The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-06
.AVTGATTON WAREHOUSE,

WRECKS ON THE COAST OF GREAT BRITAIN IN 1859.
The British Board of Trade Wreck Register, just
issued, says that it is computed that the loss of
property caused by wrecks and casualties On the
coasts of the United Kingdom, during the year
1859, was in cargoes, about fs93 OOO and in shlps
fS70,000, being total loss of nearly &2,00OO0O
Surely this is so much wealth loss to the
nation at large. An analysis of the 1,4l6
wrecks gives the following result: In 1853
the wrecks and standings involving total
loss amounted to 527 against 354 in 1858,
and those involving partial loss to $40 against 5l5
in 1858; the total number of strandings &C., being
l,067 against 500 in 1858; the total number of col
lsions being 349 against 30l in 1858; ll6 of these
happened in the daytime, between A. Nj. and
p. NJ, against 7G in the daytime in 1858; and 233
happened in the night, between P. NJ. and 6 A.
NJ, against 225 in the night in 1858; only SO hap
pened between April and September inclusive,
and 26O collisions happened between octo-
Der and March, inclusive. 1t appears that
exclusive of passengers there were l0,53o
persons on board these 1,4l6 wrecks, and
of these 3,977 were actually imperiled, and 1882
have been saved from watery grave by life boats,
the rocket and mortar apparatus, ships own boats
and other craft; the remainder, ,645, having un-
| happily been drowned. This is the largest number
on record that have perished from wrecks in one
year on the coasts of the British Isles 1t should,
however, be remembered that 925 of the unfortu-
nate creatures who were thus sacrificed belonged
to the Royal Charter, the emigrant ship Pomona
and the Blervie Castle Old age tells on ships as it
does on human beings, and the ship that was once
able to weather fierce gales bends under the intiu-
ence of advancing years and rotten tmbers The
Register states that the greatest number OF casual
ties have happened to ships between IA and 2O
years DID, next between 20 and 30, and then to COM
| paratively ships, ships between 3 and Z
years of age. 1t also happens that GA were upward
of so years DID, three of this number being between
| so and 80, one between 80 and 100, and one above
| 100 years old.
| INTERESTING AND CUKIoUs.-ln the month OF No
vember, of last year, Mr.. Henry Sartain, of this
city, wrote ON the back of his card bearing his ad-
dress in Philadelphia, and placed it in bottle,
which, having securely corked, he threw into the
sea in latitude 81 deg. 20 mn longitude ~ deg ~
min.-that is, about fifteen hundred miles North
west from the coast of France. just eleven months
from that period he waited on Mayor Henry, in an
to a note from that gentleman, and, to ms as
tonshment, beheld the identical card and writing
which he had cast on the waste OF waters In the
middle of the broad Atlantic. The bottle had been
picked up on the French coast, at Tarnos, IN the
maratime quarter of Bayonne, and its contents
sent to the Minister of Marine, at Paris. He trans
mitted 1t to the United States Department of Stats
at Washington, whence it was forwarded to the
| Mayor of Philadelphia, who handed it back to it
author day or two ago.-Philadelphia Press, No
vember 3d..
The Oxford Miss Mercury says that ga rumol
prevails that duel is on foot between one of ou
Senators and distinguished politician formerly o
this State, but a citizen of Tennessee. Th
parties herein indicated are probably Jefferson Da
Wis and General Henry 8, Foote."