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Isle ALLEGED CHIMIN AL ASSAULT MARINE NEWS $2113 5 Si 1 1 4 5 2 3 3 7 6 6 7 4 St jt 5 1 1 5 4 2 Happy Escape of the United States Dis trict Court rom the Heat THE ACCUSED ASSERTS THAT THE CHARGE IS A BLACKMAILING SCHEME 3 was first on the ground followed by two other ladder trucks The fire the first floor passed where it was stopped an the Miss Jennie Burgess Secures the Arrest of George Beecher three quarters at the bottom and bilges It Is fiirn ished with outriggers that turn in the canoe when the paddle is used The oars were made by Capt Joseph Jenking another ancient mariner and they are decorated with to which the oar of the present day js a stranger Several hundred persons lined the shores of the island when Caph Clinton took the trial on the river This was the first time he had been' in a canoe for twenty years but the speed and the ease with which he propelled his canoe indicates that perhaps Hanlan may meet a formidable rival when he reaches home' After the trial was over the crowd cheered and the canoe was hauled on a steamer and brought back to Detroit This cancels not built for sale or with the object of having the Detroit River Navy model their craft after it but to show how Detroiters used to float in the olden time and also to show that the present style of row boat is perhaps not the fastest and most easy rowing style possible to build He Beftises to urnish Bail and Goes to Jail Where He Has a Whole Ward to Himselfi WHILE STUDTIKO THE BALLENTINE SAGINAW COLLISION CASE A Glorious Entertainment Provided on the? Tug Winslow HIS QUARTERS George Li Beecher was ushered into the sixth ward at the jail and there given his choice out of fourteen cells in fact he was there all to himself He took with him into confinement some news papers a few postal cards and some stationery and asked if he would be allowed to write all the letters he desired to an interview A reporter of The ree Press interviewed Mr Beecher at the jail last evening and asked what his motive was in not furnishing bail when it was athand replied the prisoner a piece of black mailing business and we propose to give bonds and thus give a color of truth to the you at home with Miss Burgess last Sun asked the reporter sir My 'wife was away and I had some conversation with her in reference to the dinner that was all Shortly after 2 some girl called for her and she went away and I seen her The prisoner said he thought he was fully as com fortable in his quarters there as he would out side on so hot a day and as Mr Mouat was the complainant in the suit he would be obliged to take the responsibility of putting him there DAMAGES The case against Mr Beecher is not brought by the People but is a suit for damages Miss Burgess claiming $5000 The Libel Case Charles Miller attorney for Charles Sid greaves filed a praecipe for a capias in the Wayne Circuit yesterday morning for the arrest of Robert Johnstone and Robert Gibbons editors of the Michigan armer Mr Sidgreaves in his declara tion alleges that the defendants published on June 10 an article in the Michigan armer which has greatly damaged his credit and he therefore brings suit for $5000 The declaration quotes the alleged libellous article which sets forth that one of the subscribers to that paper consigned to Sid greaves Co a quantity of honey for which he re ceived nothing and that after a time the bill was sent to Johnstone Gibbons for collection The article further states tliat the' defendants called on Mr Sidgreaves numerous times and that they were always met by promises but no money We have con continues the alleged libelous article Mr Sidgreaves to use the words of the un godly has been giving us and that not one cent will be The paper then warns its read ers with reference to dealings with Mr Sidgreavea The capias was served on Messrs ohnstone Gib bons yesterday afternoon and they shortly after ward appeared at the Sheriff's office and gave bail each in the sum of $1500 with John Price and James A Randall as sureties Such Was the Ab OriginaVName of Belle A Desperate Sunday night it is charged John Allison alias stole $1 50 from a woman in Theresa saloon and a warrant for his arrest as issued Monday About half past 11 o'clock last night Patrolman John itzgerald saw on Michigan avenue and arrested him He walked along peaceably with the officer until they arrived at the comer of Woodward avenue and Woodbridge street There snatched the baton from the officer and before he could prevent it hit him four or five times on the head inflicting severe wounds itzgerald hung on to his man however and throwing him to the sidewalk pinned him down until other officers arrived and the stubborn prison er was conducted to the Central Police Station V1 Some Interesting Points Concerning the History of Coining Beauti ful Park time eight hours and thirty six min utes landing time twenty four minutes total time nine hours adds The slow speed for tne first twenty two miles is caused by shallow water the very fair speed at other times is owing in part to having deep water and a straight course The time between Coxsackie and Catskill is at the rate of twenty four miles per hour The average speed is over seventeen miles per hour SERENELY INDIERENT 1 Angus McDonald of the Canada Wrecking Towing Company regarded with perfect serenity the letter from Secretary of State Evarts which appeared in last ree Press He Around the Lakes SAND STEAMER EEWEENAW ON AND RATS Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Sand Beach June The steamer Keweenaw went ashore in the smoke three miles south of Port Hope last night She sent here for the tug Mas ters which pulled her off and she proceeded on her trip this morning not damaged so far as known A tug supposed to be the' Torrent passed down outside with a raft at 6 a ra and the ulcan passed down with a raft at 7 The propeller Arizona is here taking on the freight left by the propeller Atlantic when disabled BAY CITY Special Correspondence of The Detroit ree Press Bay City June The steamer Cora Locke broke her shaft this afternoon? She was en route to this city from the Kawkawliri River with a raft She brought the raft in with one wheel' The propeller Nebraska has left for Chicago salt laden The schooner Theo Perry did not waterlog at Sand Point as stated yesterday She sprung a leak however and was towed by the tug Rumage to this city for repairs It will not be necessary to dock her The thermometer stands 95 in the shade (Mr McDonald not the Secretary) says that so far as the matter can be settled the Canadian Parliament has done it and it will be impossible to make any change He thinks the members of Parliament are about of one mind and that not in the American wav of thinking on the subject because of the re port made to them last winter THE TUG MYSTIC The officers of the propeller Asia report that the work of raising the tug Mystic has begun It will be remembered that Trempe has the contract and is to get $1000 for delivering her at his wharf She now lies on one side high and nearly all dry at the head of Cockburn Island where she went on last fall when attempting to reach the propeller Quebec Two scows have been placed along side with heavy timbers running fiom one to the other bn which the tug is to be supported It is thought that she is injured but little THE OLD TIOGA The Quinn Bros have purchased for a not one half of the sunken propeller Tioga how lying in thirty feet of water below Point Pelee Island She caught Are in her hold two years ago and it is supposed is so much burned as to be good for nothing but the iron in her If the Quinn Bros succeed in getting into their possession the other one half of the Tioga they will pass away unem ployed time by bringing to the surface all the iron hat is detachable and possibly raise her engines How much will be taken from the wreck will de pend on how much the hull was burned There is probably a $1000 worth of iron in her but it will cost something to get it At 10 yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff Ginsburg appeared at the front door of No 803 Jefferson avenue the residence of 'George LBeecher armed with a capias for his arrest He was just leaving his house to come down town and when the officer made known his business the two walked down to the office of Luther Beecher where the nature of the charge was explained Attached to the writ was the affidavit of Miss Jeannette Burgess or as her signature attests Jennie Burgess a girl of 19 years who has been em ployed as a domestic in George family for the past ten or twelve days The affidavit re cites that the plaintiff was left in charge of the house by Mrs Beecher on Saturday last and that about 11 Mr Beecher came into the house and went into the kitehen where Miss Burgess was at work She swears that the defendant pulled her into the dining room and there made improper proposals to her which she repelled It is alleged that he attempted force She screamed and Mr two little children ran down the stairs whereupon the affiant declares the defendant desisted and went up stairs with the children Miss Burgess says he afterwards re turned and attempted to shake hands with her but that she avoided him 1 A The affidavit which charges the defendant with assault with criminal intent continues that on SutP day last while Mrs Beecher was away the accused attempted another assault upon the complainant This was about 2 Sunday 'afternoon and Miss Burgess alleges that she struggled with the de fendant twenty minutes before she was able to ex tricate herself from his grasp THE COMPLAINT Monday Miss Burgess told her story to John Mouat and that gentleman accompanied her to the office of John McGrath who was retained as her attorney On her affidavit a capias was issued out of the Wayne Circuit Court Commissioner Pnrulnll indorsing the bail at $2000 S1? 3 TO JAIL When the affidavit had been read to Mr eecher he proposed to visit his father and seek his advice Accordingly Officer Ginsberg accompanied his prisoner to residence where matters were again explained After a short consultation with his son Luther Beecher informed the officer that he could take him 5' '1 Vr The Understand Mr Beecher this is no joke unless bail be furnished your son must go to seu sir this is a conspiracy against us and if I were to be arrested I give bonds No sir My son you go with the officer and let the law take its replied the millionaire The Deputy Sheriff hardly belieted his ears and repeatedly told Mr Beecher that he could easily give bail but tne son proposed to act strictly in' ac cordance with his advice and was taken to jail Port Items MORE ABOUT THE SATELLITE With the publication exclusively in ree Press of the fact that the crew of the tug Satellite was saved a good deal of public interest was abated As to the cause of the disaster there was much speculation The following special from Sault Ste Marie explains all that remained in doubt on that point The propeller Peerless reports the tug Satellite lost above Whitefish Point Saturday evening Her stern pipe broke and she sunk in five minutes A COURTLY EXCURSION The United States District Court have been lis tening to the collision case" between the steam barges Ballentine and Bast Saginaw for some time Points difficult so decide hav ing arisen the tug Winslow took the court down yesterday to the scene of the disaster where ranges courses and positions of the crafts at the time of the collision were carefully studied The persons on the boat were Judge Brown Clerk Davison United States Attorney inney United States Mar shal Mathews Deputy Marshal Cash Taylor Stenographer Whittaker Swan attorney for the Ballentine Canfield attorney for the East Saginaw Hoyt Post and Olds attorneys Capts Grummond' Joe and Ward John Gillet and Gilchrist owner of the schooner Lathrop The Winslow carried the party to Malden and return and a vote of thanks to Capt Martin Swain was passed upon returning home i' 1 WHERE THE VESSELS ARE The steamer Marine City left Mackinaw at 10 :30 a June 21 Vessels at Cheboygan: Higgie Jones Trinidad Harvey Bissell and the Little Grey Eagle which was loading lath for Petoskey 1 The schooner Duncan City was at Duncan City The schooner Elgin was loading lumber at Rogers City The mate of the schooner Taylor was at Rog ers City and was not expected to live having been burton that vessel very seriously while loading lumber The scow Ino has just arrived at Craw Quarry to load telegraph poles Ves sels at Alpena Schooners Scasco Col Ellsworth Perew Seaman Met the tug Crusader off Alcona with a tow of three vessels Passed the tug Torrent with a raft above Harrisville Passed the tug Jonn Owen off orestville with raft also the tug Kate Williams with raft off orester The Ma rine City arrived in Detroit at fl a yesterday with a full load of passengers and freight She re turns to Mackinaw to night LOG THE VIBBARD ALBANY TO NEW YORK Least Detroiters should admire too much the flf teen mile boats on the river a subscriber sends following account of the performance of the above steamer July 23 1878 In the table below stands for light ebb tide and for light flood tide and for strong flood tide The time at landings is given in minutes and the running time in hours and minutes: Base Ball Utica June 24 Nationals 8 Uticas 5 Cincinnati June Cincinnatis 4 Chicagos 1 Boston June Providence 4 Bostons 1 Springfield June 24 Springfields 23 Man Chesters 2 Mrs Soothing Syrup for children teeth ing softens the Jgums reduces inflammation ana allays all pain 25 Avoid I Au At the session of the Common Council last even ing Aid Russell presented a communication from Silas armer concerning the history of Belle Isle As Belle Isle is just now attracting the attention of the public its history is interesting 4 ollowing is given the result of Mr researches During the rench occupancy of Detroit this island was treated as an appendage of the gamson and used as a place for pasturage uel walso obtained from it Under the early years oft English rule it continued nnder the control of the vgarrison and on May 9th 1763 when Pontiac found that his conspiracy was discovered a party oftIndians crossed to the island and finding Sergeant James isher his wife and two children there iu charge of twenty four cattle belonging to the garrison the family and the cattle were both alike killed During the subsequent siege the most of the wood for the fort was obtained from the island by sending large parties to obtain it under the protection of arnied schooners On May 4 1768 King George HI and his council gave Lieut Geo McDougall permission to occupy the Island temporarily so long as the military es tablishment was continued at Detroit provided that he could do so without causing dissatisfaction to the Indians and that the improvements lie made should be of a character to be of service supply ing the wants of the fort and garrison On June 5 of the following year he bought it of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians for five barrels oft rtim three rolls of tobacco three pounds of vermilion and a belt of wampum an additional three barrels of rum and three pounds of paint to deli vered when possession was taken Thewhete value of the island being estimated at £194 10s4a Lieut McDougall had it surveyed bya Mr Boyd in 1771 who reported that it containedTM acres The same year McDougal built a dwelling house and out buildings and his tenant one Cassity cultivated about thirty acres 'After a few years John Loughton leased the island of Cassity there being then two farms with eighty acres of culti vated land together with houses and barns one of the farms being cultivated by a man named Ridley In 1776 during the Revolutionary war Loughton was ousted by Col De Peyster the commandant at Detroit and it was used as a place for the deten tion of Americans or as they were then called rebel prisoners captured by Indians during their Western and Southern torays Meantime McDougall had died and William Mc Comb guardian of his heirs petitioned Sir red erick Haldimand the Governor General for re dress as against De Peyster who then offered 600 guineas for the island but this was rejected and he was compelled to restore the island erect a barn and furnish a scow as compensation for the use of it 1 An old ledger of shows that he was in possession of the island on August 80 1780 and that on that date he sent twenty six cattle there to Depastured On November 11 1793 the heirs of McDougall sold it to Wm McComb Like all titles originating prior to American occupancy the claim to this island was passed upon by the United States com missioners the deed from the Indians was of but little force as neither the British or American Gov ernments recognized deeds from Indians to private parties but as the McCombs were jn possession iefore the Americans came the commissioners on November 6 1809 confirmed the island or 640 acres of it' to the heiTs oft Wm Mc Comb No one claim at that time was allowed to include any more than 640 acres and ft was then and even as late as 1823 (when surveyed by Mullett) considered doubtful about the island containing even that amount of land but it is now generally conceded to contain about 700 acres On January 7 1817 the Regis ter of Probate and a committee assigned the isl and to B' McComb as one of tne heirs of Wm McComb On March 3 1817 McComb conveyed it to Campau for $5000 which tradition says was paid in bills of suspended Ohio banks and on November 1 1823 the United States Commissioners on Claims recommended that the entire island be confirmed to Campau In July 1832 the island served as a sort of quar antine A vessel on her way to Chicago with troops for the Black Hawk war arrived at Detroit and being found to have a case of cholera on board was ordered to lay at Hog Island as a measure of safety The island has borne no less than four different names originally called Wah nah be by the Indians It was renamed by the rench au St and was so overrun with rattlesnakes that a number soft hogs were allowed to run at large in order to de stroy them Eventually the hogs became' so numerous that it soon came to be known as au or Hog Island During the years just previous to 1845 the island became a very popular place of resort for picnic parties and just prior to July 4 1845 it was announced in the daily papers that a picnic party on the would give it a more euphonious name Accordingly about 5 a large number as sembled on the island Morgan Bates was called to the chair and Wm Duane ilson selected as Secre tary and on motion of Mr Goodell it was resolved that the island should hereafter be known as in honor of the ladies who so frequently pat 3 ronized it on picnic occasions Second Meeti ng of the Chicago Jockey Club Chicago June The second day of the first summer meeting of the Cliicago Jockey Club proved bright and warm with an excellent track and attendance The first race stake for 2 year old fillies $50 entrance half the club to add $600 $200 to second third to save the stakes three quarters of a mile dash had the following entered: Cad wallader 's ch Waterford Modera tor Carter ch Blondin and also Bve and Bye and an unnamed ch entered by Phil WarrenAfter an exciting race all the way round in which Bye Bye and Moderator were neck and neck just at the finish Bye and Bye the favorite pushed her head across the line first Time 118)4 Car pair sold at $30 and the field for $25 in the pools to day' Moderator wrs second and Blondin third in this race In the next race Illinois Oaks for 3 year old fil lies $50 entrance half forfeit $1000 added $200 to second $100 to third mile and a half Grinstead's Liatunah was the favorite at $75 to $50 over the field The other starters were Claudia Lillian Baldwin Jennie Experiment lorence Bonnie Carrie Maggie May Omego This was the most exciting event of 'the day Liatunah had a clear lead the first mile which Claudia and Experi ment contested with her on the last turn but on the home stretch Liatunah made a dash took the lead and came in two lengths ahead Claudia sec ond Experiment third Time In the third and lastrace for all ages mile heats purse $400 $75 to second $25 to third the starters wereJJosworth Short Line Argentine lorence Payne Bowstring Mollie Merrill Incommode and Waltawah Incommode was a slight favorite over Argentine and Short Line and took the race win ning the first and third heats Argentine winning the second Waltawah came in tliird in the first heat and lorence third in the second heat In the first neat the contest between Incommode and Ar gentine was exciting especially at the home stretch' where Incommode first made up the late start he got and won 'by a head The second heafr was a repetition of the first but was taken by by half a length Incom mode took the third heat without difficulty Time The Coney Island Epees New York June The Coney Island races were well attended to The first contest five furlongs for two year olds was between Mosquito and Nimos and won by the latter in 1:06) The second race Seaside handicap all ages two miles which was generally conceded to Bramble was won byWillfuljr Gen Phillips second Gov Hampton third Bramble last Time 3 :343 The next race milfe and a quarter between Geo McCulloch and Una was won by the former Time The mile dash won by Warfield ranklin second Allevuer third Balance All fourth Tune The steeple chase was won by Allright Resolute second Wild Oats third Time 4 minutes A Heavy Kain Storm In Texas Galveston' June The special from ort Griffin says A terrific rain storm swept over this place on the night of the 20th Over eight inches of water fell flooding the town and causing Collins Creek to overflow Three people were drowned in the town and four just below im mense damage was done to property in this vicin ity trer surrendered to him At the time referred to Brig Gen Crittenden of Indiana was in commana of the post of Murfreesboro and his forces sisted of six companies ot the Ninth live in camp and one at the Court House three quarters Of a mile distant The Third Minnesota in com mand of Col Lester about 800 strong was camp on Stone River at least two miles distant hawng with it two sections of Cant irst Ken tucky battery The battalion of Seventh vania cavalry was absent on patrol duty at rank GeiniDuffleld lust relieved the entire com mand of the State of Kentucky on his way to the new (post assigned him at McMinnville Tenn twenty miles east of Murfreesboro reached Mur freesooro the day before the battle and was the guest of his old command the Ninth Michigan at the headquarters of the five companies in the field Gen Crittenden the commander of the post had his headquarters at the hotel in Murfreesboro At daybreak of Julv 13 1862 Gen orrest with over 4 000 Texans and Georgian troops dashed into Mur freesboro The first attack fell upon the five com panies of the Ninth Michigan not three hundred strong and camped just out of Murfreesboro rhis attack was led by Col Walker with his Texan Rangers and although ninety three men of the Ninth Michigan were killed ana wounded the Tex ans were repulsed with heavy loss and their colonel being Wounded they retreated closely pressed by Company of the Ninth Michigan deployed as sharpshooters driving them back hi great confusion along the Libert turnpike the other four com panies of the 'Ninth Michigan moving fonviurd throwing up a breast work of baled hay sending an orderly to CoL Lester of the Third Minnesota requesting him to move up with the battery Col Lester not only refused to do so but arrested the orderly who brought the request and thuspre Vnted his return Col Lester was shortly after this attacked by Gen orrest and surrendered his own regiment with the two sections of the Kentucky battery early in the morning i Shells andshots were tired by the battery but the Third Minnesota surrendered without firing a gun In the first at tack upon the five companies of the Ninth Michi gan in which the Texan Rangers were repulsed Gen Duffield received two severe gun shot wounds and fainting from loss of blood was left on the field as the 'Ninth Michigan moved forward but subsequently picked up un consciouS'cand carried off by the Rebel Major Maney Brig Gen Crittenden commander of the post was captured in bed at ids hotel by the Texas advance guard who rushed into town but were afterward driven out by the company of the Michigan1 stationed at the court who were subse quently driven in and captured The five compa nies of the Ninth Michigan maintained their ground until noon whenthe entire force of Gen orrest with the two sections of the captured battery being brought to bear upon them they also: were com pelled to surrender after the Joss of ninety three men or thirty one per cent' of killed and wounded 1 Now iwho surrendered at Murfreesboro 2 Who is Don Henderson and what of his record as a soldier if he lias any? 3 What right has he to attack our gallant commander Brig Gen Duf field who yet bears upon his person the scars of honorable wounds received in battle in defense of the ederal Union? Every soldier of Michigan will regard this falsehood of Don Henderson as an outrage upon the Boys in Blue to all of whom the General is well Known and by whom he is well be loved o' A 3L DOBBELAIRE Late Captain of the Ninth Michigan Infantry Vet eran volunteers Arrivals and Clearances CHICAGO Special Dispatch to Tlie Detroit ree Press Chicago June 24 Arrived from Propel lers City of Concord Starucca Gordon Campbell Prussia Nyack and Shickluna schooners A Georges and Van Straubenzee Sailed for Propellers ountain City Jay Gould Hurlbut and Gordon Campbell schooners Jennie Mathews JS Locke Northerner Queen City Zach Chandler and Bolivia BUALO Buffalo June Propellers Arctic mdse Hancock Schnoor mdse Toledo Blanchard mdge Cuba mdse Chicago schooners Mears 900 tons coal Chicago Richards 550 tons railroad iron Duluth Williams Toledo Ella Murton Cleveland Camden mdse Au Sable barge William Treat Ta was s' MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Wis June The schooners St Louis and Sir Van Straubenzee arrived from below in tow of the propeller Prussia but being un able to secure cargoes proceeded on to Chicago Cleared for Below Steam barge Barnum EAST SAGINAW East Saginaw June 24 Barges Wol verine Harvest Cleveland Gould 'Tona wanda Roscius Buffalo schooner Minnie Davis Detroit light propeller Bertschy Cleveland mdse Cleared Propeller Bertschy Cleveland 1860 shingles schooner Minnie Davis Detroit 110 lumber barges Harvest Cleveland 210 tn lumber and 100 lath Gould Buffalo 340 lumber Sparrow Ashtabula 370 lumber: Wolver ine Cleveland 200 lumber Lewis Wells San dusky 245 lumber and 200 lath MARQUETTE Marquette June 23 Propellers Spar ta Superior orest City Coffinbury ay Swam Wetmore Alcona Tuttle schooners Sumatra Sandusky Brown Geo Ely Rhodes A Maxwell Bru nette King Newcomb ayette Brown Wm Young Escanaba Propeller Superior schooners Sandusky H' Cleveland Escanaba ayette Brown Passed Propellers Peerless City of remont Empire State BAY CITY Bay City June 24 Propellers A Smith Toledo A A Turner Alpena Tonawanda barge Wenona Tonawanda all light Propellers Glasgow Buffalo 290 lum ber Tempest Cleveland 400 lumber barge Guiding Star Chicago 400 lumber schooners Grace Whitney Buffalo 348 lumber Eureka Buffalo 380 lumber THE TURK frst Day of the Ohio Tri State Trotticg Association Toledo June' The summer meeting of the Tri State Trotting Association began to dav 70 weather and track were good and the attendance fair The first race 2:50 class $800 in three purses had sixteen entries and five starters Hambletoman Sut Lovingood Palma Jessie Dixon Albert Time 2 :33 2 229JZ 2 128'54 2 :32 The winner was the favorite in the pools at $20 to $4 for the field The second race 2 :27 class purse the same as above had ten entries and seven starters Oeeara Chief was the favorite 1 SUMMARY 7 1 1 Oceana Chief 1234 Monarch Rule 4 3 2 5 Jessie Hayes 2 0 5 3 Convoy 5 4 4 2 Up ana up 35 Tola 6 7 Time 2:30 2 9 2 2:28 To races are for the 2:34 and 2:20 classes with fourteen entries in the former and six in the latter Rarus will trot against the best time on a halt mile track 2:16 which was made by him last year on this track A General Strike to be Inaugurated at all River To Day all River June At a meeting of sniiinr to night it was voted to inaugurate a strike to row every mill in the city except the Metacom and Anawan In these mills notice not beineriv en as early as the others the spinners' will wn there a day or two longer until the ten noti expires Nothing was said about the King PUiiUn it being understood that no strike takes place Another meeting will take place to morrow spinners have procured Carrol con Hall which i much larger than their own and expect a fnjj fts object is twofold irst they think there is chance that the manufacturers mav yield to mor row and if so they can hear tne report from the manufacturers Second they believe that if manufacturers' do not yield the meeting wilt strengthen the feehng to resist and hold out to the bitter end There seems to be not the slightest in dication of weakening on the part of the maim facturers A general meeting is called for morrow atternocn when the course of action will be decided upon The gyU eral opinion seems to be tliat the manufacturers throughout the city will try and run regardless the strike several of them have spinners from out of town and agents are constantly enga ing others JClie striking spinners living in corpora tion houses who have wages coming to them riil have an advance for one or two months deducted from their be paid in full only on vacat ing the tenements No well informed person le lieves that the manufacturers will yield in anv way to the spinners aud the prospect is that Thursday morning a sharp contest will begin About a year ago at a point just above the Lime Kilns Crossing there occurred a between the steam barge Ballentine with the mammoth schooner Moore in tow and the steam barge Sagi naw with the schooner Lathrop in tow The event resulted in an admiralty case before Judge Brown and yesterday afternoon the tug Winslow was for the time being transformed into a United States court room that the dignitaries of the court might visit the scene of the disaster and place in their minds with exactness the points in dispute The Winslow lay alongside Capt Grum wharf at the foot of irst street at 3 o'clock with Capt Martin Swayne in command and at that time with hopelessly wilted collars and cuffs wet brows and a general air of dis comfort caused by the exasperatingly warm weather the following named passengers boarded the boat: Judge Brown Clerk oft the Court Davison TV inney Assistant United States District Attorney United States Marshal Mathews Deputy Marshal Cash Taylor Swan attorney for the Ballentine II Canfield attorney for the Saginaw Hoyt post and Olds attorneys Whitaker stenographer and the following marine experts': Capt Grum mond Capt Joseph Nicholson Capt Ward Capt John Gillet Gilchrist owner of the schooner Lathrop and a representative of The ree Press A spacious awning forward of the pilot house protected the court from the rays of the sun com fortable chairs were called into service and with a gloriously cool head wind to fan their faces the went into session as Capt Swayne headed the Winslow down stream and started on the ju dicial journey Sighs of relief were heard as the first realization the change from almost unbearable heat to de liciously cool comfort dawned on the passengers Then with a satisfied and thankful air everybody disposed himself to the best advantage to enjoy the luxury Capt Nicholson took the time of the start under a mistaken notion that he was participating in a yacht race John Gillet informed his mediate neighbors that it had been discovered that the cause of theloss of the Satellite was too much water and Judge Brown and the legal luminaries passed flattering comments upon the appearance the city as the boat sped on its way Clerk Davi son meanwhile sought an isolated position and took iu the glories of the constantly changing and ever beautiful pictures He was silent eager and enthu siastic in his unique fashion until the great breath ing and muscular movements of the boat and its engines attracted his attention He looked a con versation with the boat' which interpreted itself to those who were observing him about as follows are a mysterious mass of energy and intel lect I wonder what is your estimate of us poor weak About this time Capt Gruihmond remarked that the invigorating breeze was a very enjoyable bless ing but added as he pointed to 'three or four schooners loaded decks down and sailing gaily up stream tough on Passing the picturesque beauties of Sandwich and Petite Cote Mamajuda Light and the Alexan der House were sighted Then the court produced various United States detail charts of the Lake Survey and the judge attorneysand experts be gan studying Range lights and range trees build ings and other objects on shore were pointed out courses up down and across the river were ex plained on the chart and studied on river itself The positions of the boats under consideration of the court were pointed out and both sides of the case were vigorously presented The scene of the collision having been passed the court turned to the improvements being made at the Canada Southern Crossing and the solid stony secure old Town of Malden was soon reached in good time The narrow streets the deserted asylum the two or three beautiful homes on the bank of the river and the handsome airy and pleasant new hotel which are the present chief possessions of Malden commented on and the Winslow was put about and headed up stream for the trip home where McKee Rankin and his wife Kitty Blanchard are was the in formation offered by one of the passengers as he pointed to the ample acres of Bois Blanc Island Capt Grummond followed the remark with tlie information that the Winslow would lie to at the Crossing in order to give the Court an oppor tunity to see the tug Castle bound down with a tow of three vessels make the narrow and tortuous passage" At the Crossing are two steam dredges at work about 300 feet from the Canada shore and all ves seis passing are obliged to go between the dredges and the shore and after passing below the dredges make a sharp turn to the starboard A little fur ther down they make a turn to the larboard With a tow of large vessels and a stiff current this course is one to make but the captain of the Cas tle did it neatly although he could not bear the was highly complimented by the court On the return trip the head wind which had de lighted the passengers was Ibst in a measure but the loss was fully made up by the lessening heat from the sun and a living gale of all the way home from Cash Taylor who drew from his al most inexhaustible stock of thrilling marine stories At the close of the trip a vote of thanks was given to Capts Grummond and Swayue and the court announced that it had been greatly bene i fited professionally and physically by the trip YOUR OWN CANOE How the Detroit Ki ver was Navigated Half a Century Ago At 5 yesterday afternoon on the easterly Bide of Belle Isle there was a rather novel aquatic AYhihii ion that is if anything so old can be called hovel at was the trial trip of a new old style ianoe rowed by an old style rower and the result shows that within the last thirty years there has Derhaps not been such an immense improve jnent in small rowing craft many peo ple Imagine The canoe question is the work of Capt Clinton the builder of the canoes that used to do tne winter ferrying here thirty years ago and later the builder of the stanch boats that set die pattern for winter ferrv tog and toe crushing during the last few winters Twenty eight years ago a tree was felled on Rus farm five miles from where the City Hall Xids and from it Ciipt Clinton a canoe $8 feet long 4 feet 8 inches beam and 32 inches ''deep This canoe was hauled on trucks with appropriate ceremonies and launched at the ferry dock Capt Clinton has helped thirty six people over in it at one time and it was long considered a model of ferry enterprise It had and would slide on the ice or float in the ice water as was desired Thirty two years ago the captain built a 12 feet long and 22 inches wide and the present boat is modeled after that one In 1814 Capt Clinton rowed from Belle Isle to elT dock in this canoe took a passenger on board and was back at the island within and he wants to know if any modern Detroitera can make better time In those days his two sis Urs and very likely his cousins and his S1 this canoe to go visiting in just as a horse ai buggy would now be used The canoe terdlyls dugout from a cottonwood log and is feet long 25 inches beam and 11 inches deep Ukk 1 to? Brevities The Mayflower was inspected yesterday The schooner Guiding Star has cleared for Oswe CO The light house tender Dahlia will be in port soon The new steamer Milwaukee js en her way to Chicago a 7 The tug engine is in shape again and she Came out last night The tug Hercules is having some minor done to her upper works The steam barge Olean stopped here yesterday for a time She will soon have a new Granger heater put in The propeller Atlantic has cleared for Cleveland where she will load and return to this port to go up on her regular time Saturday The steam barge Olean towing the schooner ame and the barge Susan Ward came up from Erie yesterday in twenty one hours The tug Winslow left last night for Toledo to coal up She leaves in a dav or two for Marquette with tile schooners Sunnyside Sweetheart and Acontias to tow and with her wrecking apparatus on board asusual 4 Those new Canadian officials to watch American breakers have not yet put in appear ance It is stated that owing to the large number of candidates much doubt exists as to what two are most fit Hence the delay Its corps of did not save it this time The Post and Tribune had no word from Marquette in paper and its read ers had to turn to The ree Press for the impor tant news concerning the Satellite The Chicago Tribune rose superior to the occasion and had not a line on the most important marine disaster for weeks tne sinking of the Satellite Its contemporaries did however and from the Times and Inter Ocean the Tribune can cfbmpile for its Sunday edition The tug Kate Williams leaves here this morning with a raft for Toledo the Ballze got into the river yesterday morning at 9 :30 with one of 2500000 feet and the Kate Moffat will leave here soon for a raft at Green Bush to be taken to Toledo mil if not of money then of feet MOKTGAyt Whereas Default having been made in the conditions ot a certain mortgage made and executed by Stevenson and Josephine Stevenson his wire the Township of Dearborn Wayne County Micm gan to rancis Ruff of the same place bearm date the 16th day of April A 1877 and recordeJ in the office of the Register of Deeds for the County of Wayne in liber 138 of mortgages on on which mortgage there is claimed to be due ai the datekof this notice the sum of two hundred ana fifteen dollars and 16 100 and no proceedings at law or in equity having been instituted to recover tne debt now remaining secured by the said mortgage ovany part thereof Now therefore notice is here by given that on Saturday the 2d day of August a 1879 at 10 in the forenoon of that day at the easterlyfront door of the City Hall (that the building to which the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne is held) by virtue of power to seu contained in said mortgage I shall sell auction to tlie highest bidder tlie premises desen oea to said mortgage to satisfy the amount due thereon with interest and costs and expenses and nJ50 attorney fee of thirty dollars ($30) as provided 1 said mortgage as solicitor or attorney fee when steps shall be taken to foreclose the same The follovniu is a description of the premises as given in ku mortgage: All that certain piece or parcel of situate in the Township of Dearborn County Wayne and State of Michigan known and desenoea as follows to wit: Commencing at a point on tno west side of the east half of the west half ot tne northwest quarter section (30) thirty at amstanee of forty eight rods from the north side of the aiore said section thirty thence running parallel west section line north forty eight rods to line thence running east along section line tweniy three rods thence running south parallel section line forty four roas thence runmngwes 1 ly along north side of the land to111 said Jamas Stevenson which he purchased 01 Jo Banister and to a direct fine to the place ot oes ning Also a piece of land one rod in widtn eng the aforesaid land he purchased or ster by deed dated October 27th 184 to width joins the east side of said Banister lan north side of plank road Detroit May 9 1879 RANCIS RU Mortgagee Hoban Barnard Moran 149 Attorneys for Mortgagee TN THE DISTRICT COURT JL United States for the Eastern District ot gan In Bankruptcy vQirrunt In the matter of Benjamin been Notieeis hereby given pro filed in said court by said bankrupt 7 as visions of the act of Congress of March proVa amended for a discharge of Jwy A ble under said act and that Hovey 1879 at 9 a tn before Clarke Register is City of Detroit in said district to assign tors hearing of the same when and who have proved their debts and wier Pyher intArfest nifty attend and sbpy5 be why saM petition should TTTR DETROIT REE PRESS laWEDNES DA Yl JUNE 25 1879 Mutual Benefit Association A meeting of certificate holders of the Mutual Benefit Association was held at the general offices in this city yesterday afternoon Andrew Brow in the chair announced that the object of the meeting was to give members an opportunity to examine the books of the association with re ference to its management and to offer such sugj gestions as might be deemed proper A statement of account was rendered as follows Received from beneficiary fund $1321 Received from assessments 792 Total Losses paid 429 In treasury 684 The liabilities are Members in the 5000 $890 2000 class $416 $1306 There is on hand from assessment No 3 $379 Hull Sill Herman Roehm A Wilcox and JM Nicol were appointed a 'commit tee at the request of the Manager to examine the accounts and formulate the results of their ex amination as they shall deem proper for publican tion 4 The ire Last Night Just before 11 last night a fire was discovered in the building cupied by the Detroit ile Works at the corner of ort and Beaubien streets and an alarm was turned in Engine No and was immediately engines and hook and which originated on to the second floor and after about half an work the department had the flames under control and soon extinguished them The loss falls chiefly on Rowe Hayes owners of the file works wlio estimate their damage at $500 Clarkson Taylor of the Detroit Machine Screw Works who occupied the second floor lose about $300 and A Michels Co who own the building estimate their loss at about $200 The cause of theJ fire is not known but it is supposed to have originated from ashes as it was first seen the fire room of the file works The property destroyed exclusive of the building consisted of leather belting and patterns All losses are covered by insurance ourth of July Posters The ree Press job rooms are now specially equipped for seasonable work The attention of town and village authorities is particularly invited to the fact that The ree Press facilities for printing ourth of July posters are finer than aver before and that a specialty is now being of that class of work Choice Cigars The manufactured from choice Havana tobacco by Binberg of this city are meeting with a very favorable reception General Duffield and the Battle Xf freesboro To the Editor of The Detroit ree Press The Allegan Journal of June 14 under the title or Insult to the Patriotic claims that it is a piece of gross profanity and impiety to ha ve sucn men as the so called Gen Duffield delivering ora tions at the graves of brave Union soldiers because this Gen Duffield surrendered his command of 2000 men at Murfreesboro Tenn to a small ooay of cavalry who were repulsed the same day bv Col Moore with only 140 men of the bj teenth" Michigan Infantry Allow ma as a Michi gan officer to make the following statement which from personal presence and observation 1 Know to be true and which I defy DonC Henderson or any hody to disprove The Sixteenth Michigan at the time referred to was not in Tennessee but was serving in Virginia The rebel Gen Morgan was not on the fieiaat mur freesboro and no portion of the Ninth Michigan A Vessel Passages DETROIT Detroit June Steam barge Birckhead and barges 5 :30 a tug Relief and raft 5 :30 a propellers Commodore 7 :10 a Asia 9 :30 a Champlain 10 :10 a tug Par ker with schooner Taylor 10 :20 a steam barge Hackett and consort with schooner Minch and David Wagstaff 11am steam barge Niagara 1 :30 a propeller Starucca 11 :30 a tug Oswego with schooners Sweetheart Oneonta America and Piiineas Marsh 12 tug Wilcox with schooners A Kent Guido Pfister and Chas Nims 12:30 tug Castle with schooners Marion Paige Crosthwaite and Mary Lyon 2 propel lers Mary Mills 2:30 Empire State 4:30 tug Kate Moffat with schooners Crawford and Ene Belle 9 :40 tug Clark with schooners Sloan and Lamb 11 :30 ix steam barge Ira Chaffee and barges 12 Up Tug Bob Hackett with schooner Republic 6 a tug John Martin with schooner Lizzie A Law 10 a propeller Olean and barges with schooner ame 12 :30 steam barge Cormorant and consort with schooner Goshawk 1 :10 tug rank Moffat and schooner oster 9 :30 LATEST PASSAGES Detroit June Up Steam barge Cowie and barge 12:30 a 1 CANAL Port Colborne Ont June Passed up Schooner Jamaica Oswego to Chicago coal Noyes Oswego to Chicago coal Down Schooner Lady McDonald Milwaukee to Kingston wheat 5 PORT HUROf Port Huron June Up Propellers Macki naw Arizona Missouri and barges and tug Bennett and barges Down Propellers Commodore Waverly Bert schy Empire State Mary Mills Hackett and consort tugs John Owen and raft Balize and raft schooners Sweetheart Oneonta Marsh Amer ica HL Page Bacon Mary Lyon Huron Taylor Jennie Kimball New Dominion HA Kent Erie Belle and Charlie Crawford Night Report Up Propeller Quebec schooners Lizzie A Law Alexander and Dauntless Down Propellers Badger State Montana Asia steamers Keeweenaw Graves and consort John Pridgeon with schooner A Nicholson Annie Smith and consort Nahant with Tilden and Bacon: schooners Hanna George Sloan Lamb Phebe Catherine Wind southeast gentle weatherfine Lake reights "CHICAGO' Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Chicago June 24 There were charters to day for over 500000 bushels of grain largely wheat Rates were unchanged on the basis of 2c wheat corn to Buffalo DETROIT Detroit June 24 Schooners' Acontias iron ore Marquette to Cleveland at $1 25 Corsican shocks and staves Detroit to Buffalo at 5c per bundle on shocks and $4 and $6 on staves Seabird tan bark ten miles above Southampton to Detroit at $1 50 Upper sycamore lumber Amherstburg to Buffalo at $1 "MILWAUKEE Milwaukee June Wheat to Buffalo CHICAGO Chicago June 24 Corn to Buffalo lc June 23 The schooner Monterey was chartered early in the day yesterday for com to Collingwood on In the afternoon the schooners Bolivia and Locke were chartered tor com to Oswego at 4J4e The propeller Lawrence loaded com tor Sar nia or Buffalo there were no cargoes offering and no charters could be learned of the rate on com by sail continued nominal at lc Through rates to New York propeller and canal quotable at 55jC com and 6c wheat Railroad freights steady at 20c grain and 25c fourth class per 100 pounds to New Ocean CLEVELAND Cleveland June Coal freights are firm at 45 (gloOc to Chicago and Milwaukee and 55c to Racine Iron ore freights are steady at 7O75c from Es canaba 25 from Marquette to Erie ports and $1 30 to Buffalo and Black Rock BUALO Buffalo June 24 Coal freight firm and 5c higher Charters Barge Wm Treat lumber East Tawas to Buffalo at $1 50 per schooners Bailey cement hence to Toledo at 4c per bbl La Petite coal to Alpena at 30c and lumber Al pena to Port Huron at $1 87J4 West cement to remont at 6c east saginaw East Saginaw June The schooner Helen Pratt takes wheat to Oswego instead of to Buffalo as £Pored The Propeller Mineral Rock takes 800000 shiaglesto Tonawanda at 23c from Bay City The barae Roscius is chartered from Sagi naw to Buffalo and the Midnight from Saginaw to Tonawanda lumber at $162 Wm IM I dd' 5 Landings i i 4 XI ja aS 2 2 a 0 Albany 8:47 22 Coxsackie 10 :87 22 1 :50 0 :0 30 Hudson 11 :01 8 0 :20 0:4 36 Catskill 11 :22 6 0 :15 0 :6 47 Saugerties 12:05 11 0:41 0:2 60 Rhinebeck 12 :40 13 0 :33 0 2 75 Poughkeepsie 1:32 150:5010:2 92 Newburgh 2 :25 17 0 5010 :3 102 West Point 8 :01 JO 0 :3 125 Tarrytown 4 23 1 152 New 24 th street 5 :47 27 1 2 I I.