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

(From the Neur-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 Dunkirk 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 bad 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 ,Areck ; 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 schoonek Michigan, with
rudder unshipped, at Put-in Bay.