New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-03

| .be ,sason The Iehigh Navigation shipped tor me
week ending Oh Saturday last 2e227 u1s, and for the
,.won 10 that date. ass Ois. Ire Resdipg Railroad
brought down for tue week ending on .hurs9sy sI<<o
tune ane for the year, POS 2el ;uns, against lye
e55 fubs 10 she sane ine lsst yesr. The SchIyl XII
Naviga alton shipped for The week ending on rhursdsy
2s ZOE tur' ana for the SEASON 20 inat gaze
tups sgaist 97e 10 corresponding time las. year!
There ia little or no change in the Coal market OF tlls
city The business is known TO be considerably de-
pressed end pr es are quite az os a. operators can
sfford Some of the best men in tae mining region.
! are Going on. Of the trade. The P0ttsrHte Gd:ete
OF Lar week in noticing The sale OF the Lswis Coulery
ard other coal interests by Mr. George Muller, says;
1T s painful think thst the trade IN the CONDITION
ali ia non in IN offer bat few attractions for men
like Mr. Miller TO msin in it-nen OF real suoeaoce
"s1d ita."
TIE iniup c.ion or the Gracers Bank, Boston va.
laid in consequence Of The discovery of sn ovsr-ssue
Of culapg notes to the extent Of so6, 600, il not
more. Money had been borr wed c., 900 Of these
notes BY the late Cashier, Mr.. Kingman. The Bspk
does MT receive its own notes in payment of its bis
receivable TIE injunction will be argued on the 4lh
inst. The Bank Commissioners believe the Bsnk can
pay ali its liabilities.
The Money market at Philadelphia is rather s.rin'
CERT Money continues in active demsnd. with very
little paper passing at less than IL esnt AT Boston
the market is fevessh, and rates of interest remain
unchanged
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1.-The votes in councils chow thai authority will be
given the city tomorrow TO borrow 900 600, :, pay
floating liabilities and to issue bond, 10 the Sunbu'y
and Erie Railroad of 81 500 900 aud to the North East
proposed add,io=s set down Of abou. S22 900 ooO
| "The Governor of Texas, in his message to the
Legislature, develops mag nitcent scheme OF inter
nal Improvement, based oa the public CONAN, ana
| ms6erete internal improvement tax 10 rua through
period of expenditure of Is years
"He estimates the uDepproristed public domain OF
the State Of 900 acres of which 5000 600 are
s,labe at 75c per acre, producing $50 500 600, or
las the expense of survey about $3l 800 900, to be
realized by gradual seles and supported by an thermal
| improvement tax Of l5c. on the 800, which would
commence with revenue of s26s 600 per annun.
| This he computes, would pay an interest o. v
cent on four and quarter millions of doGrs The
seme tax allowing the increase in the value Of taxable
property to lie one fourth less each year than it has
been since the year 1876, would produce in 1850 the
cum of 1917, COO which would pay an interest OF q
cent on ak and quarter million dollars. -,
'Ihi, would enable the State 10 use liz own credit
10 the amount of six and quarter million of dollars
before the close of the year 1860 without taking into
account the annual earnings of the public works as
they advance, which ne estimates would be at least
y cent on their cost, equal to onehalf the interest
| payable on the debt.
At that time the revenue from the sale of lands
would begin TO accrue and increase annually hereaf
ter. The Governors estimate is thst a. the end OF nj
teen years the State would be the owner of all the
works erected at cost OF $4,000 900 or $50 OO10O0,
and light reduce the cost Of TRANSPORTATION and yet
epioy an annual income from them of $3.50, 900; and
that merely by prudent use OF the public domain and
| the annual tax n entioDed.
"His plan contemplates l, 900 mles OF railroad at
SIG 900 per mile, total expenditure OF S25 600 900,
which would leave of his eetimated Land fund
SC 600 600 and upward to be used in the Improvement
ofrivers and harbors and cutting canals, &c.
sEMr-ANTHRACIrE COAL FIELD.
II fs Efisor Of The n. Y !ribsns
SIR: Among the notices Of various qualities and
kinds OF coal appearing from time TO time in your pa
per, have seen noEe calling attention to the Sem
Anthraeite Of the middle coal field OF Pennsylvania.
These Goals silently Masking their way for steam,
furnace and culinary purposes in our midst, and from
their peculiar properties are deserving no. only OF OBJ
serva'ion and criticism, but trial. They form cnk-
ers en- the CRATE aud furnace bars kinde easily and
bum freely with sufficient blaze to carry off the gas
and peucious eflluvia which emsnate to some degree
from all GOALS In an open crate the coal kindes with
out the aid of blower and n0trlthst and; IT'S
unlike the harder anthracites. it does not go out
when the quantity of coal in the CRATE is
reduced, and in fact burns better, casting off more
face of the coal is then ignited. have found in my
experiments that range CRATE half or even ons-third
fun of this coal gives as much heat and to the
same purpose in culinary opera ions as a
crate full of the harder kinds Of coal.
The writer having ade extended tour Of observa
ion amorg the coal fields of our neighboriug State
year since then learned for the first time what
your readers probably know, that between this bumi
coal feds and tbose OF the had anthracite, to
wit the Letigh Mauch Chunk and Wlkesbarre dis
ricts from which mainly the cOss Ia common use are
brought, lie in the middle coal fields in which inn
bed1 ed Goals Of character intermediate the hard
thu acite and the semi bitumnous Goals aud now
appropriately styled sena'-dnttrdcfe, burning easily
and freely, and yet in Dowise bituminous. The
biologists account for their peculiar raceriscs by
assuming that all anthI ace coal is the cone Of btu
mi1ou. coal produced by stupsndous operations of
nature causing the upheaval Of mountains from their
original position-tba this upbeaval accompanied
by the escape of highly heated vapor of water and
other gases which, passing through the coal seams,
left them dcbtuminized. That this disturbing inau-
ence was the greatest in that part of the coal |
regions where the hard anthrsces are found, |
and the least in that part where the soft and |
moIe combustble Goals exist. The bitumnous |
matter having been wholly expelled from the
coal deposits in the Lebgh and other hard anthracs
resions their coal is extremely hard, breaking with
CLASSY fracture, ard can only be burned with power
full draft, and at an elevated temperature, and, either
of these conditions waiting the fire goes out while
the Goals Of the middle fields, containing greater |
emount Of volatile matter, ignite freely break up
under the influence of heat do not clog retain Ere like
hickory. wood, and gradually consume entirely away.
In word, oese semi.anthracites combine all the |
good qualities of the hard ard bitumnOus Goals with
out aIy Of their Disadvantages such as gases, close
ness smut, sweat, &c. PotsVie, as you know, IL |
the present terminus of the Reading Railroad and the
coal terminus OF the hard anthracite region. About |
6fty miles west of this place, and within fourteen |
miies Of the Susquehanpa is Trevorton, the coal |
town OF the semi anthracite region. Thence tbs |
railroads convey these Goals 10 the river over which
at the terminus of the road 10 al immenEc bridge |
costing upward of 100000 traversed by |
the cars which deposi; their freight in the
canal boats the other side OF the Susquehanns, |
thence down the canal TO HAVE de Grace, whence |
shipping transports the coal 70 The Atlantic and |
Other cities. have learned that al the coal that
could be mred this season. ard not used in the vicinity
of the mines has been carried 10 Boston and the 1st.
EN- ces for the Of manufacturers, and that but