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      The Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company, whose stock a few years ago, was so good that it could not be obtained, has gone into liquidation. The company owes seventy-five thousand dollars, with nothing to meet it but the boats and furniture. In order to save the property from …

      Spring Walk I The Editor had it in contemplation last season to discontinue for ever and a day these same "Spring Walks," they having been for several years past nothing better than so many puffing vehicles of eulogistic praise, in which the sense of Goldsmith's ...

      Spring Walk III Kingston Harbor was never so full of vessels of all classes, as it has been all the past winter. Taking those at Portsmouth and Garden Island into account, full one hundred steamers, ships, brigs, schooners, and mammoth barges have been laid up for the ...

      Spring Walk IV (original marked III) The intention of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company to apply to the Legislature for an additional Two Millions of money has emboldened the Steamboat and Forwarding Interest to put in a claim for a Parliamentary Aid. They say, and they say ...

      Spring Walk VI The "Walk" for 1857 would have been ended long ere this, had not a desire existed to see the Through Mail Line of River and Lake Steamers in full operation ere the Sixth and Last Number was written. The slight accident to the Passport has retarded this …

      A VISITOR EXPECTED - The Hornet, an open boat 22 feet long and eight feet beam, sloop rigged, Captain Duncan, commander, set sail from Erie, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of October, bound for St. Paul. She made Detroit, Mackinaw, Green Bay, ascended the Fox River to Winnebago Lake - then …

      The Excursion. - In compliance with an Invitation from Mr. Jas. A. Baker, the children and teachers of the West Baptist Sunday School, and a large number of others invited, assembled aboard the fine clipper Minnehaha yesterday morning, for an excursion on the Lake to Little ...

      A Visit to Little Sodus - The Lake Ontario, Auburn & New York Railroad. - An invitation was extended by the people of Fair Haven or Little Sodus, last week, to the Board of Trade and citizens of oswego, to visit that locality on Saturday, for the purpose of meeting …

      LAUNCH. - The schooner J. Vilas was launched on Saturday last at Two Rivers, and towed to this place to receive her spars and rigging, on Sunday morning, by the steamer Cleveland. She was built by Rand & Harbridge, and is now owned entirely by Messrs. Rand & Sons of …

      The barque Empire, of 350 tons, was wrecked on Marblehead Point, about 4 miles from the port of Sandusky. Eleven lives were lost, all on board except Capt. Milligan and a seaman. The Empire was bound from Toledo to Tonawanda, with a cargo of lumber, shipped by J. W. Russell, …

      The barque Empire, the loss of which we noticed yesterday, has gone to pieces where she went down, and will prove a total wreck. Her cargo is of such a nature, however, that it will probably be saved without having received any material damage. Portions of the wreck and cargo …

      Launch of Capt. Wright's New Tug. - The new steam-tug Hiram Perry Jr., built in the ship-yard of ex-Alderman Rogers, for Capt. Peter P. Wright, was launched yesterday afternoon in the presence of a large number of spectators, and "sank into ocean's arms," in fine style. The boat is ...

      The brig Hampton and the schooner Minnesota are ashore on the east side of the lake. The former is reported to have gone to pieces.

      The illustration accompanying this article can be seen at the following address: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/GLImages/Details.asp?ID=198

      Yesterday, the schooner Madiera Pet, of Guernsey, Capt. Grange, a schooner of about 120 tons, arrived here from Liverpool for Chicago. She has on board a full cargo of measurement goods, consisting of steel, iron, crockery and paints. She made the passage in 35 days, and received for ...

      Invincible went ashore near Tawas the next summer and was given up for lost, but was later recovered and lasted until going ashore again in a gale in 1869. Knowing where you are doesn't always mean you are where you want to be.

      FROM LIVERPOOL. - On Sunday last a very ordinary, dirty looking schooner, with the British ensign flying from her masthead, made her way up the river and quietly anchored off the Great Western Railway depot. She was evidently a stranger in our waters, and naturally attracted ...

      The Iceberg, which has been built for Dr. Rae to explore an undetermined portion of the coast of North America, was launched into her proper element, fully equipped for sailing, on Saturday afternoon, from the railway shipyard, in the presence of a number of spectators. Dr. Rae was not ...

      THE MADIERA PET. - This schooner sailed from Chicago on Wednesday for this port, where she will load with staves for Liverpool. The Democrat says "she was accompanied out of the harbor by a large number of citizens, including members of the Board of Trade, of the press ...

      A Canadian vessel arrived in port a few days since, the captain of which is a genuine "John Bull." Being accosted by a brother sailor, who inquired as to the kind of weather he experienced on the trip, he replied, "Vy, it blowed and it stormed and snowed and pelted …