New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-11

Total....................s..... 10
The terms parted and impaired apply respectively
10 pure and uDalloyed gold. In the parted, all ex-
traneous matter is removed while in the impaired re-
mains q certain proportion OF silver
The Dry Goods aucti sales Of the last week have
been well attended and goods sold freely, but at a
considerable loss to importers The Dry Goods trade
generally has shown an Improvement, but the amount
of goods selling does not compare with the amount
last year. A portion Of the decrease is due to the
greater caution of merchants and their unwilling
ness TO grant long credit New-York has lost por
ton Of trade this fall to Boston, where the merchants
In their anxiety to sell very pjudiciously give in
cases longer credit than last year.
The Coal trade by the Reading Road last week was
<s, 49s tuns; Canal 90 466 tuns total, 74,96l To-
ta for the season. oOs9 O73 tuns agans; l,G6s, loo
inst ,ear-sn increase of 4l4,9 tuns. During the
week ending on Saturday last, the shipments on the
Lehgb Navigation 40 l2l tuns, and for the sea-
son, 744, 1879 tuns. The Ledger says;
"Tbe Susqutbanna Division Of the Pennsylvania
Canal below Suntury, we learn is 81 un aavgable on
account Of low water and the fact that the channel
of the Canal is So much filed with dirt, sand and
other deposits, that trade upon II is much diminished
10 the great injury Of parties transporting on it, and
occason,ng serious loss to the Commonwealth
The water in the upper level of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal is so low that Ave boats carry only
two c1goes.
In regard to the recommendation to coal cons mers
10 hold back from purchasing, The Miners Journal
says;
"On the opening of the trade this spring, our opera
tors fixed the price of coal CT fair rate, but the de-
mand was so great that purchasers kept bidding
each other for coal until the prices were up 80
cents tuR higher than the rates sold for the pre-
yioss years, and wages went up accordingly Tue
keadhg Railroad and Schuykill Canal run uD
thea rates about so cents ahead OF the prices of the
previous year. from the same causes and the feights
to Boston run up from 81 so as high o. 90 3 tau
10 Providence from 81 25 to So 50. These are the
causes Of the high prices Of COAL the trade here has
had nothing do with increasing the rates. they were
forced upon the trade by a combustion of crcun.
stances over which they had no control They regret
that the price Is high; but the high prices ave
been caused NOE by an advance in freights thsn 10
the price Of coal in the coal regions which is only
about y cents tuR htgher thsn il al the close
of last season And we would take this occasion to 70.
mark that there is no combination in this re-
gion. There Is, however, combination abroad
TO reduce prices at the mines; and publications
have been made in papers in New-York and
throughout the New England States requesting pur-
chAser 10 hod back and the prices would come down
This combination our operators determined to re.
sist al all hazards-lst the same combination that hiss
heretofore sold coal in advance in the IN srkets
cutting OF the ability OF our operators from making
sales, by giving leng credits and then fixing their
own prices for coal mere thus rObbng the producers
of every cent of profit and almost reducing them to
insolvency and beggary while they growing rich
upon the spos. These publications have caused con-
sumers particularly in The Esst to hold back. The
dealers, IN the present state of the money market
cannot lay in the usual stocks Of coal unless they
can sell a. II requires at least one-thrd more money
To co the same amount of business and that too with
an UNUSUAL hghtness In the money market. According
20 our correspondent the quantity of coal sent to the
East u considerably short of the supply TO same
period lest year-and the consumers are holding OF
expecting lower prices II they hold off much longer
they viii have to pay sl2 ton, during the winter
instead Of 90 now. In New York they have been
holding Oh for lower rates, and the dealers who IN
derstsnd the stale OF the trade, on Wednesday sd
vanced the retailprice so cents ton"
Fres TAs ~ Lssis Repsssias.
The CRoPs.-A good deal Of unI eeessary alarm Ia.
been created in regard to the crops Of the ore.nt
year, IN many with speculative purposes 10 yiev
There can be no doubt that the wheat and ost cron.
~ general thing, were unusually heavy, and with
the prospect Of very little export demand fss bread