How Oswego Vessels Wear. - The Detroit Free Press has the following: Old and partially worn out crafts which from year to year are transported from the lower lakes seem to never die. Trivial repairs, with a little care and attention, ensures them another lease on life. The schooner Hamilton,...

    Marine Accident. - Last evening about seven o'clock, when the schooner J.J. Bill, Captain Griffin, was being towed up the river by the tugs Crusader and Morey, she sheered badly in the current, and taking the force of the water on her starboard bow ran into the East island and stove a hole in...

    THE TIMBER TRADE. - At the present time there is an anxious inquiry for timber vessels for freighting that commodity from the shore of Lake Erie , Saginaw and the Georgian Bay . There are but few vessels of the above class in commission. The timber business has largely increased, being...

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    THE SCHOONER THORNTON A TOTAL LOSS. - By the arrival of the propeller Arctic from Lake Superior , information is received of the loss of the schooner Thornton in Lake Huron , about fifteen miles from False Detour , off the foot of Cockburn Island . Capt. Lamphere , of the Thornton,...

    MARINE DISASTERS The following is a record of the marine disasters which occurred during the months of October, November and December. OCTOBER Schr Mountaineer, ore laden, ashore at White Rock, Lake Huron, and total loss. Schrs Wallin, Roeder, Gray, Free Soil and R. Simmons, all lost deck...

    Kingston, Ont., Sept. 14. -- The wind began blowing a gale from the southwest last night, and the water in the harbor has raised three feet. The schooner HIBERNIA, lumber laden, capsized. The WACOUSTA stove a hole in her bottom at Charlotte, and filled. The schooner PEARL is ashore there,...

    VARIOUS ITEMS. -- The Oswego Palladium says the tug MAY QUEEN was burned and scuttled at that port Monday evening. ...

    Oswego, Oct. 20 - The schooner NEW YORK, with lumber from Toronto to this port, went ashore last night, above the new breakwater. The crew were saved. - LATER : - The schooner NEW YORK, ashore above the piers, is breaking up, and will be a total wreck. The storm is the severest of this ...

    *Walpole is still largly populated with aboriginal people, though no longer all Chippewa/Ojibway. **i.e. Soo Locks. The extact date of publication of this piece is unknown.

    NEWS FROM PORT HURON. - The FREE PRESS correspondent at Port Huron writes Nov. 5th. The severest gale of the season is prevailing in this vicinity and the wind is apparently increasing in velocity. A light drizzling snow is falling which is half rain. Should the quantity of snow increase, we...

    Ashore. - The schooner C. N. Johnson, bound from Devil River to Buffalo, yesterday morning was ashore, in thick weather, off Long Point Cut, on the north shore, with a cargo of 260,000 feet of lumber on board. The tug Compound was coaled up last evening, awaiting fair weather to go to her ...