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      Loss of the Olive Branch . About 9 o'clock Sunday morning the schooner Olive Branch, from Oswego , laden with coal, was driven ashore on the south side of the island, directly opposite Church street, ...

      Lake Business of Oswego We give, under our commercial head, a statement, showing the principal articles imported by lake into Oswego, during the past season, with the total value of our lake trade for a series of years. Our statement of the articles imported is by no means full, ...

      The Comet. - The steamer Porcupine arrived yesterday, from Kingston, with men to aid in raising the wreck of the Comet. Mr. Robinson, the Engineer who tested the boilers of the Comet this spring, is in the city, and has made a thorough examination of the wreck and the exploded …

      Our Harbor presents a most interesting appearance in commercial point of view, crowded as it is with vessels at all our docks, warehouses, elevators and mills. There are nearly three hundred sail vessels, we should judge, now in the Harbor, beside the canal craft. Every storehouse is filled to ...

      Our marine list of yesterday contained the arrival of 40 vessels during the preceding 48 hours. Of these arrivals 31 were from ports on Lake Ontario - 4 from Sandusky, 1 from Detroit, 1 from Chicago, 1 from Toledo and 3 from Cleveland. Canadian flour and grain are coming forward …

      The O.S. Howard We had the pleasure, in company with quite a large party of ladies and gentlemen of this city, of a ride up the lake on Thursday evening, on the little steamer O.S. Howard. The evening was one of rare beauty, and the ride one of the pleasantest …

      What was thought of Rail Roads Forty years ago. The following Letter, in reply to a suggestion about Rail Roads, written forty years ago, by Chancellor Livingston, who had been associated with his Brother-in-Law, Robert Fulton, in application of steam to Vessels, shows the state ...

      The Launch. - At about 12 o'clock at noon, to-day, Captain Weeks launched the hull of his new Steamboat, and as she dipped the water Mr. Geo. Weeks, Jr. christened her the "Queen of the West," and at the same time a flag bearing the name was run up from …

      Launch. - The new barque Danube, built for Messrs. M. Merrick & Co. , was launched from the ship yard of Baker & Co. , yesterday. She is of the largest class sail vessels on Lake Ontario, measuring about 400 tons, with 134 feet keel, 25 ft. hold, and ...

      Loss of the John P. Hale The schooner John P. Hale , Capt. J.G. Richardson, went ashore on Ford's Shoals about three miles above this city, in the terrible snow squall of yesterday. The report of her perilous situation was brought by a vessel which arrived about one ...

      The J. P. Hale - A steam tug and lighters have been employed since yesterday morning in securing the cargo, rigging, sails, spars, &c.; , of the J. P. Hale, ashore on Ford's Shoals. About 1,100 bushels have been saved in good condition, and it is said that about 5,000 …

      The Gale - Lake Disasters - The wind commenced blowing last night at about sunset, and increased to a perfect hurricane without much abatement in violence up to this forenoon. The gale on this lake is, without a doubt, the severest of the season, and a large amount of property …

      More Effects Of The Gale -- The recent gale on the lakes has proved very disastrous to vessels , and the amount of property lost is very large. No gale this season has equaled it. We are under obligations of to S. B. Ludlow, Esq., Secretary of the North Western …

      New Tug Boat. - Ald. Rogers is now making arrangements for the construction of a new steam tug for Capt. Peter P. Wright, of the Robert Reed, which for beauty of model and power will not be surpassed on the Lakes. It will be completed by the opening of navigation, …

      Marine News Another New Vessel. The Joseph Grant is the name of a new and beautiful vessel which we notice in our harbor this morning. She was built at Olcott, by Mr. R. H. Rogers, who is one of the best an most successful shipbuilders on the lakes. She is …

      A Slaver From Lake Ontario. In noticing the early triumphs of George Steers, who built the propellers Genesee Chief and Ontario, at the mouth of the Genesee River, the Rochester Union gives a brief history of the latter named vessel, which was sold to eastern merchants and ...

      The Gale - Marine Disasters. - A telegraph dispatch dated at Rochester May 6th, represents the blow on Thursday night to have been a tremendous gale. The dispatch addsthat the schooner Vincennes of ...

      Trial Trip Of The N. Robins . - Yesterday afternoon this little propeller craft went out into the lake with a view to try her machinery, which is constructed upon a plan entirely new in this region, being oscillating in its movements. She worked ...

      Trade at Sackets Harbor . - Of all the lake ports, the statistics of the trade of Sackets Harbor present the singular result of a rapid decline in the value of imports and exports during the last few years. Her coastwise exports in 1847 ...

      Ship Building in Oswego . Those of our citizens who have not recently visited the several ship yards in this city would be quite surprised at the amount of business doing in that line. having occasion a few days since to pass in the ...