Litchfield enquirer., 1842-12-01
.sEvERR GALE ON LAKE ERIE.
LOSS OR LIFE AND PROPERTY.


 blew a perfect hurricane till Saturday morn. in0, and that during most of Friday, at Buf. faIo, the air was % filled with snow that one could scarcely zee twenty yRrAa. The Commercial says t was decidedly the worst gale that ever visited Buftalo We cOm- plea6 the following particulars from the Buf. 1alo papers i-N. 1T. Palladium.
 The steamers Franklin, Sandusky, and Ju- Iia Palmer, which were laid up for the sea- son in the neishborhood of the marine rail. way, broke from their moorings and driI1ed ashore on the east side of the creek on Erie day and few canal craft have also been beached in the ship canal.
 The steamer Wayne, which had Icft for the West, and several sail of vessels com. prising the whole of those which cleared yesterday, were compelled to return to port again.
 The schooner Jefferson, Dougall, wont ashore at 6 o'clock at night, about three miles above Buffalo light house, and is total wreck attended with a melancholy loss of hfe-One entire family, husband, sOye, and fUe children together with young woman and one of the men belonging to the vessel, having perish ed! Capt. 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 forecastle. A portion of the crew had got ashore in quest of help. aad were endeavoring to res- cue the family.
 The mato wrapped his overcoat round the woman and tried to keep her warm by walk ing her to and fro on the beach, but she soon became exhausted and incapable of mo. tion, and was placed in the boat which had washed up, where she died in short time. e.- Her husband was delirious on reaching the shore, and attempted to escape into the swamp near by, but perished within a short distance. One of the hands belonging to tue vessel, named James Bruce, got into the swamp, and was likewise lost. The family were from Hartford, Ct.-names unknown -the children aged from years downward. {.
 The crew of this vessel, with one excep.' ton, were saved. She was owned at Chlca- go, and her cargo was salt.
 The body of the young woman above men, tioned was discovered standing in an upright posture, in the forecastle campanion-way frozen stark, and stiff, with hands partly raised in an imploring posture. and her eyes fixed with cold stony gaze upon the shore.
 The brig Olive Richmond, new vessel Capt. Dorchester, went ashore about mile
 The schr. Walter Jay, the brig Francis Mills. and the schr. Edwin Jenny went ashore, but will all be got of, although with some loss of cargo in the first named.
 Resides these, the Buffalo Commercial Ad- 'yertiser reports the following:
 Schr, Indiana, loaded with salt for Chica. go, totol wreck. Kingston, loaded with flour and pork, total wreck.
 Schr. Ohio, Capt. Robertson, light. , Schr. M. Kingman, freight not known, lies high and dry, and it is supposed will be got off without much damage.
 The apUve ;s-1sls are ,s.!,i si, i1 Gravile Bay -whiskey, for this port, ashore little above Point Abino, total wreck.
 Schr. Henry Roop, Capt. Fisk, 200 bush els corn, at Silver Creek.
 Of the vessels heard from, eleven in mum. her. all have been wrecked in a distance of some twenty miles of Buffalo. which is the extent of the coast heard from. What the effect has been beyond is unknown; but it is upprehended will prove most fearful.
 In addition we would add that the steam. era Great Western and Wisconsin, from the inner lakes, and due at Buffalo on Thursday, had not arrived, The canal is closed at Rochester and westward.
 GAZE ON LAKE ONTAR1e.-A letter just re- ceived from Oswego. dated Nov. l9, says: = ~ We arc in the midst of one of our most tremendous westerly gales: A schooner, from mismanagement, has just been driven on the East bar, within the piers, and must be lost. never saw . more prod'g'ous sea running. e,
 :, Farther advices we fear will swell the tide of suffering for days yet. No steamboats had arrived down the lake for twenty -fours hours We learn verbally that the Erie ca- j,al as far east as Rochester closed with ice on Saturday night-doubtless from the effect of the snowfall. We fear that by this time, the canal is nearly closed throughout. great ly tothe disappointment and loss of the Iner. cantile community, who have now millions worth of produce embarked on it or awaiting transportation the wrong side ot Albany.
 SC ALBANY PcLscE.-A curious case of Female Deception. of those strange and almost unaccountable cases ot deception which we hear of once or twicein an age, was devel- eped at the Police Office Saturday afternoon. A person who has for the last four years fol- lowed the business of tinker and teamster alternately in this city, and who is well known to many of our citizens. was brought ,up before Justice Osburn, charged with hanging out false signals-being not exactly what outward appearances would lead honest and unsuspecting persons to belisve-sailing under false colors.
 About two weeks since this person was married to a very respectable and hard working girl, who by her industry had laid ,,H a considerable sum of money. The poor ssrl found out in few days that all is not Sold that glittsrs-that appearances are de- SeAfnl--in short, that her Tear husband wns a