Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-04-03
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Petersburg, February 27th, ls45.

TnE MrssISG PACKET Salrs.-The Louisville Journa
has the following paragraph upon the probable loss of
noble ships:
Al hope OF ever again seeing the packet ships United
States and England seems to be abandoned by the
public The United States has been hundred aud
days At sea. and the England ninety six.
There Is something peculiarly msurniu in such n
nouncemenL These packet ships the city oil New York
within lew days Of each other in all their beauty aud
Prde with and passengers full OF life and hope They
rode the heavng pillows gallanty. aud when land
The blue distance faded away from the OF those
board they little thought that the last occasion
which they should the hills rnd wales Ut this beau
niu earth And yet These gallant vessels with
their treasures OF he have undoubtedly gone down below
the unstable surface ot the and are
"ln the deep bosom Ut the buried"
They have passed from the of this world
forever The places that knew them shall know them
no more thousand tics OF love, affection, and friend
ship severed by this calamity. Many an an pray
er has been sent heavenwards the welfare those
have been enguphcd Many wish for prosperity health
and safety has been waited the TO the
voyagers who shall Many n wet eve and
many stricken heart have poured out their anguish as
visions OF the wreeksand their victims have up vivid
iy before the Iusgnatons OF friends. Hope anxiety and
despair have by turns taken of souls o the
survivors, Who shall paint the deep and burning agony
nt mothers fathers, wives children brothers. and sisters
RET, OF those dearest their hearts by this event. In truth
1t perous thing dare the wrath of old ocean when
an angry sky Is over head and the wild spirit storm
Is 'hr'ekine around YOU Heaven help the mariners!
THE IRoy DrsrRIcr-The ilon district, which spreads
hfouRh new Jersey, pennsylvania Maryland, and Wcs
tern virginia. averses regions, eNuberant coal and
Astounding in powers and, travelling further West
we hnd IN Ohio, Kentucky, and particularly in Missouri
immense stores OF meslicrious wealth. adjacent 10 The
most fertile agricultural districts. 1t is Pennsylvania
however. must chiefly direct attention where twu
hlths OF all the iron in the United States made The
United States contain $4,000 square miles o. coal which
is about sixteen times the coal measures Of
Europe. sngc OF these gigantic masses runs
from Pennsylvania TO Alabama, and must embrace
Itself, $4,000 square miles. Ou, of fity counties
OF Pennsylvania, less thirty have coal and iron in
them and Of the 4G 900 square miles OF Pennsylvania.
which form suPercics. there 10000 miles Of coal and
iron; while all Great Britain and Ireland have only 900
that Pennsy alone has area of coal and iron
hive times great that Of Great Britain The quality
OF the coal or iron Ia rch that ut Great Britain and
Trey have hs advantage Ut lying the level while
those Of the latter country sometimes more than one
thousand feet below the surface and e1cavatcd
sub'erranean passages-Hunrs Merchants Mag
n. Y. MARKET, March 81, aiPM
Cotton ~ quiet tnday. Flour change; Genesee,
Troy nc, Si,15, with moderate saes; Southern 81 CO
Si,.1; 5OO Petersburg fancy brought Sls5
OF rye 5000 bushels were sold at zoe delivered and
several cargoes OF Southern the dsuers at 4sc
W.T. Oats 30a3lc.
Sales 1900 pigs soft lead at &C. $50 bbls DO. nsbe, NJ
Ic 10. Whisky, 23a2i5c.
The auction sale OF New Orleans sugar this morning
went at previous priees.-N. Y. Jour. Of Com
SALES AT THE Nav YoSE srOcs Eaon.Ssr, MARCH 81
S23oo New York City 5s, 100
Si2 SoVo ONO Gs is6o 97I
$4,000 Pennsylvania Sc, 75l
50 shares Canton Co. AGi
$50 do VIcksburg Bank, 81
80 DO wilmington Railroad, IS AGA
TIE saIes al the board were light todoy-Wilmngton
Railroad advanced B. aud Pennsylvania and Ohio bonds
and Canton Co. closed at Saturdays prices.
SALES AT rnE Puzzle Stock EXCHANGE, MAEcn u.
275 shsres Vicksburg Bank, CIaC1
FOREIGN ExcnhNGE-Bls on London TO n large amount
for the steamer of the Let Of April have been taken at O9
alO9i; bills on Paris we quote at 525 523i Amsterdam
39iliO Hamburg 3jsl35s; Bremen 7sI,79t CONNER
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