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      LAKE STEAMERS. - The British steamers of war on the lakes are the Cherokee, carrying 2 eight inch Paixhans, and 40 men, the burthen is 752 tons, the engine of 200 horse power; the Mohawk, two 18 mediums, 25 men, 60 horse power, and 194 tons; the Minos, two guns, …

      H. Fitzhugh & Co., proprietors of the schooner Cuba, which was run down and sunk on Lake Ontario on the night of the 6th of May, 1847, by the Propeller Genesee Chief, and with her cargo of wheat lost, have just recovered a judgment of $3,054.06 against the owners of …

      First Boat on Lake Ontario ______ James L. Barton, Esq., in a letter recently delivered to the Young Men's Association of Buffalo, gives the following account of the first American Boat that ever floated on the waters of the Great Lakes. In 1789, John Fellows, of ...

      THE WRECK OF THE NIAGARA. - The Rochester Advertiser thinks that this vessel, wrecked near the mouth of the river, will be got off in a short time. Workmen are going at it immediately, under the direction of Mr. George Wick, of Oswego. The necessary apparatus was brought up to …

      Wreck of the Niagara. _____ The steamer Niagara, than which there are few finer vessels in the world, left this port for Rochester on the morning of the 18th, under the command of Capt. Childs, with some seventy passengers, among who were a number of ladies. The wind was ...

      THE STEAMER NIAGARA. - This vessel that went ashore early this spring near the mouth of the Genesee River on Lake Ontario, after laying seven weeks has at last been raised. The American says: "She was taken into the harbor between the piers; but in the course of the night …

      Storm Grounds Three Schooners In attempting to come in during the blow of Saturday night, the Brigs Mahoning and Paragon, and the Schooner President, all from Lake Erie loaded with wheat, went ashore in the East Harbor. The wind blowing a gale from the west drove them from their ...

      Northwestern Insurance Company's Home Office Issues Advice to Vessel Masters Captain Rounds, of the North Western Insurance Office, has sent us the following directions to Captains of the Lakes, with reference to entering our Harbor. Capt. R. is familiar with the subject, and ...

      Canalboat Sunk The lake boat "Home" from Henderson, in tow of the steamer "Clinton," broke her line while coming into port this morning, and drifted ashore outside of the east pier and filled with water. She was laden with butter, cheese, whiskey, paper and 600 bushels of rye ...

      Grain Boat Ashore The schooner Frontier went ashore in the East Harbor when coming in this morning, the wind blowing strong from the Northwest, with a heavy sea. She is loaded with wheat, and lays exposed to the action of the sea, and her safety depends on the turn of …

      Troubles on the Lake During the gale on Saturday, the brig "Burlington" from lake Erie, and the schooner "Seneca" of this port, were driven by the entrance to Oswego Harbor while striving to make Oswego harbor. The Burlington, unable to make the Sackets harbor passage, went ...

      Schooner Sunk with Oswego Crew The steamer Niagara, Capt. Childs, arrived this (Monday) morning from Ogdensburgh. She reports the loss of the schooner Canada, with the Captain and two of the crew, on the North shore above Cobourg. The Canada cleared from this port on Thursday ...

      Loss of Schooner Canada From the wreck of the Canada, before noticed in our paper, we have the melancholy news of the loss of the entire crew; except the Captain, which consisted of Mr. Alexander McDougal and two sons, all of whom were residents of this city. To the surviving …

      This was a very important expedition of discovery. Many specimens from it are part of the permanent collections of the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian. Geologist and biologist Agassiz, newly installed as a professor at Harvard was to become one of the preeminent scientists of the 19th …

      The Schr. J.M. Hughs, of Cleveland, while on her passage from the Welland Canal to this place, discovered during the gale of yesterday, about midway between the Eighteen Mile Creek and the Canada shore, a signal of distress flying at a distance; Capt. Glazier, of the Hughs, at once manfully …

      Communication. Mr. Editor: - Sir, I esteem it a duty I owe to the traveling community to speak of the kind attention of Capt. Gardener, of the Canal packet "Herkimer," plying between this place and Syracuse, and can freely state that for energy of character, and such as required ...

      St. Charles Saloon. - This establishment in the stone building on the corner of Water and Cayuga streets, has been fitted up in a style more expansive and superior to any other eating house in the city, by Mr. Washington Rowley, the popular Steward of the steamer Ontario, who knows …

      The Ontario. The new steamer Ontario took her place in the line in which she is to run on Thursday. to speak of this Boat as she deserves would be to employ terms which might, perhaps, appear somewhat extravagant. It is but moderate praise to say she ranks fully equal …

      Goderich, Nov. 8, 1848 Mr. Editor SIR - The following details will inform your readers of the melancholy loss of the schooner rigged boat WING AND WING of this port, together with crew, consisting of John Bedford, owner, Thomas Miles, John Reynolds, and Francis Longe, ...

      Mindemoya Now Is Yankcanuck Only a comparatively few persons here have heard of the Yankcanuck Transportation Company or the ship of the same name. But the vessel has a close association to a group of person in Marinette. The Yankcanuck a pulpwood carrier is owned and ...