Travel and State of Trade. - Our harbor presents an animating scene by the almost constant arrival and departure of steam vessels and other craft. The steamboat Great Britain has taken her place in the daily line between this and Lewiston. Besides the American boats that ply daily between this...

    Welland Canal The St. Catharines Journal of the 14th instant, has a list of the vessels passing the Welland Canal, between the 5th and 11th of May which shows that 30 vessels passed up within that time. In four days, from the 6th to the 10th of May, 56 schooners passed down deeply freighted...

    The trade of this Port has never, perhaps, been in a more prosperous and flourishing condition, than at the present moment. The quantity of produce on our wharves is enormous; and though many new storehouses are being erected, the want of Store Room is severely felt. The Ottawa and Rideau ...

    LAUNCH. - The elegant first class Steamboat, "Lady of the Lake," was launched from the ship yard in East Oswego, yesterday afternoon. She is 196 feet in length and 24 feet wide, of a beautiful model and constructed of the very best materials. She was built by Mr. G. S. Weeks, and as a specimen...

    METEORIC SHOWERS. On the evening of the 13th there was a violent squall on Lake Ontario, accompanied as those who were on the lake say, by snow and lightning. The Lady of the Lake, Capt. Taylor, was on her passage from Sacket's Harbor to this port, and encountered the utmost violence of the...

    Lake Ontario Navigation We find the following under the Commercial head of the N. Y. Ev. Post, of the 21st. It appeared about the same time in some of the other principal city journals. Correspondence of Pomeroy & Co. Buffalo, Nov. 18, 1 P. M. - A year ago today, a desolating gale of ...

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE MARINERS OF OSWEGO Pursuant to a call of the seamen of Oswego, a meeting was held at the Market on the 13th of march inst. , at 4 o'clock, P. M. , for the purpose of consulting upon the subject of sailors' wages. R. H. Spencer was appointed Chairman and S. C. Andrews ...

    ... Kingston 1837 Sir Robert Peel 350 Brockville Destroyed by patriots in 1838 1837 Gore 200 Niagara 1838 Queen Victoria 200 do 1839 Henry Gildersleeve 250 Kingston 1840 Highlander 300 Cot. du Lac 1840...

    The Gale On Friday night last, the wind shifted suddenly at about 2 a. m. blew a gale; which continued with unusual severity for about 12 hours. At 4 a. m. the steamer Oneida, Capt. Childs, was seen off our harbor in her trip up the lake - she was unable to make the port, and after an ...

    Effects of the Gale. - The steamer Lady of the Lake, reported ashore at Ogdensburgh, is off and came into this port on Friday last, having sustained but little damage. The John Marshall, which went ashore near Stoney Point, has gone to pieces, and is a total loss. The schr. Pacific, of this ...

    Disasters on the Lake . - The Schooner Essex of this port, owned by Doolittle Mills & Co. and the Captain, with a cargo of wheat from Sandusky, in attempting to beat out of the Niagara river on Wednesday night last, carried away her jib and main gaff, and went ashore at the mouth of the ...

    Disasters on the Lake The wind has blown a gale from the West and N. West from Saturday evening down to Monday evening, with some abatement of its severity on Monday. The schooner Charleston belonging to Messrs. Fitzhugh & Co. of this place, while on her way down from the Welland canal, ...

  "Steamboat Collision on Lake Ontario," Republican (Baldwinsville, NY), April 20, 1846  Steamboat Collision on Lake Ontario. - As the steamers Sovereign and Transit were coming out of the Toronto Harbor together Tuesday the Transit in order to prevent Sovereign from passing, endeavored to run her upon the shore. The Sovereign thereupon steered directly for the Transit, striking her...

    Launch of the "Genesee Chief" _____ The splendid new steamer, "Genesee Chief," recently built at the landing, will be launched today at 3 o'clock. Carriages will be in readiness to convey passengers to and from the river. After the boat glides into her future element, she will be towed to the...

    Launch of the Propeller. _____ A large concourse of people assembled at the landing yesterday afternoon to witness the launch of the new Propeller, "Genesee Chief. " The banks of the stream, and the hills upon both sides, were lined with ladies and gentlemen. The steamer Niagara was also ...

    Oswego, Oct. 15th During the storm of Monday night, the schooner Malcolm, with 3,500 bushels Wheat on board, broke from her moorings and drifted ashore at the foot of the Island in the harbor, and filled with water. Her Wheat sold yesterday, deliverable at the starch factory, near Utica, at...

    The Canadian three-masted schooner Grampus, of Toronto, was towed into port this morning by the U. S. Cutter Jefferson, Capt. Mather, with her spars all gone but her mizzen mast. She has a cargo of lumber, and was dismasted on Tuesday. Capt. Troop, of the Rochester, reports a Canadian schooner...

    This area was thereafter known as Grampus Bay

    Gale on Lake Ontario The Schooner Minerva, with 6,200 bushels of Wheat, and the W. H. Merritt, a Canadian Vessel, without loading, went ashore at Braddock's Bay. The former will be a total loss. Likewise the Cleveland, at Irondequoit Bay, with 250 bushels salt. Total loss. 1,000 bushels Wheat,...

    NAVIGATION OF THE LAKES. "I HAVE noticed several communications in your paper recently...

    Growth of Oswego We have taken a look about our village, the few past pleasant days, in order to mark, more particularly, the progress making in building, and to observe the large increase of new and substantial vessels fitting t out for the opening of Spring navigation. We had supposed, ...

    Growth of Oswego It is estimated that there are one thousand mechanics employed in the erection of buildings and the construction of vessels in this place at the present time. And still the supply is not equal to the demand. From this fact, people abroad can form some idea of the growth of ...

    ... 1839 Huron High 147 Newport 1839 Gen. Harrison (1st) High 63 Erie 1839 Kent High 180 Chatham 1839 Gen. Scott High 240 Huron 1839 Minos Low 400 Chippewa 1840 Gen. Harrison (2nd) High 325 Maumee City 1840 Missouri High 612 Vermillion 1840...

    New Vessels. Three new vessels were launched from the ship-yard of Mr. Weeks on Thursday last. They were the Pathfinder, the Mackinaw, and the Comely. The former is one of the largest and finest vessels ever built at this port. She measures 140 feet in length, and will carry 450 tons. She is...

    Vessel Lost. The schooner Cuba, belonging to Messrs. Fitzhugh & Co. of this place, was struck in the stern by the Propeller Genesee Chief, on the 6th inst. , in the neighborhood of the Welland Canal, and immediately sunk. She was bound for this port, and laden with about 6,000 bushels of ...

    H. Fitzhugh & Co., proprietors of the schooner Cuba, which was run down and sunk on Lake Ontario on the night of the 6th of May, 1847, by the Propeller Genesee Chief, and with her cargo of wheat lost, have just recovered a judgment of $3,054.06 against the owners of the last named vessel. ...

    New Vessels. Three new vessels were launched from the ship yard of Mr. Weeks on Thursday last. - They were the Pathfinder, the Mackinaw, and the Comely. The former is one of the largest and finest vessels ever built at this port. She measures 140 feet in length, and will carry about 450 ...

    While the Canadian steamer was engaged in carrying out pleasure parties some disturbances took place, as we understand, between a few sailors and some of the hands on board of the steamer as she was about leaving the dock, for a trip on the lake, resulting in a fight in which a number were ...

    Launch - A new schooner named the Abby, built by Capt. Ambrose Morgan, for Messrs. Matthew Morgan, of about 200 tons burden, was launched Tuesday last, from the yard above the bridge on the east side of the river. ...

    A new schooner, called the Canton, built by Capt. Gillespie, was launched at Port Ontario on the 22d ult. ...

    First Boat on Lake Ontario ______ James L. Barton, Esq., in a letter recently delivered to the Young Men's Association of Buffalo, gives the following account of the first American Boat that ever floated on the waters of the Great Lakes. In 1789, John Fellows, of Sheffield, Massachusetts,...

    THE WRECK OF THE NIAGARA. - The Rochester Advertiser thinks that this vessel, wrecked near the mouth of the river, will be got off in a short time. Workmen are going at it immediately, under the direction of Mr. George Wick, of Oswego. The necessary apparatus was brought up to that city by the...

    Wreck of the Niagara. _____ The steamer Niagara, than which there are few finer vessels in the world, left this port for Rochester on the morning of the 18th, under the command of Capt. Childs, with some seventy passengers, among who were a number of ladies. The wind was blowing fresh, (we ...

    THE STEAMER NIAGARA. - This vessel that went ashore early this spring near the mouth of the Genesee River on Lake Ontario, after laying seven weeks has at last been raised. The American says: "She was taken into the harbor between the piers; but in the course of the night her pumps became...

    Storm Grounds Three Schooners In attempting to come in during the blow of Saturday night, the Brigs Mahoning and Paragon, and the Schooner President, all from Lake Erie loaded with wheat, went ashore in the East Harbor. The wind blowing a gale from the west drove them from their course while...

    Northwestern Insurance Company's Home Office Issues Advice to Vessel Masters Captain Rounds, of the North Western Insurance Office, has sent us the following directions to Captains of the Lakes, with reference to entering our Harbor. Capt. R. is familiar with the subject, and we take ...

    Canalboat Sunk The lake boat "Home" from Henderson, in tow of the steamer "Clinton," broke her line while coming into port this morning, and drifted ashore outside of the east pier and filled with water. She was laden with butter, cheese, whiskey, paper and 600 bushels of rye and barley....

    Grain Boat Ashore The schooner Frontier went ashore in the East Harbor when coming in this morning, the wind blowing strong from the Northwest, with a heavy sea. She is loaded with wheat, and lays exposed to the action of the sea, and her safety depends on the turn of the weather. She is ...

    Troubles on the Lake During the gale on Saturday, the brig "Burlington" from lake Erie, and the schooner "Seneca" of this port, were driven by the entrance to Oswego Harbor while striving to make Oswego harbor. The Burlington, unable to make the Sackets harbor passage, went into the mouth...

    Schooner Sunk with Oswego Crew The steamer Niagara, Capt. Childs, arrived this (Monday) morning from Ogdensburgh. She reports the loss of the schooner Canada, with the Captain and two of the crew, on the North shore above Cobourg. The Canada cleared from this port on Thursday last, for ...