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      Ship Building The Ship Yard of Mr. Baker, situated at the foot of West First and Second streets, exhibits at the present time, a very brisk and lively appearance. A staunch, first class vessel is being built for Messrs. Merrick & Co. , which will be launched about the last …

      "Strikes" appear just now to be the general order of the day, not only among laborers on public works, but among mechanics generally. The house carpenters of New York and Brooklyn, the ship carpenters of Buffalo, and the barbers and coopers of Rochester, are all demanding an advance of wages. …

      Attention Mariners. - Messrs. Ford & Brother have just received at their Jewelry Store, East end of the Bridge, an extensive assortment of Mariners' Compasses, Barometers, Spy Glasses, Marine Clocks, nautical Instruments, &c;, which they offer for sale at uncommonly low ...

      The Ship Yard of Mr. Andrew Miller, at the foot of East First street, presents a scene of great activity. Two new vessels on the docks, one belonging to Messrs. Fitzhugh Co., and the other, to the builder, will be launched in a few weeks. Mr. Miller employs about sixty …

      Ship Building in Kingston Ship building, to a considerable extent, is going on at Kingston. At the Kingston Railway yard, says the News, "there are three vessels on the stocks in various stages towards completion, one three-masted schooner of 360 tons burthen, one two-masted ...

      The "Trade Wind. " The Brighton Sentinel has a long and spirited account of the launch of the schooner Trade Wind, which took place at Colborne, C. W. , on Wednesday last. This being the first vessel built at that place, the launch called together two or three thousand persons …

      We regret to learn that the steam boat O. S. Howard, which has been used as a tow boat in our harbor for the past two seasons, was sold, on Monday, to a company who propose to remove her to Ogdensburg, where she will be used in the same capacity.

      Yesterday was a fine day, and seldom has our harbor presented a more lively and animated aspect. There being 200,000 bushels of grain afloat, all the elevating power in the harbor was put into requisition. That great establishment, Carrington's "Ontario Grain Warehouse," was elevating at three ...

      Another Launch - The barque Grace Greenwood, G. R. Rogers, builder, is to be launched from his ship yard this afternoon at 4 o'clock. This is the first attempt of Mr. Rogers in ship building, and the Grace Greenwood fully proves that he is a skillful naval architect. The vessel …

      MARINE INTELLIGENCE A deserved tribute has recently been paid to Capt. Mason, of the steamer ROCHESTER, of the Lewiston route. It consisted of a service of plate, presented by the Insurance Companies as a testimonial of their sense of his gallant conduct on a recent occasion. ...

      A Gale and Marine Disaster. - The wind has been blowing strongly from the northwest for the past 24 hours, and fear is entertained for the safety of vessels out. The schooner E. K. Bruce, which cleared from this port last night for Toledo with railroad iron, had her mainmast …

      Vessels Building On The Lakes. Some time since we noticed the large amount of tonnage building on the Upper Lakes. The following communications, which we find in a late number of the Buffalo Express , exhibit most of the vessels ...

      Shocking Accident. - This morning a little girl, daughter of Mr. Peter O. Sullivan, of the 4th Ward, was injured in a terrible manner. She was engaged in selling milk on the Canal Boats lying in and near the Canal Basin and undertook to clamber up a passage way leading …

      Gale on Lake Ontario - Vessel Wrecked. A heavy gale from the North-east, swept over Lake Ontario and last night, and we regret to state it has been attended with serious disasters to the shipping. Two schooners were wrecked near the ...

      Vessels Burned. We have omitted, in the hurry of making up our list of losses by the great fire, to notice the fact that two vessels, the schooners Arabia and Harbridge were badly damaged by the fire. The former was loaded with wheat and was alongside of Messrs. Fitzhugh & …

      NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT THE undersigned will apply, to the Honorable the Commissioners of the Land Office, for a grant of the following described land, pursuant to statute, that is to say: A lot of land covered by the waters of the River St. Lawrence, situated in the town …

 St. Lawrence Republican, 21 Dec 1853     Ogdensburgh Marine Railway ___ In the course of the past Summer a new Marine Railway, furnished with a steam engine, &c.;, for drawing out vessels, has been erected about a mile and a half above Ogdensburgh, on the American side of the river. We notice four steamboat have ...

      We notice that the boatmen are caulking and painting the boats lying in the Canal Basin, preparatory to the resumption of Spring navigation. Every thing now in the business line begins to wear a more cheerful aspect. Forwarders, boatmen and business men generally, are looking forward to the opening ...

      The Rochester & Syracuse Railroad was opened June 1, 1853 which essentially put the packetboats out of business

      The Jordan Transcript thus speaks of the neat little packet which runs between this City and Jordan: The packet boat Norwich commenced, on Wednesday last, her regular trips for the season, between this place and Syracuse. Such a communication between these places is a matter of great convenience ...