New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-25

sl7296OT7 20 $1all3sI6 70 SS5oss% 20
c.,s . SCTC0o 90 80. $4,000 90
Total .... s287gO47I co $ia7tOlOa II ssI,5'OSsS II
The operations Mt the different minis and the Assay
Office nsy be stated as follows:
pb.a.vh. s GsRr;'i s sGRs5s ss'S
ssn ssiss ssssS &
Dshlonega.............' 6sS.5 o o92S t t.v2
1 Assay occ, New York lsSiao7 lss7i4 $50
The operations at the Mint in Pbiladel phia
follows: Gold deposits, s2,572,983 g. gold coins
struck s26ll 800; fine gold bars $40 S6 SO; silver
deposits and purchases including amount received in
exchange for cents of the new issue, So 1913 49,
silver coins executed 50 500 900; silver bars s91 o.;
cents coined 1907 OoO total deposits of gold and sill
yer, S. OH, 9I3 o. total coinage, $5976SS7 e.. The
consge was comprised in "A, S33, Ill pieces.
The director states that the email Spanish and Mex
lean coins are rapidly disappearing from general ctrca
ation un6er the operation of the law OF 1897 Since
lie passage the Mint has received and melted Spanish
and Mexican fractions of dollar TO the amouot OF
81 go 997 Of which the value Of $5i63OS was depos-
tied in exchange for cents OF the new Issue. The
Mint has also received copper coins of the former issue
to the amount in value. by tale, Of s95,24i.
OF the gold dollars there appears to have been
larger issue than the husness wants Of the country de-
mand and the Director suggests that the sinallszed
gold Collar coins, Of which $ll, 692204 Issued
from 1919 to 1853, be gradually melted down aud
recoined in larger denominations This rccoinage he
proposes for the present to apply only to the small
dollar coins which are low in the possession OF, or
may hereafter be received by the Assistant freasurers
OF the Pixies Peak gold, the Mint of Philadelphia
received $97 ass 10 up the date of report Nov s.
1882 The fneress Of the gold has the average range
of 500 to eco thousancths but generally Lies within $50
to s45.
TIE amount Of gold the production of the mines Of
the United States, deposited during the yea, was
s7 2l3 557 Is. The silver of domestic production was
$2731e7 AZ, the principal portion of which was de-
rived from the gold deposits being silver parted from
native gold The Lake Superior region has yielded us
out $50, GOO in silver. The mines of North Carolina
have produced 500 GOO of the same metal The
whence these supplies of the precious metals were
derived fully stated in the tables attached to
the report. ~
TIE receipts Of Cotton at the ports appear to confirm
the estimate of &c., GOO bales The excess of receipts
is now 42l 600 bales, which, added to the last crop,
axes 80 coo bales if the excess has reached
lie maximum.
The Paris correspondent of The London Illustrated
Ners has the following paragraph:
Z" As The fantest ray OF sunshine tnat peneudeS tuo
fog that for nearly four years has dsheartened tue
shpowDer is acceptable, am sure the recent mpor-
8bt discovery Of guano III mid Pacific VIII creae re-
Fiction. The fact il recorded. Bakers and jarvis
leland guano is about to run its race with Peruvian
The quantity ample the quality said to be equal to
the best tue price third less Agricultural orators
will be glad OF this fact; English farmers will re-
joice TO have check upon the Peruvian monopoly
The fpures arc uefore me:-Fourteen ships, taking
some 90 GOO tuns have already been imported (not
pound Of which hs reached Europel, and gven sate-
faction to the American planters. The Argo TOOK
eco tuns TO Savannah 1t is composed OF BIRDS, lime,
seals fish, and volcanic matter and Liehie gives IL
preference over Peruvian. The Peruvian Is ANN mia;
The American, phosphate. The Few guano has oper
cert phospbates the old about % per ceot Fne
builder of the Russian war ffgate General Admiral,
William II. Webo, understand, ia the owner oil these
ybusbe islands, which bid fair TO create the same rev.
oluion among farmers that hoIse-raiways are max
ing in American cities.
Mr. Webb will doubtless be surprised to learn that
be s the owner of the islands Of the American Guano
Company.
bill is now before the Legislature of this State in
tended TO save trouble for the banks. 1t is in
tended to take effect Immediately upon its passage,
and provides that New-Year's day. Christmas day,
the Fourth of July, and any day appointed by the Gov
ernor Of this State, tie President Of the Uni cd
States a day of general fast or thanksgiving, SHALT
for all purposes whatever regards the presentation
fer pay ment acceptance and the protesting and CIV
ing notice Of the dishonOr Of bills OF exchange, bank
checks and promssory be treated and considered
the inst day Of the week commonly calico Sunday;
and whenever the first day of January, the fourth
day OF july the twenty tfth day of December shall
fan upon Sunday, the day next following shall for all
purposes of the act be deemed and considered the
first day of the week, sunday The second section
provides that all bills of exchange checks, and prom
issory notes which shall, whether with or without
grace, become due or payable on Sunday, on any
day of the days mentioned in the flint section OF tue
act tball be deemed due and payable on the INST
business day Immediately preceding the day OF the ma
turty of such bill OF exchange, check, or promiss0ry
note. .......'
The Chicago Press of the 21st says:
1.-THE Wet is already beginning to feel the effects
| of the Opening of the Grand Trunk Railway. That
Company are now shipping direct to Liverpool beef.
| park, and lard, for 81 e. hundred. This amounts
to 81 20 barrel Three years ago the lowest Winter
freight between Chicago and New York if we mis-
take not was 81 y hundreds now il ID one-eigh,h less
| TO Liverpool. We learn that the New.York aud Erie
Railroad has telegraphed to its agency here 10 take
European freights for the same price az the Grand
| Trunk and doubtless thu New-York Central will at
follow the example, if II has not already done so
The rates Of course for all rail 10 Portland dis
lance OF more than eleven hundred miles. As
navigation opens line Of propelers will in con-
necton with the Grand Trunk to Sarnia, and the Eu-
ropean steamers Will run up 10 Montreal leaving only
some iye hundred miles Of freight by railway IL the
line now Afford 10 carry nj present rates tt 10 likely