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      Coal Trade at Oswego As the Legget Gap Railroad, is to be opened on the first of next month, by which a new channel for the cheap transportation of coal, will be opened between this city and the beds of the best quality of Pennsylvania anthracite coal, we have looked …

      The Gale on Lake Erie _______ Twenty-nine Lives Lost _______ The propeller Henry Clay, Capt. Geo. Callash, had aboard 30 crew and one female passenger. At 12 o'clock on the night of the 23d broached to when off Long Point, and laid side up in the trough of sea. ...

      Further From the wreck of the Henry Clay. We take the following from the Buffalo Advertiser: - We are indebted to Capt. E.P. Dorr, Marine Inspector, who, with Capts. Keating and Root, returned from the wreck of the ill-fated Clay on Saturday evening, for some interesting ...

 Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), 13 Sep 1851     Great Gale on Lake Erie. _____ Loss of Dan Rice's Circus. _____ Mr. Frost, of the Burnet House, Cincinnati, who arrived here on the Express train, yesterday, from Buffalo, informs us that on Saturday night there was a terrific gale on Lake Erie. The ...

 Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), 12 Aug 1851     Oswego. - We paid a flying visit yesterday to Oswego, and were gratified to find so manny evidences of its prosperity on every hand. The present population is about 14,000, who are chiefly employed in the navigation of the lakes and canals, in the manufacture of flour and in the …

      New Steamer. - While at Clayton one day last week, we were shown through a steamboat now bilding at that place by E.G. Merrick & Co., which is intended to surpass everything in size, speed, and magnificence, that has ever been launched upon the lower lake. She is 224 feet …

      p> Rochester Harbor. - It is gratifying to be able to state that measures have at length been taken for constructing the important piers at the junction of the Genesee River and Lake Ontario, (Charlotte) with materials of suitable quality. The trashy stone so long and inexcusably use, is ...

      The Editor of the Utica Gazette, Doct. Potter, who is out on a pleasure and fishing excursion, thus writes home to his paper: We left Oswego at 8 o'clock this morning on board the crack boat of the lake, the Ontario, one of the excellent line, some of whose managers, …

      Fire. - A fire broke out about 7:30 o'clock last evening in the long ship building connected with the Marine Railway of Messrs. Carrington & Pardee. It was occupied by Capt. Weeks and his ship carpenters and joiners, employed in preparing the upper works of the steamer. The ...

      Fast Elevating. - The grain warehouse of H. & G. Ames, on the east side of the river, elevated yesterday from the schooner Gazelle, 4,594 bushels of wheat in one hour and seventeen minutes, being the whole of her cargo, and discharged it into canal boats during the same time. …

      Capt. Week's newly invented wheel for propelling steamers, which we noticed a few days since, we understand is about to be tried upon the steamer Northerner, the Captain having contracted to put in a set of his wheels.

      Marine Disaster. - The schooner Abbey , of this port took in a cargo of 5,300 bushels of wheat, part at Queenston and part at Lewiston , a few days since and left the ...

      Sad Disaster! ___ Serious Loss Of Life!! The new and splendid Canadian steamer Comet , Capt.. A. O'Conner , came in yesterday morning from

    Sad Disaster! ___ Serious Loss Of Life!! The new and splendid Canadian steamer Comet , Capt.. A. O'Conner , came in yesterday morning from

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      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

    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 …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      The New Steam Tug " O.S. Howard " We understand from Mr. A.C. Mattoon , the Proprietor of this trim little steamer, that she will be ready for business by the 18th inst. She is designed ...

      The Steamer Comet Raised. - The Comet was raised yesterday, under the direction and management of Geo. S. Weeks , Esq., and will be floated to the marine railway on the lower harbor. The body of one ...

      Another collision. - The schooner "Fashion" and the lower lake propeller "Vandalia" came in collision Monday night last (Oct. 27) near the head of Lake Erie, and the latter vessel was sunk. The schooner received but slight damage. ...

      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 article imported is by no means full, the …

      LAKE COMMERCE - A REMINISCENCE. The Buffalo Courier has obtained possession of the Letter Book of Messrs. Phyn & Ellice, who were Merchants at Schenectady more than 80 years ago. They are curiously interesting, as will be seen: Schenectady, ...

      The New Steam Tug "O. S. Howard" We understand from Mr. Abner C. Mattoon, the Proprietor of this trim little steamer, that she will be ready for business by the 18th inst. She is designed expressly for towing canal boats and vessels in and about our harbor; and we should …