New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-10
PROM PRH iDELPHIi.
1s0HoR TO ASDERsoN-TE COAL ISTEREsT-
CONDITION OF LABoR-sUMNER ON LAFAY-


PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9, 1861.
There has been no campaign meeting ever held
IN this city, nor, in fact, any other meeting,
within my knowledge, equal to the tremendous
gathering Of Saturday evening st the National
Hall, to do honor TO Major Anderson. Though
got there early yet there was no getting inside,
such was the jam. The street around the door
wa also thronged. OF course the proceedings
were all one way. The Major was toasted and
applauded in the most hearty manner. Every
mention Of his name drew out a hurricane of
appIaase. 1t is astonishing how firmly he now
ats on the top round in the ladder to fame
This community fairly worsbips him. ] do not
Aear word of dissent from his proceedings; on
tAo contrary the ruling spirits of all parties vie
With each other in doing him homage. Ander-
son is Justly regarded as having struck the de-
UiAve blow by which the whole fabric Of treason
uame topping to the ground. Hence he is entitled
70 those overwhelming evidences of public apprecia-
ton which have been so spontaneously rendered i'll
ing to say that up TO this time Philadelphia has fur
nished the most imposing demonstration OF all.
The Pennsylvania coal trade for the past year has
been 80 large to be worthy of particular notice
The quantity sent to market was as follows:
From the schuyltil region. 23i 4le tuns
Io@ ~. me vsssn ss rS9;o e an
From other eastern nhues........... sso, l55 tuns
This gives total Of ,i5O, OJ3 tuns, an increase
az 81, 233 over the preceding year, within which
,hs increase was greater than ever known AL
his is anthracite The exports to foreign countries
n1s60 were 80, 423 tuns, all from this port. The
whole foreign export in the last six years was
asa 500 tuns, or nearly double the product of all the
ohove regions in 1923 The foreign demand grows
rapidly These figures do not cover any Of the vast
tituminous product west Of the mountains. Forty
yosrs ago the whole quantity Of anthracite sent to
market from our mines was only 365 tuns.
These came from the Lehigh. Since that date,
shat region has sent over 49, 500 600 tuns to market
Coal lands, 43 years ago. were comparatively value
less, for in 1sl7 the pioneers Of the Lehigh Com
psay leased the ground they now occupy at an ear
sf corn per acre the lease running 20 years. They
have subsequently acquired the title aud oil that is
coal land is now worth $500 per acre. The opera
lions of these Philadelphia pioneers, among the
bleak mountains and solitary gorges OF the Lehgh,
have reyoutonized the industry of vast region of
country Their example induced the expenditure
of millions Of dollars 10 develop the coal fields, and
attracted capital not only from this city but from
ether States and Europe. Some of our most i'm
oortant coal mines and coal roads are now con-
xfolled by English capitalists. The first coal came
b market from the Lchigh Company in 1890. Two
wears aftersard the Schuylkiil Company brought
down coal from other mines, so quickly did rival
sAip appear. Rivers, which had been annuelly
sweot by desoating freShets, were tanned into
nayipable canals Railroads We're everywhere
built. mines opened and the entire country
taught to USE and comprehend the value OF the
new fuel. Under the impulse thus gwen to industry
throughout the coal region, population flowed 10
from every quarter The wilderness was penetrated
at all points, farms were cleared ana cultivated
and cities grew up containing population winch
xhnse farms were unable to feed AS the coal re-
gion also abounded in iron, and coal quickly
Ssnde to perform the duty Of smelling, 80 furnaces
mad rolling mills were established in large numbers
Some twenty furnaces are now located in the Lee
t1gh Valley producing near 1000 TINS Of iron
weekly. and employing nearly 5000 men, most of
whom support families. Every tun of pig metal
consumes two Of coal aud one and quarter of lime
stone, to furnsh which, other armies OF laborers
zre employed. The whole region Of the Letngh Is
q perfect marvel by reason Of its neXhaustble min
eral wealth, its network of railroads. ITS industry
and thrift. In no other quarter of the world
san an equal aggregate OF al these ele-
spents Of national wealth be found on
an equal area. This volume Of prosperity has
sprung from the very smallest beginnings only 40
ycars ago. MANY OF the pioneers still survive who
remember when people could not be persuaded 10
believe that coal would burn more readily than
brickbats Had this great interest dRring these 80
xears, received the fostering care OF a Government
vEhich gives full protection to slaye-grOwn sugar,
But denies il TO free-labOr iron the coal and metal
statistics OF this part of Pennsy lssnia would now
almost surpass belief Yet even under this chilling
hostility, they have risen To prominence that il
xat and acknowledged at every freside IN hall the
Union.
think there has been muck unnecessary panic
touching the condition Of our laborng classes. The
>riss came on so suddenly as to alarm many with
oxt sufficient cause. As TO actual suffering among
NE DOOR there i'd no more than always exists in c
suty like this every Winter Some of the soup
houses are in operation, but only in the most des-
tftute quarters On New. Years day, 500 lOaves of
bread were baked at the adjoining village Of Frank
fsrd, for gratuitOus distributions among the poor.
but though general notice Of the gift was gwen,
there was rush for them, and one half the guam
aity was left on hand This don't argue much suf-
Eerine in our suburbs. Al this village, and Mana
yamk, there are go mills and factories, at which
aa immense number Of operatives lind employment
pyea now. Not full work, TO be sure, but about
half which is enough 10 keep them quite comfort
able. There can he no greater falsehOod put ahOat
than that stated in the Charleston newspapers of
this city being likely ~ be convused by bread rlos
Bread be had by COR poor without rlotng for 1t.
The South ia wei of if che can say the same
MIR. Summers lecture on Lafayette, delivered here
xecently gave o multitude OF novel touches as TO
fhe inner Life Of the French hero, which ryeted the
attention Of his crowded audience. He proved that
Lafayette was an intense AboltiOnist, reading ex-