Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-02
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COAL TRADE.-Durng the past two week,
. very large number Of coal boats heavily laden
with coal have passed this place on their wav from
AHtg,ny county 20 Georgetown. About the mid.
u'e OF last week an almost unprecedented number
were ying IN tie canal, waiting TO get through the
lock-the canal being full Tor more than a mile
ms IS an earnest Of what will be done when the
canal IS finished to Cumberland JYiliansporl
tMi) Banner, 23rd.
PENNSYLVANIA IMPROVEMENTS
Tue decided vote Of - to Is. the House OF Repre-
sen'atves oil Pensylvanin, on Friday last determine
to suspend. until further legislative action ali tbs
Public WoTks.-Baii. Pot.
The grOiuing Wheat Crop. in tho we.,.,, ,.,,
OF New ofk, has been much injured dn,,r,f ,hs
past "inter. That upon land inclined 10 be.v.
P's'en S'ckly appearance, and no small share Of
3" mas been already thrown out by the roots.-Ib.
a great Western Temperance Convention i. 10
oe held at Cincinnati on the 18th of April
Counterfeit notes ofthe new plate Of the s,,,o
BANK oil Camden, N. J. are IN circulation i'm Pb;Io
de'pha.-h " "''"
Rents IN New York a'e falling with the depreeio
loh o' prices oil all property During The l,s, ye,
'ne sun says, one thousand buildings have bcen
49, anu me want OF employment has driven
rom 'Voo TO 10000 people from the city.-B.
Mr. 5. V. Wilder, the well known banker NJ
New York, has, we understand been orrcs,cJ ~,
q.
was but the other day we noticed an aecount Of Ia;
selling hrs house in Broadway 10 ADVANTAGE AMI
Immediately distributing the amount anon ms
crediIors.-B. "''
The Second Days Racing over the l. ,,;s;o,,
course commenced with match for $1,000 betws,n
paid the forfeit Of $500 '''''
The two Mile Race was won bv Velocity beo,.
lhs chateau lahtte, and hay FLY by INN. SboLs.
p'u'e' Inc Chateau took the first and Veori,,
we secghu ana ihTd heats. Time 3,4s. 3.5I. All
IN ,he thfd day, Sarah Baden and Ludn con-
.Ic 49, wv" mile purse OF 800, with an in.
uic o'uhe OF $500, =. p. The contest resulted
W ioVaT oil Sarah Baden. who won the first br,t in
''io' Lndn was Withdrawn Bah Pal
writer N the Philadelphia u. S. G,ze,,. ,,,.
Vlat hoeke's Comet - now approaching the eor,L
NJ ihe rate ct two millions Of miles d9v mud ,ba,
may probably be seen next week witb n cool
telescope Bait. Pat. "''" goou
An editor down cast" stopped his press To write
poetry when after a few days labor. he brouol,
forth the following:
y love 10 see The waving grsss
Just hoiero the mower fnows H.
I've tn zee an old dray horse,
FOR when To goes, no goes Il
rs Il - likely that hereafter cities will dis,,,,o
touching the birth place Of the outhor Of the nbovo
poetry We mink proper To say that u beafs inter,
ma evidence Of not having originated ado. 90 -, >,
in'smuch as there are no draws tbsre-,ha'. ~,
trucks" or carts. Important distinction. ~,
~. S. Ga-.
Tic Alexandra Gazette says. We ,,,,,...,,,.,
thnt tho War steamships Missouri and U;ss;,.;nn;
have been ordered round to tho District and XXI
pfooaoly leave New York about the LIST of Ami.
Lord Morpeth WASH passenger in the IIovno
from Charleston to Havona.-B. "'
GREAT RACE-At New Orleans on the ta.b
instant, vas run four milo race over tho ouision
Course, between Jim Bell, Sarah Baden md
Martha Carter. u was won in two heats by Jim
Bel, in the astonishing time Of 7.37-7.4O. The
second heat was won by eighteen inches from Sarah
Baden.-B.
WHEATON, information Is that the Who,
crop IN Ohio has seldom appeared better in the err
" spring than this season. Tho quantity sown lac,
Tall was probably ten per cent greater than The
year previous, and unless something occurs to blast
the hopes Of the husbhndmen n bountifnl spnnIv
will be harvested.- Cisvsiand Herald.
PARRY GooD.-The st. Louis Bulletin tell,
the following
Last night when the congregation Of one of the
Churches were leaving the house Of worship, il,
commenced raining: A lady raid n the gentleman
who accompanied her and her sister, "Vby Il
rains-sond and get m umbrella" "Whv. nv
dear, said the gentleman, "you are neither smear
nor salt ana rain will not hurt YOU" mo- said
the dY, "but we are iasssS."
How TO srof ARUH on BAER.-An excellent
plan, and, like many other excellent things, an
Irish invention, is that reported by Charles OMal.
ley 90 have been tried 10y ono Of the Dublin banks
70 avoid the penalties Of suspension. Red hot coin
was shovolled out to the panic stricken bill-hold-
ors, and the run being thus checked, the bank had
in the mean time opportunity to strengthen itself
from abroad.
We learn verbally from a gentleman from Vieks
bufg that hostile meeting took pleee n few DAVIS
sgo, between Messrs Tompkins and Cook Tho
parties weto armed with rifles and exchanged shots
iwice-At the FIRST FIRE, Mr. Tompkins' ball passed
through Mr. Cooks coat, and nj tho second the at.
Ter was slightly wounded. The affair was then
.uansnded-N o. Bee.