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 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 7 Dec 1842     The Late Gale. - It is but seldom that we have to record so many disasters on our inland waters as it has been our misfortune to do within the past few days. A great many lives have been lost, and a large amount of property destroyed. Among the shipwrecks …

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 1 May 1829     ADVERTISEMENT. - Notice is hereby given to the Public, that the TOLLS of the GOVERNMENT LOCKS and CANALS upon the RIVER St. LAWRENCE, will be REDUCED at the opening of the Navigation to the rates in force previously to the year 1827; but it will be obligatory to take out …

      Public Vessels at Sackets Harbor. - The National Intelligencer contains the following statement, from the Navy Department, respecting the vessels belonging to the United States, lying at Sackets Harbor: Ship New-Orleans, well covered, and in a state of preservation. ...

      Reduction of Toll. - At the late meeting of the Canal Commissioners at Buffalo, the Collector of toll of this village informs us, that a resolution was passed, by which the toll upon all articles passing on the canal, between the Seneca and Genesee Rivers, is reduced to one half …

      Arrived at this village (Rochester,) on Wednesday last, the Canal Boat Western Trader, Capt. Garney, from Utica, with a full freight of Emigrants, consisting of eight families, in all sixty persons, who have come the distance of 150 miles, for the moderate sum of $1.50 each - thus completely ...

      Northern Canal. - The last stone of the Northern canal, was laid by Gov. Clinton, President of the Board of Canal Commissioners, on the 28th Nov. in presence of a great assemblage of people. The Canal is connected with the Hudson at Waterford, at the head of sloop navigation, by …

      We understand that two boats intended for the new line of packets on the canal, were launched at Bucksville Saturday last. They are said to be very superior boats, possessing elegant accommodations.

      The Erie Canal. No. III Aqueduct across Genesee River. - This important work is placed on a rapid of some length, and about twenty-four feet fall, which is formed by one of those rolls of land, and barriers of hidden rock, which, though at several miles distance from it, ...

      The Canal Completed through the Cayuga Marshes. - By the following, from a valued correspondent at Montezuma, it will be seen that the great work of excavating the canal through the Cayuga Marshes, is at length completed, and that the navigation is now uninterrupted between this village and the ...

      From the Albany Argus Erie Canal We have recently had an opportunity of acquiring some information respecting the progress of the eastern section of this great work, which we presume will be gratifying to our readers. It will be recollected that this section has, for the last ...

 Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 17 Jan 1823     Canal Navigation. The following statements shews the amount of property which passed this village on the Erie Canal, in 1822-- It will be recollected that this section of the canal was not navigable from the first of July till about the first of November 32,703 bbls. ...

 Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 13 Apr 1823     The navigation of the canal has recommenced with activity and spirit, and the superabundant produce of the country is passing rapidly to market. As the packets have not yet began their regular trips, the freight boats are many of them crowded with passengers, who have been waiting the ...

      On Oct. 29, 1822 the first boat left the basin on the east side of the Genesee River in Rochester loaded with flour for Little Falls. - P. 70, Landmarks of Wayne County, Edited by George W. Cowles, (Syracuse) 1895.

      New Post office - A post office has been established at the village of Newark (Miller's Basin) in this town; Leman Hotchkiss is appointed postmaster.

 Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 25 Oct 1822     Canal - The navigation on the Erie Canal is now uninterrupted between Rochester and Little Falls. The great embankment at Mann's Mills. about which there has been expressed so much solicitude and such general frustration was completed some time since, and there is now a good supply of water....

 Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 2 Jul 1824     Canal Steam Boats. - The steamboat "Erie Canal" passed this village on Wednesday last, on her way to the west. There are different opinions with regard to the practicability of employing steamboats on the canal - that is, whether, notwithstanding the cheapness of fuel, they can be made to perform …

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 9 Dec 1846, p. 4     Welland Canal The breach which at present interrupts the navigation of that canal detains some seventy vessels with their cargoes and threatens them with a Winter's berth in the interior of Canada. The break itself will, as we understand, be repaired in a few days, and the ice, ...

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 17 Nov 1826, p. 2     Another Steam-boat Accident. --A lette from Niagara, dated the 6th inst. informs us, that the new steam-boat Niagara , Capt. Mosier, while on her way up from Prescott, run on a rock in Lake Ontario, near Long Point. The steam-boat Queenston, Capt. Whiting, on passing ...

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 24 Aug 1827     Another Murder Committed by Rum .--A fireman of the steam boat Queenston, while at Prescott last week, being drunk, fell into the machinery, and was killed.

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 30 Oct 1844, p. 4     From the Buffalo Commercial of Saturday Propellor and Brig Ashore .-- By letters received in town to-day per Constitution, we learn that the propeller Emigrant, with a cargo of 9000 bushels of wheat, from Chicago, for this port, is ashore at Goderich, ...