New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-11


this vinter The receipts o. the whole line must be
largely increased nom this source and especially
those OF the Mohawk, over which the whole must
pass.
Anotber failure was announced yes.er-
day, but the name was not made plDhc. Al 6's'oh
also. an OIL concern has failei 1t Is SAID through
their connection with Messrs Hicks Co Inc as
sets of Messrs. Hicks Co, 1t Is supposed, will pay
about 50 cents on the dollar. Nessrs. G. Cornell
a Co.'S affairs look unfavorabe, ami !; is feared
there Will be nothing pid but the confidential debts.
The larger portion of Hicks Co.'S Indebtedness Is,
we understand in Europe, large reclamations having
come upon them.
A letter from Newark, Ohio, confirms
the escape OLA Smith, which we announced some
days since:
Every day Envelopes evidences OF the wide
spread disaster. j. smith nas gone no one kno rs
where /. Is not supposed he has taken anything
with nm. HIS ha5li ties VIII amount to not less
tb.n s3CO eco The active n the town itself.
tsucy ed by this affair, IS not les than 100000"
The annexed article from The cisveaDd PAN
Dealr appears 10 refer to tie same gentlsman''
operations.
MORE TROUBLES AMONG TIE RAG MILs-lt u
said that the secret agent OF the Boifd OF control
W Ous, ESQ q, OF This city, had hardly hnished MS
Investigations of the hshta0ula Bank before ne vas
burned off 20 attend TO a snort-wlndei concern Ia
Newark Licking County. itWas Significantly WIS
pered mai one A. Smith. Cashier OF IL king Coun-
" Branch Bank. and one OF the " Red End Snitos
OF St CAR memory, who hai been using the chaf'eI
OF Plank Road Company for the purpose OF issuing
shinpasteYs ind0rsed BY himself Individually, anu
made in the form and smilitude Oi the notes OF me
State Bank Of Ohio had given signs Of pre- qfDrHy,
Consequently The agent was telegrephed and START
ed of IN the night train for licking. HIS stay mas
been painfully protracted painful at least TO moss
who have been dabbling in the Plank Rold m1nsy.
The Toledo Bank vent 10 smash on po.k spec ma
ton. The Cuyahoga Falls Bank capsZed IN c9nse-
quence OF similar operation. The Ashfaonla ihA,
now under the weather, is suffering from Caliof-
MA expedition What next
LATER-4 p M-Intelligenre Just from Newark
says, that VIM. Ois and Thomas Moody agents
OF the Board OF Control have taken possession o.
the Licking County Branch OF the state 6AaA OF
ONO. turned out The original moaey cnthgeIs N9p
Plank Road indOrsers, and find about $SOooO oil de-
posts unpaid. Plenty of empty boxes and notes ds-
counted 10 favored ones with which % pay.
The fact s, but Little eOEfience can Oe placed
even IN the sworn statements OF these banks Fne
Ashtabula Branch Bank, on the LIST OF Aug Is, ,sL'
made the following EXHIBIT Total liahlne', S35'-
324 IS. Specie on hand, only $35 269 49, beng less
than 10 cents collar OF Us liabilities. rs entLte
immediate available funds were S1e COO inns Tor
All exhibit of their own showing, Is ceriany oal
enough. Tue Licking Branch had LiaoInties'
S33o 997. Specie On hand, $51,323. hyallaole re-
sources including notes Of other banks and baSfern
deposits $79624 But how much Of these resources
are realis alone known to the officers OF the BANK
and he people and the depOstOrs are nOt IN tne
secret till too late.
The Western Money markets, st. Ions,
Cincinnati, Louisville Chicago &C., very strin-
gent, and if the two millions of dollars to be paid BY
the State Of Ohio in January next IS yet to be sent
forward the tghtness in that State must be material
ly increased
There is also more demand for Money at Pha'
delphia, but at Boston the market is comparatively
easy.
THompson's Bank Note Reporter has the
following caution
awe have been compelled to quote as doubtful
four OF the branches of the Ohio Safe Bank Farm.
ers' Branch, Ashtabula Summit County, Cuayhoga
Falls Licking County, Newark Toledo Branch.
The law authorizing the State Bank System, bound
the Branches collectively, to make good the crculi-
ting notes of each ndyidsa Branch so that the bill
holders will lose nothing the depositors, draft
holders, etc must look to the Branch itself for AL
deficits.
The Managers of the Delaware and Rlr-
Canal company have given NOTICE tnrt navfSa-
ton for the season will be suspended on the e0th
inst, If the canal is not closed by the ice
The consumption of Coal is subject Of
deep importance, and the annexed statistics from
The philadelphia Ledger are interesting:
New York being the great center of Coal consump-
ton, inquiry has been directed to that City, with the
view of ascertalning the amount Of Anthracite con
sumed BY steamships, which have so largely multi
Piled within the last year or two gentleman OF
much experience in the Coal business, who has spen,
week pNew- York, pursuing the inquiry, has let
with us his rough notes OF facts and observations,
from which We learn that the whole number Of
steamships plying TO and from all ports In the United
States, tincluding American steamships IN the Pa
cifc, but excluding navy sieamshps-abOut sixteen
OF all sizes,) does not exceed So River and Sound
steamboats, are not counted. The L. = Coast scam
| ers, including Chagres, &c, all use AnLhacite.
Those on the Pacific all sorts OF fuel dependent
| upon the cost The four Collins steamers take An
thracie (Lacka@ana and Pittston) out, and Welsh
| BItuminOus back The seven funarders take Cum
| berland Coal out, and return with Welsh Btu
mInous The four Bremen and llayre steamers use
Bituminous but the Franklin tIavre) tries AnthrA-
| cite this voyage, 10 test 1t against Cumberland
The Nicaragua Company has Just contracted for
supplies of Schuy kill Coal to be delivered this win
ter at Havana Nicaragua, East Coast n -. Juan,
| Pacific and Acapulco The steamers that touch a.
Kingston, Jamaica, have contracted for 10 900 tuns
OF lleilner & Bskwouh, to be delivered at Jamaica
this winter All steamers touching Al Ne@-0rleans,
take III Pittsburgh Coal there, because OF its cheap
ness But those running to Richmond, Va, take 10 at
New ofk Anthracite for out and return. From the
alphabetical register Of the Insurance Companies IN
New-York, a lsl OF steamers of all kinds has been
obtained, from which the following record of the
build ct steamships that affect our inquiry Is
gathered, viz
In iss6- ls47 isis 1879 ls'0 1881 Total
Add Cunard steamships not enlered......--
w hole hulhoer oil sea gong steamers ----'5
Mr.. Haswell, |. Engineer, furnishes list OF -.
This gentlemen puts the number OF steamers nov
using Anthracite IN whole in part that did not use
II IN 1850, AZ 10 lie places the average daily con
sumption OF these 10 at II uns, 500 tuns daily for
al. We will suppose then that, viz 30 Of these use
wholly Anthracite 10 half only Of Anthracite that
their sieamlng time Is 265 days in the year-this
would give us Ter one year, VIZ 30 steamers, con
summg each II tuns for .65 DAYS. and 10 steamers
burning 5. tuas FOR s6j days making an aggregate
consumption OF 1910 tuns, as the greatest possible
Increase nom this source. II We even pu the wOrk
mg days az 2s5, and the daily consumption al - tuns,
II would give but l62, 500 tuns. The whole consump
ton OF Anthracite in seagong steamers, Dec 1851,
Is estimated by another gentleman, intelligent an
Coal statistics, al s22 tnns per diem workag tim
say 2le coo tuns. The largest figures are too small
TO aid us much in accounting for the 2On 900 tlns
extra mining product OF 1851. We have said nothing
OF rver steamers-only OF ea-gomg clan