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      CANAL REGULATIONS. At a meeting of the Board of Canal Commissioners in the city of Albany, on the 10th of March, 1826, the following rules and regulations, in addition to those provided by law relating to the Erie and Champlain canals, were adopted to wit: 1. Every boat ...

 Niles Weekly Register, 7 Oct 1826, p. 87     WEALTH AND POWER WESTWARD. We meet with the following in the papers without knowing whence it was derived, but presume the information which it gives is nearly correct. Commerce of Lake Erie -- American side. Steam brig Superior built at Buffalo 346 tons; steam boat Henry ...

 Baltimore Patriot, 13 Jun 1826, p. 2     Lake Ontario .--We have been informed by a gentleman from Lake Ontario, that the steam boats on that lake, have been newly fitted up. The Ontario, on the American side, is still under the command of Captain Vaughn; the Frontenac, on the British side, is in charge of her old …

 Evening Post (New York, NY), 10 Oct 1826     From the Brockville Recorder, Sept. 25 STEAMBOATS.--The present seems to be the period of misfortune to the Lake and River navigation, as we think will be readily granted when we inform our readers, that the Steamboat Queenston on her trip upwards, last week, ...

 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 ...

 Canadian Courant, 30 Sep 1826, p. 3     COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE KINGSTON, Sept. 13. Admiral Lake arrived in town on Monday morning last in the steam boat Queenston , Captain Whiting -- and in the afternoon of the same day proceeded by the same conveyance to York and Niagara, on a tour to ...

 Buffalo Emporium (Buffalo, NY), 16 Sep 1826, p. 4     TO THE PUBLIC In referance [sic] to a Card published by Mr. Forsyth, and freely circulated at Buffalo, Black Rock, and other places pointing out to Travellers two modes of conveyance from Buffalo to the Niagra [sic] Falls on the British side, and from the Falls back to Buffalo, one …

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 30 May 1826     ACCIDENT .-- We understand that a durham boat, engaged in the forwarding business of Messrs. Hooker & Henderson, of Prescott, on her way to Montreal last week, about 20 miles below this place, run against a pier built in the river near the Canada shore, and sunk. The boat was …

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 17 Oct 1826, p. 3, column 2     Gale .--A severe gale was experienced about the 1st inst. on lake Erie. The steam boats, Superior and Niagara, after lying to for two or three days under Point Abino, were obliged to return to Buffalo. The Pier constructing at Portland was entirely carried away. ...

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 31 Oct 1826, p. 3, column 2     The Durham boat Mulcaster, Thomas Chambers master, bound from Prescott to Montreal, with a valuable cargo of Ashes, Flour, Butter, &c.; &. &. was upset in the Cedar Rapids, on Thursday evening. The cause of this disaster was the breaking of the steering pin, which rendered the rudder useless, and …

      The woodcut appeared on the reverse of a pre-printed manifest form printed by Lazell & Francis of Buffalo, NY used in the summer of 1826

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 23 May 1826     Ohio Canal .--This link in the great chain of internal improvements is in a state of forwardness towards completion, and it is expected the section terminating in lake Erie will be navigable the ensuing fall. Cleveland is situated at this junction, and is making rapid strides in its ...

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 30 May 1826, p. 1, column 5     Emigrants to Michigan were so numerous at Buffalo a few days since, that they were under the necessity of erecting shanties for their accommodation until boats should start for Detroit. Michigan will soon have acquired a sufficiency of population, to entitle her to the ...

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 13 Jun 1826, p. 3, column 3     From the Buffalo Patriot, May 30. BLACK ROCK HARBOR On Saturday evening last about 130 feet of the pier at Black Rock yielded to the pressure of the water, and the basin was in a few minutes reduced to within two feet of its natural level, and ...

 St. Lawrence Gazette (Ogdensburg, NY), 1 Aug 1826, p. 3, column 3     Inland Navigation --Last Friday evening our citizens were gratified with a most novel arrival. The sloop St. Clair (50 tons burthen) passed thro' the lower lock into the basin laden with peltry and ashes, from Mackinac , bound to New York! At Buffalo, the St. Clair unshipped ...