Brevities

The Captain of the brig Roscius reports seeing a vessel with flag at half mast, below Point au Pelle. ...

The scow J. McCullough jettisoned thirty tons of coal, Saturday, between Erie and Buffalo. The schooner Columbia jettisoned forty tons of coal, same day, near Erie....

The Erie Dispatch says that the schooner Genoa, reported leak on Thursday, has gone down in the main channel, off the spit, near the lighthouse. She has three hundred and thirty tons of coal aboard. Total loss.

The schooner Cornwell, hailing from Oswego, and there owned, is ashore at East Sister, with a cargo of grain, and will prove a total loss. She is a vessel of the smaller class, being 148 tons burthen, and was built at Sodus in 1855.-- The crew were saved.

The Detroit Free Press says: "The scow schooner Dolphin left this port a few days since for Buffalo, laden with barley and staves, and on reaching Point au Pelee passage, the machinery to her steering wheel broke, which rendered her unmanageable. Shortly afterwards, owing to the high wind which was blowing, her sails were all split and badly used up. By a strategic movement on the part of her captain, she was got under Po0int au Pelee island, and from thence towed to this port for repairs." ...

A slight collision, without much damage, occurred in the river this morning by the lumber laden scow H. G. Williams coming in contact with a coal-discharging canal boat and the tug Volunteer. ...