The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-08-31


must be responded to by the grasping monopo-
lists who manage the fuel market Of this city,
or they must take the consequences. The com
munty will not tolerate the present system Of
extortiol in the price Of coal. Trey will not
submit to combinations which affect so seri-
ously tho comforts Of home as well as the large
manufacturing interests of the land; for wher-
Of 80 excessive an advance IL the price Of coal
as now prevails in this market is 10 infict
much hardship and entail enormous and un-
warranted expense. The bogus sales Of coal
weekly reported are but blind to deceive the
community in regard to the actual price of the
article. 1t is gross imposture, and fully as
liable to legal prosecution as any Of the mock
auction or Peter Funk concerns in the city.
One company state that they can sea- c.s... -
their coal without resorting to the sham auc-
ton process, but that they kindly promised to
furnish thirty-fve to forty-ive thousand tons
per month to be sold at public sale for tho
benefit of the poor public. This is certainly
very gracious on tie part Of this one monopoly
But who are the poor public beneftcd'
From the first sale to the last they have been
confined to the same four or five persons, with
few immaterial exceptions, and the fabulous
prices quoted as having been paid, but which
are not paid at all, are published as the stand
ard of prices for coal at Wholesale all over
the city. When II comes to the retail dealer
and the direct consumer the price Is so en-
HANGED az to make it a question whether it is
not better to buy it with greeabacks measure
for measure. 1t is dodge of the monopolies
and wholesale dealers not to sell coal to con-
sumcrs or retailers few days prior to an auc-
ton sale, we'll knowing that the price 10 to be
fixed at the sale, and the work of humbugging
the public be Systematically proceeded with. At
present coal has fallen in price nearly two dol
lars per ton wholesale, and large quantities for
sale are accommodating along the docks. The
mock auction sales take place to-day (Wadnes-
day.. and we wonder to what extent the impu-
dence Of those coal operators will now carry
them IN fixing the price. Of course they will
endeavor to persuade the public that coal is
really scarce, and say they have only fifteen
to twenty thousand tons for sale, as they did
on former occasion, when coal was in slow
demand But these stories should be regarded
as false, and the public be placed on their
guard concerning them. If the newspapers
would not report their bogus sales the objects
Of the monopolizers would be defeated. and
the public spared vast amount of swindling.
MORE TRoors WANTED WITH OR WITHOUT
DRAFT-A GRAND RALLY FOR THE COUNTRY
General Grant is now 10 the crisis Of his grand
military combinations He has the rebels hem
med in at Richmond, Petersburg and the She
nandoah valley. They have lost their great
Southern artery Of subsistence and transporta-
tion--the Weldon Railroad-and have only two
lines remaining-ther railroads through DanvIle
and Lyncaburg We say nothing here about
the splendid achievements of Farragut and
Sherman. Now is the exact moment when the
government and the people should come up as
with one mind and single will to the support
Of General Grant. A great deal is said in the
newspapers by way of explanation about the
draft, Every man is trying to dodge It, and
Governor Seymour is trying to show that we
are to have no draft by the effusion Of some
notions about naval enlstments. The copper
head or disunion and rebel journals in the
North, like the Daily Ne,os, are endeavoring to
incite resistance to draft ii one should be at
tempted, as they are continually melting oppo-
stion to the suppression Of the rebellion. But
more troops are wanted draft or no draft One
hundred thousand men sent to Grant to-day
would finish the rebellion in six weeks. Now
is the time for the government to call
for that number Of troops, and offer a
bounty of ono thousand dollars to every man
who enlists. There is plenty of material in the
North ready to be moulded into o splendid
body Of troops At least five hundred thous.
and able-bodied men are here in that condition,
and orc-ffth of them can be readily spared for
short, sharp and victorious campaign like
that which will assuredly follow their prompt
Grant. We appeal again to the government to
offer bounty OF one thousand dollars each for
one hundred thousand men And then let tho
newspapers, the Union people, the Union ora
tors all over the North, the heads OF govern
ernment in city, town and village-every one
who has voice and an influence in his own
sphere, and would witness the restoration Of
our national prosperity and unity, labor with
zeal in the cause for very short time and .
splendid army Of q hundred thousand men will
rally for the country to the aid Of Grant
enable that gallant chief to develop bis splen-
did strategic combinations and put quetus to
the rebellion within the space of fifty days
One more grand rally for the country and the
thing is done.