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side is the captain’s room, a large square Capt. Kerr left the BAUGHMAN an- 26, during the same storm in which Captain
apartment finished in ash and stained cherry. chored at Rock Hall, in Kent county, and James and his men did such excellent work at
5 January The main cabin has a large mahogany sofa proceeded to gather in a new crew. After Hull.
REFUGE STATIONS IN THE ARCTIC. built against the after end of the room, while considerable trouble he succeeded in enlist- GREAT FRAUDS.
PROPOSED MEASURES FOR THE a heavy plush easy chair offers additional ing five men. Eight men constitutes a full CORRUPTION IN THE NEW YORK
SAFETY OF THE WHALE HUNTERS. facilities for resting. On the port side is a spare complement for the sloop, but the captain CUSTOM HOUSE EXPOSED.
Washington, January 5. – The secretary room, fitted up like the captain’s, though considered himself lucky getting as many as The Loss for One Year by the Undervaluation
of the treasury transmitted to the house of smaller. The forward cabin is large and fin- he did. He hopes to fill up in a day or two, but of Sumatra Tobacco Estimated at $1,200,000.
representatives yesterday an answer to the ished in grained wood. To the right is the should he fail he avows his intention of New York, January 12. – Special
resolution calling for information as to pantry and second mate’s room, and oppo- cruising with the men he at present has. Treasury Agent Holahan has returned from
whether any relief can be furnished by the site are the steward’s and first mate’s quar- Should he do this, the dredgers defiantly Washington, where he went to present his
revenue cutter service or the life-saving ser- ters. declare that it will be an easy winter to get special report on the alleged irregularities in
vice to American whaling and fishing vessels The vessel will load at Boston with gen- away with him. the appraiser’s office in this city. Mr.
wrecked in Behring sea or the Arctic ocean. eral cargo for Sydney, Australia, and will then While the BAUGHMAN was anchored Holahan’s report explains the cause of Ap-
The secretary says that the whaling in- probably take freight for the western coast. the pirates were at work at Wickes beach and praiser McMullen’s removal. Just who is
dustry in the locality indicated, employing As she may continue for some time in south- Swan Point bar, in the Chester river. There guilty of the matters complained of Mr.
more than forty vessels and 1500 men, is ern waters, her hull has been metaled to load were about fifty in all, and late dispatches say Holahan will not say. Customs Examiner
entitled to all the practical assistance that the line. She will be commanded by Captain they are having a picnic. The steamer GOV- Hammill and Assistant Appraiser Sturgis,
government can afford. Revenue steamers Welch, formerly of the schooner CARRIE S. ERNOR MCLANE is lying at Centreville, and are, however, held directly responsible for
have taken on board in the Arctic region, BAILEY, a seaman who laughs at the claims unless she speedily hurries to the relief of her the existence of evils in their departments.
since May, 1882, 354 persons, mostly made by some sailors that a schooner is not consort the pirates will completely devastate Two weeks ago two shipments of
wrecked whalemen, whom it was necessary fit for ocean voyages on account of great the oyster bed in that vicinity. It is said that Sumatra tobacco, including 225 bales, were
to land at San Francisco, while the crews of length of spars. He is not the first man to take some of the crews of the other vessels are in passed by the assistant appraiser and the
other whalers have perished with but few, a fore-and-aft vessel into Australian waters, receipt of threatening letter, but it is thought examiner at $28,000 ad valorem. Inspector
and, in some cases, no survivors. and is confident that the DOUGLASS that only the new men will be frightened off. Haolahan had received many complaints
The secretary speaks of the valuable DEARBORN is amply able to do the work laid There had been a tremendous falling off from merchants of undervaluation of Sumatra
work of the BEAR and THETIS in rescuing, out before her. in the oyster supply and prices have gone up tobacco, and was on the watch. He seized
and says that there can be no doubt that very 8 cents a bushel. It is probable that the recent these two shipments, and found that they
great help for imperiled whalemen could be 7 January activity of the Maryland oyster navy has had should have been appraised at $34,000 in-
rendered by the cruising each year of two ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK. some effect in protecting the forbidden beds stead of $28,000.
such vessels, well supplied, on the north- THE PARIS C. BROWN STRIKES A from the ravages of the dredgers, and that, During the past year 6,000,000 pounds of
western grounds of this country. It would be SNAG IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER – being forced to depend upon these beds this tobacco has been imported. There are
possible, he says, for the vessels to remain on SEVERAL LIVES LOST. which their previous recklessness has two classifications of it, one at 100 leaves or
the whaling ground until the close of the Bayou Sara, Louisiana, January 7. – The stripped of their treasures, they have found more to the pound, and one at anything less
season and the safety of the whaling fleet steamboat PARIS C. BROWN from New Or- it almost impossible to get an adequate sup- than 100 leaves. The first is dutiable at 75
assured. leans for Cincinnati struck a snag at Hermit- ply. It is now predicted that unless the percent, and the other at 35 percent. It is easy
He suggests to congress that whaling age Landing, Pointe Coupee parish at 9 present laws are rigidly enforced, or if the for an obliging inspector to make a mistake
vessels might furnish transportation for sup- o’clock Saturday night and sank to the hur- destroyers succeed in doing as they please, that will be worth 40 percent ad valorem to the
plies to these stores if the government had ricane deck. Five of the cabin crew, two fire- it will only be a few years before oysters will importer. Assuming that half of the 6,000,000
not the vessels to carry them. He calls the men and one passenger are missing. be as scarce in the Chesapeake as buffaloes pounds of Sumatra tobacco imported during
attention of congress to the advisability of The PARIS C. BROWN left New Orleans now are on the prairies. the year was so undervalued, the govern-
offering rewards for the rescue of ship- Friday night with 300 tons of freight, to which ment will lose $1,200,000. It will be very diffi-
wrecked whalemen by private parties. This was added 150 tons on the way up. Her cargo 10 January cult to find out just how much the actual loss
bounty would have the great merit of being consisted of 170 tons of carwheels and the WRECK OFF BASS ROCKS. has been, but an investigation will doubtless
bestowed when most needed, and, if a plan of remainder of sugar, molasses, old iron and Gloucester, Massachusetts, January 10. fix the guilt of the undervaluation upon some
this character were put in operation, it might sundries. She was registered at 1400 tons and – During last night’s gale a vessel went particular persons. The tobacco frauds are
prove of more advantage than other experi- owned by Capt. A. M. Halliday and C. G. ashore off Bass Rocks. Two men were not the only ones referred to in the report.
mental expenditures. It is also possible, the Young. She was valued at $24,000, and in- drowned. Others will also be brought out in the inves-
secretary concludes, that in certain cases the sured for $14,000. The insurance on the cargo tigation.
knowledge of definite rewards, if communi- is not known. The PARIS C. BROWN was 11 January
cated to the natives, might cause them to built at Cincinnati in 1878 by the Marine The TECUMSEH. DIFFERENT METHODS.
make searches and attempt rescues at a time Railway and Dock company for Cincinnati The Phillip’s schooner TECUMSEH HOW TWO DISTINGUISHED AMERI-
when no other aid could be despatched to and New Orleans trade, in which she has been launches next Tuesday between the hours of CANS SECURED THEIR WIVES.
these in peril. running ever since, making over ninety trips ten and eleven AM. She, like the Sewall Commodore Porter, the father of the
The secretary presents a statement by without a mishap of any kind. She had on schooner will tow directly to Portland, not present admiral, had a most romantic mar-
Chief Engineer Melville, in which that officer board ten cabin passengers and a few deck hauling into the wharf at all after leaving the riage, says Harper’s Bazar. He mad a reputa-
says that two places of refuge should be passengers. ways. The TECUMSEH measures only tion at the age of 26, and had become a
sufficient, one on the north side of East Cape, ninety-four tons less than the GOVERNOR commander after only eight years of service.
on the Siberian side, and one about Cape STRIPPING THE CHESAPEAKE’S BED. AMES, and as that craft draws eleven feet of He had shown himself a brave man in our war
Lisburne, on the American side. OYSTER PIRATES INTIMIDATE THE water when light, to the TECUMSEH’s eight with Tripoli, and had been imprisoned and
POLICE CREWS AND SCOOP IN THE feet two, they will carry about the same cargo, was now back in the United States on service
The DOUGLASS DEARBORN. OYSTERS. twenty-seven hundred tons. at the navy yard at Washington. Here he met
This afternoon the handsome four- Baltimore – January 7. – Driven to des- This vessel is the third large four master a very pretty young lady, Miss Evelma
masted schooner DOUGLASS DEARBORN, peration by the continued onslaughts of the owned by J. M. Phillips, who has also a brig Anderson, the daughter of a wealthy con-
built by A. Sewall & Co., was launched, and oyster navy the pirates of the Chesapeake and schooner engaged in the coal carrying gressman from Pennsylvania. When Com-
was at once taken in tow for Boston. The have determined to use a new weapon of trade while his brother who is with him in mander Porter met her she was playing with
vessel was designed by marine architect defense and one that will more effectually business, has four vessels of his own. Be- a doll, for though she was in society she was
Pattee, of this city, built under the eye of her cripple their foes than powder and lead. sides these they have two more schooners on only 15 years of age. He fell in love with her
principal owners, and is, naturally, a most Immediately after their battle at Chester the stocks here in Bath and are talking of still at first sight and asked her hand, and was
creditable addition to the Bath fleet. river last Wednesday the pirates held a con- another large vessel. The firm like Bath work referred by Commodore Tingey to Mr.
The DOUGLASS DEARBORN is 190.7 ference. They discussed the situation, and and unless some labor trouble should inter- Anderson, her father, who was at his home in
feet in length, 40.1 feet in width, and 18 feet finally came to the conclusion that in order to vene we shall probably have that schooner to Chester, Pennsylvania. Commander Porter
deep, with a gross tonnage of 1,024.47. She be free from molestation while working on add to the Bath fleet. hurried at once to Chester, but the family had
has two decks and was built for heavy coast- forbidden grounds it was necessary to pre- been appraised of his coming and were pre-
ing. Just aft of the windlass is the engine vent the manning of the state vessels. 12 January pared to give him a flat refusal. They did not
house, where a powerful hoister is set up to As this could not be accomplished by MEDALS FOR LIFE SAVERS. consider him, a poor naval officer, a suitable
aid in handling the ship and her cargo. A force it was necessary to use intimidation. Washington, January 12. – Secretary match for their daughter, and Miss
sliding gear connects this machine with a The new plan was put into operation at once, Fairchild has awarded gold and silver life- Anderson’s brother was deputed to receive
double acting pump which can be used in and all of the crew of the BAUGHMAN re- saving medals to the Hull boatmen. The sec- the audacious suitor and give him his walking
cases of necessity and is capable of raising an ceived letters warning them that in case they retary had also awarded gold medals to Silas papers. When Porter made his appearance he
immense quantity of water. did not quit the state’s service they would rue S. Harding, keeper of Kerr’s Point life-saving was shown into the parlor, where young
Next the foremast is the forward house, the day they were born. They were informed station, New Hampshire, and the following Anderson met him and asked him his busi-
in one side of which are the sailor’s berths, that the vessel would be boarded at the first members of his crew: George W. Randall, ness in a freezing tone. Commander Porter
while the opposite part contains the galley, a opportunity and summary vengeance in- Winslow Amasen, Ephraim A. Hall, Selden F. replied that he wished to see Mr. William
room finished in grained wood. flicted on each and every man. Fearing for Wells, Ernest Robinson and John S. Smith for Anderson in relation to his daughter, and that
The cabin is fitted up with an eye to their lives the crew, which was made up, of extreme heroism on the occasion of the wreck he could not communicate what he had to say
comfort, rather than show. On the starboard new men, at once deserted the ship. of the schooner OLIVER DYER, November to any one else but him.
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