New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-07

from it with loathinr. vhereupon Buchanan ends
the eth 10 finish up the black programme: iah
OF the despotism Of Rome or Naples IL Is freedom
Itself compared 10 this atrocious welcomes.
Meantime the great Republican heart grows hiiner
and more buoy ant. We stand quifs here, neither
few nor dismayed, satifed that the ayenging hour
10 approaching, and that in the fness vi time the
man also will step forth into the arena.
Pennsylvania east Of the Allegheny mountains,
has this season sent 7,e0O,0 OF tuns of coal 20
market. At 81 the tun the minimum valuation st
the mines this is S14, 000, 600, What an embryo
California this is and done too in the face Of de-
structiye palsy upon all general business, embar-
easements among transportation companies, and
MANY Interruptions on railways end canals
million and half Of tuns of bituminous coal has
been dug out west Of the mountains, and taken 20
market, worth 50, 000, 600 more. In market, this
$l7, eco, 900 Of coal is worth S31Ooo,Ooo. This
trade has closed out better than expected when
the cold snap in November came down upon US. Some
of the coal railroads have brought down an aston
ishiug increase over last years business. Inc Le-
high Valley Rosd has surprised even lis trends oy
its Immensely increased tunnage. There VIII Dc no
deficiency in the supply of coal. Government mas
ruined so many manufacturers, and shut up so many
hundred mills and foundries, that the consumption
has fallen of million of tuns. Had there oeeh
no such falling of, the supply would haze been de-
fcient. Another year radical change WI OF ne
coal at the Mines The losses made this season by
coal and the transportation companies, growing out
Of an extended credit system have been 80 heavy
that many of them can do no more business u1lesS
they get cash down for their coal at the mines. 80
operators and consumers all along the seaooard
| may prepare themselves for dong nothing short OF
cash business in coal next year. There may be less
of Il done in consequence, but il will h better for
| all parties The increase in the bit"hmous coal
trade in and around Pittsburgh is most remarkable
II has been four times larger i'll 1857 than IN le0o-
| being equal to "a 000 900 bushels. The tGhtneSs
| of money through the Lehgh and Schuylklll coal
regions has ruined multitude OF small golfers, ana
knocked down real estate to sn awtuiy low hgure.
The lessees of various coal mines have become III
| solvent, and the companies, IN consequence, can
make no dividends The lessees sold their coal for
paper; the crisis made that paper worthless, and,
| having no capital of their own 10 tall back upon,
the lessons become the real losers. In every aspect
of the case il may be sald the year opens on inns
important interest being dreadfuliy Frustrated.
There was terrible slaughtering OF mining stocks
| at auction few evenings since Shares oil tno
Eagle Gold sold at five cents, Monroe at one cent
| Eldorado at FIVE, Chesapeake, Michigan, ana on,
| tOnagon Companies at ten each' Doosa "o a. .o
CENTS and 500 shares Bohemian at 81; 2OUO SHARES
| of Philadelphia and California Mining Company ~
| 10 cents and 5000 Dickerson Marble Company OF
| Tennessee at one cent No one but the initiated
could form any estimate of the value OF any o tne'e
| stocks. and such, therefore, had the bidding ano
| buying all their own way =,
! On "Wednesday of last week our Mint received IN
| one lot twenty -One tuns OF silver IN Dars' oliec'
| from New.Orleans, worth some $500, 600.
| The bonds of the Camden and Amboy kailrod
| COMPANY, which had been Hypothetical py tr
| Company az security for a loan OF 81, 0OO, %ere
| nut in the market by fore guer with whom they
| we're pledged But the brokers employed TO sell
them happened 10 be- honorable men and withheld
the proceeds Oh notice, that the COMPANY siAFa
'THe funeral of Mrs Eliza Leslie the au-Nor OF
several popular cookery books, took place cn sun
day Miss Leslie was native OF this city, and was
| in the 10Th year OF her age. Her literary ab0rs
| continued up to the commencement OF her last
| sickness.
A new steam fire engine, built in KensnSton, was
| tried on Saturday. IL is constructed on plan DIT
| ferent from any other engine. Steam was got up IN
| twelve minutes; water WAS sucked III from two
plugs and forced out from two lines of ho.e ~ OPP
| posite directions, all at the same time. The hose
| was each 300 feet long, yet the water reached IOO
feet beyond the pipe at the end, making the whole
| distance from the engine AGO feet The trial wac
| completely successful.
| Public amusements ere scnfhly affected by the
hard times. The Academy of Music is deserted
and silent and the theaters are doing m uncertain
| business So are many OF Onr large hotels. Inc
| masses avoid tables where half dollar 10 charged
for breakfast and fatcn up on the cheaper fare OF
| the chOphOuses.