The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-11-23

HE PRIcE OF LsyISG.-The exfravaganf
e which ai arsicels Il necessity sre no = sIi
1890 h;,s taxes house rent, fuel and
who are living salaries. md rha hsss 60. 8.
lies dsp pendent upon them; Within the past tweI-e
fsei and breadstufs have zone m s.esv Sn
smegns Ons year ago good fonr could be boueht
Then q o.t % nov aas s esus i Isssah1s s sI
cord now il commands % and 81 Der cars n PEI
bacon was worth 10 and IL cents per ron1J So 80 /,
readily brings from IA to II cents The ss1,e r U =
viii apply to groceries fresh meafs poulfrv s1d -
deed all else necessary for the subsistence IF Ss;
y And how ID this advance 20 be accounted fsr1 Ne
~ any great scarcity of the articles mentioned Ca
nsy ara as plentiful usual. Not BY snpr, =.
Gully Ct capital, which has on foot wila speers
spars5 sol, . thank Hssyeu, our people have been
aeIand tor the neeessaries of life, though
mar mas had It's effect But princpaly by couEi-
masses at the mercy ef the few. whose love Of asn
I nays induced them TO nonopose cerfafn branch II
are ,ah abn exert enormous profits from those who
ene af.cie OF breadstifs. there Is very little hope
~ g gcrahge tor the better while the " Eastern Cues
mas seps the world astir for months past
Z; ;s.1ins unsettled But in groceries aud fuel there
: no good cause for the great advance and as the
Az ,fy market tightens which IL must continue to
asl, however, there is no hope, except throunb the
- InaI improvements companies, whose works nou
tells wood as we believe thew vii ao IN, .afia q
cie WIZ be brought down III price to its fair yalue
a - saen, II coal mining companies do not continue
~ several cents more in the bushel for coal
bought at their pits come here than for the a ne
Wnen to be sent to the North the neon q x-;lI
nm ma relief otherwise they will be compelled to take
sne naiIer IN their own hands and work out reu,s-
az ior themselves. And this can reedily be done =
|! tney hnd that the miners and dealers have CON.
oin against them as is charged. they can easily r.
taiiate by resolving to use particle Of tba fs5
from their pits at any price. Ns
The Petersburg Intelligencer, of the 2lst instant
In commenting upon an article of ours which appeal
ed last Saturday. relative to csal thus SPEAKS:
Tne Dispatch can very easily perceive the reason
Why the price OF coal has risen much The Clover
Hih Coal Mining Company is now nothing less than
close, grinding monopoly. There is always differ
ence OF at least two cents bushe against the censu
other consumers. This the Dispatch will readily per
ceve, when we tell it that ifa gentleman from Rich
mond, and gentleman from Petersburg, and gem
where the Clover Hill coal is shipped. each with bis
vessel and each with his money to pay for the coal
ths Norfolk merchant will get his at some seventeen
cents bushel, while the Richmond and Petersburg
merchants will be cooy told they cannot buy there
but must return to their respective Cities and buy
coa at nineteen eentsa bgshel The effect of this IS
that coal is now delivered at the doors of the people
OF Norfolk at one cent per bushel cheaper thart can
De got IN Richmond and Petersburg. If there is any
OF the Clover Hill Mining Company Is the subject of
town talk. Petersburg and Richmond are kept for
the especial picking of their Serene Hishnesses of
the Clover Hli Company ~
II the above remarks he true, why is this difference
made unless 1t be that the Clover Hill Coal Mining
Cohipdhy nave joined IN monopoly to grind to the
earth ctizers whose dollars are not as large as
those OF other places, and who less entitled to
the use OF their fuel. We should be glad to think
that our friend of the Intelligencer in error and
TO oso that each and every coal mining company in
the State was willing to supply one person and one
community as another, at the same price, aud can
see no good reason why they should not lbe.
The rise In the price of anthracite coal is easily ac.
counted for-our remarks therefore, do not apply to
dealers in that article Prces of coal as we learn
nave advanced at the North, freights have rsen and
carriage now higher than last year Owing these
FACTS the prices here have gene up, but the meI-
chants engaged in that business us that their
profits are less now tt they have heretofore been
We design continuing notice of Fuel and shall
be thankful for any facts that i'll enable us to satisfy
our readers that the rates charged are
iar ana euitable or that they have been designed.
~ put up by spectators 1t is our purpose to in.
ure the legitimate trade of any one much less to do
injustice but feeling assured in our own mind that
there is no just cause for the advance of which
complain, and knowing that if mai ltained the poor
OF our city must suffer greatly for want of fuel to
keep them comfortable we deem it duty we owe
to them to bring the subject to the noiice of our
readers that proper steps may be taken at once to
guard against the misery and suffering that will flow
from the high prices now demanded for all the me-
cessaries OF lite, but particularly from those now ask.
ed for fuel,