New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-27

The tannsge OF the Reading Railroad decreased
lG, 1913 tuns.
A meeting was held in one of the wards of Pitts
burgh, Pa. this week, in favor of resistance agsn
the late decisions Of the Supreme Court IN favor of the
holders of railroad bonds ndorsed by the city, Among
tie resolutions adopted were the following:
R'oIred That representatives in councils be and are
Of any y tax Ak for paying interest
railroad bonds. to oppose the same to The bitter end n2twth
pledge suIeyes sustain and protect them in doing
R'Oted That i any such tax .ha be Imposed we mutually
not to bic for property that may be exposed to sale
such purpoes and to regard traitor person who may
undertake 10 collect the same.
There is a movement going on in Boston against the
circulation of copper cents. Tie petitioners ask the
Government TO abolish the coin.
CJrcerDg the negotiations pending between the
coa-car1ying lines of Pennsylvania for uniform sys-
TEN of charges The Mining Register Of to-day says:
The price Of coal aboard vessel on the New York
waters and at Philadelphia, will be fixed at rates
higher than those of last year; that over a minimum
increase of price at New-YoTk there will be n cor
responding cent for cent increase OF price here that is
all that the New-York companies add to the prices OF
lstt year, over say twenty cents tun or any other
sum- will also be added here that if forty cent? be
added in New. York twenty cents will be added in
PHILADELPHIA As, however, the New-York compa-
Mes mine, carry and sell coal, whereas the companies
owning the Philadelphia lines in the Schuylkl Valley
only carr for independent operators said Philadelphia
companies will give the Schuylk operators the bene-
fit Of the advance Of price board vessel so long
they act in good faith III adding the increase stipulated
for TO the prices OF last year; and II the Sehuylkll
operators do not act, the Philadelphia carriers will
add the advance provided for in the treaty 70 their tolls
and charges for transportation. There is 70 be no RI
VARY for tunnage between Schuylki Canal and Phil
a6ephia and Reading Railroad
The annual meeting of the Steubenvile and Indiana
Railroad Company was held ut Steubcnyille the 18th
ns nj which all the former Directors We're reelected
by majority of y, 600 votes.
A correspondent of The 81 Louis Republican states
that Hancock County, Illinois, repudates its bonds
siued to railroads. The writer sage:
"Railroad taxation has absorbed considerable atten.
ton lstely. Hancock County subscribed 500, 600 10
the stock of the Mississippi and Wabash Railroad Com
psuy and like amsunt tO the Warsaw and Rockford
Railroad Company, in 1856, under vote of the county
in September, 1853, whereas both were submitted 10
the people as one proposition, which the Supreme
Court of this State, in the OF the Board of Surer
visors Of Fulton County agt. the Mississippi and Wa
bash Railroad Company, 81 III. 1873, decided 10 be
fraud upon the people, and TO be void.
One hundred Thousand dollars of bonds of the
county were Issued 20 tho mississippi and Wabash
Railroad Company, payable ct the American Exchange
Bank New-iork, and SIS 600 were issned TO the Wa
,ortOwn and Rome Railroad Company, payable at the
same place. Our Supreme Court, in the case of the
Peoria and Oquawka Railroad Company vs. TaLewell
County t2 H., M decided that municipal corpora
t0ns have 10 power 10 make their indebtedness payG
Ie at any place except their trea urers office.
g The Board Of Supervisors have decided by vote
Of u 10 TO REPEAL The order leyyng the railroad tax
and ordered The collectors 10 refund such tax they
bad already eeted 10 the taxpayers and il not called
for by next meeting of the Board TO pay the in TO
the Board 10 be refunded"
Tile Nete- Orleans PtcayaNe Of Feb. ~ reports:
SPEciE.-The only variation that has been an.
noupcnd in quotations since tho close Of the previous
weekly review was advance OF ~ cent in Mexi-
dollars influenced by increased demand for ship.
ment TO Europe, and the irDnoss manifested by the