New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-18
The aggregate receipts OF the above arnces 30 'a
for tha wears 1856 and 1851. have been as follows:
,sen az follows:

The schooner Seadriff which arrived at New-Or-
Leans On the 9th inst. from Brazos Santiago brought!
sl347l9 n specie.
The deposits at the New-Orleans Branch Mint
during the month of November were, in gold
S5el 57s. ard OF silver $3.50 1903; total, sllli,6S2
The coinage was, in double eagles $4,000, and in
,ver half dollars go coo, making total of gold and
silver of $ji5,O00
TIE PiHsbareh Journal says:
"Tbe Councils have maintained that legislation is
to authorize tbs taxation required 20 pay IN
,erest On the cy bonds issued by defsutng raroads
The county hes paid the interest since the rslroaus
a!!ed, until the last October election, when the poll
tcs If the Board of Commissioners was changed ana
the Board resolved topay no Interest on railroad bonus
has been in consequence of the politics OF the Board
or Of want Of in the treasury, is not stated
though, probably, there may be 9 lack OF Disposition
wei es want OF means; No interest, we are IN,
safely say tina. the security of Allegheny County Bonds
is unique stonable and that the interest Will not be
Iosiponed lorger than 1885 that arrears Wi Do psid
np and after tha, punctualy paid as the coupons ms
tre II the purpose of our people needs any bracing
the Supreme Court will have supplied that, when it
will be found our means ample though our obi.
gsons be heavy. In me mean TINE, Don fh9laerS must
sue the county on mGtured coupons @npaid.'
We make tho annexed ex'rac. from al article upon
the cosl trade of Pennsylvania, published in TIE
W u6eSDdfre ddC0cdt, thu WHICH " SA'' w a." -
Roberts
"Tbe unusual foods Of ths season, so disastrous to
New.YoIk North and West, have swollen the Sasque-
hanna ard its tributaries almost without iutermsslon,
ard have delayed repairs, or swept them oil before
well secured; but such unto gard contingencies viii
not always happen. The canal Is an excellent one,
and will fui nish transportation for half million tuns
of coal, or more annually. The extension Of the
Lackawanna and BioOmshurg Railroad to LsnesborO,
to connect with Albany and the Lakes will, doubtless,
10 short time be made. 4 railroad along the Sus-
quehsrps River ALEC, and gravity one from thess
valleys 10 New York City and others thus opening the
great North and West of country to these coal re-
eiops. True, this trade EOw suffers, Ike all others,
but cannot but bs temporary. Ii the thoughts and
facts above written hastily put together and just and
thI they cannot be questioned, an obvioas infer
ence is that the owners Of anthracite coal lands should
rot hastily psrt with them They increasing 10
value far more lar the pteres. cost, and the ne
ia not far distant when they will pass down as hslr-
loon from those who hold them, from generation to
generation. Further uninvested funds could not be
placed in better IL go good property. The area Of the
az thrscite Of this State is small The elder Sllimar
of Yse College, speaking Of the depth thickness and
quantity of coal OF the Wyoming or Northern anthra.
cite fsld uses these words Except az matter OF
cienoe there Is necessity for deciding the leston,
for the amount Of workable coal is altogether mex
heustibIe' Much of il s in the possession Of those
who reed not and will not sell, and the most eligible
paris Of the crsLd5r will be in like manner
cured. Such lerd5 wi not become cheaper, and the
present pressure has not made them could here
add many Of large revenues derived by indiyid
uals ard companies from this enthrace,coal trads,
such, for nstsnce as so 000 70000 and slC0 900
year. paid to freebOders in mine rents-of Individual
operators making az much-snd the large dividends
Of etock companies, iged with skill and ecouomy
but these are generally well knoSn'