Cargo from Wreck of Bark Edwards

Locke, D. J.

This property was found in the bottom of a bark which had been wrecked on Alacran reef, abandoned and gone to pieces. It was saved by diving by naked divers, in from two to two and a half fathoms of water, and boated some seven miles, to where the salving vessel had been obliged to anchor; has been brought to this port over 500 miles and libelled for salvage by the salvors, who are licensed wreckers of this district.

It appears to have been derelict in the fullest sense of the term, and its-total loss certain, except by some such undertaking as the-libellants engaged in. The labor…