=I Nattii•day eliariOttg, 'Feb. 15. 1 -rrftEItiTTAINCFS . BY MAII- 1 '•i% postmaster itin4 en- ; • chute money im a letter to thei publisher of a newspaper, ; .to pay the subscription of a ihini;' ) .erson, and frail* the 1 . e'*tter , If written 4.himmelf."-L, Awns Krivlull. Some of our aithr - orthe Ts tti!ay -not tie.e.wa re that. they 1 'may save the. i)ostage. oit siils.efiptiop motley, 14 re :questing the .pOstmastei Wlteie they re:tide to fratiktheir letters containing such tholuts, lie being able to quisfy Lhimbelf before a letter is scalo, dint it contains fichhing ~but whet refers to the ratbscrirttirni ; [Ant. FarinGr. iltr A $5 current bill, free, of DOptat c. in advatic; will ' pay for three year's sutiseripqon tti the Miners' Jo 't. trim!. .----..-- 7 - -- -----•-• ' . • Dentociwii4c 10111 : g Ablitiita , , . . "1 ho l es. ,, - -f, li ivo ft- i'll Eiri I DEN - I', 4 - Ij "-VC7%T. Wiii. Off. l l3A - filit•lSON .. 1 -.Y.97 rviii. i • :Ton cICE i .rzES;IDENT, 1 . 4 -JOBli lI'V.LIRII, • ). 4 1 DEMOCRATIt; : W . l-11G , ,i.ASSOGIATI(Ai. .it - meeting of the Democratic Wkig Asori.i - tin of 8011tylkill Coutffy, t!.!'ill be 'held 4 the palie •HouSe of the hte /I,tiry Siot;•tr, EN. in Pottsville, .on Saturday, rithrua'ry I kith, at 4 P.lll. for ; • - the inirpose of aPpointi it nrg rt.cielpgat , F to thojtState Convention,: to be held t Harrisbur g the '22111 inst. esuklikewiso'lo appoint delepites to the, Bal(iinore +Convention, to be held inl. May next. By orderl i , 1 -.I AMES'S. NV A LLAOTI. "J . , I , , SecretOry. ----- 7, ----- -- 711 — COAL AliNftib ' — i. : , At4OCIATUM. it i A 'Meeting of the. /Coal . llitiint; Agsociarn of 'Sehuylkill -County, will be Iteli) at the Peons Ivania '`Hull, on Wedet.tlali aftcrthar6 next.. 'the, Ititlqinst.) , elt 3} o'cloolq P. 11.7 i f. ? . '1 By ()tali of the P . tesf:l'ot. .. - ,...5. , - POTTV/1,1.E t :4' r!* NI. , . '2nd Conversational Meetioi, -. Tuesday. FOh. 113, 11840. • Gentlemen life ir.vitetlifo al tend. ii t 3d Lecture—ToeFiii iy, Feil:•2s,, 1110, will 6 , giv , -en by the net. Mr. .MrCool. 1: : if PORT dARBONA.Y(EI'M. • A Ireture will' he! deliveretl;)”,- Air. Curl of the Port Carbon. Lyrenro. FrOa t . evenioi 'Feb. 21, 1840, The public are ui%r enl to attend. . I N VEHWAE . ST If e are dcstre,l t wen .inn, that a•Discou4n2 wit! deii‘ured on , : lan . day :Evening, to the yoking liken afirl sier -cice to cominence A l 7 o't•fodi ; (o 1" We are happy in prese i ntinig to our rrad e rs Mnother cominunication from la, highly resMet;,He ..-sOuree, at4d fr - Oino;ze Irk(' Pripw, [the !nen, a c id ap -preciates the conthiet to wide& lit rer'ors.::r eau only say to ,him alay,on!"-4XllO'Se the fu e l epri up lion, which hangs idike the biyatlij of the pes!ilenec itroundl the Veystdne Crew—(ear the mask frlin our hypocritical chief inagictrate r -i.xpda.• the coalition be tween him, the Canal Contlpurioniers and the . ditura of the Pnnt,. rejected by its . ; lay b+ the moci'ason'traek4, - at.ef'shoni ho those wlid were •appointed to protect the ititert{sts Of our Stale and it'. treasury-, have by i every Mcan4 in heir Power louglit 'to plunder and Oinhareass it. It is 'nab tin +, that iha.people 'of Pennsylvania I shottld,*be. meolo ti,onver iant rah all tliCse facts—we', eel! on our eilltorial •brethern to than pithqitv-i i -they are Irma a former strentious supporter j Daid R. Ported—one who knows the !secrets of their s , flrt). and elm IA ill .ever be as ready, to confront thenidnidel- his aurasig mataiti..as tinder that nine wilichj he 11;i4 a4urlicd, - to g stow htinSelf die chattipi‘lii ofl our FrOhet.—Th.: late thaw 'awl rains h.tvc;raised the streams t a an unpreeeilPitt-eil Rcailing.(mt the !S;11n)11(111, the Navigirtietn ("n's. dam rim.siQ. v Lite g i t ve w which; fortunatiily fa, tlie diUrittie we have Ir aril of in,tlfat quarter. Wearer h vfne hinvever, afore ,struction 'has been ett•cteaC: road I. idea at igi:huyAill Haven has hymn e:kried away, altil like wisedi e bri(lge over thit at MM r 'sville ; itir still tare alaruw!re vet hearil nr. as the wlter (ova, tear cis 111,114 here Lati the great freshet of !lust year. 71 1 1 Ca. 4 Irma 11'ail 16,;14.-41 v I •• 1 {earn that 1111. 11",-1611,1 I,yamti, is ii4W 11112:aCelif ua \ as ting raibe l l ,, r the Bra iii it hail leading Crum Greettworti) - 104I:e -Moat The% ere In ()4 per lain. and ,are, ittelouhteilit lunch the cheapest rajl that can ht•l',useil. as the material if throkraioig.avorth near its original Cost as oW z r . 'We reensnincini 4-neral ntisnu( ~ t to this 0110. o.,rlNt . are cowl - Laing it will pause of great ailtamain to our -commtinity• 1 3:1. The ito:ist of.uur St iced Ji:eph (~.p,, ,J Ey7 . „ at Mr. Lynian's hOspitalde Lohnl , ty going. the rounds arirbiralde aitititnent. hke the autlair tFtll. Penns)haniaitiand cut rect its I.tsquare—ri . te ri peat it : ~ M an and 4 farmer 'and hi. ploughshare—in war; the soldiei- anti : Speaking of Masts ; our esieeMed fellow townsman, Arthur St, ('tile ..11 7 6 , ./...„ 674 who is now in Niel , cer qounty, writes to. his lirpthOr here that the toa,t and speech of Nicholas • a Idk, on the above or cwsiciit, were so riturh-erlinirpi that ihrei paPers taining pt, had actually been reatetip. and that a Ern I le man, an iron tnasiel, had dtlerinined to ha ...e;lns-toast. • translated into' fireman, anrl:phtccd (I l i: the ,entrance of his - Fotindry.. ! cia Wiliam rniiii-y, 'IIN, tuts appanned Po§i Master at Orwitr,,:litirg, in the pl .ce in Jacob littnizimgqr, jr: Ei4j. , rrsigned, • __ Ptt. Wiltant lie:try Harr:Au:l. NN •IS G 7. years of.agtroc. February 9th. l'afentinF s Dt/A—Ve4er‘hvy, v‘th's the sunson binds to mate—inves to CllO, and ustery hody-to We'have pot hetird +of any matches , knalle;. Itiiticrust that di.tring the scaSon,trur may give evidence, such itca, fjfc Coo. (0". San.tay- Fraitry tia'rt•poti-il 'a Bill ttr-incor- Tortho Otc'Dagvilte !tail gpad G at pa t ay. Fire • CAIv.—V.I;3 )1/Tortatrt, and necessary ad junct to• furnaces-has l' 7 ,ceit'disetorered in. 'urge .ium titles tin Guinea Hill, , th'e Broad 31ountain,.and oth etplaces in our eotn.q - .. From the former, place, foouglis‘:.ai taken to - fijrm some bricks for experi nent, which were subjeCted to The greatest hat, and ,jhund.to stand as well O ,, •either the Welsh or Len 'pirigton fife brick , . ; The kind provisions of 'nature, in having .thus, ex tended every. facility, to 'our region (or fort9ce pur poses: the knowu-fact that theiron,- coal, lime and dre clay all i exist coting4ils to cajds other throughout A s county, iindt,lie superior quality . uf each, added -to the-immense advantae:-. whi f it then- conjoined use promises. to bestow, are 'MOM. gratify iyig to f all who take pride in the aesel*ancut of l'cnus s re seures. i • 11 Public Meeting. , .! • • I N IN RELATION TO . A Or. ,113 hi 1 tefcrenee to thorocedings4a PAiidieeneeung, , which Will he tumid, in - .tirr4tlier i cniuni4, it wiII be o.larved that a Cummitteeyepprt this p Evening at 7 o'clock. at the. Exchoige 1 - fhtef. - The impatinee -of actioii, •an •he necessity of laying before Congress, tit tole faCiliti'es of our re gion, demand a full a taudat.ce pf oUr citizens., Other Sections of country-4mm atreti t y liavanced the claims of - their rcepective' locations, but we feel convinced that nothing more to secure to Seim) skill County a preferetreeliah al fair exposi ition sof die many natural advantageS, and important improvements, iitieli - we'hoastrwith'r pride as pecu liar to the vicinity Of Pottsville: • , We are rortvinted, that exaggeMted statements and.partial reconin endations, such tis We have seen frorn„other qua will have no wCight with those, appoitood td select a ittetyldfl. ‘ But still it is an act ' of jop.tice to ourselves, to lay before the proper tribe pals, all the (acts, which tend so decidedly to desig nate scbuylkill County as the most favored spot. Nothing Inkewarrithesis on the part of our citi tins can prevent its selection. RE.VD!' READ!! WeLikll !!! The Fathers of the great democratic party-Jack.. son, , ,Vaa Buren, Buchantian, Semen, Atublenberg, 'hales, Rush and Ingersoll! Pre: y. S:trcetinawlers,oppusers of Madison and the late.. war, democratic blood spillers, black cockadeqederal i+t;,. renegades and would-bc-tories, !compose the a. .conscript. fathers" of tin, loco fo'Co dinnocratic par ty ! Their badge should be the same as thatiot the Roman fathers fold, S. P. Q. R., which interpreted means, Salary Purchased, Quack -Republicans! - , rharks Frailcy Esq.-L. Our worthy E.3enator r uffers a Warr experiment on the doctrines of attraction and repulsion, than any .11r. Peal gave last Tuesday, in ,his lecture of EliTtricity. First the Reporter Give's snit a vii tdi sparkling. and - attacts-him, then the Keystone repels him ; the Democratic Press first hut fcts sad then hugs him, and at last, cOm4the Keystone, out as fllows, with the discharge of it, electric ry ! tan assure the Keystone oflote thing: 7 as hr. 18 we van judge of the-signs and times, thereqi on love lost hi tei een Mr:Fraley and itklf ..By the published proceedings of the Serrate, ever since the triecting'of the lcgtslature, the public' have observed, that every attack, Mar the opposition-have chose'', to make upon the Governor in ;hart hotly, has been throin2h the imtrumentality• uT IMr, Charles Prailey, of SelnOkill. At thememinglof the lure, this :Sen . :kyr s'fitil that his conduet towards the Governor anul l depend Upon whether he signed the Fitton Canal Gill, in bich he has a very special personal interest. The ernidition of the - rommon ',wealth was , nelt that the Governor did not think it, proper to sign that hill and of /Dorset' Mi. Franey deturmined to olipOse him.' fie was; also to have been the federal candidate for Speakriq had, not one or two of their :Senators befili too houiest to vote for turn him over to the tleMorrats of hiS distric t a , one ofiliv most ut nee or the EVA of iiisur. esnicers—they 'avid take care uflrim."4 This is what any one inay rcpect toi re deve. whu (hires attempt to exposl4 11111(1a! corruption, or point nut c•.lfnera..rnn Trile...y . ' around the pulilic Treasury ! S;tver:d.ot our brother . Whig are dis.• puling the hottor of hatisig -- tirst nominated ITllbani llutrq lb ri,sfar f. , r the Presidency. It matters link who tiri , t norronatetl him. gentle. men ; the glorimis aim of all, must novi, be, who shall most 2calouhly support that DOM/f.t/60. Cana-1;w/ Iliorefiie;ittg.---.—, The government given orders Mr the etitensive 'l4riyieation of all the frontier. At Yoting,sti4vii, Toronto, etnlinvton Heil hts, along the St. Lawrence, And in . I. • NetV Brunsven k, preparations, ;nvolv i ing great ex ,yern.e. ore itt . ll9 made.cairnot believe for a moment, -that ilipte movements are unhee(led by our Htivernintlit, or that they xv ill delay taking. all rftfiii -I,sitr/precatiti•ins to place •otrr portion . (1 . the frontier in a correvonifing state of defence. I • Coors/ co,ool;ss;,• , ,er'e Report:L-111ns important doeurnent has been published, hunt:: great,length, precludes the of, its ptild)catit - our 'We learn from it that. the! estimate] re eeipts to roir public wtoks, for the emitting year will , be •: t .t2r7fi. 000. while apprepriationo lo the amount . of i 3,751,77 t ;ore askaand if the Leg stature should determine to complete the work under Contract on the Sennemahonimr E‘tensoin of the WeOt Branch, and the Allegheny Feeder on 'the Western , .4b00,000 nadir hmahwill he required. That will make a defirit Of 1;3.101,717 in the current aerount of the politic "works: to vildeb,*ad '41,730,000, for nil. tot "Otte State Debt. end it vt•ill be found that at the roinnienerment of IRiI, the lih . stone State, he minus: near Five 11urdes4 is to h 'ye a complimenlary benefit at : it equal to his deserts, ino Theatre in • the city rouia conuin the a.ulienee, llnre lin , reivur• TretrhA.—Littlebury Hawkins, the Helena defaulter for 7.;Ilt0,000, • was cjut: to pieces, ley . the Indians near attultures, en thy 10th Decent herjast. - 1 ,ry VOlig asserts that. the 1,11,6; .14. Pu franki:v biographical ~Let., Les or hia,.a lj 41 0,4 Ir. V o.l3ltr'en. • .%•Th q ls are in a worse state bP detail:lenient . , at the prol.ent moment, than since the first establish ment of the Depart niont. C.nnplaints reach us from ever, quarter, while our own ...sufferingr is intoler rilde. T There is 'but one rentrtly-Amos Kendall must be dismissed as incompetent. : ;.' Mt -tit culugist, has presentee) his fnnrth,an uusi tor the Legislature. Wei hope soon to receive a copy, through the ottoition! of our hivuds al 13 . 0 ristentg. 171-giido , Secular.—TEe • kleetion of S. Sena , tor,tu — s indffin;t6/ 9 pohiponed the Legisla rure of the Old Dominion. Three ivhiga could not induced to vote for Mr'. Rires, on aecnunt of his Fovportva the fin-no u s expunging introcineed by Benton. One of these im praeticables Mr. Biqlrs, from irr: NVise's bis tri•l; Alessrs. Criritibrd of Wamicic, and Siit;i/i of (.;loucestey Lre the otheis, Mr. Gar' r of fimithiand voted first for Mr. Rives and afterwtirds for ../uhti Y. ifa.trul, the Van Buren. Candidate. - 1' • der tion pfdiee on the-first Wednesslav of Dec last l.Fta.t.eixtuilieli the choice taloss We sill b.-irry for this • lVe should in Vehnsilvania to be.first on the list add nmprity fur liarrlson, the other states. .7—.4_ //wt. :Rice .Gartini, hag. been nomination to the iSupre i n e Court the Senate of the 'State. AN fie r. ill the appointment. a new election will cult of which will douhtlei.b be in fa Whig, iltier ST% .VVinn, Locofoco: _ The rreiireirient of Mr. Garland counetli, i at g time when tuleut..sru much requir,i4, i 3 ci subject of regre him. • Gov. tker, we learn frol4 , tl excellent;G7elth, pul)lic business in the uew exceut44l az? mAs to (ien. Harrison's abotttionrinciples, Ire ;teed go' no farther than alum refmenee ttr the men who composed the convention that, pat•hini kn nomi tion." Thirtritevnpfthy sentence is friam the Reading Press, '-tisd'nn tp par with the general strength of its argu tuents. That a convention headed by a Southern gentleman, as President, and the whole Soilth" and South-west fully - reprented, should - nominate -a Presidential Candieato, en abolition principles, is too preposterous to be presud ‘ as an argument in any ra- :iota! community.., The; Poor.--Some of our editorial brethern in Phil- Melt:obi:l have been made the happy instruments of tendering pecuniary, P assistance to the poor,. by their subscribers. We shout!), be pleased to embellish the Miners' Journal, with similar instances of liberality : the necessity for aid is lamentable; and too widely extended to permit delay. Alabama.—The debt of this state, by the recent report of her Treasurer, is i,15,400,000. Patterson, N. J.—Twenty-four factories have been compelled to suspend operations, to this heretofore floutishinetown. The - tormer operatives are mainly dependant on charity for daily subsistence. The Lexington.-4t is now fullrdscertained, that upwards of one hundered and fift y souls were on board i thislatal ves,.el, of wlkom only four were saved. , Amos Kendall's Honest Eemomy.—The blanks required by the officers for taking the census, have all been prepared under the auperinteridance-o( the State Department atiWashington. , "To forward these to- the several man:halls and their deputies, at pamph let postage, will require $20,000; but Amok Kendall, says each must be charged Teller postage, amounting to $370,000, and an appropriation for such purpose, has actually been asked from Congress. Thus must the people pay ,f , 656,06 extra, to support the Post Of cplice Department, und r the mis-rna nagement of Ken dall. We arc -sorry to-learn, that since Nick Binle's visit to the cdaf Teghins, the anthracite furnace at Pottsville has blown out." Qiure ;'—ls this not ominous of a greater blow out somewhere in the region of the great marble pal m-al—The Ntiners' Journal could tell,—Demoixitlic Prem. We think it mom than probable: Col.-Mr Eiv..ee, visited those infernal regions "lately—very omin ous °la Now out. Hew. Augzoi us 7 Porter, the Leot Whig Sena tor from Nritingaii, has taken his seat at \Vasil ington. it is gratifytr.g to ons:erve, that" nearly all the new appointments to the U. S. Senate are Whig. Rin liiiro.—The 17. S. Brig Boxer, has arrived at New York from this place, bringing news that Admiral Dupontee had landed there from France, with a force to adjust the difficulties, between that country and the Argentine Republic. • told Weather.—One Inuit:rod years ago, in 1740, a boric and sleigh was driven frem near the city of Ncw York, through the Sound, and around the coasts of Rhode 1,41nd and Massachusetts to Cape Cod. V 2 --. The Lad's Book for February deserves a more extended notteethan we can spare room for. Honesi Votin:;.—The hied Legislatoro of Mary land, has repealed the Registry act for the city of Bal timore ! They are unwilling to have any check on the importation of illegal votes. Indemnify.—The American Minister at the Court of ISt. James, has negotiated a compensa tion of about thirty thousami pounds sterling, to be paid to theclaiirraiits of a number of American stam•as, ihiprecked some years ago, on the Batranras, and lib erated by the Nassau authorities. The Sub-Treasury in Rhode Ahmd.—The schemes of the Administration to, conjoin the sword and purse `of the nation, have rec-eir.ed a signal rebuke in the Rhode Island Leub:latiire. Only thirteen votes could be found to support the sink or swim mcaeurc of - Van Buren. a .-- j • The funulies of Finn and Eberle, lost in the Lexington, have each received about 4.1100 from theatrical benefits in Boston. A benefit for Mr. Finh's family is in contempla 7 non at Philadelphia. We are glad of this, but hope they will not forget Eberle, who it we iniatake not, was a native of that city. GT? The talent of Governor Porter for financier ing islinfortunatel-y nu better ; than his morality.— N. Y. Ercning. • This is from the lendiug e administration paper of the cuy of New York : they are beginning to find our worthy Governor out ! We expect the editors of the Post have been recently cogitating over the strange proceedings on the Allentown and Huntingdon libel trials, and have come to the conclusion, that a man . : vho connot'defend his character in a court of justice, must he unfortunate in his morality. ilrtz'lcion Coal rwhpaiiy.-011r Legislature has such an-abomination tor all paper issues, that we shoutd he pleased to have them enquire, whether this company. W authorised by its charter to issue Fire Dollar Bills payable one year after date. r: - . :tdNumereus gv.ords have been voted from time to time by Congress to men who dibtinguilhed them , setv'es H the battfes of their country, hut never one to Gen. liartison.—Dem. Press. SwOrds by thousands, have been voted u from time to time" to Gen.' ftarriArm : swords voted by Ken- rtieky, , Ohio, Indiana and Virginia, with the hope and pride of those States—their young men to wield them ! Let others lie voted the freedom of our cit ies in gold snutllboxes, let others be presented with hriliday weapons, wily embossed find bedecked with etchings--Gen.-Harrismi has presented his sword to his country : he received it from the hands of Wash !' ingioli—he fleshed it.velder Wu) ue and Wilkinson r ; —he twined it with laurel.s on the battle field of Tin pecanoc—he flashed it over the waters of the Wa - hash and the Elkhart, carrying - terror -to our red skin foes—it avenged the massacre of the Raisin at th 6 desperate and brilliant Sortie of .Fort Meigs—it re trieved the disasters of H Mrs surrender on the banks of the Thames—it taught the British Geueial Prue tor,the way to retreat before an inferior force, and af ter bringin g peace to our north western frontier, that sword was resheathed and presented to his country He, it is true, never re rived the empty baubles si which,denote thankfulness in too ostentatious a man ner, to please modest merit• But he did receive a " vote of the Kentucky .I,euislature, thanking hint for his cool, deliberate, skillful and gallant conduct, as a hero, a patriot and a general.•• He did receive from Madison the command of the North west army, with unlimited :.powers, and unrestricted but by his own discretion and judgment. He did receive the thanks of Congress by a public vote: he did receive the commendation of Gov. oinydei of this Stater he did 'receive the proud compliment on the floor of-Con gress, that his victory was such as would have secur-, ed to a Roman General, in the best days of the Re public, the tronms of a- triumph:7 If oar country has been ungrateful, end - neglected in award his. 'need of praise to General Harrison, shelaas awakenicl . from her lethargic ingratitude. and is now prepared to bestow on him the richest, reward which virtue, azid_pattiottern can attain in our Republic. ' pill,' state take' tuber. being she ;I are. E=llll Ber trti thou le a sticaukts i!nfirrued iu his if Lousiana, ,by proimbly accept be befill—the,re. or of Mr. Moore om the national firmness are so to all who know - nyitione, is in, y. attendance to, 'c oparunel:t, TILE 1N `RS' Jr Ty.:Mr. Packer, one of has sold out his interest i to Messrs. Barr. t & Par Are the rats about tea; - Con gress; is engaged i aosuralaion of the State d meta "Erbtortlinary peeri—Our friend' ("tafke, of the khiladelphirt Gazette, received on 'Tuesday the, I Ith inst. New York papers of the 28th ult, having been only fourteen days between the two cities. Amos Kendall's mails will-in due time attain. a speed, eipial to'th - e'wo derfiti man who • Ran fourteen Milos, ii i And never tooted behi; G c7. The Gentleman's a very rich number. Legidalirt.—The resumption 13111 has riot yet at tained any definite form: much ilel , ate is elicited but its ultimate fate is very uncertain. Some of the rad icals who do not know like minerl , quartz from n quart of heer, are find 4 fault. With Prof Rogers* - geological report—how blissful their ignorance must be !' `The bill creating - 1 new county to be called Madison, out of Warren. Pctter, and McKean, has passed on final reading. A reply way received from the Secretary of,the fio i monwealth to a resolution of . the'Senate from whic - it appears that of the loan authorized last se.lsion a United States and the 84 been drawn nut of the fin . ' whilst the 200;000 dull, County Bank, lies there hank all the white dra the same. Mr. Shortz read in•h encourage the manufactil cool • I ac e' the ruoreason I about here. "—Cu .UL SENATt Operations now sup/ N 0. 1 ., at Farrand,ril t, ) and accounts clo..ed with Contractors in areo r recut a res,,lat:an rf the late , board r. rmal The, dam, Ivirvevelfr Is gri owners of Coal wine.? their Coal to market nand an uppropriatio pros.— C Co, PI" lILISII In my last, I eomme Canal Commissioners, a eon, superintcndant of hia Rail Road, had pass . -toll on Bituminous Coal front Farrandsyille to C dred and fifty miles,thu (iot of the State Treasu excluding the Aifthracit by a high Tiiri . lll I a owned -stock ul a Conl ous coal hinds on the sylvania Can d isfenqi the coal can neir be fak Farrandssjlle mines, on no swells back to this p down a mile or two bel little run flowing into I polite -side, a wile or t our economical Canal the quotation at the he. an apprwriation of ;24 it is fed by the Queen', make a slack- srator nay on the other•side of the of the Thngascootae Co ed no mines, but desiri of the stock ! Not sad! on Bituminous Coal, o to pay the interest on upon the peOple of Se tieieney ilt taxes, but this debt, 4.;,24,000, turn 'fungasek.otac Coal Coi a Keliuylkill County n this recommendation, L. stated in your-editorial mer communication. off by selling a little co. The Ke}'stone men, Gov. Porter is a silent ders of the Bear Valley last winter. Their tut G ap , at th e %i e„ tern er, these lands it is neees, 2:5 tittles long to the burg, on the Susgtzeba l but the length of the RI able, and the region the Schuy ill, the,Sw-1 ming Coal region's, th will ever be.comparati i ernor in his message a I in their report, reeomi rowed on the credit of WM .00, which haS a make a canal 121 i mil Clark's Ferry, on the When the Peimsylvau order on the other sub Miller-burg by a Rail than 'f4io,ooo. by fore completed, huif its whole length,purall , a Rail Road Bridge t Coal Companics the than the State Will he , money to construct tht: ton of Coal can be ca is, the Ket . etone men of the stuck of the Be. There is a circa:cis tious speculation, w•h of the Western part have a coal region, w• 1 Coal, iron atone, and unsurpassed by any in wealth upon the 6w Bear Valley is as di talent, energy and ent cited the - envy of the rim I,iberality forms little minds that now rnonweahh. They dill for the enlargers by the Governor, it region, and enable th • in the Bear Valley C cret ut the veto of a have brought half a works,—and that too Canal iron) Pinegrov cost less than that,: Can 1. The-people kill County were re, Their Boats left Pin; their Rail Road cars, <, Hurrah , for Perferi . The election past, en of Sehuyl ill and 131 tics never received or , p ropriated elsewhere. . - --4,egislativo aid wal littiou.Calial - -a bill p a URNAL. the Canal Commissioners, the Harrisburg Keystone, ing the siuking vcssel a protracted debate on the bra by the general govern- fifteen (Jays him !',' lagaiinf for this nrenth-is d'niade of the Itank•.',f the ,rkla County Batik, ad has er except 11x4,[100 dollars, rs borrowed of the Be:rks without being touched. the i cing 5 per cent interest on s 'place the'titie of . c, hill to re of iron with antlinicite ERS' JOVIINAL EM= ad.-s the W inn( begves S Fits.L.Er's syr.t..cit THE ended on 11,is job, Darn ally atria to enable the on the nngti.volotac, In gel The tour,/ wuuld rerom- $:'.1,000 for that intr- IsttroxLa's ILE; r , .rest toed on . this lam, that the ethe instance of James Cam mtivespoxer on the Colum rla reAtiluitost taking oil the lashing un the t•t.lite Canal, undiia, more than one lain .,virtually paying a prenaiiim on Bituminous Coal, and Coal of lSchuy hall County so stated that the Camerons pang claiming the Bittimin cangascootac. The Penn if cted to Farrand<ville., and len into the canal trout the ,iek Rum as the Susquehan are, from the lit c.•ti's Run w. The Tangawootab is a he Susquehanna, ou,the up vo shove Farrandsville, and I Comn&sioners, it neutns of this article, recommend 000, not to feed the canal, as 'I Ruh dam, but merely to gation up the Tangascootac, Sustlnchanna, for thebenefit I Company, who have open to make a speculation out fled with giving a preminm t of the fund N% Lich is pledged l lhe State debt, and then call iylkill County to pay the dc 'hey reconnuend to increase Le the stock of the Cameron's liptmy. That E. 1.1- Bubley, an, is one of the signers to less surprising, from the tact article accompaning my for seems that he has been paid 1 from one of his mitres. (and there is no doubt that partner.) arc the stockhold- Coal Company, incorporated ds are adjacent to Kfinger's Id of our county. To reach lay, to make a Rail Road about kViscottisco Canal at Millers na. They are good ; , lands, iit Road makes them unavall itnall; so that compared with tarn, the :Shamokin or Wyo- Mrmage from that quarter ely trilling, and yet the 1:ov al the Canal - Commissioners tend $1.66,19a - 4.3. to be Wr ite Stake, in additiLn to 210, ready - been appropriated, 4, - 6 long from Millersburg to ant side of the Susquehanna, Canal is in good twigeble and can be conneLted with toad bridge casting not more - mike this Canal, costing be . million of Dollars, running l with the 'tare Canal, when hick should he made by the sches, would not Cost more pliliged to pay in interest, for s Wisconisco Canal before a ri d upon it The (ZOSWer hill to 11411ke a Apccuktion . out I r rallcy.Coul pany r t nee connected with this nefa ch home to the people of Schu)lkill County. They ich for great extent, purity of .liondance of water power is her, The aimiunt of mineral atara, co I pared with that of to one. They have there i erprise. But alas, this has ex- hinderers of the public treasu no part of the character of the anage the affairs of the Com °gilled if they could get the l ut of the Union Canal setoed ould shut up the Stanton' Coal in the better to-sell 'their storii. l al Company ! This is Therse til, would in a few years illion of tons opou the public livfiet' the ettlargentOnt of the to the State Canal would have seless work, the Wisconiseo f the Western part of Sam) I •pently Jmuunkras :or Potter. egrove labelled Porter 'V— all 'aerie down from the mines with , ' written upon their sides. Porter was Elected.—The votes I rks elected him. These coita benefit trout the null ions A State convention a tis,etubled recommended to cut arge the ,cst appropriating 540t00b for that purpose, by two thirds df both Houses, and yet Porter, not dating to returrk,it to the legislature thOt passed it, for fear of killing the litiseoniseo,-kept it airing tire'reammer in hip pdtkOt;'orid . thim God the nocanuesi toVelo it; and allege as a reason that aline of the managers of the Union Canal Company had . opposed his election ! • National Foundry. . • PUBLIC MEETING; OF CITIZENz4 numerous assemblage or our citizen, was eon celled at o - Janson's: Exchange Hotel, 's on Monday .1 afternoon last, in reference to the proposed locution of a Natioual Foundry. The meeting was organized as follo . s -FRANCIS B. NICH;OLS, Esq. President RoimuT 13, Nettir.n, G4ORGE Parrs, Joint T. 11Azzi.un, and Reuss PEA LE, Vice Presi- ME Jam S. Agra's', Amt. ! S. Wallace,' Strange Palmer and John Curry, Secretaries. The objects of the cull were stated by Capt. Thom us .I.,Raird, who after entering into -a brief summa ry of facts,, offered the folli4ing, which was unani mously athipted : Required, That a committee of t ,evt ri appointed to draft a mentorial to Cong , ess, setting, forth the'advalltages of location which Schuylkill Comity possesses in refcrenceto the establishment of a National Foundry ; to :prepare resolutions ex pressive of the wishes of our citizens on the subject, and to report .at such tine tit this Meeting shall see fit to adjourn to. The President appointedi as a Committee under the forgoing resolution, the following gentlemen; Cnt...,Thortias J. Baird, ‘ James S. Wallace, John S. Ingram, George H. Potts, Hon. Samuel D. Leib, Robert B. Nele3gh; and An4rviw Russel. Itrsared, That when wq-adjourn, it be to meet at the same place s on Satuniiily evening next, Feb. 15th, to receive the Report Of the Committee. AdjOurued. [signed by the Officers:l 1 1 We copy the following from the Philadelphia Commercial List, as containing much valuable statis tical information which we 'desire to record, 'in addi- tion to what we have already laid before our readers, The accuracy of the tables does credit to the perse verance of the Compiler. PENNSVI4VANIA. ANTHRACITE• COAL TRADE naive gllternerit of the virritity of COAL rout the diirelept regions in Pennsyl. .rn the eommeneeinent of the trade.in k 8720 nuary, Is4a. lEEE shipped fr to Ist Ja Schuvl- Laigh Litt. ECM 305 • i 1:073 ! , 2,440f 1l 5,823; .: , . 9,541! 5,300, 28,39 31 16,8361 3',280 I 29,493! 32,,074 , - ' 47,1811 ! 30,232 1 78.293 25,1101 7',000 89,9841 414501 43.000 81,834 404/06 1 51,000; 209,271 1 75 ' 1 . 00 89,000 250,588' 123, 00 1 1 141,777; 226,692 106, 1 .44; ' 43;700' 335,685 131,250 90,000; 943,73-1 i 146,502 106,000: 535,250 ' 223,, 021 115,387 434,684i! 4 212,31 76,321 i 442,6081 220,6451 122,000 Total 3,227,478 1 . ,4814, - .2t 854,355 5 ',i-70,054 • From the statement, it I appears that Anthracite Coal was first used no Welkin) tide wale r) in 1829, and dividing the ttsCllty ytrars suiee tn, date into four petiorls of tier veers etelt, the (i l l:tit. rought from-the Bebuy and Lad:amnia ntiula in the first period ending rth the close of the geu sun of 1824, was 1:3,642 tous Second period, ending 1 1 429 331,197 Third do do 1'834 1.582,446 Focrrth do do 1,839' 3,637,389 Making • Which shows an average quantity. for the first five years of 3,808 tons per annum second do j 66,239 Third do ililth4Bs I Pow th do ri27,47:1 and that' ner - ly•Twie x ris klatch has been consinned in the last Eli E r halts, as there Was in the preceding,,, fifteen years. i , A maw, i m petu s h as been given to its consumption, in thatperiod, by the iner ! ease, safr ty and CV . JIIIIII/y with which it has been mircessfully introduced and used in steamboats ; and Lor!ornotive engines on Rail Roads. The shipments of Anthracite from the several Coal regions of this State, during the year 1839, has been as fohciws, : From the Schuylkill Mauch Chuuk Beaver Meadow'' Haidet"ti Penn Haven Laekatvanu Total 785,55 . • The number of vessel laden pith Coal cleared from the Selinylkiq in 1838, '37, '3S al have NT') .as follows, viz :.i Class of vessels. 1 _ _ •. Ships, Barques, Brigs, Schooners, Sloo2s, Barges, Tutsl vessvls Carrying in I . B:fti tons 313,838 1837 - 328,146 1838 278.268 1839 2f:+6990 The following stotamknt shows the gnat C0:0 .hippecrby the COAL AND N Ties CiiMPANY, from 8:33 to 1839, " No. of I: Ca sclsl " I • 322 2 ' 168- ! I 250 261 • i 51 ' 'O6 158 Yea l'hc quantity of Lehigh Coal sold in . Philo elphia and. ifs neighborhood, hos been as follows, vi : . '11;13:8 I . ' 25,000100 s ' 1824 1 ' - 30,001) - 1 • 1835 • 85,000 1 1839 -12 000 , - - , ANTHRACITE tfacku gate. 36:) . 1,073 2,240 5,823 9,541 33,699 48,115 6 1,56 , 7 17,413 110,403 174,734 176,820 368,87 L 485,366 316,636 556,835 696,526 874,539 723,836 785,553 5,570.1354 412,G08 tons 141,232 38,250 33,813 7,350 12'2,300, 1890 18./ rs. , s whim 13 .39, 18'29 1630 %;":""' 1831 1839. ,183*.: 1833 1834 1835 1336 1837 1838 1830 Fitly cents per ton, the Cost front the Schuylkill, is included iti thkahoilt prices. Foir pre paring it for the grite 11 breaking - and skreening, twee almost entirely done, an additional charge bf fifty cents per ton islitade. The cost of 'hauling froim the Delawbre front, i. included ,in the Lehigh pr+ , ..5;.1. , 30 cents. i s:th 1838 MEM 142 2 ,272 .501 145' 2,408 47M 39, 149 1,i96 441 306 1,826 291 262 BIM EMS MEM ERE titity or A.111..A. ineltm MI OE 47 221;- 9 125 28 171 28 165 la. 44 4 91 59 129 30,153 4,937 23,139 80,976 6 1 549 ' 9 ;977 19.; 6 SincelB36 the Lehigh Company have sold no I by retail, and 1837 and 1838, most of the Coal wits sold doliveruble into boats at Mau"h • Chunk, Mid shipped by individuals. We learii, on inquiry, that the MLAWAIII; COJIL CcMPANT, suppfrod for the use of the Baltimore att Ohio - gail Road Company, in 1b35 1867 tonal" ' ISIC • 29211 . i ' 1837 . ' - 5789 1838- . . , '7842 ./ and in IRS° -7714 • And that Company shipped CoaTl*Tedlritini tii city, in the year . 1837, in 525 vessels carrying _1638 476 do do 11819 5,1,4 'do do . We have been unable to procure iii time, for t publication, t!:e information necessary to enable int to state the amount of shipments made by indivo. cab orether companies. Such infOrtnatiah is and respectfully solicited, as well_as the 'names of the dif ferent Railroads and Steamboats on which Anthracite Conlis used, and the quantity.. We understad used exclusively on the Beaver Meadow, and on tie Danville and Pottsville Railroad, from the Shainoldin mines to Sunbury, a 'distance of aboutiwenty - Sous., ha's also ken used on the Reading Ruilroqd, and we believe else, on the; Columbia Railroad.' It has been used.Exc I.Cti V Etx lot the last two years in a first rateS ' , 'J•snitioat running trwcen Portlaiid and Boston; (ten tuns of Coal creating the steam for which twenty-five cords of Wood were found necfs sary.) A number of the ferry and other boats rdn ning from New York, have used it for a long ti 6 past, including the boat Independence, belonging !to the Camden and Amboy Railroad.Line,-for the Kist fifteen months. The Schu . v Conipan,•'s boats A. and 8., have never aged other fuel, ele4 for kindling the fire. They havetdaring the p year, used only the unsaleable smaller sized. Coal, one of tl.ein, which makes more steam than is want It is o?ljr - by collecting detail and bringing diem nether in the agr-egae. that information to fu relied an can be i.btained. We feel, and we ku the whole coninaunityfeels a very deep iatereNt„in importance of our i N C 0.41. A hat % be the extent of it when it has Attained its lull grow It atrratly hits more than trebled oar coasting Ara and pays a fri'ight coasmise on the shipments •fr this port of more than half a drilarB MIMI By a report wade to the Governnkent jor Bache, two or three years ago on the, sulljeeti an harbor at Breakwater at Cair May appenrs that the rs n .81. K is rr:n LST i 11: TE II E COAL TIIA DE 1 AStil not io CAM :IT,A AAA A3lOl - 1 - TS TII MORE TII T TY•T N' II II LLI OF DOLL.% Us per annum, estimating mer, ly the %t. in ballast coming after it, and. the value of the ves•el and cargo carrying it to the .anions ports at whielit w is anted. Besides, the vcs, , els bring every thing c ; L want from the ports they conic fiont at merely twilit tial lreklit, n the place of ballast, thus making (Jur I::triparitem the cheapest marlet fi.r the purchast of Fish, Salt, Plaster, and other articles that COIL be brought coastwise; and giving profitable etoplo3 mlit i to ova 0 w a Railroads and Canals, in the transpo 19- tion of those articles to tne interior. Ati&her v .ty important advantage to our city consequent ont; its great extension of our coasting trade, is airt udy rt4st beneficially felt by our state and citizens genets 13-, in the inducement it holds out to persons,in the in lcrior to forward prothfro on our Canals and R.il roads to this city, which is intended: or mile, near ets coatwise, as the smallest advanee en the low fret las generally paid on Coal, always insures immcd ate despatch.' . lie quantity of Anthracite Co.ilremairnng previous year'e mining, at the tlitTerent depots aeittit opening of Canal navigation, was In 1827 1828 1829 1830 18:11 I R 32 I R 3.1 I 8:3'; 1835 1R36 1837 1838 1839 There will probal2, remain uneonsumed of! . oil kinds of Anthracite, at all the mark'ets on-tide wati:r at the opening of the Canal navigation in 1840, 1 1 ,00,- 000 tons, of which a ry smalrproimrtion will lie in this market, and none on the ts' e h o3 lkiii . The total quantity of all kinds remaining, onl the Schuylkill on the Ist Of January' last, is estimate I- in the Annual Report of the SchttylkillNavigation puny, at 14,000 tons—a very bare supply for IIT re tail demand till the opening of the Canal navigation hi the Spring-. The aggregate quantity of Lehigh, Deaver Meahow, Hazclton, and all other kinds remaining on tho Ist of January, on the Delaware at Bristol, Burliniton, and on all the Coal wharves and y;irds on thelbela ware, was estimated at from 25,6d0 to 30110 Toni , The following table shows the retail price 'ot , Un broken lump Coal at Philadelphia for a aeries id years. White A,l) R s N'4o N 40 .7 33 1820 1821 1822 1h23 1821 ME ) 00 h sq • 6 60 . 6 50 E. oo • '6 00a6 50 .5 00 • 4 75a5 4'75185 23 COAL TRADE: Or BOSTON. Import of Coal into 1305t..n in each ,•,ear f4mi'lB , 35 to 1839, inclusive, ,Aiithra- ittcltßntieh.A4regate cite. m E onil l'rov.. Bitnninh. tons. cuhls. Aids, c hid e • *l i tO s . 1834 76,180 4,501 3737 14,767 20,004 1830 67,186 5,958 7,114 . . 20,:302 . 33,37 1837 74,1`9 2,241 17.4762 35,257 50,260 1838 69,850 9,300 19,863 129,163 287,405 . 12,703 32013 '87,189 1132,865 1939" 84,123 1,778 3,485 30,725 13t,988 Average quantity in four years. Anthracite tons. , 71,4 r nichmona - chaldtona 3,176 English ± do I R` British Pros ince!, do' '21,4)4 All kinds of Bituminous do 54,850 tons 51,295 54,093 5,000 4ons 8.060 12,000 16,000 50,000 10,0011 1 1 60,000 Zf '150,000 7h,006 30,000 i 00,000 250,000' r -200,000 MEI {l!'TLii I~id IE9 50 . 7 00 6 50a. .6 50 00a0 00 5 50t' 50 5 50 1 5 23 5 2536 00 6 00a\50 7 00 6 00 6 00 5 25a6 50 ti '5O 5 50 5 50 II
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