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      What A Change! - The number of steamboats on the Upper Lakes, up to the year 1825, was one! On the opening of navigation in the spring of 1848, there were on the entire length of the lakes, 95 steamers, 45 propellers, 5 barks, 93 brigs, 548 schooners, and 128 …

      Correspondence of the Star. The pleasure which yesterday's trip up the lake from Oswego to this place afforded me, was so great that my feelings prompt me to make a few dotting of the same. In my frequent visits to the Falls I have found the Lake route decidedly preferable, …

      Strike. - The laborers engaged in repairing the break in the canal on Thursday struck for higher wages, supposing, we presume, that the necessity was so great that any demand would be yielded to at once. The contractor offered seven shillings per day and one dollar per night. Some of …

      The Canal Break at Geddes The Canal break at Geddes, which has impeded canal navigation since Wednesday last, was nearly completed last night and the water will be let in this morning. Since Thursday night a large body of men have been employed day and night in repairing the ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 17 Nov 1849     A Walk About Town Oswego is considerable of a city. Of this any one may be convinced by ascending the high ground, upon either side of the river, and looking down upon the one hundred and fifty blocks, the square decorated with trees, the dozen churches and public edifices, the …

      Our Upper Canada readers will feel interest in the result of the trial to navigate the ocean with Lake schooners. Last fall, Messrs. C.E. Levey & Co., of Quebec, the owners, with their usual enterprising spirit, determined upon making the experiment, and brought down to this port the "Lilla," a …

      Milwaukee, Aug. 16, 1849 Capt. Hazard, of the Empire State, arrived here Tuesday evening, and has gone to work vigorously, collecting men and materials, for an attempt to get his noble steamboat afloat again. He has fifteen double pumps in process of construction and advertises for one ...

 Onondaga Gazette (Baldwinsville, NY), 19 Apr 1849     Gale on Lake Ontario _____ There was a severe gale on Lake Ontario on Friday and Saturday last, which did much damage. The steamer Lady of the Lake, which left Lewiston at 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon, broke her shaft at 10 the same night. The Captain threw over two …

      The Lake is open, (it has not been closed,) the harbor and river are open, the ice banks are fast disappearing from the pier and beach. the hum of preparation is heard at the docks, the vessels and the ship-yards, giving promise of the speedy resumption of business on the …

      New Canal Packets. - We learn from the Oneida Whig that four new Packet Boats are now building at Utica, of a size adapted to the enlarged canal. They, in connection with four other boats, will forma continuous line between this city n Syracuse; no change of boats to be …

      Marine Disaster and Loss of Life The schooner Mohawk, Capt. Carmichael, from Chicago for this port, came out of the Welland canal early on Thursday morning, Dec. 6th, and reached this port, at about one o'clock on the morning of the of the 7th, the night being the worst of …

      DISASTER. ---The Oswego Times says a severe thunder storm passed over that city on Friday noon, and the schooner PRINCESS ROYAL, lying wind bound off the mouth of the river, was dismasted. The steamer LADY OF THE LAKE went out and towed the disabled vessel into port. ...

      Shipwreck and Loss of Life. ___ The Schooner Mohawk , Capt. John Carmichael , owned by J.B.C. Morris Esq., of

    Shipwreck and Loss of Life. ___ The Schooner Mohawk , Capt. John Carmichael , owned by J.B.C. Morris Esq., of

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

 Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 14 Dec 1849     The old route between the Lakes and the Hudson ___ The completion of the Oneida river improvement re-establishes the ancient war communication between the Lakes and the Hudson, the channel through which troops and ammunitions of war were moved a hundred years ago. In ...