The ship carpenters and caulkers of Buffalo are on strike, the object of which is to force employers to pay cash instead of orders. ...

    List of Vessels Laid up at Oswego. The following is a list of the vessels laid up at this port for the winter of 1858-1860. We have separated the grain vessels trading between this port and the Upper Lakes, from those which are usually employed in our Canadian trade, showing the capacity of the...

    The Launch Yesterday. - A large concourse of our citizens assembled yesterday afternoon, in the vicinity of the ship yard of George Goble to witness the launch of the new vessel then on the stocks. Everything being in readiness, the vessel, gaily decorated with flags, the word was given, and...

    Marine Railway. - Mr. George Goble has leased the marine railway and shipyard at the foot of West First and Second streets for a term of five years, and we are happy to see is doing an active business this Spring. The railway is in first-rate condition, and Mr. Goble is prepared to execute ...

    The Launch. - The weather came off auspiciously yesterday for the launch of the new vessel just completed by Mr. George Goble, at the foot of West Fourth street. The wind was light at the time, and off the land, so that the Lake was very calm. Expecting, therefore, that the launch would come...

    Vessel Building and Repairing. - We should have sooner noticed the transfer of the Marine Railway Ship Yard, to the possession of Mr. George Goble. There is no yard possessing superior advantaged to this, and we are glad that Mr. Goble is the possessor, for his long experience and untiring ...

    Riot On Board A Schooner - Last evening quite an excitement was caused upon the dock by a difficulty which took place among the crew of the schooner W.S. Nelson, the circumstances of which are as follows: A sailor was shipped by Capt. Parker, Shipping Agent, and after signing articles, ...

    Destructive Conflagration! The Screw Steamer Prairie State Partially Burned! At about 8 1/2 o'clock last evening, a fire was discovered in the hold of the Northern Transportation Company's steamer Prairie State, Capt. Williams, which was lying at their dock fully freighted and bound for ...

    The Propeller Prairie State which was partially burned night before last, has been raised, and is now unloading. At this rate she will resume her place in the line, as good as new, in a very few days. We regret to learn that Messrs. E. Skinner & Son, of this city, are among the losers, by ...

    Northern Transportation Company Oswego, N.Y., Aug. 3 '60 ) Albert F. Smith, Esq., Chief Engineer, Oswego Fire Department, Oswego, N.Y. Dear Sir, - Enclosed, please find a check of One Hundred ($100,) which amount I beg to present, on behalf of this company, to the several...

    The Old School House By The Poet Vocalist Near an old oak tree by a sparkling rill Stands the old school house at the foot of the hill; It's storm beaten walls, now rotted by age, Speaks a volume of words for history's page, It's small gothic windows, it's old oaken door Hath ...

    Lake Craft On The Atlantic. - The Detroit Tribune publishes a list of the vessels which have been diverted from the lake trade to that on the ocean, within three years past. There are ten barques, five brigs, forty-one schooners, one propeller and eight tugs. The total tonnage of all, except...

    Collision Of The Steamer Niagara And An Unknown Schooner. - last evening the steamer Niagara, on her way down from Rochester to this port, when about eight or ten miles from Oswego, came in violent collision with an unknown vessel. May of the passengers, not intending to land at this point,...

    The Steamer Niagara - Her Late Collision. - At a meeting of the passengers on board the steamer Niagara held on the boat, on the twenty-second day of August, 1860, on motion of Mr. J.L. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, Mr. Henry Hartzog was called to the chair, and Thomas W., Berry, Esq., was appointed...

    The Ship Carpenters On A Strike. - The ship carpenters of this city are on strike. - They have hitherto been receiving $1.50 per day, but now demand $1.75; They turned out this morning three hundred strong and made quite an imposing procession through the streets. They then repaired to the ...

    The ship carpenters of Oswego are on a "strike" for an advance of wages. They were getting $1.50 a day, and demand $1.75. ...

    The Prairie State. - The propeller Prairie State, belonging to the Northern Transportation company, which caught fire while lying at the dock in this city, some weeks since and was badly damaged, arrived here on Saturday last from Cleveland, having been thoroughly repaired and re-fitted. On...

  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), November 28, 1860, page 3page 3  The schr. MARY is ashore on Timber Island, Lake Ontario. ...

  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), November 28, 1860, page 3page 3  The schr. CAPE HORN with a cargo of 12,000 bushels of wheat from Milwaukee for Oswego, is ashore on Lake Ontario. ...

  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), November 28, 1860, page 3page 3  Oswego, Nov. 27 - The bark CLEVELAND, and a bark supposed to be the CLAYTON, are ashore at the head of Long Island. The schr. NONPAREIL is at Sacket Harbor with her rails gone. The bark FONTANELLE is ashore at the crossing place, Fox Island. The schr. WILD ROVER is ashore at South Bay, Point...

    The storm of Saturday and Sunday was a most terrible one on the Lakes, and we hear of disasters in all quarters. The Revolving Light, of Henderson, loaded with wheat, and the Minnehaha, of Detroit, bound for Ogdensburgh, loaded with corn, went ashore at Cape Vincent, with others, names unknown....

    Disasters On The Lakes Almost every year, just previous to the close of navigation, there is more or less loss of life and property on our Great Lakes. This year the disasters have been rather more numerous than usual, though probably not more so then they would be every year with two days of...

    Names of Propellers and Vessels Laid Up in the Port of Oswego Propellers Norman of Oswego Tugs Lady Franklin, Tornado, Robert Reed, Major Dana, J.H. Bloore of Oswego Barks Gibraltar of St. Catharines Admiral of Quebec Cleveland of Chicago Sonoro of Milwaukee Resolute of Buffalo ...

    The Salt Trade. - The Onondaga Salt Springs have furnished one of the first and permanent elements of business in Oswego. As early as the year 1818 the manufacture and shipments of the article to this port were quite extensive, and constituted the important branch of commercial business in the...

    Secession in Oswego Harbor - The Laws Enforced! - There was a bit of excitement in Oswego harbor yesterday morning, growing out of the secession operation. It seems that Sheriff Tucker had attached the schooner J.P. Kirtland, of Milan, Ohio, with her cargo of grain, at the suit of the Toledo...

    Five schooners, 43 canal boats, and five tugs are being constructed or their building is contracted at Buffalo. The ship carpenters of Detroit struck for higher wages on Friday. They demand $2 a day on old work and $1.75 on new work, which is an advance of fifty cents on the old price. ...

    A Strike - The ship carpenters and caulkers of this town, and also of Port Dalhousie and Port Robinson, struck this morning for an advance in wages. They demand $1.75 per diem, instead of $1.50, which has been the wages for some time back. They also require weekly payments of their earnings. A...

    A Monster Canal Boat. - The largest canal boat we have ever seen, and we think the largest afloat, was launched on Saturday from the boat yard of Samuel Miller of this city. The new boat is called the Abraham Lincoln, bears a handsome portrate of "Old Abe" on the stern, and belongs to Ald. ...

    "On Saturday evening, a man named Dennis Woods, who had been boarding at the hotel of Mrs. Cunningham in the vicinity of Pea Soup Flats, made his appearance at the police office and entered complaint against parties for assault and battery. He was too much under the influence of bad whisky to ...

    The Steamer Comet Sunk. - The steamer Comet, which left Kingston Tuesday night for Toronto, collided with the schooner Exchange, near Nine Mile Point Light, and sunk in forty feet of water. Two lives were lost. The schooner sustained but slight damage. A strange fatality has attended the ...

    St. Catharines, Monday, June 10 - Ship-Carpenters Strike - A few months since an organization call "The Welland Canal Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union," was formed in this town, all the hands employed on the line of canal becoming members. They demanded an increase of wages and pay every...

    St. Catharines, Monday, June 17 -- Fire at Port Robinson: Abbey's Ship-yard Destroyed. We understand that the workshops in Messrs. J.P. and J. Abbey's Ship Yard, Port Robinson, were set fire to last night, and completely destroyed. The loss is not stated, nor if there was any insurance. It is...

    Ship Carpenters On A Strike - We learn that the ship carpenters of this city are on a strike. Under the sanction of their Union they demand $1.75 per day for their labor, their pay heretofore having been $1.50. We suppose their demands will ultimately be acceded to. ...

    The strike of the Ship Carpenters. - We were in error yesterday in saying that the Ship Carpenters' Union had struck for an advance in their rate of wages. They have hitherto received for their labor fourteen shillings a day; but the masters, by reason of the hard times and the dull state of the...

    The Strike of the Ship-Carpenters To the Editor of the Oswego Commercial Times: Dear Sir: In your paper of Wednesday evening you refer to the "Strike of the Ship Carpenters," and in such a way, that the public, as a general thing, would think that the Ship Carpenters were bound to have their...

    The Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union Mr. Editor, - Allow me space for a few words to correct a statement in you much esteemed journal in reference to the Union on the Welland Canal. I would just state that the Society lately formed is not broken up; and as to the organization, no man could...

    The schooner NIGHTINGALE, at present laid up at this port, has been sold, we understand, by parties in Oswego, to E. W. Hudson, Esq., of this city. The price is stated to be $10,500. The NIGHTINGALE is a staunch built vessel of some 16,000 bushel capacity. We learn also, the schooner ...

    FOR CHICAGO. - The new Barque PARAMA, built the past winter at Cleveland, passed up yesterday, bound for Chicago. Also, a fore-and-aft schooner built at Oswego, called the GEORGE GOBLE, bound for the same port. - Detroit Free Press ...

  "Launch and Accident," Syracuse Journal (Syracuse, NY), May 7, 1862  LAUNCH AND ACCIDENT. ---The RUSSIAN, a new vessel, the best boat thatwas ever set from the Oswego yards, was launched yesterday afternoon. She is about 400 tons burthen, and will carry 17,000 bushels of grain through the Welland Canal. The owner are MessrsSmith and Post. She was built at ...

    LAUNCH. - The Oswego Times says a new Barque of 400 tons burthen and 17,000bush. capacity, named the RUSSIAN, built at Miller's ship-yard for Messrs. Smith & Post was launched on Wednesday last. ...