The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-07

will resume her regular schedule. leaving
this morning for Beaufort.
The Norwegian bark B. D. Metcalf,
which was blown ashore in the blight,
five miles below the city, during the
storm, was gotten OF yesterday her cargo
having been lightered. She was towed to
the city and moored at the ballast wharf
on Hutchinson's Island.
The British steamship Baron Innerdale
has been chartered to load cotton at this
port for Liverpool. She has been char
tered by Wilder & Co., and is due to ar
rive here Oct. % from St. Michaels.
There has been several changes in the
engineer department of the Ocean Steam
ship Company, caused. by the death of
Chief Engineer Savage of the steamship
CITY of Augusta. Chief Engineer Graves
of the Nacoochee has been transferred to
the City of Augusta; First Assistant Laf-
ferty of the Nacoochee has been promoted
10 chlet; O1ler Stanford of the Nacoochee
mas peen promoted to third assistant en-
gineer, and transferred to the TaIahas-
see Several other changes have been
made.
The Italian bark Aline cleared yester-
day for Fiume, with 4, go barrels of rosin
and 100 casks of spirits turpentine The
& Co.
The schooner Frank Vanderherchen,
Capt. Crawford, from Philadelphia, arriv-
ed yesterday with a cargo of coal, con-
signed to the Mutual Gas Light Company.
The schooner A. D. Lamson, Capt.
Smith, from Philadelphia, arrived yester-
day with a cargo of coal consigned to
Bond, Harrison & Co.
The steamer w S. Cook, arrived yester-
day from Cohen's Bluff and other way
landings on the Savannah river, with
about 500 bales of cotton.
The British steamship Uplands, Capt
Davies, from Barry, arrived at Tybee yes
terday, and received orders to proceed to
Norfolk, Va.
The bark lamar e. Marshall, from Sa-
vannah for Santos, with timber before
reported, encountered a hurricane on Sept.
Z, in lat "a 20 N, Ion 70 20 w, lost her bull
warks and deckload and became water
logged. The crew were taken off on the
9th by bark Luise (Nor), from Mobile for
Rosario, and landed at Bermuda on the
nth. Part of the crew arrived at New York
Sunday on the steamer Orinoco; the re-
| mainder of the crew, with Capt Utley, ar
| rived at st. John, N. b., on the oath by
steamer Quart Castle.
The merchant marine of the United
States, on June 80, 1896, according to the
completed tabulat ton of the bureau IF
navigation, comprises q, 908 vessels of A.
7O3, SSS gross tons, a decrease of $50 vessels,
| but an increase of 5000 tons over the pre-
| vious year. Wooden sailing vessels num-
bered 1924, of 2,31O,S19 gross tons Iron
and steel steamers numbered $50, of
100l, 113 gross tons. Vessels documented
at the Atlantic and Gulf ports numbered
1876, of 2,667,313 gross tons; at Pacific
coast ports, 1860 of 437, 972 tons, on the
| Great Lakes, 1888, of 1,324,O68 tons; and on
the western rivers, 1929 vessels, of ga, 527
tons. Vessels registered for the foreign
trade numbered 1,257, of SA, 954 tons, of
which pa are steamers. Vessels built and
documented during the year number 1913
of 227, 096 gross tons, or more than double
the construction of the previous year. On
the Great Lakes III vessels, of los, 1872 tons,
were built