Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Savannah to his friend in this city, dated April 2.

"Your friend, capt. Stephen Colver, has been continually engaged since my arrival at this place, in making preparations for raising the wrecks in this river, and I am happy to inform you, that on Sunday last he succeeded in lifting one of the largest of them, and has removed it from the channel to the shore.

This success must be attended with particular pleasure to him and his friends, as many people here have, with more zeal than good sense, ridiculed his undertaking. He is now preparing to raise the remaining two ships (as per contract) and it is expected will do it with very little additional expense."

Captain Stephen Colver is a native of Norwich, Connecticut and is the inventor of the machine for cleaning docks, rivers, &c. &c the machine for heaving down vessels, &c. &c. which have been used in this place with success, and perhaps we may add, that he is one of the first mechanical geniuses in this country. These wrecks were sunk by the British during the late war, and were a great obstruction to the navigation of Savannah river.