 charging their cargo of twenty thousand
 mackerel. It was pathetic to see the cap l tain and crew of the wretched looking
 schooner discharging the cargo that the gov
 ernment of the United States will claim. l The seizure has been reported to Secretary Bayard. Secretary O. B. Whitten of the Portland fishing exchange said to a reporter: Coming at this time the seizure of the
 Sisters will do good. She comes from port
 so near Digby that the fellows up there will
 hear of it.. The matter having been referred | to Secretary Bayard, he will be obliged to l take notice of it."
 Captain Ellis is we'll made, broad chested young fellow with a frank, honest face. Af- | ter thinking the matter over he concluded that matters might have been worse. He said ''This is pretty rough on me. being my l first trip as master. We caught the fish last Wednesday and thought we'd make good | thing out of it. We were in great hurry 1 and forgot everything"
 "What do you think of the fishery dis putea" "It's bad for us poor fello s-bad l for both sides We just want to make liv- ing and we are seized.'
 ''Have you notified your owners?" "No I shall at once"
 "What do you propose to doE" Stay here until get orders to board the schooner or do something else. ? want to say one thing more," he added; Eff it had mt been for this excitement and the seizure of the Ella NJ. Doughty I'd been let alone My poor little schooner was seized because of this trouble at Digby.'
 The following is the law under which the Sisters will be held:
 Section 2s chapter 14 R. S.-If the master of any t peSseh tS Iqi+I tt fi @ & so any within four leagues of the thereof within the limits of any collection district where the cargo discharged to produce such manifests hereto demand therefor or to deliver such copies thereof according to the directions of the preceding sec ton If he fails to give account of the deS tnation of the vessel which he is hereby required to do upon S request of such oieG & or gives false production of the manifest, the master hall for every such neglect, refusal or ofense be a be to penalty of not more than $500.
 In the statement of facts connected with the seizure to-day of the Dominion schooner Sisters which has been sent by Collector An deIson to Secretary Manning is contain ed the following protest from Captain Ellis of the 
 PORTLAND, Me. May 24. Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury. Dear Sir: I hereby appeal from the decision of Hon s. J. Anderson, collector of port, in levyng Yarmouth, N. S arrived this day, for having manifest of cargo I respectfully represent that ] mackerel shipped by W. A. Killain and consigned to F L. Clement & Go. at Portland. and owing to my ignorance of manifest neglected to make out the necessary document until my arrival Owing trf "a fa aRt TrAn0 a eight hours after arrival in port having arrived RneWedee se of the Iesuaons of the TreasaTv de partment and no idea of violating the same fee that the fine imposed is unjust and most respectful 1 ly ask that the same may be revoked.
 Very respectfully,
 JESSIE ELLIS, Master schooner Sisters. CUSTOM HOUSE, foNr NJ May sisss' A. 1sss. Personally appeared before me this 24th day of ! May, 1886, Jesse Ellis, and made oath to within
 Deputy Collector. l Captain Ellis certificate of clearance from l Yarmouth N. S., has also been forwarded to Secretary Manning
 The cargo of the Sisters was unloaded this afternoon, Captain Ellis says the people ot | his section dread war and half of them are on the side of the United States. He says 1 his people will be deprived of ready money l unless allowed to sell bait to the Ameri- cans.
 l A letter has been received from Cap
 tain w. A. Doughty, of the seized
 Ellen M. Doughty. now at English l town, c. B., in which he says he left l the western banks on account of the scarcity
 of fish and intended to go to St. Paul's l Islands, but fell in with the ice and anchor | ed at Englishtown the only escape from destruction. Finding bait plenty and cheap he purchased $12 worth. Two successive mornings he tried to get out of the bay, but could not on account of the bergs and they crowded into the bay so thickly that he dar- l ed not go ashore in dory. Know1ng of no
 custom house or officer there he feared no | trouble until seized on the third morning for 1 buying bait and failing to report to the cus- | toms officer. The officer knew nothing about i the permits From this letter it is concluded that Captain Doughty did not have forty l eight hours after making port in which to | report and that sufficient allowance was not
 made for the danger he was subjected to.
 The Daily Advertiser tonight reviews the l fishery imbroglio in stirring editorial and declares that retaliation is the only resort. Collector Anderson says the seizure of the
 Sisters is a very unfortunate affair. Three
 times steamers have arrived without mani fests. Once the fine was remitted and was
 collected the third time only as an example.
 He says Captain Ellis would have got off
 easily but for the spirit of retaliation abroad. l Collector Anderson vigorously defends Secre-
 tary Bayard from the charges against him.
 He says the Secretary is taking sufficient
 time in this matter, which is becoming in
 him considering the gravity of the case, and
 the public may rest assured that his action will not be un-American.
 The Celebration at Springfield. II SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 24.-Springfeld
 is ready for the celebration of her 250th ami
 versary. Never in her history has the city
 presented so brilliant an appearance as to-
 night. Nearly all the buildings on the line of march of the grand procession are decor ated with the flags of all nations The streets are laced and interlaced with flags and streamers Court Square with it's public
 buildings and the elms has been transformed