Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-12
RIVER AND HARBoR NEWS.
Gieanings Among the Shipping and
ALONG the Wharges.

HiOns the " hafVcSs
The New York steamship Chatta-
hoochee arrived last night with Ill pas
sengers and large freight.
The Norwegian bark Gler arrived up
from quarantine yesterday. She will load
cotton for port on the continent.
The British steamship Che!ydra will
drop down to Tybee to-day to finish load
ing her cargo, She is drawing too much
water to finish at the dock.
The British steamship Plessey from
sydney, G. B., Capt. scott, reports eX-
perlencing a heavy shock Of earthquake
while at sea on Sunday morning last.
The repairs to the schooner Margaret
\. May, which was in collision wiJn the
STEP mer Mozart about ten days ago, are
progressing very slowly. The schooner
lies across the river, and there are no
signs of bowsprit In her yet.
A sailor on board the bark Mary Jane
had one Of the fingers OF his right hand
badly WreDched and bruised, in fact,
nearly torn, off yesterday morning through
his hand being caught by the hosting
rope while the vessel was being loaded.
Messrs. A. Minis 4 sons cleared yester-
day the British steamship Amaryliis Tor
liaVre with 1900 bales OF upland cotton,
weighing 2,2S5, 400 pounds, valued $217.-
P7p W. uls Is luz uT5l ttIEO Vi CilLJbU
exported to Havre since the season
opened, and the Amaryll!s has received
quick dispatch in loading this cargo.
The British steamship Lancaster,
dropped down yesterday morning from
the elevator wharf TO the lower press
to finish loading her cargo, Tor Liverpool.
She stuck on the Garden hanks, but
swung around and backed off agaln. On
grounding one of her anchors fOuled a fat
in the vicinity. Whatever damage was
done to the mar could not be ascertained
The British steamship Chelydra, a de-
scrtptiOn OF which appeared in the MORN
ING NEWS yesterday, is nOtthe first steel
vessel to visit this port, nor is she the only
steel snip in port. The British steamship
Norfolk, at present loading tor Liverpool,
is also built of steel and has made several
voyages from here with cargo in the past
three years. She was one of the fret YES
sells chartered by the British government
to carry supplies in the late war in Egypt.
The steamer Silver star, capt. Barber,
arrived here yesterday and put into Tag
CARTS coal wharf for coal. she is from
Bangor, Me-, where she was recent thy
built, and Is bound for Jacksonville She
Will trade on the st. Johns river. and is
fitted with passenger accommodations.
Her dimensions are: Length 80 feet, %
feet breadth of beam and 81 feet depth of
hold. She is also fitted with double COM
pound engines and two boilers, and is
capable of making twelve knots per hour.
A board of survey, consisting of Messrs.
Thomas ii. Laird, Port Warden, II. +.
Nillink, master ship carpenter, Joseph
A. Roberts and j. n. johnson, represent
ing Il. I. Bolts. underwriters agent, and
Rafael Salas as interpreter, was called
yesterday on the Mexican schooner Iberia
which had discharged her cargo OF log
weed and mahogany, and was hauled out
on VIKINGS marine railway. After an
examination the board found her keeIsOn
and fOreiloor timbers partially decayed.
The surveyors recommended that the
metal be stripped Off her bottom; that her
bottom be caulked from cardboard to COW
ering board; that her decks also be
caulked and masts lifted, main keelson
cut out and replaced by new one and
thoroughly bOlted, and that her bottom be
remettled. With these repairs the board
will pronounce the vessel seawOrthy. The
Captain telegraphed to New York last
night for new copper. In the meantime
all other necessary repairs will 30 on.
The vessel will probably be released
when her repairs are finished.