Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — Decrease in American Shipping. [ARTICLE]

Decrease in American Shipping.

The Commissioner of Navigatnffi (a Washington telegram says) reports that the apparent decrease in the number of vessels owned in the United States since the report of 1884 is 2,234, but as there were many vessels reported in the list of 1884 which had been lost or sold to foreign traders it is estimated that the real decrease in the number of vessels ’ owned in the United States during the last year was about two hundred,

There is a movement on foot among the colored people of the country to raise a large sum of money for the erection of a monument at Washington to commemorate their emancipation from slavery. j The Victory, the war ship on which Nelson fought and fell at Trafalgar, is at Portsmouth, Eng., in a good state of preservation. ... .. ■«.. . . The commander of a Danish Arctic expedition, just returned to Copenhagen, says there is no possibility of ever reaching the North Pole. “ *