The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-25
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS or
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
Supposed Chase of the DauntIcsS
Ended In a Mistake in the Name OF
the Tug-Twenty-eiGht Steamships
Posted to Load Cotton Here for
Foreign Ports The Savannah
Schooner Mary OdeII In Distress at
Fernandinn-Arriva and Depart
ures of Vessels.
Yesterday afternoon there was some ex-
citement created along the wharf, by what
as supposed to be a chase of the revenue
cutter Boutwell, for the tug DauntIess.
Those who witnessed the scene were al
most positive II was case of Uncle Sam"
against tho supposed fiHbuster. 1t turned
out to be the tug Bristol going down the
river. and the Boutwell, on the same course
without any intention of interfering with
the tug. The Dauntless was at Tybee all
day looking for incoming vessels.
The British steamship Pocklington, from
Demerara, arrived at Tybee yesterday.
She is consigned to Richardson & Bar
nard, and after going through quarantine
win come to the city to load cotton for
Liverpool.
The Savannah tug Cynthia towed the
schooner Agnes Manning into Port Royal
Thursday night. sThe Manning will dis
charge a cargo of coal and then proceed
to Savannah for cargo of lumber for
New York.
ba Gel c,
vannah was partly wrecked at Fernandina
during the storm of Sept % The dis
patch from Fernandina Sept. % stating
that the fishing smack Oracle O'Den OF
Charleston. which had been hauled out
on the beach for repairs, had filled with
water and severely pounded by the rough
seas, was probably an error as to the
name of the schooner and her home port
The schooner will be beached and repair
ed, If she is not too much damaged.
There are more steamships posted at the
cotton exchange than ever at one time
In all there are twentE eight, including
four, which are not offering berth room,
contracts for their full capacity having
already been taken.
Three more steamships were posted at
the cotton exchange yesterday to take
cotton for foreign ports. They are: Brit
ism steamship Strathdon, chartered by w.
w. Wilson, for cargo to Bremen, due Sept.
Is; British steamship Ferndene, chartered
by Wilder & Co. for cargo to Barcelona.
due Oct. 5; British steamship William
Balls, chartered by Richardson & Barn
ard, for cargo to Reval, due Oct. ).
United States Consul HILL at Santos. in
a report to the state department at Wash
ington, suggests that shipping interests
in chartering vessels for that port with the
intention of escaping Dues should insert
the words free of wharfage and dock
dues"
A second-class can buoy, with red and
black horizontal stripes, has been placed
by the lighthouse board to mark the wreck
of the schooner a. d. Lamson, near the
entrance to Chesapeake bay. The
schooner was sunk by the steamship Rap.
pahannock over a month ago. The wreck
lies about,six miles east and one-auarter
of a mile north of Cape Henry lighthouse
Capt. Thomas l.. Casey, United States en-
gineer at Norfolk, win have the wreck re-
moved.
Perth Amboy. Sept. 24.-Schooner War
wick, Sheppard, from Charleston, S. c.,
reports fifteen miles southeast of Abse-
com light sighted a submerged wreck.
with only a broken spar showing above
water.
Wilmington. N. G., Sept. M.-The Span
ish steamer Torr Head, McCatmont, mas
ter, from New Orleans to Belfast, is
aground on Frying Pan shoals, about
twelve miles from Cape Fear. Two tugs
from Southport have gone to her assist
ance.