p.2 The Grand Canals - work on western and northern canals continue. [Albany Register of Oct. 10th]

p.3 A few weeks since Captain Thurston, who had for some time acted as sailing master of the American Steam Boat Sophia, which plies between this place and Sacket's Harbour, and who had conducted himself in that capacity so as to gain a reputation for politeness, attention and honesty, absconded from his vessel in the bateau channel, with a few hundred dollars, which had been entrusted with him to be exchanged at the Bank of Upper Canada. We observe it stated in the Utica Sentinel that he has been apprehended at Buffalo, and secured.