Marine. Port Of Galveston - The Galveston Tri-Weekly News - 29 October 1873 |
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Marine. Port of Galveston1 News Office, Galveston Wind at sunset - North. Port Items The steamship City of Austin, Eldridge, master, from New York, with merchandise and passengers to J.N. Sawyer, arrived off the bar last night and crossed this morning. The vessel is now discharging at Williams' wharf, and sails for New York on Saturday. The steamship St. Mary, Staples, master, arrived from Indonesia this morning, with a light freight of cotton and wool, and after taking on board a number of cattle, sailed for Brashear at 1 o'clock. The steamboat Diana, due from Houston at six o'clock this morning, did not arrive until after three o'clock in the afternoon. The steamer brought 558 bales of cotton and two barges loaded with cattle. The detention was caused by the barges going ashore at Clopper's Bar, where they had been anchored by the tug which towed them down from Buffalo Bayou. The steamship Morgan. Captain Geo. E. Tripp, having finished discharging, left the Central wharf at four o'clock this afternoon for Indianoia. The steamer is due on her return at six o'clock Thursday morning. The British steamship, San Antonio, John Rea. master was cleared for Liverpool by C.W. Hurley & cp., this afternoon. with a cargo of 2142 bales of cotton, 3 casks Texas wine and 30 cases preserved beef. The steamer is yet in the harbor, but will probably get into the onter roadstead with the flood tide tomorrow. The steamship Whitney, Forbes, master, is due from Brashear tomorrow morning with the mails, freight and passengers, and sails on her return at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon. The steamship Hutchinson, John Lewis, master, is due from Brashear with freight Thursday, and sails for Indianoia at four o'clock Friday afternoon. The propeller Kate Gordon, master, which carries the mails and plows the "raging main" between this port and Liberty had not turned up at a late hour to-night, although due yesterday. The Kate has been rather unfortunate of late. We fear she has either found another snag in the turbid waters of the Trinity, or else has gotten aground in the canal at the mouth of the river. The steamship W.G. Hewes, Farewell, master, which has been at the quarantine station since Saturday waiting for cattle, received two barges loaded with beeves at four o'clock this afternoon and immediately began taking them aboard. As it will take several hours to transfer the cattle from the barges to the steamer, it is not probable that she will get away before to-morrow morning. A New Idea The New Bedford Standard says: Captain Rockhill, of the Schooner James Alderice, of Philadelphia, at this port, advances a new idea for building sea-going vessels. His plan is to have them built without the usual rib frame, which has to be sheathed inside and out with heavy planks, and is much more simple. He would have the planks 12 inches wide, and laid flat, one upon another, and firmly belted together. He last week laid his plans before Mr. Nehemiah Gibson, a shipbuilder of Boston, who favors it and is willing to take stock in the building of one after that manner. Captain Rockhill is a man of modest turn, and makes no boast of creating a revolution in the art of ship building, but says he will have a vessel of 400 tons built in this way if, after his return from Philadelphia, he can get sufficient funds subscribed for the purpose. Mr. Gibson tells him vessels can be built in this way 40 per cent cheaper than by the present mode.
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