An Old Resident Found - A boat resembling a common Durham boat; was sometime since found in the Pymatuning swamp between this place (Mercer) and lake Erie. One end of it was near the surface, and the other was several feet deep in the mud, and a tree about two feet over, growing on top of it....

    Dreadful Shipwreck In York Bay - On last Tuesday night, about 10 o'clock, a gale sprung up on the lake from the westward, which was more violent than was ever remembered in this place, and proved more awful in its consequences. The fine schooner Prescott, laden with upwards of 5000 bushels of ...

    This would become the steamboat Cobourg .

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    The Gale - On Thursday night and yesterday morning, we were visited by one of the most violent gales of wind that have for many years have experienced in this part of the country. The wind came form the south, or nearly south, blowing directly into our harbour. The steamer Bytown , which was...

    Burglary - The Welland Canal Office at Port Colborne, in charge of James Black, Esq., was broken open, on the night of the 4th inst. and a small tin box taken therefrom, containing about $50, mostly in silver change. The villain, it appears, effected an entrance through one of the back...

    Late Navigation - January 29th the steam boat New England reached Buffalo from up the lake, and on the 27th the Robert Fulton arrived at Detroit from below. The Buffalo Journal on the 28th says the New England was unable to make the dock at Erie in consequence of the ice. The ...

    The Caroline was used by William Lyon Mackenzie to supply his rebel garrison on Navy Island in the Niagara River, just above Niagara Falls. It was seized in January, 1838 by the British, set on fire and sent blazing over Niagara Falls, although one report says that it burned and sank above them....

    The Capture. -- From information which we gleaned yesterday, we are of the opinion that a bona fide attempt was made to capture the British schooner CAROLINE at our port, on Monday night. We have seen the statement of the Captain and others, and, if what they say is true, the ignorance of...

    There are 50 steam boats and 160 vessels employed at Buffalo on Lake Erie, valued at four million of dollars. The canal boats engaged in passing to end from Buffalo are numbered at 1,030, valued at one million. The total capital employed in the forwarding business from New York to Chicago, by the...

    Port Of Cleveland - Arrived schr. Congress, Throop, from Oswego, with 389 packages merchandise. What kind of merchandise? Grindstones, or salt? Buffalo Daily Star. The schr. Congress, from Oswego to this port, brought neither salt, nor grindstones, nor ballast, but 389 packes of bona fide ...

    Malicious Proceedings - Some malicious persons, on Tuesday night, set fire to, and sent adrift, the new wood scow belonging to the Canadian steamboat Traveller - the result of which was, she burned to the water's edge. Loss not less than $400. At the same time, two wagons, the property of...

    This was the Ontario , later the Lord Sydenham .

    The New Steam Boat "Gore" - Mr. Lockhart, of Niagara, has some time since, launched from the dock there, another steam boat. This is the third boat built by him and each as it has appeared seemed to surpass that which went before. The present one is called "The Gore", and she now plies daily...

    The trial to send a schooner over "the Falls," as attempted by our unfriendly neighbours on the other side, as a kind of set off, or remembrance of the "CAROLINE" affair, ended by the vessel settling upon the rocks, where she lay on Thursday morning. It is only the British who can teach such...

    The article referred to here is illegible as the paper has been ripped. But it appears to have been copied from some New York City paper which might still exist.

    Advertisement

    Three schooners with Ericson's propeller, passed up the river last week, laden with passengers and merchandize, bound to Chicago; they were from Oswego. LAUNCH. We are informed that the Railway Company intend to launch, on Monday at 4 P. M. from their yard, another of the Steam Schooners...

    STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT. A most distressing Steam Boat accident has occurred on Lake St. Louis. We copy the annexed account from the Montreal Courier. Melancholy Loss of Life. -- It becomes our painful duty to record one of the most distressing casualties which has occurred in the Province ...

    Increase Of Passengers On The Oswego Route - The following is copied from a letter, just received by a friend, in Oswego: - Steamer Vandalia, Cleveland, Oct. 4, 1842 Dear Sir - I arrived at this port, this day, after a rather rough passage from the Welland Canal. You will recollect that the...

    In answer to the inquiries of the Oswego Paladium, relative to the "new stone locks" on the Welland canal, the "Junction", and the "ship lock", we have to state, that the new stone locks, 122 feet long by 16 wide, are to be constructed throughout the entire length of the Welland canal, from Port...

    40 Mile Creek Harbor Public Notice is hereby given that a general meeting of the stockholders of the "Grimsby Harbor Company" will be held at Udell's Tavern, in this village, on Monday the ninth of May next at 12 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of electing directors to serve the ensuing year,...

    Melancholy Accident - On the afternoon of Sunday the 2d instant, a sail boat, in which were three highly respectable young men, belonging to Dunnville, was capsized, about half a mile from the Canada shore, opposite the Gull Island (which lies a short distance below the mouth of the Grand ...

    Timber Ship For Sale To be sold by auction, at Dunnville, on Thursday the 15ht of June next, (if not previously disposed of by private contract) the hull of the steam boat "Toronto", formerly "General Porter" - sound strong and in good order - every way calculated to make an excellent timber...

    Beauharnois Riots - We learn from a gentleman who left the scene of the late melancholy occurrences, yesterday morning, that no renewal of outrage had been attempted up to the hour of his departure. Elliott was not yet dead, though still despaired of. Mr. Grant was recovering fast from the ...

    Customs Duties - It is with pleasure that we are able to state that the receipt of customs duties at Port Dalhousie, for 1852, exceed the receipts of 1851 by #1000, though the increase of that year was an increase of some 50 per cent on its predecessor. This growing increase of duties is an ...

    Accident - On Friday last a serious accident, attended with loss of life, occurred at Mr. L. Shickluna's saw mill in this place. A girl about 13 years of age, named Mary Craney, while gathering chips, got her dress entangled with an upright shaft in rapid motion, and before assistance could be...

    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 schooner Nicaragua arrived at Port Dalhousie on Saturday. She is the first vessel of the season. ...

    Fish Stories An Old Veteran Tells a Reminiscence When Salmon River Was Alive With Salmon _________ The following written by J. A. Mathewson to the Pulaski Democrat will be read with interest by all anglers: Having been a resident of the town of Richland 76 years, I have outlived most of my...

    Wrecks on the Great lakes Casualty List for 1901 July 7, 1901, -- Small steamer ALBERTA, coal laden, wrecked on Lake Ontario, near Cape Vincent. ...

    Tonawanda, Sept. 2. -- The steamer Charles Fix with two canal boats in tow as lighters has left Tonawanda for Charlotte via the Welland canal to raise the TITANIA, the steamer recently sunk by a collision with the steamer KINGSTON. Fix Brothers, owners of the TITANIA, have libeled the KINGSTON,...

    RECKLESS AND UNSKILLFUL NAVIGATION THE CAUSE. Capt. Frederick L. R. Pope and Joseph G. Schumacher of the united States Steamboat Inspection service in this district have completed their investigation of the collision of the steamers TITANIA and KINGSTON in Charlotte harbor, finding that the ...

    The tug CLARENCE FIX attempted to tow the hulk of the steamer TITANIA from Charlotte yesterday, but broke away in the strong northwester and returned to Charlotte. The TITANIA is owned by the Fix Brothers of Buffalo and was sunk in August at the entrance to Charlotte Harbor. ...

    STEAMER TITANIA LIES IN 60 FEET OF WATER. The hulk of the steamer TITANIA, owned by Fix Brothers of Buffalo lies in 60 feet of water off the Devil's Nose, Lake Ontario. She broke away from the CLARENCE FIX on Wednesday and foundered. It is said there is not even a remote chance of the vessel...