The New York herald., 1863-12-28

| no Efforts OF the coal mon0pOlists can force the
price Of the article higher than it has been.
Even the stoppage of navigation cannot have
| any influence on 1t; for while the spectators
have been accumulating heavy stocks con-
sumers have been holding back, anticipating a
fall in prices, and have been only purchasing
to supply their immediate wants AS was ex-
pected by those posted in the matter, this de-
cline has already set in, and tt depends on)y Or
the consumers themselves to acceley.te II by
reducing as much as pos1fble the amount which
they burn, and hy csntinuiAgto buy from week
70 week only tbs: which they absolutely re.
quire. BY using the good old fashioned wood
stove in their apartments or even the petro-
leum stove where the rooms are small, they can
contribute very much to lessen the demand for
coal, which will very soon have the effect of
bringing the monopolists 10 their senses.
II is the sheerest impudence to pretend that
there has ever been any justiaable ground for the
miners and shipping firms raising prices to their
present exorbitant standard. One cause al
legged for II is the increase which has taken
place in the government consumption. Against
this, however, We have to set down the fact
that there has been an increase in the quantity
mined of over two millions of tons. Making
all due allowance for the difference required
for government uses on the estimates of the two
years. it would afford no explanation of the
necessity for such an advance.
II we investigate the facts we shall see how
utterly unfounded are all such pretences In
Eahr tl,o &c
and putting into the cars at the mines Of ton
of coal was from sixty cents to one dollar,
sixty cents being about as low and one
dollar as high as any operator paid. Now, as
suming labor of all kinds about the mines and
materials used in mining to have advanced
fully one hundred per cent, coal can now be
mined, cleaned, put in the cars, transported to
New York at the present rates Of railroad trans
portation and sold for SC rs to 81 per ton, best
quality of Lehigh coal and still leave hand.
some profit for the miner. And yet the Lehigh
monopolists have had the audacity to ask sc SO
per ton for coal delivered at Mauch Chunk
Now 1t is as well to give the names of the COM
panies and firms engaged in this combination,
for until they are pilloried before the public
they will be influenced by no sense of shame
They are tho Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, Bucks Mountain Coal Company,
Ebervale Coal, Company. and the German
Pennsylvaniau Coal Company We might add
nine or ten 6rms but the above will do for
the Lehigh region.
Now. will It be believed that, although coal
ranges so very high in New York, within a.
couple of weeks the supply at Elizabethport
has been SO great that the shippers there have
been complaining Of being blocked up and of
having scarcity Of orderss The best evidence
that we can give of the correctness of these
statements Is tie fact that there is ut hand o
party we'll acquainted with the coal regions,
who is ready to take lease of either Of the
mines owned or worked by the parties above
named, and who will deposit a large money
guarantee to deliver coal in New York for ten
years to come at Sc rs per ton.
Let consumers consider we'll these facts
and take their measures accordingly. 1t
only requires q united effort to break down
this atrocious monopoly. which docs not hesi-
tate to speculate ON the necessities of the poor
aud to risk the lives Of thousands in order to
swell unfairly its already large profits.
henry WARD BEECuER ON VOLUNTEERING
In bis speech on Saturday at the Academy Of
Music Henry Ward Beecher objected to the sys.
tenn Of volunteering, on the ground that it was