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      Among the vessels driven ashore in the great gale of last fall was the barque Tornado. She was laden with a cargo of corn from Chicago to Kingston, and was beached at South Bay, head of Wolfe Island, where she has remained during the winter. On Friday noon last the …

      The Salt Trade. - The Onondaga Salt Springs have furnished one of the first and permanent elements of business in Oswego. As early as the year 1818 the manufacture and shipments of the article to this port were quite extensive, and constituted the important branch of commercial ...

      Secession in Oswego Harbor - The Laws Enforced! - There was a bit of excitement in Oswego harbor yesterday morning, growing out of the secession operation. It seems that Sheriff Tucker had attached the schooner J.P. Kirtland, of Milan, Ohio, with her cargo of grain, at the suit of the …

      Five schooners, 43 canal boats, and five tugs are being constructed or their building is contracted at Buffalo. The ship carpenters of Detroit struck for higher wages on Friday. They demand $2 a day on old work and $1.75 on new work, which is an advance of fifty cents on …

      "On Saturday evening, a man named Dennis Woods, who had been boarding at the hotel of Mrs. Cunningham in the vicinity of Pea Soup Flats, made his appearance at the police office and entered complaint against parties for assault and battery. He was too much under the influence of bad …

      The Steamer Comet Sunk. - The steamer Comet, which left Kingston Tuesday night for Toronto, collided with the schooner Exchange, near Nine Mile Point Light, and sunk in forty feet of water. Two lives were lost. The schooner sustained but slight damage. A strange fatality has ...

      Ship Carpenters On A Strike - We learn that the ship carpenters of this city are on a strike. Under the sanction of their Union they demand $1.75 per day for their labor, their pay heretofore having been $1.50. We suppose their demands will ultimately be acceded to. ...

      The strike of the Ship Carpenters. - We were in error yesterday in saying that the Ship Carpenters' Union had struck for an advance in their rate of wages. They have hitherto received for their labor fourteen shillings a day; but the masters, by reason of the hard times and …

      The Strike of the Ship-Carpenters To the Editor of the Oswego Commercial Times: Dear Sir: In your paper of Wednesday evening you refer to the "Strike of the Ship Carpenters," and in such a way, that the public, as a general thing, would think that the Ship Carpenters were ...

      The Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union Mr. Editor, - Allow me space for a few words to correct a statement in you much esteemed journal in reference to the Union on the Welland Canal. I would just state that the Society lately formed is not broken up; and as to …

 Oswego Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 2 Mar 1861     Tow Steamers on the Welland Canal. - The determination on the part of the Government to employ tug steamers on the Welland Canal in place of traction by horses, appears to have excited a terrible commotion in that neighborhood. The parties engaged in the present trade complain ...

 Wyoming County Mirror (Warsaw, NY), December 18, 1861, page 2     Column 7

      A Marine Disaster - Narrow Escape of a Schooner! ___ The season of disasters on the Lakes has opened early. A schooner was wrecked last week above Milwaukee, and went to pieces. On Saturday night there was a disaster near the mouth of our harbor which came near being a …

      The old barque, City of Rochester, sunk last fall near Ogdensburgh by the steamer Ontario, is being raised. The vessel was built here many years ago by Capt. Hosea Rogers, and subsequently sold to a party in Ogdensburgh, who substituted the name of the place for Rochester, as part of …

      This was the launch of the Hero.

      Names of Propellers and Vessels Laid Up in the Port of Oswego Propellers Norman of Oswego Tugs Lady Franklin, Tornado, Robert Reed, Major Dana, J.H. Bloore of Oswego Barks Gibraltar of St. Catharines Admiral of Quebec Cleveland of ...

      A Strike - The ship carpenters and caulkers of this town, and also of Port Dalhousie and Port Robinson, struck this morning for an advance in wages. They demand $1.75 per diem, instead of $1.50, which has been the wages for some time back. They also require weekly payments of …

      A Monster Canal Boat. - The largest canal boat we have ever seen, and we think the largest afloat, was launched on Saturday from the boat yard of Samuel Miller of this city. The new boat is called the Abraham Lincoln, bears a handsome portrate of "Old Abe" on the …

      St. Catharines, Monday, June 17 -- Fire at Port Robinson: Abbey's Ship-yard Destroyed. We understand that the workshops in Messrs. J.P. and J. Abbey's Ship Yard, Port Robinson, were set fire to last night, and completely destroyed. The loss is not stated, nor if there was ...

      St. Catharines, Monday, June 10 - Ship-Carpenters Strike - A few months since an organization call "The Welland Canal Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union," was formed in this town, all the hands employed on the line of canal becoming members. They demanded an increase of wages and ...