The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-09-21
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:, THE .'DfSP1fCH.
NOTICE To ApyERTIsERs.

o. NOTICE I'D ApyERTISERSs
ssAdssrtisenasnts for the pisPArcs asast he haad
ed In by sss scsoes IN tAs ays,rsnos fnosss 90 sp
pear tss neRt day The heavy pressure Of sd~er-
tsenyen tsupouy ID coils Of our pAIarwill not
adsis Of slsess resepsioaa AFTER Abs hbnr named
.tif1s7a assei=4ss-.sss4t-ss-s4 sssssB ,taHsH
cue er SfF s 4,Fssih lSa,iier A tI.A'M,q
yFsli pArtieuars of4he lats calamity at sea will
be found In our paper this morning, received from
cHf kspbrtyf al Norfolk ahd frShs taker sources.
The details heartrehding and viii be terrible
to those who had friends and relatives on beard of
thuillated rraft. There were s25 passengers On,
hnssd. with crew Numbering l0l, max ing eas in
sit Of these, 50 were rescued by the Elise, 40 by
tfp Marine, and by the saxony, leaving 33l souls
nnaecounted for. Some slight hope may yet be
entertained that of those xhe were wrecked more
f,ass heess SAVED thsa yet hoard from, by YES
ssis ~lfieh have ,iot YET tescheJ port The specie
ohhSafd anbuntsd 70 s2256,pJo, pr @iI6h 81 500
W9 INSURED, aud, the iDsufaAce conpaaias hay-,
isg aHsrcdts pay up'prsRptly. the 'moaey market
Of NsuSferk ssillnnot b. i~ nufar shocked as hvas
Sr+acrnstEf 'Gs" "iE -ybrqnfu' odi }" iHe4s
The Central 1msrIca Vas SIDE Sgh Whoa steamer
80 feet gu deck, 80 feet beam and q Ecu, hold
nhltwsrRarine.ea gipas, each tS inches diSaueter
Of cylinder, snti,i1 feet strese. She was diagonal
iysnac ea With fto, from stem to stern ana was in
ali tespet y AS staUhck Vessel as any af2at, and
could have sithstood any ordinary storm. sIAerr
IL iAtta doubt ssat tin fric xne ah siesi rOycd
her ksda4tires,ar nb6tou-4or wl1asis commonly
tsffed *fiirfwnd frtp The direction II To- * 1t Is
Mpbahe that tbs Central AMERICA was caught III
the setre, VI the sshiri. ii The outer edge of the
whirawht dcubtltss struck hsr on w einosdsy, the
9tk, ,t- time wEicf the Empire city nnt ex-
nsyapceA Il, and from that, time until Saturday,
ts,l2tb, sLe Rlust have calamity battled with it
Until the cdnto rcanhodh her and shB conld no lon
getf h9N tArt against the terrdrs OF this awful
Iss5SS4oha I'll lcn '" Io.. ~ ~, ' , 81.
eea the pssSe agtrs who are. believed to baye
been on the steamer, are David BroleriCk,' L. s
StuatAr freh uslifornia Judge Hyderfelt, of the
SUPERIOR Court Of that state Dr. Henry Bates, late
STATE TREASURER, and other prominent Californans
His also fearsd that several Of the officers aud
crew of lire us. ship prndence. we've also Oh
board fhis is the fst csh,inity to this mnil line
though it has carried 2obO,oo0 passengers, and
two hundred millions Of specie. On the same route
however, the steamer Independence WAS hurnt in
1885, with 30 passsn gers, and Christmas day OF
the sdnie Year, 900 u. s. troops wcre lost on the
San Ffaqfisco. y, I,.l,.,,, 90. l.f.'. -.
The appalling disaster OF the Central America
hasdho pssallei in the'annss Of American steam
chip navigation. The nearest approach is the dis
aster Shicb efc the steamship Arctic, on the 9th
ofseptember. 1854, by which something ike three
hundred and fifty lives were lost. Taking retro
spect of the vessels owned in the U. >. which have
been lost, find that the President, City Of GlaS-
gov, San Francisco, ArtiG, Pacific aud Tempest
lake besyI wrecked, with RB aggregate of seventeen
huhdnsd lives but Of them singly approaching
in destruction this last catastrophe. II is singu
lar coil tidepce that in that case the vessel which
saved tho wrecked was named the Elise, and that
the two vessels which snyed the passengers irs m
tire French steamer Lyonnais, both bore the same
same nJnie. # '''' ..'"" IF" 80
The New York papers state the fact that the lost
steanitrdi not have PARTITION bulk.heads and al
lsse that as one Of the causes of her sinking
@ghelstr Of passengers which will be snxously
locked f5r viii be Received about the latter part
of this week, when 1t will be known certainly who
the lost. -i''s 'T 81" ErhE .'.