The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

Coffee-
it 74 to 8c

AMERICAN LAKES

The. brig Olive Richmond, a new vessel, Captain Dor-
chester, went ashore about a mile below the Jeffer4on early
yesterday afternoon. She was bound up in ballast, and will
be got off without damage.

The schooner Walter Joy, Captain Lacy, went ashore about
the same time, near the Olive Richmond, with a deck load
of flour, which will be partly lost, but the vessel will be got
off with trifling injury.
The brig Francis Mills, Captain Langley, went on shore on
the Canada side, three miles below Point Abino, at two
o'clock p.m. yesterday. She lies partly filled with water, by
which the lower tier of her cargo, consisting of merchandise,
will be injured. She was bound for Chicago and St. Joseph's
—will probably be got off.
The schooner Edwin Jenny, Captain Davison, dragged her
anchors and went pshore below Point Abino, a little above
the Francis Mills. She was loading with stone for some port
up the lake.

(From the Nev

York Express.)
We learn that the worst features of all in relation to the
late gale have been fully realised ; although the extent of the
disaster has not reached us. The pier at Dtinkirk is nearly
destroyed. The Harrison and Chatauque laid at the wharf
there from Sunday till Thursday morning, and much of the
time were in imminent danger; and finally, as a measure of
safety, took to the lake, and came into Buffalo, the wind then
blowing a gale. The schooner Brandywine, Captain Tubbs,
that was also lying at Dunkirk, dragged her anchor on Sa-
turday night, and that is the last that has been heard of her
definitively. One report is, that she went ashore near Silver
Creek, and that all on board perished; and another is that
she went down the river early yesterday morning a wreck.
She was heavily loaded with flour. The steam-boat Chicago,
bound up, is ashore three miles below Silver Creek. She
was discovered about nine a.m., on the 19th, off Silver Creek,
in distress. The citizens rallied, and followed down the
coast, with ropes, to render assistance. She beached at
eleven o'clock, and the crew and passengers, to the number
of about sixty, were all saved. Her deck freight had been
thrown overboard the night previous, both pipes carried
away, and she became unmanageable. The gale struck her
between Conneaut and Ashtabula. She may be got of and
her cargo saved. Besides these, we hear that the following
schooners are ashore on this side, mostly between Buffalo
and Silver Creek :—Henry Roop, loaded with 2,000 bushels
of corn, Jefferson, W. Joy, Tippecanoe (all on board lost),
Ben Franklin, Merchant (Mr. Bogrand, who last year sailed
the Favourite, lost), M. Ney (all on board lost), and the
brig 0. Richmond. The particulars of the loss of the Jeffer-
son, W. Joy, and 0. Richmond, were given in Saturday's
paper. The schooners report seeing. some twenty miles up
the lake, the " fly" of a sunken schooner, supposed to be
the Emily. The schooner Merchant lost a couple of hands,
names not known, who were washed overboard at Grand
River, Ohio. Walter Rossan, a hand on the Jena, was also
washed overboard during the gale.
The following schooners are ashore on the Canada side,
near Gravelly Bay :—lndiana, loaded with salt, a total
wreck; Mississippi, Capt. Raymond, for Kingston, loaded
with flour and pork, a total wreck ; Ohio, Capt. Robertson,
loading light ; M. Kingman, high and dry, will probably be
got off; and the brig F. Mills, and the schooner E. Jenny,
the particulars of whose loss were given on Saturday. A
little above Point Abino is the Florida, loaded with flour,
pork, and whiskey, for Buffalo. The H. Pierson, which
came in during the storm on Saturday, was saved with great
difficulty. All her sails are gone, together with her compa-
nion-way and several spars. There is scarcely a vessel in
Buffalo harbour but what suffered much or less. A more
fearful gale was scarcely ever known in mid-winter on the
Atlantic coast. The brig Hoosier reports passing the steam-
boat Constellation in a distressed condition, off the Two
Sisters. The Constellation left Buffalo last Wednesday or
Thursday. She also reports the schooner Michigan, with
rudder unshipped, at Put-in Bay.

Flour—is quoted at 4 dol. 87 cents to 5 dol.
Ashes—Pots were taken at 5 374 and Pearls at 5 75.
Rice—Sales at 2 69 to 3 121 per 100 lbs.
Sugars—are dull. Sales of Porto Rico at ato 6ic lb.
Salt—A cargo of Cadiz sold at about 20c.
Coal—Sales of Newcastle, tine, at 4 50 ch ;• some Live,
pool at 6 75.

—Sales of Brazil are making at 7 to 9c ; of Laguayra
• St. Domingo at 6c, cash.

CHARLESTON MARKET, NOV, 26,
COTTON.—There was some animation in the Upland mar-
ket throughout Saturday last, and a fair business was done
in the article. The same feeling was also exhibited through-
out Monday : bnt on Tuesday unfavourable acoounts reached
us from the other side, per the Acadia, at Boston, which
had the tendency to check operations as buyers withdrew;
but at the opening of the market on Wednesday they were
generally in attendance, demanding a reduction in prices ;
and as holders yielded, a heavy business has engaged dealers
for several days past, at a decline upon all qualities below
middling fair, fully 4- cent per lb., in fact in some instances a
heavier reduction has been submitted to.

Colonel Webb, who had been indicted for giving a chal-
lenge, had been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but
on a petition numerously signed bad been set at liberty.
Winter had set in at New York, and snow in large quan-
tities had fallen.

We learn from Canada that the smallpox had been very
prevalent in Kingston. Several persons of note bad fallen
victims to its ravages.---The Attorney-General, Baldwin,
had been defeated in the second riding in York, by Mr.
Daggan, and it was anticipated by the supporters of the
latter that Mr. Baldwin would be dismissed from the Ex-
ecutive Council.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 7th ult. has been received
in New Orleans. The expedition, consisting of four thousand
troops, sailed for Yucatan ; but one of the New Orleans
papers says, on the authority of verbal accounts from Vera
Cruz, that orders had been received from England for the
immediate return of all the British officers and seamen on
board the war steamer Guadalupe.—Santa Anna was at his
residence at Mango de Clavo, where he had assembled a large
body of troops for a body-guard.
Mr. Braham arrived in New York on the 27th ult., after
a profitable tour through Cincinnati, &c.

List of passengers per steamer Acadia, from Boston and
Halifax, Captain Ryrie

From Boston.—Hon. C. R. Ogden; Lieut. J.M. Gillies;
E. Delafosse, and servant; Mr. A. Burns; Mr. E. E. Sevey;
Mr. John Smith ; Mr. R. Wainwright; Mr. J. Chandler;
Mr. E. G. Roberts; Mr. A. T. Galt; Mr. W. H. Broad-
man; Mr. A. B. Strange; Mr. B. Rambert; Mr. Thos.
Ryan ; Mr. H. Carleton, and Mrs. Fenwick and child.
From Halifax.—Captain Wilson ; Rev. M. King; Mr.
Jas. Peake; Mr.J. Hitchins, and Mr. G. Amory.

ABSTRACT OF THE LOG.
Dec. 2.—At 1 p.m. left Boston, and•proceeded to Halifax.
3.—Fresh breeze and clear weather.
4.—At 4 a.m. arrived at Halifax. At 5 p.m. left Halifax
for Liverpool.
s.—Wind S.S.W. distance 187 miles, lat. 44.47, lon. 59.19.
Moderate breeze, and clear weather.
6.—Wind E.N.E., dist. 235 miles, lat. 45.10, lon. 55.51.
Moderate breeze, and cloudy weather.
7.—Wind N.N.W., dist. 265 miles, lat. 45.48, lon. 47.48.
Strong breeze, and cloudy weather.
B.—Wind N.N.W., dist. 252 miles, lat. 46.30, lon. 41.54.
Strong gales, and squally weather.
9.—Wind variable, dist. 190 miles, lat. 47.34, lon. 39.6.
Strong gales and squally, with a tremendous sea.
10.—Wind variable, dist. 197 miles, lat. 48.21, lon. 34.18.
Strong gales, and squally weather.
11.—Wind S.W., dist. 238 miles, lat. 49.26, lon. 28.27.
Strong gales, and cloudy weather.
12.—Wind S.W. dist. 242 miles, lat. 50.2, lon. 22.15.
Fresh breeze, and cloudy weather.
13.—Wind S.S.W., dist. 238 miles, lat. 50.50, lon. 16.6.
Fresh breeze, and cioudy weather.
14.—Wind S.S.W., dist. 230 miles, lat. 51.13, lon. 10.10.
Strong gales, and cloudy weather. At 930 p.m. Cape Clear
bore N. 6 miles.
15.—Wind S.S.W. At 12, noon, off Tuskar. At 8 30 p.m.
off Holyhead.
16.—Arrived off Liverpool at 3 a.m., in 11 days 5 hours
from Halifax.
On the Bth, 9th, and 10th the barometer went down as
low as 28 3-10, although blowing strong, not equal to what
would be looked for, compared with the height of the Mer-
cury.

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY ON THE

(From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of Nov. ]2.)
The gale blew itself pretty much out this morning. The
wind is yet high, and an occasional sough may still be heard,
but the tempest is over. It was dreadful though while it
lasted, or from about noon yesterday until some indetermi-
nate time last night. The 'wind blew a perfect hurricane
most of the time, and the air was so filled with snow that
one could scarcely see twenty yards. The temperature was
very low, and altogether it was about the worst wale we ever
experienced in Buffalo. "Although the damage here has been
slight, there must have been much personal suffering in many
families poorly prepared for such a fierce advent of the in-
clemencies of winter.
The water in the harbour rose some five feet, but has
done little injury other than to inundate the Rats, and to
obstruct the navigation on the canal. There are rumours of
vessels beached upon the lake shore, and of fatal effects
therefrom, but as yet no positive information has been ob-
tained. No arrivals have taken place since yesterday noon.
The Rochester packet, due last evening, is still absent, being
unable to stem both ice and wind upon the canal. The
Chesapeake, bound for the upper lakes, and the Wayne and
Fulton for Detroit, are in port, awaiting a favourable oppor-
tunity to depart.
P.S. Since the above was in type we have learned the fol-
lowing particulars :
The schooner Jefferson, Captain Dougall, went ashore at
six o'clock last night, about three miles above Buffalo Light-
house, and is a total wreck, attended with a melancholy loss
of life ; one entire family, husband, wife, and five children,
together with a young woman, and one of the men belonging
to the vessel, having perished. Captain Dougall, from whom
we have the painful recital, says that about two hours after
his vessel beached, the companion-way was washed off, and
the children and young woman drowned in the cabin and fore-
castle. A portion of the crew bad got ashore in quest of
help, and were endeavouring to rescue the family. The mate
wrapped his overcoat around the woman, and tried to keep
her warm by walking her to and fro on the beach, but she
soon became exhausted and incapable of motion, and was
placed in the boat which had washed up, where she died in a
short time.
Her husband was delirious on reaching shore, and at-
tempted to escape into the swamp near by, but perished
within a short distance. One of the hands belonging to the
vessel, named James Bruce, got into the swamp, and was
likewise lost. The family were from Hartford, Connecticut ;
names unknown—the children aged from eight years down-
wards. The Jefferson was owned by J. W. Ranson, of
Chicago, and was bound for that port, with a cargo of 500
brls. salt, 40 tons iron, and some merchandise, which will be
mostly lost; shipped by J. Murray and Co., of this city.
The crew succeeded about midnight in getting on board the
brig Olive Richmond, beached below them, in a greatly ex-
hausted state.
When our reporter reached the vessel this forenoon, the
figure of the young woman above-mentioned was discovered
standing in an upright posture in the forecastle companion-
way, frozen stark and stiff, with hands partly raised in an
imploring posture, and her eyes fixed with a cold and stony
gaze upon the shore.