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OF THE , MINERS' :JOURNAL.
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not fbid within.bLi month*--and Vi 6 0 If not paid within
the !W.
TO CLUBS
Three e9Ples to one address, in advance, f 00
heven do do .do . 000
Fircent do do do
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and sent to one .ddros.
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TO CARlillytlll AND 0111 ERA:
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ci ido coplo„ celh oli . freq. •
" vi er: ol4os and &Awl Thseirrs supplied with the 100 t-
H.at $1 In advance. :
. THE LAW OP STWSPA.PZILR..
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. rm v-Ages are paid.
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dered them discontinued, •
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ow direction. they are held responsible.
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called fc4, Is prima facia eridenm at intentimml fraud,
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One avant of 10 lines. 59 cents for one thsertkl•—sub
sequeut insertions, 25 cents each. 3 lines, One time, 25
„. en p,— ; subsoluent Insertions, 121 i cents each. All adver
ti co mo CI ts over Vince, for short &nods. charged as a square.
, mut. . WIT. . TWO. THREE. HMI. TAUNT-
Dare-linos, 62 1 7 i ,
SO
• $1 50 - $2 25
20 ' 5 3
$3 00
Fire lines. l 00 150 . 20 0 6O 500
ALL OTAR PITT MILE COUNTED AS s SQUIRE 07 11.9 LINES.
One square. 1-25 200 800 500 800
T .,-. quir es, 200 350 • 500 800 12 00
Three Wares, 301 450 ' 650 lik 00 15 00
uusrter till.. 5.00 6 50 8 0015 00 25 00
Halt column, 906 12 00 . 16 00 ' Z 01:r 40 00
One column. 16 00 23 00 30 00 45 00" 130 00
Air 811.51UeR3 NOCIOOO, $1 each—seeontpauled with en
advertisement, 50 cents nut. , 1
Advertisements before Marriag es end Deaths . 10 cents
r .,1. line Tar first insertion --suleAuent insertions, 5 cents
per linia Niue words are counted *saline in advertising.'
.• al.,crhants and others advertising by the year with
rletagea. and a standing advertisement not exceeding 2
square. of 26 lines, will 1)e charged ' , Including subscriv
trail, •$lO. 00
,page to tbo amount of one quarter column with
changer and subscription, • . $2O 00
Without changes, at the autos' designated above.
Alrertiscuarnt* 'sot in larger type than usual will be
~ : rtrzed io per cent. advance on these prices. An cuts
will be Owned the same na letter press.
No Trade Advertisements ,received from Advertistsg
Agents ahroad. except at 25 per cent. advance on these.
priites. nniuss by special agehement with the priblisher.
Ilarrisgiis 24 cents each. Deaths accompanietwith no
ti.‘rsi 2S cents. without notices no charge.
All Notices. except these of a religious character and
• for rigestional purposes.
"will be charged 23 cents for any
number of lines under 10. Over 10 lines, kends per line
a .1 li lions!.,
• l'r .cet.linps of meolinp, not of a general or public char'.
stir . charged at 1 cents per lino for each insertion.
• T. facilitate calculations we 'will state that 3% lines
mak a column-14 Rees a half column,—and 82 lines a
quater column. 2952 word's make a column-1476 a half
roi mn—and 753 a quarter rt column. All odd lines over
ea ,,- ti ..hart'. charged at the rate of 4 rents per line.
c .,..
Vosidy advertisers must confine, th eir advertising to
:heir own business. Agencies for others, saki of-Real .E -
tato. Sc., is not included in business advertisenenta. :
STOVES & TIN WARE.
- •
SOLOMON HOOVER,
%VW% VAILE AND RETAIL DEALER if;
; .Stoves, Tin ware, follow Ware, Bra..s ware. Brit,
4c. tants ware. Cutlery, he. Thankful for past pat
ronage. he hopes. bf,ttrict attention to brudness ,
to merit - a continuance of the favor of his old
en. , tornors and the public in general. ,lie has just added
to his already large stock-of the.above named articles, a
variety of Cooking, Parlor. and Office Stoves, of the latest
and mist approved styles. Also, a variety of Household
Furniture. such as Tlaned and Enamelled ,Boilers,
and Iron Tea blattles, limas Lrittannia Ware,
Japanned Ware, Frying and Roasting Pans, Sad Irons,
as. ke..
Also, continually on hand a large assortment of Tin
ware, dc. Ile hes niuw the largest and best stock 'ef his
line everoffered in Schuylkill County, to which be in
vite. the attention of the public In general, as he feels
eentldentitliat he can suit them both in price and Tran
iv. TheY'sivosild therefore do well to call and examine his
stock before purchasar.g elsewhere.
N. B.—Roofing. Spouting and Jobbing promptly atten
ded to. Also, old stoves repaired, or odd plates, fire-brick
grates, as, can be had for repairing the same. Old stoves,
and all at`sair old Iron taken la exchange : for new.
SOLOMON HOOVER.
:.he old stand, Centre street. shove Market,
Pottsville. Penna.
914 f
Angust 25,1654.
NEW TIN WARE,
Copper And StoTe Manutlictory.
titOillit: H. STiCHTER announces to his
numerous old friends, and the pnbtic goner
s _r• ally, that he has engaged in the above men
.;
honed businean and on such an extensive plan,
• - that he is enabled to sell his goods at prices
""" which cannot be surpassed in cheapness in any
oth,-r Antilar_esfablishment in , the county. His, store Is
in Centre Street, fen' doors South of the place wheie be
formerly engaged with L. Esterly, in the liard
a arc lusincac. ! •
Amuns the many articles 'in his store, he will only ,
oui:e mention of the following:
z , tores. with pipe, Copper-wary, Copper Kettles, of all
;Uses: rasa Kettles, Japan-ware. Tin-ware,-oferery de.
'sedation, Hollow-ware Tin by the Bois. Roofing Tho by
Box; Japan Tin, by the quantity or by the pound:
toot. I , y the quantity or otherwise; Russia ehoet
iron by the hundred or by the pound. Also. a new Pat
ent IVatereoeler, which Ie sae of the most useful ha
prmetue'nts of the day,..especially for families during hot
weather...and, in short, all other artieles belonging to a
remplete establishment of the kind.
Orders fur work In his line. such as Tin-roofing. Spout
ke., tug also mendinv . , will be attended to promptly at
the shortest notice. -.4 1 .
Tot highest market prieelwill be paid for old Pew
ter and Lead, or ,goodsi giren in csehange.. •
. GEO. 11. KTI,CATEIL •
Pottsville.. August 12,044 • •
S2 -1 y
TRAVELING-
SUNDAY! EXCU ; SION TRAINS.
PHILADELPHIA AND RItADINt) RAILROAD.
AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE
1 6th: 1552. and on every folloilng Sunday, until fur.
ttier an Express .Kteurkion Passenger Train wilt
,*are l'hiladelphii at 734 A. 34., altd .return from iPotts-
NDe M, same day—staining, at all Way Routes on
he Doe. and at the following stations at the hours stated:
VP !MIN. DOWN TRAIN.
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' St , lti , 4lls. . Time ' 1 . I
1.31. .. 8 t ati
01:11S. Time
1".31.
aTeS Philad'a . 720 Reaves Pottsville 4.00.
'ISSei Phatnissille 8.31 Passes Mt. Carbon 4.n7
Pottstown 6.58 1'E . S. Raven 4.15
- Reading 9.34 . .." Reading 5..21
S. haven 10.43 1. " Pottatmen 6.00
• Mt. Carbon •10.82 1, "' Phornixtille 6.26
krrites at Pottsville 11.00 Arrives at Philad'a 720,.
FARES '
Flor.!he Round, Trip, up and down, in No. 1 Cars:
. • . r
.a l'hilad'a to Plicenizcille and bark same day, 1.1 40
.. Pottstown, : ••• 1 75 .
RA:tding " 2 50
" . S. Haven. .)11. Carbon & Pottsville, 4 00
Reading to Pottsville and tack same day, 1 50
RkNo Baggage carried with these Trains. All Tickets
u.t be purchased before entering the Cara. •
• May 7..),1952. . • - 224 i
• PASSENGER TRAINS.
esso
EMB Ma§
IFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
Jr and Reading Railroad.—Snmmer Arrengement.—
FROM PHILADELPHIA 'Di CfYITSVILLE.
In and after May 17,16,52, there will be two Passenger
minc daily. (tinsidays,eseeptedl, between Philadelphia,
~ a ding. and Pottsville.
MORNING VINE. _
The. Express Train loaves Philadelplia daily, except Stm t .
NTs. at vieelock. A. M. • The Way Train leaves Potts
dant.. Sundiyx excepted, at 13.4 deloek, A. M.
AFTERNOON LINE.
The WaT Train 'tear.% Philadelphia' daily, except San
s at :4 1 ,4 o'clock. P. M. - The 111 - press Train leaves
:rtsrilladally, except Sundays. at 3 1 4 &eh:wk., P. M.
HOCKS OF PASSING BP.ADING.
-For PhiLadelphla. at 9 o'clock 10 minutes, A. M.. and 4
51. minutes. P. M. For Pottsville, at it o!cloek 34
ti.mo‘..., A. M., and 6 o'clock. P. 3.1.
Trains Step at ill;lie n Zitions along the Una
. Ist cus s c is& '. man CM
•viir..; to Philaielphla.' ' t i 7s . v. 45
1 lir:4 to Pottsville- 105 • - 85
111,104.01 s to Pottsville. 2 75 1.3 25
Pert in Pottsville.. corner of Union and Railroad St
, of Awnless' Howe. Pam/engem cannot 'enter C
c":+ess Prosidei with a ticket.
Fifty p , unds of lialcgage will be allowed to each punt
in ttonak lines. and psioeugens vie expressly prohibit
ca.likin: anything as fiarstaae ; tint their own weal+
~ieel. which will be at the tisk of its owner.,
T order of 'the Board. of gattacers.
S. BRADFORD, Secretary.
Wear
=MEM
TRINSPORTATION.
JE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY
lOTTSVILLE TO HARRISBURG
This line connects daiiy - with nil their gnat Souti
Woo.Ain - Rotttes. By arranteraetit their pbus, I
iiri-gs in Pottsville will to at the office of Howard
Tl:Ke,e haring articlelf for fransuiliolon by said lin,
rail up nl C. B. CATTIER, 'Adam's a, Cr.'s :Agent, II
F...NCILLIAMS. SupPrintendent
16-ti.
111:.AD'A. & READING RAIL ROA
01 FitMUM ON 31ERCIIANDIZE.
,N AND. AFTER NOVEMBER lsi
until further rintioe. the tenoning Mites
ht win be ehArged per lifrOpnuckdb: -
Atfitt.vs ratvatt
( . ..nfet.t innery. Bonk!, Carpt.t.)
(I , :rlr, re.. 9.11 .Meat t ri:44.. Glue+, Le. a
Batter. Copper. Eggs. FAr- I
..nyrarr.(irindsiones,Groceriesjimoid
Ward wane, !fides: Hollow-ware, } 11
)is,43Sntry.OystAeis,Oils.gdeds.,
Coffeek. Grid n..4r Irma.
%L•3......N.N Spikrtt, salt,
^truinnt. Sugar, Whiskey, LT:,
- .nig. Fir,. Brie's*. Guano, NBI Stones.
Tar, t, &rap irou, Timber ).•
1,1-41.. r, kr.. ,
Cord tVr 4. C I RY• Grar".
.4M re.
.„ Limestone, Manure , Pig I::
Slate.
'. P..' barrel. 30
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RAILROAD. - ROUTE,
11%:1m9Mt3fr
ottaville ac• Rending to Harrisburg,
Lancaster, Ate.
LOCAL, TRAIN, established o
!!-. Railmvi to complete ibe,connezior
TAo,ps,i and SoutmPherlittl apd aztawizza RAJ
1
,`,..l,x•swot. • • reert!LlA.
l' ,, v tattir hi A. M. Leaves Readinj 2.45 P. 3
1q.40 Auburn 4.30
U. 15 noon Arrives f "
Lncal Train.and the Regular:lntim'
haiirnati. Aumata. the terminus of :,the
/Marone/. iN .Trawhed with bentl
1.1 the valley r,f the Sehnytkill. and
..t.l ,it , :moitinhati.n. both er.,ays. is tunintah
,""nv• .tc , i)tedt wittillarrishttr,r. Lancaster. Char
httim,re, and all tn - Ant>. in that direction.
5,1 ' LkIWKLN-P.:;TTeVILLZ AND DARLINNUND. DC.
t hoist-in n :.;.:k1 P. M. Arri.re flarrieburg 7.40 P. 3
‘rnitAr, 1.15 111,0 A.)
eta - a LINN': AND HADDINEMi t De.
• !,...A1',;•: ;!4r, P. M. Arrive liar-Saban?, 7.40 P. 3
7C5 A. 31. Reading I'lls nnei
' , ven:Ter car cans vith the Ifeight Train- le 3v i'l
IN A it.. and returning there at 7.1 n. P. 31
lar lilrrohurg abnnt wont. and with tb
m and et•lning, trains of the Reading Rai
rune on Iteadinz Raihmal time. width
than that of thr l'eHn.ylvania Sal
'r Ifitni •nu 74 , . ELLW‘ViD NI011.1:15,
E".i. A Sap". /kmphi. d ,Nuequeh q . ji i ia R. I
. 1. "' 1'14 C'tnPanY nAvertlar thr Curb print
r..ito.t e d that this adtertieement It
ty any paper nalega accompanied by the mom ,
3a4 that ill Ott advertiaomettta note Rupert:
teeminned
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VOL. XXXI.
PE ILADELPJIIA:
CUANO2 GUANO!!
u , S ubscriber, sole Agent for 'the'
Peruvian'Oorernment, in PhiladelPhts. bas s large
stew of Pure Perurian Guano on hand, which he offers.
to Farmers and"ilealers, at the lowest cash prices, lots
to'snit purchasers: B. J. CHIUSTIA.I4
:Sole Agent for the Penni= Government. In Philadelphia,
.48 North Whams, and in North Water area.
January 27, ISM 3 3m
,MP. SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME.
ami)oQ .13anaurreteof0114ACINsot
of
f u l tVor
scrip ten. C WIN kiD_PI4STER t CEMI27,:ie. _ '
flii-Paoover, of all kinds bought and sold on COttimls•
pion. : R. R. RELLLR3 A CO.,
/beim Ming and anion's:ion Merchants,
No. t'S North Wharves; Between Race and Tine Streets,
Philadelphia, February 17.1955 • h . 6-am'
PLATFORM SCALES
O •
F every deseription,eOita . ble for tail
roads, ac.. far weighing 114, Coal, Ore, and. /der-
Chandise generally. Purchasers run no risk, every State
it guaranteed correct, and it, after trial, not fbssndastis
fsetary, can be returned without charge.
Factoty at . the Old Stand, established for more than
twenty years, corner of Ninth and Melon streets, rldia,
delptda.AßßOTT .k CO.,
Feb. 10.1 & 55 , ,
Successors to Ellicott et Abbott
ESTABLIFLIE.D-IN 17Va. ~, •
M'ALI.ISTER & BRO., OPTICIANS; •
HAVE removed from the Old Stnd,
No. 44 Cbestrot street, to their
7Ncso MNo
Store, .In Chesnut Sired, below
Eighth, nearly opproalte the Masonic Hall, Philadelphia.
411•Ottr Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Optical,
Nathentatieal and Philosophical lasteuncents furnished on
application, and sent by mail, free of charge.
Philadelphia, January 13, 1815 ' ! 2:241 , ;
CAR AXLES. -
rilliam
E subseriberi; are prepared to man
ufacture in any quantity required, both Rolled and
mered Cur and Locometive - Alles, of the best quality
material. If required, Rolled Car Axles will be furnish
ed cut to length accurately, by turning lathe, and the
centres drilled in, thus „sating weight Of Iron, and ex
pense of finishing. Address . r -
. • A. k P. ROBERTS, Ptircort Iron Works
• Office No. 80 1 4 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
February 17,1&50 _ 7•45 t .
COLEMAN'S CUTLERY STORE, g
No. 211 North Third Street.
iONS'IAN'FLY on hand, 'a large as
iiortment of Pen and Pocket Knives. Seining, and
d Misers. Table Knives and Yorks, in;ivory. star. bridal°,
bone and wood handles; Carvers and Forks, Dirks, Dente
Knives, *c. ,
ALSO--a very extensive assortment of Waiters, Tea
Trays, Le.
;Tine English Guns, Colt's Pistols, Allen's . HegOlrers,
and Single and Double barrelled Pistols. with a general
stock of Fancy Hardware. constantly on hand.
JUAN M. COLEMAN, importer.
Ptiiladelpbis Deg :30, 15 . 54 [Der. 27 'd3-62J 51-tf
SAMUEL 8: .FETHERSTON.
preE A.LERIN LAMPS, LANTERNS,
aandelierp, and Candelabras, Ne. 152 8. 2d street,
Spruce. Philadelphia. Having enlarged and im
proved his store. and having one of the largest assort
ments of Lamps in Philadelphia, 13 now prepared to fur
nish Pine Oil, Campbene, Burning Fluid, land and Oil
lamps. and Lanterns of all patterns: Glass tamps by the
package. at a small advance over auction prices. Being
a manufacturer and dealer of Pine Oil, Burning Fluid
and Alcohol, which will be furnished to Merchants at
such priciti that they will find it to their advantage to
buy. Also. libteehbld Glassware, of all descriptions, at
the lowest market prices.
Philadelphia, October 25. 1i554_
MANUFACTURES.
JFISHER HAZARD, Mabufacturer of
wiie for Inclined Planes. Ice., Carbon Co..
a. Ropes of superior quality and of all lengths and si
xes on hand and made toOrder on abort notice.
Reference can be Made to E. A. Douglas, Superintendent
and Engineer, Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company;
N. D. Courtrlght. Superintendent Hazleton Coal Conipa
ny. Maud] Chunk; , G. Brodhead, Superintendent Bea
ver Meadow Coal Company, Mauch Chunk; Belford,
Sharpe h Cn., Contractors, summlt Bill, Penna.
October 14, ISM ; 41-1 y
VENETIAN BLIND MANUFACTORY.
Bth Mt., bet. Norwegian & Iliehentattgo..
WM. ZERBE-annotinees to the cit
• bans of Pottsville and vicinity, that he is pre.
pared to manufacture Venetian Blinds of every size. color
and - style, at short notice and at the lowest rates. tie
feels confident that a trial alone is sufficient to be cow
vinced of the advantage of purchasing his Blinds.
• fine assortment of Blinds constantly on hand. lie
is also prepried to repair, paint, and trim old Blinds in
such a manner as to render them almost equal, in appear
sum to new.. Jan. 27. 1 11 4 55 4-I,y
COACH MAKER'S REMOVAL.
TILE embecriber having fitted up one of
-, the largest Coach Shops in the State, in
0 Coal street, Pottsville. Pa.. next to J.
Allaalliw Adam g Co.'s Screen Factory, where his
facilities for manufacturing all kinds of Carriages and
light Wagons cannot be surpassed—being a practical Me
thank, and baring a number of years experience In the
business, he hopes to give general satisfaction.
All kinds of C. es and light Wagons kept on hand.
Also. second-hand Wagons, kr.
All repairs orally done. Orderi from a dista are. prompt
ly attended to. WISFAR. A h.LRK,
June 5, 184 0 3: , 23-tf
THOMAS JACKSON,
ULAT and Round Rope Maker, Read
ing, Pa.
,White, Ttinrea,'and Madllls Rope et any
dimensions. . •
. . . .
Flat Ropes, for Miming or other purpuisea, Towing, line.;
and Canal cordage of all kinds.
Bed-Ropes, Wash-lines,-Sash-cord, it.c. Superior Puck-
inp for Steam Engines. Also, patent. prepared Hemp
Packing. a very superior article, saturated with a compo-
sition which fully doubles Its ratretbility to stand friction,
.and insures its preference wherever it bats been tried. Or
ders thankfully' received and promptly executed'.
November il. 11‘54 , , 44-ly
NEW STYLE COTTAGE FURNITURE.
=THE subsraiber is recelcing•from the best
M anufsetories in the City a large lot of Cottage
Furniture of New. ayle, made !of Hard, 'Colds,
oak. chestnut. walnut, ash, At, warranted to
he strong and durable. The patterns are various, and of
the latest fashions. They embrace whole setts, all of
which will be sold at city prices. carria, , r,s, added.
lie also keeps on hand. and manufactures to order all
kinds of Household Furniture, of the latest. mostlasb
lonable and desirable' 'Patterns, all of Which ran be ex
amined,at bis Ware Rome, corner of Centre and Union
s treets, nearly opposite' the Episcopal Chureb--all of
;which will be sold at thewery lowest rates.
HENRY ORESSANO.
April 1, lAA4 . ! 14-tf '.
Par!liiiilLLE
Saddle and Harness Blanatactkbry.
tili• The Subscriber would ;1 15.
again most respectfully invite the '
attention of the citizens of Potts- .
vine and the Coal Region in geberal. to his large nut
well selected aloe( of SADDLERY. all kinds of
: .
Carriage and Tram 110ness,
Collars of all descriptions. Drift Harness, &e. He de.
sires all who may need-anything in-the above line to call
and serf his goods before purchasing elsewhere, as there
can be nothing lost.
Orders far Harness. &e., promptly flied on reasonable
terms. - ' LEFEVER WO3IELBDORFY.
Opposite Episcopor Church, Centre strut, rbtlsrale.
Hamill& TSSS [May 13, '54) 34f
--_—
• COACH NIAKINC . ,
. • Subscriber,: being about to intro
- duce Steam Paster and otherwise enlarge
the facilities of his already extensive Fa.
a• tablishment. invites the attention of the
public Whig manufacture of Coaches, Wagony and Te
hides of erery desaiption.
llssiug arery department of the Giich-making ;busi
ness at hand, employing only the best workmen, and
using the best materials, dealers may be Ore of securing
satisavtorr work.
'Vehicles of erery style and finish made Ito order. fir
pairs neatly anti substantially done. Orders from abroad
promptly attended to..
re-E.:hop. Morris Addition. Centre Street, nearly oppo.
site the York St?re. Pottoille. .
(MARGE :JENNINGS.
Mar;•1( 10,1&53 • ; 12-tf'
. - OCCO • 01l
I,VIOROCCO LEATHER aid SHOE
Finding Store, at Derr old stand, oh Railroad d.,
The undersigned eespehtfullY Informs die rus t mere of
the rthore well known establishment, that he will contin
ue-the manufacture of all kinds of
MOROCCO.
Such as Kid. Straits. French Morocco. Shoe,; Hat and Book
Bindings, Pink • Lining*. ice, de.; and will militantly.
have on hand a general aseortinent of an kilids. of LEATH
ER.* rich as Oak Tanned and Red Sole Leathern., Slaughter
Kips. French and City Calf Skins.
Miners Cpper Leather. and a variety of Shoe Findings.
*wit as Threads. Kali& pegs. all of which
will be sold at the lowest cash price*.
JOIIN L mmvia.
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F. 4-1. r...t>
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O*" . .Z
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/WAG Untie of Skins, such u Shur, Goat, Deer, he
and also Sama taken ib earl:Lange for Leather, at the:
highest market prices or paid for In CLIM. •
Puttsville. Ort 29.1853. 4t-tf
MACHINE CARPENTRY.
SASH. POOR, HOCLDING k R. R. CAR HACTORY AT
fit. Clair, Schuylkill CountYp,
HE Subsc . riber, (of the .fate firm of
I Height k Lawton), having now Ma 54nnfactors In
complete order. is prepared to manniketurel by machine.
re NrilVl , 4o Frimes, Sash, Doors. Brie*, Mutters, Bali
!WnOlfrt. Awning Porb;end genet.
ally all turning in• frond. Also,
Drift Ro aroad f ors, with the
work complete, &c., tr.. at.the shortest notice. •
He has far sale Lumber of any dereriptimi, and can
'tarnish Mils of Lumber at short notice. Also, an assort
-131"Soll Doors, Mat (glazed and Prtmod . Pled Posts, ke,,
ke., conger tly on hand,
Persons desirous of pyrchasing artides In his Hite of
business. are invited to- cell and examine his stock and
workmanship before hurchazinc elsewhere ;
Orders are solicited; and stri a attention !ill be given
to their faithful and prompt ereeotkro.
CEIARLW LAWTON. Jr..
At. Clair. February 9,1555 9-ly
EEO
• . SANDS it. CUMMINGS'
Patent Brick Moulding Machine..
T"E proprietors of this justly cele
heated Patent, having completed mungemente for
the intro:faction of their new and Improved Stubble. beg
leave to call the attention of the palate to its tins/ itthterl rw•
perineityerre trerytkinp cam imerged for the manwjacfere
n f Bricks frets tempered elay. Ii being mettle, when
worked by horse-power, of making 1 ,
SIX IRICKS IX FIFE SECOND 4. -
A Finale eertifirste of the chareeterat the 'feltoerluris
'eemed by the proprietors tt;. prd R ptarandne et Mir
ststensentx, as a twat number, erldrh atlaht be selected
from bawler*. in their prealeseirmi from pratikal and es
trnshe Itrtek malcart.
1vht57112,1.T.N.,
, ft. g VMS. rkxyr Nr.•-1 bate thia flair wittleaga,
the operation of k Cummingre rafimt Brick Mould.
ina and am fully ikfiXlSod that it to net equal
ed IT any math kir ftir opeed, or in 'the Yorreetneini of Its
wnrk. mn Sheraton§ cheerfully and • confidently re•
oorunu.nd it to any porwut wifizink to purrtukir a patron
Ynnra Etilortfully. .1611!P SEXES.
Poldir.rl Jlrdrek-stal,r. Smnlcmar. trprois)l9 tn.. Pa.
• Tory IteoportfUlly.
11. fAsinx. Exp. . STA7M)N. f...r.f Notiinsau.
All applf,ationa for Staje.County.,.r T 611111146110, wltb
ILarttines;:aticiuld he mad* (peat-(aid) to • .
5.0.1D5 & CO., Care of J.l3;Playm,
Jan. 27.1555 441 m Xe. 3 irat.qt., iliartenr Mac
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INSURANCE.
MINERS' LIFE INSURANCE
. .
_ AND TRUST COMPANY, POTTSVILLE. PA.
QAPITAL $lOO,OOO-C HARTE
Perpetual.
is Coe y, ehastereit try the Legislature of Penn.
sylvan* with a eapits of One Hundred Thousand DoV
tars, is now fully organteed, and has Commenced . bust- .
nen.
The Company is prepared to receive monies and other
property in Trust, and allow interest on all monies dee
posited in trust, at the rate of dye per cent per annum;
principal and interest payable on demand.
For rates of PremiumQl2 Life Insurance, see the printed
Tables supplied at the; °Mee of the Company, Centre
Street, Pottsville, three: doors south of the Buchange ilo.
tel JACOB BUNITINGEB,Ja., President
.ions IL ADM, Beery : and Treasurer. .
• April 1,1654. ' 13.tf
THE POTTSVILLE MUTUAL
AND- JOINT STOCK 'WE INSURANCE COMPANY.
OFFICECENTRE STREET, next
Mdo . cnaboye9 . reen's;Jew!lry Store.
careen *,Jewelry _
CAPITAL SIOO,OOO.—CUTEP. PERPETUAL.
This Company, recentli chartered by the Legislature of
Pennsylvania. is fully organised.
The Company is prepared to effect insurance Open live,
and to tredve and execute trusts, and to allow intend on
monies rece.lved at the into of flee per cent. per annum,
unless otherwise agreed Upon. Principal and interest pay
able on 'demand.
Capital and assets safely Invested In Bonds and Mort.
n gaues and other good seeirritles.
Annual dividend of the profits will be made payable in
cash, or appropriated to thepayment of premiums. •
For rates of Preminnia on LIM insurance, ace printed
tables, supplied, at the Coinpany's Wee.
'NATHAN .EVANS, Pres%
' ' ;SOLOMON FOSTER, Vice Prot
- .
IE T. TAYLOR, &XiWar, and Treasurer. '
Sept 16; 166/. 37•tt
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ANTHRACITE INSURANCE CO:
cuARTER PERPETUAL;---Granted
by State id 'Penny:lran*
uthorited Capital $400,000.
Office„ No. 99 Walnut bisect, between Third and Fourth
Streets,
Tide Com pa ny, with a huh Capital paid in, combined
with the Mutual principle in their Marine and Inland
Department; secures to the assured ample indemnity. with
part icipatiou in the profits, and without liability for losses.
. The Company will brute Policies at the usual rates of
premiums, embracing Marine, Fire and Inland Risks.
III:M11163
Dr. D. Luther, Willie= C. Ludwig,
Lewis Audenried, -1 Joseph Maxwell,
Peter Sieger, John E. Addleke,
George P. Tylei, . Harry Conrad,
gatanel H. Rotherenel, B, Hammett,
Davis Pierson,
D. LUT
DR. Samuel Castner.
.. HICR,. President.
Wm. C. Lonnie, fl President.
•
Wm. F. Dux, &m an*.
Qs PETER P. LUTIIEI, has been appointed Agent for
Um, *bone Company In Bthisylkill County, to ebernt per
sons desiring Insurance ain apply.
'
April PI, 1854 h - ' 14-ly
STATE MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
L IOURTH ANNUAL STATEMENT
M I
ay N 1881. i,
meta, Mai Ist, 7883, "; ' , . . . $388,318 70
Cash, premiums and intereat reeelr- -
ed the past year, mutual depart- '
mint, $101,648 32
RI Hs Receivable in same. .' ' . 28,647 91
184 sh Premiums, Stock DeParta t, 40,282 21 .
, -------- 170,.568 b 6
LOWS. ' expenses, commissions, re
insurance, mutual department, 101,b06 - 63
" stock 1.1 27,03198
' .888ETS:
•
Bonds, mortgages, stock and other •
good securities,
.... 173.1* 72
Bills receivable, ./ 187,009 815
Cash on band and in b and, of
agents,
-- ' • --------=-4179,70i 16
For Fire or Inland Inanienee, apply to
JNO. T. SHOWIER, Agent
July 15.185-1. -
=I
• L I ARMERS' UNION INSURANCE
Company.—OFFlCE,Athens,BnulturdCounty,Penn.
' syl e sania. , •
CAPITAL, IMO,OOO.
Insures against loss by Fire. Rouses. Stores and other
buildings. Goods:Wares - and Merchandlie, COAL. /MAR.
ERS, ENGINES, and other Machinery, on as favorable
terms as any,similar Institution.
losses proniptly.adjusted and paid.
DIRECTORS:
Ilon. Horace Williston, Athens,
Francis Tyler, . " • . •
George A.. Perkins, "
• J. T. D. Myer, • " •
C. N. Shipman, : "
• C. F. Welles, Jr.,
J. E. Canfield, .- . ,
Don. John Laporte. Towanda.
Oen. Bradley Wakeman. Lacer-111e,
Geo. M. llollenbeck, Wilkesbarre,
Michael Mylert. Laporte. Pa..
01110Eitit: •
lion. lIOIIACE WILLISTON. President,
C. F. Wsuits, Jr., Vice President k Treasurer.
• J. - E. CA:inns', 'Spey. - 2. •
Refer In Pottsville to •
Hon. C. W. Hegi usr Wm. B. Wells, EM.,
." F. W. Ilugtes; Gen. .1. 31. Bickel,
.
J. F. WHITNEY, Agent.
Next door to Millets' Bank, Pottsville.
Sept. 2. 1851 -
INDEMNITY.
rimiE FRANKLIN Fite - Insurance Co.
11 of Philadelphia. Offiee, No. 163% Cbeiont street,
near- Fifth street.
DIEZcTOILS.
Charles N. Bendier, 1 George W. Richards,
Thomas Hart, -.: Mordecai P. Lewis,
' Tobias Wagner, -; Adolphe E. Bode,
. • Samuel Grant. ; David S. Brain,
Jacob It. Smith, ' j Morris Patterson,
Continue to make Insurattee, peimanent or limited on
every description of property, in town and sentry, at
rates as low as are consistent with security.
The Company have reservkd a large Contingent Fund,
which with their Capital and Premiums, safely invested,
afford ample protection to the insured.
The meta of the Companj.on January 1441848, upiib•
fished, agreeably to an Act cif Assembly, were as follows,
'Mortgages, 1800,55 1 3 a Stocks, 551,563
Neal rarhste, , 168,358 90: Cash, &e., 45,157
• 0,220,007 67
Temporary Loads, 125,459 00
Since their ineotporation, a period of eighteen yes"
they have paid upwards of one sailtices two anadrediaotss
and dollars, losses by fire, thereby affording evidence of
the advantages of insurance, as well as the ability and
disposition to meet with promptness. all iiatrilitiea
CiLtitCll4 N. DANCKEII, President.
Catlin 0. LIANCKEIt, Feerltary.
The subscriber has been appointed agent for the *bore
mentioned institution ' and is now prepared to make In
surance; on every desaiption of otopert7, at the lomat
ANDREW RVESEL, 2. /nnt.
Pottrrllle, Jan. 11,1851.
- LIFE INSURANCE.
IRE GIRARD LIFEINSURA.NCE,
Atingity and" Trust Coiapany of Philadelphia. Of
No. 133 Chesnut' street.; the That door East of the
Custom, Houma.
CAPITAL S3 . OO,O3O—CHARTER PERPETVAL,
Continue to make Insult ricteleu lives on the moat favor
able terms. • .
The Capital being paid npund invaded, together with
a large and constantly ineteasing reserved fund, offers
perfect security to the insured.
The premium; may be paid, yearly : half-yearly or quar
terly.
The Company Add a Bows, periodically to the insuran
ces for lice. The first Botsus?,appropristed in December,
184 i, and the second Emus try December, 1849. amount to
an addition of $262 5 0 to every SI.IUOD insured under the
oldeet policies, making $1.262:60 Which will he paid when
it shallbecome a claim, instead of $l,OOO originally itisur
ed: the next oldest amount to EX: SO; the next is age
to $1.7.13 50 for every $1,000: the other* in the ease pry
portion wording to the amount and time of standing,
which addltione make an aierne or more than co per
rent. upon the premiums paid, without increasing the an
nual premium.
' lILICSAGLITS :
' Thongs Ridgway, ,': John A. Brown,
Armon Davis D. Danner,
John Jay Bonds, . Frederick Thema, •
Robert Pm.. nail, .. George Taber, .
• Joseph Yeager, 1 John R. Latimer,
• Thomas P. James, ': Wharton Lewis,.
Jose& T. Billey. . John R. tibia..
Pamphlets containing tabliof rates and explanations,
than of application and furtbei Informational:l be had at
the office. = r
Tllo3.tilif RIDGWAY. peddent,
JaTINTF. JAM, Actuary. • ,
.
B' The suhaetiber is agent for the above Company In
ISehnytkUt County, and *CU effect Insurance* and dive
all necenny Information en the malted.
B. DANNAV.
April 9. las 2. . -:; Urly
BOOKS, &C:
. TO SIMI:4NC CLASSES.
THE Subscriber will furnish to Ciao
ma, THE SHAWN. •
NEW CARUS:SA SACRA, . .
OLD CAILMINA SACRA.
BOSTON ACADEMY COLLECTION.
Together with alt other iitutielitoAs, very low rata, at
• B. DANNAPiII
Cheap ; Bork and Stational amt.
LIFE OF CHRIST—ILLUSTRATED.
HE Life of. Cbriit, ,by Fleetwood,
TaMb' edition. beautiful gi'eel plates. • - .$3 76
THE
of Christ, llogan & Thompem's edition, 14 ll
lustratinna, in limitation Turkey, only • 400
Or. In Turkey. super extra; ,4 • • - 600
Woof Meld, 31osie edition, imitation Morocco, only 276
,
. l i)larite variety of splendidly hlustisted.Work!, In Iran.
I ous N'tyks , or bindings. Fcl . oak! at • •
, , B. DANNAN'S
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, Noremter IS, y.i-s. 43-
. .
E. CARRICIUES,
•
.
a , BOOKSELLER A STATIO.3i•
If if / Mt. Centre Street, Pottfrilk% tesnort
ei fatly asks the attention of Nerrbants,
wo.
Tearben, and the public generally, to the
large assortment of books, At., , ered at his new Alm
4oroprising standard works fore the professions, Church
Books for every denondaation,Ctintnan and Itnrlhh,
GIFT. xsart.i.s.s. , xxxxis. scvszna„vre ken WOOD'. IX#OUL,
Obtained dimetly from the pubniafir i. by iiperbd smolt&
merit. and at tbr Trade Saks—imported and domestic tau
ry and staple atationery.
• Saimaa' Fier. ailiery am; iopetatied Ware, Fawn
• These grads are all new and elealratie, and hate teen
whited with prat rare from thdtull '*atka of the largest
importing houses and Amerkan 3isaufesiterers in New
York and.yrritadelphia: also. a Mere stourtment of
.t • . Musk Arnie linttla,
'Of their awn manufacture, eta ageing a general variety.
from the common half-bound to the extra superfine, neat
, ly ruled and suintantlaily boort with bands and rivetK
mill blank Menawatulain and Pass hooka. Cyphering and
espy lieots.: Sitar ?Reitz. Vide of Lading, Coal Tickets,
Cheeks, Drafts, l'mmissory Notes„te.. ie. ; •
• Jamie oraft.Joil. lktoWi
Of every description, neatly twitted: Blank Books ruled
to arty pattern sod Round molder: Susie. Magaxinve and
other pubikatkurs hornet in'erery, style of Plain and Or
namental Binding, the mart dterelda EA elegant.
Ries lamght foe eats, as received inemilumgefnetieends.
. • . J • S. GAUIGU.Lfi,
EH
$528,887 24
u.O, via! cjizA.r,
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- tRi! Or INIOURikIRS; lIIRTAXS Witten 1611 OIVR eravirtinford OUR RAS ' OS ARP SVHJLCT ALL RAZ* TO OUR USE.AZID ' p*Astrior,.. : fir Johnson.
ENJAMIN BANNAN, POM'fILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTT, PENNSYLVANIA.
SATORD , 1 7 ,.MOBNING,IMARql 10;;I:1.455,5
MEI
Hung.
I , IIIOIIIAM KIN COAL 111:04011.
Mr. Eli NIWIA in to Mr. Wm. R. iihtneuta.
..,. ,
BENL,`BANNAY, .—my D ear Sit: The '
II
Miners' ~I trwal th e 3d inst., contained a
letter from Willi m H. Marshall, Esq., of
Shamokin;'-whichpurports to be a reply to
some remarks of ine, referring to the Sha
mokin Cool Begi n" , which accompani,ed the
proceedings of the McOinnes banqu!% at the
Mount Carbon H use. The allusion thus
I L
made by,Ene to • e Shamokin regicin, was
brief, anti more i eidental than Inugenlar ;
yet it appears to ve annoyed Mr. Marshall,
and others inte in that quarter, very
much. 7 q -
I have;!for some
as Mrs. Partington
and I feel that the
Mr. Marshall, in ex
for nie will& us b(
then:. In t*.. 'Heald
ing of tha.various
tie, Cumberland, 131
'thus alluded to that
eeks past, been eni oying,
old say, very poor health;
:zercise of a few paicses at
change for those intended
th some good. To",begin,
hies pamphlet, afterspealt
1, districts of No va Sco-
Mad Top, and Dauphin, I
' of Shamokin : ) •
.
"Turning our etten ion further ,
up the Susque
hanna river; we are a .. seed at the anionnt Of cap
ital lately Invested in be Shamokin region . Here,
again, we find some eight or ten companies; and
of the number, there s probably not one but can
convince yt!iti that th t thing is a good thing—a
,splendid in v estment, exceedingly promising! The
.Shamokin region is in the interest, to a - Wye, ex
tent, of
.Lancaster capitalists. The stocks and
bonds are beta by the farmers and busineie men
,of that cittand county, and some are already so
deeply involved that they would have no kibjec
'tions to retire. Rvery man concerned, as far as
,I
ant aware, fit a stranger to 1U the phenomena of
coal—coal ' , Mining, cola supply, Coal trersparta
tion--excetiting; probsibly, coat opeciffatien f
"That there is soma
. good coal to be found in
this, basin lit', very optima; but its character ; bears
'nocomparlion, in an respect, with that Of the
Schuylkilf,Jhe Wyoming, or the Lehigh., But if
no doubts eOtild be enthrtained'as to the quality or
quantity, it twill be many long years before the
trade will reach that pint which will enable it to
Pay ashillitig profit upon the millions of dollars
invested. 1p the first . lace, all these stupendous
improvements have be a made at a period - Of an.
Precedenteciihigh pric , and that too, under the
stimulus of , the mostepectdative eirriSinttaittO that
could possibly have existed—and yet the wark is
fut half done—indeed it is hardly commenced;
or before any great quantity can be shippecT(sup
peeing that•it is wan d, which unfortunately is
not the case), Railway cars, Canal boats and nu.
Melons -ether applian es must bo supplied, and
they the greet point s ggesta itself, will it spay!
The coal mines are si 'led 1101130 twenty-wales
from Sunbury, which i the point of shipmeet by
the Pennsylvania canal—the boats being. Mired
over the Susquehanna{ by steam. The trade, of
course, must be desceOing,as it would be ahsurd
a) suppose Shit any a*unt would travel up the,
river, ranee (be great 'Wyoming Buda is in:;, near
proximity, and affords a superior variety of I: fuel.
Traveling down the Susquehanna, therefore, it
finds no imperttuit market until it reaches Harris
hurg, whir& fe reached in a distance of some: sev
enty or more miles fro ni the mines, via Sanitary.
By the (proPbsed) extension of theßaltimore and
SusquehanniPiailread to the line of the (proposed)
Sunbury anitErie road, another avenue will .he
afforded, by 'Which thegreat Cumberland Valley
r i e
May be reached. But unfortunately, for them,
nbt only the'.ouperior f iburning coal of the Ly
kiiris Valley; : but that o the Schuylkill also ; will
Meet them Alp Harrisbu g, to contest the market;
and both hithe 'inlet canal, now being eider
; ged, and the Dauphin A Susquehanna railroad;
recently completed, the mines of the latter region
will be several miles nearer, and . the transports.,
i tion thence tai Harrisbu
n r, cheaper than from Bun
bury'.. 'Whatv.therefore has the Shamokin region
lefty—the Baltimore arkeL And' here, again,
they will be met not only by . the Schuylkill; and .
Ltykens ValleY coal— b r mach nearer;—butalso
by that of (Broad Top Ciimberland, and WYe
ating. Suppose that the il market of 'the entire fina
-1 quehanna valley, inclu di g Baltimore, should With. -
' bi the next ten years, reach two millions tens'. per
I annum: it is:questionat whether the Shamakin
region would-be called o for more than Gaelfirth
—whereas, the amount f capital already invested
therewould inquire an uncial product of at least
two millions : tins to ire profits, and the late
of th e wboliapeculatioi becomes , therefore, very
palpable. -- . .
',"lt is sachapeculatioes as these that have in.
valved our' county in th financial pressure which
now exists. • Ilillions of dollars have been Weird
-4
ii buried, without, in ny instances, the hone of
ultimate profit. Had bet a moiety of 'the capital
thus squandered in nein boring coal regions, been
is rested here ' where the coal exists in the great
estl abtmdance,sind in th most favorable position
to the markt - As of the 'Atlantic slopes, it would
have yielded :froweediute reser:is, and finally tended
to a general reduction oil the price of fuel, thereby
benefitting allblesses ofthe community, and in
vigorating to ?a wholesome, degree, eery branch
ef, human industry," li
1
This is thii , preciselanguage I used, &km
which it willim seenat the commercidl . OrA -
vantages only' of that coal-field, are alluded
to---not a syllable is sai d in disparagment of
itS geological. struct ureor mineral reputation.
M. Maraluilfi however, charges me with Un
consiitency, isad quotti the following para
graphs from - My Sketc -Book to prove a Con
tradiction:
"On 'page 14.-1.1 i: the middle Anthracite -re
glen (of whicicShamokie is a part), taking as ;an
index the mines in opera' ion, the explorations ,al
- made, and the general kind appearance of
the rocks, and:the greatzularity of the surface,
it is presumedthat faults will not be found to ex
ist to any great extent. deed, the Whole geolo
gical character - ef the middle Anthracite regioit—
the general order and rahge of the stratification
being so uniform and undisturbed—goes far :to
prove that fauna of any .• agnitudo will be rarely
enoonntered.l"The mountains are very high—the
cord veins, especially those . of the bottom part :of
the series, aro generally thick, and crop out high
up the mountain sides; therefore an inexhatistible
amount or coal'af.lhe vbest quality, may ,be
safely maculated upon as biting in this coal Fre
gion. _ ~ . ._ . . .
' "And on . Aka 110.—The anticlinal axes are
Mount Carreel,ll. ino Ridge and Coal Run Ridge.
The most eel:opiate and beautiful development ;of
the,' coal strata: of the • anthracite formation :of
'Prinnsylrania le the antiel t eal axis of Mount Cie-
Mel- Ridge, developed by a north branch orate
mokin creek. The creek thrqugh the axle
at a right angli:to the ra n of th e coal strata,abotit'
five hundred yards west f m the Centre turnpike
at Mount Carmel—the arc of sandmen. rock IS
mat': down perlimsdieularl , for ming a beautiful
curia, and gieing an aductible illustration of the I
-regidarity and perfection this part of the coal
field. The aniielinal axis , of Mine Ridge is like* ?
wise cut by this:time stream, and affords Another ,
example of tbb perfection cf the coil strata of th e 1
.Shatnokin coal." valley. Mine Ridge, from the 1
Centre turnpiit6 gradually rises into a bill if I
gnm s' e ls of tioti eastward, where coil reins of great,'
thickness. and ir,,etraordi rify pure quality ate
opeped—a '464 evidence that this ridge or axle
of coal. strata , when tho ughly developed, will
ii
'vote to contain mineral ' quantity and quality :
Inferior to few tither plates in Anthracite forma
tiptiln PennsylVanla. Bi mountain contains the
bottinaseries otOoal veins bleb crop out along
its suipinit.• Theses veins . the same as those
developed 'in thiti• Locust Mountain, the thickest
vein of the Antbracitefertiatioe. 1
"The Shamokin coal valley extends in length
<from itti eastern 'terminus, on the head watere oft
- Little Schnylkill.And Qttakake creeks to its wast : l
' em tertaines within 'about pe ven miles from the
Susquehanna, a dist4te of boat forty miles." • '
_ .
Now, how fax extracts contradiefthe
lingnage preciously queted, the reader is at,
j
liberty to udgcH-the oneJpFeaks of the market
and the geographi ca l position, and the otheri
solely of the CotAtna4ion. . In the .formet
me, my remarfia applyiparticularly. to 'the
Shamokin distria, while An the aboi.e.extractS
they :are applied to thehamokin region tui
.inbordinate to the ?diddle Anthracite, embra::l
.
ping the Mabanoy and th Shamekm, as well
as the detachedl3oal dist leis at its eastern
terminus.. TheSe extract s appear to be held
in high favor by,Mr. Marshall and those eon:. !
cerned with hint, in ShaMokin speculations/., ,
for lhave obseocd• them i quoted, in connee.
• tion With my Mime in milny of the reporta
- and prospectuses _ o1 1 their Coal companies- ` ,
quoted, too, with ' 'a degree l of flourish and Bug- - ;
gestive importance to which I have never as 1 .,
pired; and whieb my warmest friends hare;
failed to credit me with. If, therefore, I
should be couiitted of a direct inconsisteth
cy, it:ia clear that .the value of my opinions'
and of my name as;truthority, would be se
riously cornpromlsed—whether for or against
Shamokin interests I will not undertake to
say.:. , But althoigh it is probable that I have,
tt .
during a public eFeer of me length, as the
natural concomitant of ine perieuce, commit
ted some appare*t incons* tencies,' (which no
one would regr . et;:morti tin myself,) yet, if
there'-be any inetwristeny te in this case, I
I think ;t will be sit easy ma r for me'to shoe
' that Mr. Maishalf and - his friends are guilty
of it instead of Miself. us he ; . Aims very
1
conclusively thatlie read. be matter of my
Sketch-Book on; . -4mge 16. , by making such
- g a u t ta h ti e ens
a rrow i1 . ,,, , as glu te i his purposed; and
i l e
makcat some additkeiti se. i la gons. , Now, its
doi4 •
this, he appears to have 'overlooked or
disregarded entirely the wearer tin pages 166
and 167—and why? Because,lwhile the - mat
ter these pages in no witte contradicts that
quoted, It:fully sustains the 'remarks I made as
to the conimereial wine of the Shamokin Coal
in My Mf Ginnes' letter! ;da not care! to
quote at rength, but a few words may not'be
an.iss : •
. •
• ' 4. - • The reStilt of this is, that
the Schuylkill basin necessarily contains a much
larger amount of Coal to the acre; than either of
the other groat regions; and from its position at
the head of navigation, renders the value of the
land correspondingly great. •, • •' A
prejudice against the productive value of eclat
lands was early created by the scenes of specula
tion which formerly involved them, and from their
outside connection with 'ill-conceived improve
meets. e * 1 10 We repeat, therefore,
what we know to be fact, that an acre of Coal
land, favorably situated in Schuylkill county,; is
worth, on a fair average, at least: three times the
amount' of money of a similar acre , situated in
other districts, where the strata are more borison
tel, the veins flattened out, the coil necessarily
soft, and the facilities for minieg correspondingly
impaired. The value of Schuylkill land is alio
greatly increased by tbe facilities for transports
floe to market, the numerous lateral roads pene
trating every coal district, and the natural adapics
lion of the county for mining. operations. In ma
pect to market, this coal region is the nearest. and
for all time to'come must rate the destiny of the
trade!" i
• ,
The reader who has seen., my MeGinnes let
ter will perceive that the language therein used
assumes exactly the same ground expressed
in this extract ; and bow any Man who valued
my published opinions sufficiently; as to read
and carefully quote my books so as to contort i
and stretch; the text to suit his own private
schemes, and.thea have the iitipertinent •ef
fi-ontery to charge me with inionmstency—(if
it implies , nothing worse,) for: a more recent
exposition of the same views, isa point which
would require the profound wisdom of a Bunii
by to fathom ! If the thing were the result of
mere inadvertence, it shows - Mr.. Marshall
and his friends to have been indifferent read
ers; if it hethe result of design, as I believe
it is, then itibetntys a most unscrupulous dis
position to appropriate my name to the cone
tenanee of their wild and desperate schemes
of speculation, and the cry of 'inconsistency"
sounds very!much like that of 'a pack of sur ;
prized thieve.si bellowing out over their booty,
"top thief ft ,
,
In attempting to answer my , remark, th at
it would be absurd to expect any considers ;
ble amount Of Shamokin Coal' ' to ascend the
Suiquehanna river; when the Wyoming and
Lackawanna region is in much greater prox
imity to those districts ,where BilanunonS
Coals do not abound. Mr. Marshall makes a
desperate effort at hair-splitting, but, as if
able to . dissect the delicate iiitritiacies of the
case, he calls his great patron and leader, Mr:
D. Longenecker, to the rescue., .Idr, L. is the
chief of the Modern tribe of Shamokin Speck
ulators, and he dashes into the subject with
readiness and stamina that it is wholesome to
contemplate. By the nicest 'topographical
and geographical discrim ination ; he shows e
mile or two of distance ' saved' , in this -way;
and then a mile or two that way, and then
few miles another way, over the Wyoming and
Lackawannwregion, and then; all that is wan t'4,
ed to secure these tremendous advantages is.
a few hundred miles of railway,. and the ex-.
penditure of Some twenty to thirty millions, of
dollars!
, ‘lt will Moshe perceived," says this' ICarn ed Me
ter "that the Shamokin and Erie mad has, in die-,
tace, over the route from geranton to 'Dunkirk.
an advantage nf 28 over the route from
Scranton to Buffalo, 35 miles, and over the route
from Pittston to Durkirk, regarding - the tranship:.
merit at Elmira (as equal to fifty, miles) of '66i
Now, the fact of the outlets here referred;
to having connections- with the canal and rail- ' I
way systems of New York, where no kinds of
Coal whatever , exist, and where Anthracite ; 1
Coal will, of course always be wanted, seems
to be of no consequence to Mr. Longenecker,
and he therefore transfers the theatre of -his
operations tol the lakes, as if that were the
great mart for Anthracite, and then under
takes to sho , c4 a superiority of distance in fa
vor of Shamokin This' is mjserable trick
ery, and entirely unworthy. the-'candor and
judgment of a straight-forward nian. Is it to
be supposed, ref a single moment, that we
will ever' be called upon to carry any 'consid
erable amount of Anthracite Coal nearly three
hundred thileq over.a railway running direct
ly through the great Allegheny Bituminous'
Coal region, and to a region of country where
wood and rial are both' as cheap as the Coal
at our own doers? If so; why not commence
shipping. Anthracite to Pitsbnrg? , why not
"send Coal tol Now- Castle?" Coal is only
wanted where 1t does not exist conveniently
at hand; and this does not apply to Ede, nor
to the wants of her steam marine. The points
where Coal is ivanted,(or more properly, where
it does not exist,) lie north-east and east of the
Shamokin basin, and to supply this demand
the Shainakinß,oal would have to: be carried
through the kart of the' Wyoming region,
where, as we previously remarked; a superior
article already exists, which can be mined and
transported at cheaper rates, and that, too,
both by canal and railway. The whole force
of our remark Will be understood by r e. casual
glance at the map (and when I say 'nal?, let
the reader infer that I do not allude to the
verinillioned-lithographs got np by, Coal com
rmnies to mislead and confound the unwary.)
It will thus be seen that north andeast of the
Wyoming Coal,'-field is avast extent of 'conn
try and population, completely knit together
by railways and canals, and.in which no des
cription of Coal whatever, has ever been
found. This whole country, therefore, is. de
pendant upon the Lackawana, region for - its
supplies, while that portion lying tit the west
ward is supplied with an inexhaustible abun
dance of Bitaininons Coals. Now,; on the
other hand, the; map will show that aaround
the Shamokin ;viola, east,/ west, tiortit and
south, there are : numerous other Coat fields,
embracing every variety of fuel, and each en.
joying cheaper facilities for transportation,
Thus if the Shamokin Coal goes up the
North Branch, it encounters the superior fuel
of Wyoming and Lackawana; if tip the West
Branch, it soon traverses the great Allegheny
Bitumin'ons Coal region; if down the river. it
meets the superior free-burning Coals of the
Lykens Valley, the Short 3lonntaia, Trever
ton, Dauphin, SiMitata, and Broad Top, ill of
which are its competitors; while if it should
pretend to venture east, it would baakruptthe
poor devil who Would undertake to send it, be
fore it Could surmount the Trindwine planes,
and its value at lEaston or Schuylkill Haven
would hardly pay the expenses of transporta
tion.
It affords me no satisfaction to follow up
the little arteries of craft and falsehOed which
comprise the anatomy of this stupendous
speculation, especially as I .have long since
learned that it is, but a thankless task at hest
—even one's motives, in nine cases bittot ten,
being searcely'aPpreciated to the. extent of
the actual labor perfonned—but I haVe .been
unwillingly drawn into the. subject, and shall
not now abandon it until I have dlicharged
all the obligatiinis which the sacred cause of
truth imposes upcm me. Their whole!scheme
is as full of cunous and unique Material as
the boiling cauldron Of Macbeth's witches,—
Fillet of s fenny snake,
In the cat:lan:in boil and bake;
' Eye of nowt, end toe of frog,
Wool of bat, trixt tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind worm's sting:
Lizard's leg aid owlet's wing; • •
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf;
Witches'.muminy; maw and gulf : .
Of the ravizedlsalt-sea shark; •
Boot of heudock, digg'd in the dark;
Finger of birth-strangled bube,
Pitch-deliverl by a drab--
Cool it with n t baboon's blood, = •
'Then the china is Inn and good!:
Double, double, toil and trouble; :
Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble 1.
Black ephlts and wbito; '
I • Red spiiits and grey,
,
• ,
Ye; that Mingle may 1 •
,
Elmira, and. the country radiating from it
westwardly is claimed by Mr. Marshall =as
properly dependant on Shamokin foriits Ap
plies of Coal; and yet, by his own showAngot
is some fourteen miles nearer to the Licki
wana region by i improvements now Made,
than to Shamokin:by improvements yavoserp
And it is, haidlyl probable that &nor i ashy
Lackanatia Coal f thevonstaners will sndon
it la favor of an inferior article when ;lotto
doced,. .it nano be, at increased 0 f z1t.,.3f 1
transPur.t.S4•A s,34not ,do, .6i
by canal they never will by railway; yet they
claim that, upon the completion o f Sun
bury and Erie railroad, they will have a mar r
ket almost unlimited. , -
Let it be supposed, therefore, that the Sun
bury and Erie road is a finished work; two
proposition darkest themselves—first, will
Anthracite Coal be vanted on the shores of
the lakes to any considerable extent; and, if
so, can the Sunbury and Erie road- carry at
Bituminous -Coals,it is Well known; can be
had all along the ake country it state vary
ing little from three dollars per ton. Various
improvements now inprogress rash upon
their completion, somewhat diminish the price,
but three dollars 'nay be regarded as `its fall
value. Wood, of every description, is abun
dant—nay, more.thaa abundant, for the whole
country abounds in it. Steamboats invariably
prefer Bituminous .Coallen our ocean
steamers, with Anthracite Coal ten to twenty
per cent. cheaper, still insist 'upon using it.—
For domestic purposes Anthracite is almost'
wholly unknown; a few tons occasionally
' wander off in the vicinity of the lake, via
the Erie Canal and other convenient avenues,
where' it is sometimes desired for particular
and special purposes. I •
Now, if Bituminous' Coal is afforded at
three ollars per.on,it seenis'to me very
plain that there can b e no ope for Anthra
cite. q",hfr. Marshall, however,, declares that
he (or the Shamokin interest, which means
about the same thing—for he is their Morahan.,
and Heaven knows they must be, pretty thor
oughly marshalled by this dine) can furnish
the Coal at the city of Erie, at five dollars
per ton ; while Mr. Lonkeneckerovho is even
more liberal in his sentiments, says' it can be
done for four dollara per. lon. Very well--"-es
Bituminous Coal is but three, Anthracite, to
supersede it, ought not tot*. aver four dollars.
Therefore, we say four. According to the,
statistics furnished by Mr. Marshall, the coat
of sending the Coat to Erie, would be. as fol
.
Iowa:
1. Mine rent, all improvement; made, '3O ets. ikr ton
Mining, above water level, 30 " • '
3. Wattling, ie., . g." 44
4. Timber on Land for nee of mince, 5 " _ " "
5. Cleating and loading; 1.2. 44 • .41 44
6. Wear and tear of Breaker. 3,
7. Three miles, average, to Railroad, 1.1
' mots per mile,
B.' L.lO miles to Erie, at r 4, ctn. pr. mils, 4DI • ;
$b
From this data it appears that the clearloss
of the operator would be one dollar and four
teen cents per ton; and if this be a sample of
the "fair remunerting profits Which must sc•
crue to the miner, the landowner, and the
transporter", it only indicates the degree of
perfection the statistical sciences have attain- .
ed in the Shamokin region since the endow.
ment of the "Free College." • .
But this is not all, though it iir"qpite enough.
The question occurs, could the railroad afford
to carry Coal at the rate - of one cent and a
half per mile '?• If the grades were favorable
and the Coal very hard and compact, there
might be some hope; but this does not hap
en to be the fact. Indeed, it is quite the con
trary ; for the railroad has, to overcome the
Allegheny Mountains, an altitudeof probably
not less than two thousand feet from the
Susquehanna'at Shamokin; and if the Bead
ing railroad cannot make dividends with two
millions of Coal per annum, at two centS per
mile, and its enormous miscellaneous and pas
senger freight, together with its mugeiSeept
descending grades, we cannot perceive how
another road could carry a less quantity, at a
less rate; over less favorable circumstances:—
The thing is, in fact, preposterous. The Sha
mokin Coal, or at least much of it, is soft, and
the low' jourueyte4 Erie, 'over ascending and
descending grades, would necessarily jar and •
move and grind' t in the cars, which would
render the 'depreciation very considerable.—
Now, the. Reading Railroad, not quite a hun
dred miles in length, allows five per cent. for.
depreciation. The Shamokin Coal being
softer, the depreciation would of course he
much greater than that of our Coals; the•
more especitilly in view of the grades of the
Sunbury and Erie road, which' being 280 miles
in length or thereabouts, would be Just thrice
the distance Of the Reading road—making
thedepreciation, instead of five, fifteen per.
cent. But in view of the . Coal being softer
and the grades more severe, an allowance of
twenty per cent. would not be too much.—
Supposing, therefore, the Sunbury and Erie
road could carry. Coal at the rates charged
by the Reading Railroad, (two cents per mile,)
the cost per ton at Erie, would be five dollars
and sixty cents, which, added to the cost of
the Coal at the mines, would be six dollars
and fifty-four. cents. This is what the Coal
would be•worth at Erie, per ton—but the de
preeiation, beyond what wield accrue on the
Reading Railroad, being fifteen per cent.; 33t;
pounds of Coal to the ton would be deficient,
or, what is the same, ninety-eight cents would
be required to make it good. Therefore the
actual value and cost of the Coal - at Erie,
'would be seven dollars and My-two ants!.
But while the Reading Railroad can trans
port, with a single locomotive, five hundred
tons of Coal, no road crossing the Allegheny
Mountains could carry half that amount, and
it is therefore absurd to suppose that it could
lever carry Coal at anything like the rates
'Charged by that Company. Instead of seven
dollars and fifty cents, it could not be deliver
ed there for nine dollars per ton! • •
; The calculations of these desperatespecula
tors being thus erroneous, as respects a trade
of any magnitude through either the North or
_West Branches of the Susquehanna, what is
their prospect as to a descending trade? On
this point my views have been - briefly expres
sed in the extract quoted et the commence- ,
went, and it is hardly necessary to - repeat
them. But they speak of the markets of the
Susquehanna as if they enjoyed a perfect mo
nopoly of them ; and yet, by their own rea- '
ironing, it is clear that they: cannot compete t
With even the Wyoming region, which, spoor- -
ding to Marshall, is forty-three miles behind
them, much less with the numerous Coal dis
trict; thirty, forty and fifty miles in advance of
them. To reach the Canal, their Coal passes
over a railway averaging about twenty-five
miles from the mines. Arrived at Sunbury,
Ate Coal requires transhipment,and this work,
recording to Mr. 'Longenecker, is equal to
fifty miles of transportation. The
. aetual dis
tance, therefore, must be equal to ierentkfive
miles offtansportaiicm. This, at 13 cents per
mile, would be one dollar arid twelve cents
per. ton ; but T see by some Of the reports of
the companies that two cents per mile is con
templated. The cost of the Coal itself being
ninety-four cents, (though I should not be
*prised if it were nearly twice that amonat,)
Would make it worth, at the point of shipment
at Sunbury, two dollars and sixceuts per 03o; .
to which must be added the cost ottowage
O ver the river, probably not less than two mita
—making two dollars and eight cents on the
Pennsylvania Canal. Now, the Wyoming Coal,
Mines, as I remarked before, are situated di
rectly on or close by the Canal. While the
Coal is mined at even a less cost than that of
Shamokin--(owing, in fact, to the agricultu
ral fertility of the soil, rendering labor and
litzng cheaper,) the average expense of deliv
ery to the Canal-boata would. hardly exceed
MT, cents per ton. Here we find a direct aa- -
ring of one'dollar and nine cents, deducting
about fifty cents for forty miles of Canal trans
portation to Sunbury or Icorthumberiand, and
the result is a clear gain of My-nine cents
per ton over the Shamokin Coal delivered at
their own and only place of shipment! - As
they proceed down the river the competition,
of, course, becomes more and more seriousi—
but it seems to me idle to pursue the flung
faither, for the sophistry of their retutoning,
and the utter falsity of their figures and. cal
culations, are as glaring and transparent',
when exposed to the light of troth, as their
whole scheme of speculation is monstrous,
desperate, and iniquitous.'
- Having thus realized the humiliating fabt
of i their inability to compete, by'canal, either
tilkor down the Susquehanna-river; with the ; .1
neighboring Coal fields, those hungry specu-1
I lators arc constantly howling out for railroads. I
Like dogs _baying the -noon, their plaintive
yelli fill the air; and it impresses one with a 1
feeling: Of sadness to observe with what .
met
aneholy solicitude they dwell upon each favdr
able 'movement. Besides the Sunburr 'and
Erie road (which, by the way, is desikedmpre
foci other spectdationa in embryo; than to
ry_a few straggling tons of Cash The 'route 1.
of Abet great work is beset with all gaits of
schemes, good, bad and indifereat, in which !
many of these Shamokin we hope to figure
as l :conspicuously as ever; and it is the strok
Total,
M
, ~, •
I gle for:spoils now going Oil that has retarded!
I the progress of the work,,if it has not stran-1
gled it to , death, they Want one ,to Danville . , I
a modest little 'Work of but a few miles in!
, length;,then'they want one to Easton; then!
another to .Harrisburg, which will connect!
diem with Baltimore. That connection made, I
they want anether, to runi',,ftom Columbia to
Delaware _city, the: eastern , terminus of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. As for '
sending zilch Coal to 'Baltimore, they have
prudence enough not to urge this feature too
&r, for the reason that there are several other
Coal regions already connected With that city,
both by railway and , canal—all of them, ex
cept' one, much nearer than Shamokin—who
know tais fraction what such connection and
such a market are worth. Their great object,
therefore, 'is ' the Octoraro road, and this
being a new thing, of the ,precise•inerits of
Which very little is known y it affords them a
splendid field' for. the flourish of trumpets and
wonderful paper calculations. This road is
proposed to be 'run along the eastern margin
of the Sudquehanna river.. Soon after leas ,
iug Columbia it enters the extensive range of!
hills Called Turkey Hills. The Susquehannal
'for many miles ' is walled by stupendous per-1
-pendieular cliffs, along whose base it descendsl
in savage falls and deep. whirling pools. Tiil
construct a railroad or anything else here, were
. 1
a physical impossibility; hence it has been pro-.
posed to • locate , the road over - the. elevated (
table lands of these bills, to do whichaseries
of steep ascending grades would be treces.sa
ry. The CMll3tag is poor and inhospitable un
til the valleys' of the Conestoga and the Pe
quea are reached—the former of which would
•be spanned by a viaduct towering two bun- .
dred feet in the air, and the latter by one suf7
ficiently high and airy to ascend with mode
rate grades, the Mertic Hills. ' Here, pursuing
its circuitous route among barren hills and
stunted forests; it again'emerges to, the, Sus
quehmins,' 'and' thence pursues its devious
journey to tide-wateron the ; Delaware river
crossing the narrow neck of land between
that stream and the, Chesapeake bay. . The
point thus'reached is from forty - to fifty miles
below Philadelphia, and the. road, for the
'grenteat portion °fits length, — runs parallel
with the tide-water canal, and the Pennsylva
nia milnuid, from which it .is distant about
tern miles. Its erection and equipment would
cost many million's of dollars, and the loss of
working it for ; the transportetion of Coal,
would depend solely on the amount transpor
ted,--the greater the
,Tuantity the greater the
loss! If Dela Ware Point, - or City, were a
large and populous town, or even if the route
I itself enjoyed reloiirces of respectability and
F ordinary importance, there ;might be soak
little excuse for the project; but to construct
such, a road, through such a country, to such
en insignificant and musqnite-anicied village,
is an enterprise worthy only of the excited,
nervous; and feiTred speculators ofShamo
kin. Bah I the' thing falls„ by gravitation,
below the level of contempt!' .
I The :Outs thus proposed from the mines of
Shamokin, would reach something like one
hundred and eighty miles—though Mr. Mar
shall, I believe, puts it-down at one hundred
and sixty, or thereabouts. . This, however, is
, immaterial, as to his poetical temperament, ,
"distance only lends enchantnient to the view." .
A.`large portion of the route, as alr i eady inti
mated-, would enjoy neither local Treight or
I travel—nor can there be any hope of through
t• freight, since it,cOmmences and ends atsickly
little villages. ' It would have to depend,
I therefore, exclusirely on Coal'; and the ques
tion now presents' itself—could this be carried
over it. so as to Compete with 'the Reading
1 Railroad? . As it would be an isolated work, i
cut o ff from all the ordinary revenues peen- I
- liar to railroads generally, the tolls on Coal
would necessarily have to be, rery high, and I
the quantity transported very great. At least.{
! one million tons would have to go over it . to
begin with; and to build a road to carry this
amount, and equip it with care, and wharves,
and depots, and stock, would absorb a capital
- of some twenty-five millions of dollars. The
interest of this sum, st six per centum, would .
be $1,500,000: Now;at one and a half cents'
per ton per mile, (which, thottgh sotnewha&
less than is charged by the Readingßailroad,
r is the price nominated by Mr. Marshall) would
make two dollars and seventy ; cents per ton.
One million tons, therefore, would yield $2,-
800,000.. The actual expenses of carrying
.Coal overtire Reading Railrotitl,, with its des
'tending grades, range, I believe, at about fif
ty-five, cents—the :road being ninety-three
miles in length. On the proposed road, with
its numerous ascending grades, the expenses
1
would be at least twice this arnount--say two,
dollars per ton—the distance being nearly:
double. . Eight- hindred thousand- dollars,
therefore, would he'• left, and this sum,, nor
twice, this sum would not suffice for renewals
of the read, eitraorilintiey accidents and cas
ualties,' and the thousand - of - id', one concomi:
tants attending a large trade. ' Where, then,
is the intereitor th e nionepinirested tricorn*:
from ?—and echo answers "where!" -
As to the miners, 'to whOm "fair remunera
ting profits are to accrue," let us inquire into
their prospects. Mr. Marshall Sincerely hopes
• thatme may ('jog along with. them;" but I
say, Heaven forbid! We never jog along it
this region with anybody—sti . jog implies the
gait of old fogyism, : and When we move, it is
at the rate MO! No, my dear friend; if you
went-to keep tip, von must ride better hobbies
, than OctorarO mast
By the time the' sett coals of the Susque
hanna reached Delaware, city, they would be
ground into, rand and powder. Nevertheless,
let us hear Mr. Marshall. , The coal, he says,
can be w orded
At the niihes; everything ineludint r fot 114 eta.
160 miles trinaportatiiin, at 11 cts. pr.mile,2
Depreciation, per ton, above Rett4int road, 60
Value at Delaware city;
Now, this looks fiery well, indeed. damn&
ming that Delaware city, according to Mr. U., ,
is never snow,
affected by ice, thunder; light.'
ning nor mint I% hat can bedone by perpen- .
dicular shafts in the Schuylkill region?
McGinnes, I have anderstood,.paye a rental
equivalent to twentydive cents per ton in a
course of , several years' working. The cost
of mining and hoisting the, coal is aboatequal
to that of Drifts, when quantity is considered
—it being delivered directly to tbe breaker.
We , will - say, for cutting the coal , 30 cents,
(Marshall's figui:es)-4oisting and pumping,
10 cents- timbering , cents ; tliitg, 3 cents;
use of ereaker 3 cents, and distance to • Mt.
Carbon, cent.;—making the cost, at the point
of aliment; eighty-three cents per ton. Add
to this ninety-three miles of tatosportation to
Port Richmond, at 11, cents per ton, (Mar
shall's figures, $1 40,) and we have two dol
lars and twenty-three cents per tan,
not quite
onehay of re hOt the alamolin wed costa!
It may be isifrzTed that the figures here
given are those of an. isolated case; and so
they, are. But I.'adcluee them to . establish
what Mr. Marshall, in his phrenzy, has vainly'
endeavored to combat, namely, the utter ha
possibility of all other coal districts, now,
henceforth and forever, ender any state of ,
cir
cumstances existing or likely to 'exist, to cam
rte wit h ths region when placed under thel
i •
iscipline and equ ipments of -a proper system
of That was the foundation upon
which I based my McGienes letter, and I can
only regret that I,did not at the time pursue
the subject farther, into all its details and
ramifications.. As to the average 'cost of pro
ilucing•coal from slopes, I do not consider it
incumbent on me to Speak. It is well known, I
' however, that it can be produced at such rates'
as to beggar any region that will undertake;
to undersell us: ancl-,,that fact ought to be "
enough for Mr.'Marahall and his deluded fol
lowers. i
. - But let those iwho advoCate slopes,
I defend them; I anti in the field for shafts, '
and before I am done with them; I shall con
sign -Mr. Marshall and iniventunins asso
ciates into'one from whose dark, depths the
'sound of Gabriells joyous trumpets will fall
I to, "awake them to glory and to battle again !"
Be pretends to greats alarm at the emir
moms cwt of shafts, rating' them in" two bun-1
died thousand dollars each, and foreseeing a
future investment of some twenty-nine
Honk of dollars!' I had thought 'he bad ac-
quired some little knowledge of, mining of
fairs, and not but confess a disappoint
meat at bil apparent'. ignorance. Four mil
lions of dollars Are invested in mining Opm
,tiona- in this region; and -no one ox to
kgolo better than be that, for permanent *,-
ins; this &Street invested in abath i would
realized laiyer prodUcta and cheaper coal. I
any aware it has bcenireported that the . Mc
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for Jobbing.. Brant a undies! Printer ourself, we will
guarantee our work to be u pest es any Oust on be
turned out in the ripe*. PUNTING IN COLORS dm
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NO 10.
Ginnes shaft cost upwards of one • hundred '
thousand dollars; and no doubt a large amount
of money expended in preliminary surveys
and borings, as will as extraneous expensu
and tassel) of various kinds attending an un
tried experimeny have swollen the cost of
that great work considerably beyond its indi
vidual character; ;but it certainly ought not
to have cost one-foUrth this sum, and I am •
credibly informed that it did not---or at least,
very.little more • and this , fact Mr. Marsha ll
might very easi ly have ascertained, if he had
taken the pains to inquire, and if belied not
sense' enough to kerne. IF, hOweier, an untie-
cessury amount of; money has been expended
in shafts, I have not beard any complaints, in
this region; touching the coat of /beakers. In
Shamokin, I am informed,fhirfy-siz thousand
dollars were expended upon a single Breaker'
establishment, erected mainly under 'the di
rection of Mr. Marshall ! It would be inter
esting to many 'persons, no doubt, to under
stand by what "potent magic, by what mighty
conjurations" thirty-six thousand dollars could
be appropriated Upon an establishment where
timber and living, as well as fevers and agues
are cheap and abundant, which in this region,
seldom exceeds eight thousand dollars!
Much has lately beenemid of the merits of
Shimokin Coal for blast furnaces,' and Mr.
Marshall appends wine certificates; to estab-)
lish its value in this particular. This is some
thiiig like ;Quack .doctors adiertiliog . their '
medicines rend as any adventurer in pills or
Sarsaparillak can prOcure certificates, it is no
hard matter, we presume, for Doctor Marshall
to find those willing to certify to his Coal.—
But I, myself, have , always bad a good opin
ion of the Coal, and, passed my certificate—
(so extensively quoted) long before the-Doc
tor embarked in the Made. That lying towards
the,East, in the Locust Mountain, is undeni- .
ably good; and no man wishes more sincere
ly that the markets , were as good. But 'for
furnaces, it will require more than Mr. Mar
shall's ipso dirit
,to bring it into favor. I
individual have yet to hear Is single outside
of the Shamokin region—(excepting a benev
olent friend at my elbow,) who pronounces
in its favor; and along the Susquehanna sir
er, ivhere so much 'of - it is to be used, it has
• been very decidedly Orown out of use! It
has been thus rejected at the . Shawnee . furna
ces at Columbia, as also, if I am not greatly
mistaken, at the great Iron , works at Safe
Harbor. What furnaces, if any, continue to
use it, I am unable to say; but from what I
have heard of it, the number must be small. -
Even the furnace at Shamokin, located lathe ,
midst of the mines, and no doubt using the
best the' region afforded, was choked up . after
a brief service, and though the act is attribu
ted to another cause? I cannot but think that
the Coal must have contributed to it. I wish,
most sincerely, that the intelligent prop rietor
of those works may obtain a Coal to justify
his high appreciation of its qualities; and that
'his own successful exp eriments may ultimate
ly.be instrumental in' introducing it generally
in the Susquehanna Valley. [Amf berel may
' be excused for observing, en passant, that the
the duty of thus speaking freely of a region in
which such men as henre somewhat associa
ted, becomes pensonally distasteful and un-
pleasant. And ',wish to be distinctly under
stood that while there are those whose motives
and objects it would .be impossible for me to
question, there are others—(and these condi.
tute the large majority,) whose conduct has
invited and provoked .this explanation at my
hands.] '
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The, late Richard C. ;I'aYlor in his work on
Coal, speaks as followi:. "In general, the Sha
mokin Coal has .a white ash : it is.a free burn
ing Anthracite, of fair repute in the domestic
market, but is eonsidered to be somewhat too
soft for the most advantageous application as
a fu e l, for a blast furnace. We have seen an
analysis which assigns . 89. 99 as the propor
tion per cent. of carbon in the harder variety."
"kis not difficult 16 discover 'the- motive
that induced the •fartners and business men
of Lancaster' to invest. their capital in Sha- 7"
mokin Coal lands, in reference to • the Silver '
mines of their own neighborhood, which were
30 much asked up ii few months ago, but of ,
which I have heard but, little of late, and fear
, they are, as'Mr., B. says of the Dauphin' Coal
mines 'used up for want of metal?' These
lines were, no doubt, intended to be serest; •
but the unfortunate marksman has hit hia
friend, instead of the foe! I can tell Mr. Mar- •
shall why he has heard little of them of late :
it is because his particular friend, the Presi
dent of the Big Mountain Coal Company, has
sneaked out of them Without settling up his '
accounts and arrearageS with his associates—
leaving
the laborers antinlyself deficient in a
small amount which I have repeatedly endeav
ored to collect I Is this enough 1 Nay, thee
seems to desire information , and I will give it
to thee, even more than thee desirest!
Before the discovery;tif this mine, and long
before anything was certainly known of its
value or particular feattirei, this great Mogul
of the Shamokin region,! who happened to be
jointly interested with three others, true' to
the instincts of his nature, was constantly in
sisting upon turning the mine into a stock •
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Company, conceiving it, to be What- it really
would have been in his hands, a magnificent
schenie to Speculate upon. e chewed up,
frOin time to 'time, sundry prompect9ses, one
of 'which .1 happen to have at hand being
framed, as he mformedime, upon the plan of
the Shamokin Coal companies. The capital
stock was to consist of one million dollars, in
shares of ten dollars ea%b. ' 'Twenty thousand
dollars were appropriated to pay for land; U
., ty thousand dollars for Working capital, and
ten thousand shares, (equal, at two dollars per
share, which it is thought they might bring,
to twenty thousand' d) to-be held in re
serve,for the exigencies of the company. The
rest of the stock, consisting of 45,000 shares,
was W be divided -equally among the . four
original owners. As 1, happened to be
my, shares represented' nearly one hundred
thousand dollars; and I would have had no
reason to complain, bad I lent myself to the
Scheme, ; -
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But unfortunately for: the Big Mountain
friend, be was associated with those who,
without making ostentatious exhibitions of
social probity and decorum, would not lend
themselves to any such scheme, until they
should have learned something more mitten
tic and reliable as to this Mine; and for this
purpose their time and imoney were finely
expended, as long as the object seemed' to
invite it=-which it cestainly did. In the
meantime, this individual became impatient
and troub lesome, and finally refused to• con- .
tribute to the farther prosecution of the work.
I became disgusted with the man, and dis
posed of my interest, with the approbation of
the others, and retired. :Before Icould settle
my affairs, this entlemin witbdrew also,_and
altlthugh he received mute more than be ex
pected, haathis far refused to settle his sr
rearagee with me. In themaentime, the mites
has been quietly- worked-.its character is
well known to those who Sotight . the informa
tion and were waling tqlxiy for if, and the
result fully justifies and sustains all the 'anti
cipations it ever inspired. This, Mr. Mar
- shall, is a specimen of Shamokin "eater- '
prize"—this is the sort of :material Shamokin
coal companies are mead 'of, This very . Big
Mountain company has a capital, I. befieve,
of three millions of dollars, and purports to
own some six thousand tore/ of land, worth
from five to twenty dollars per acre, and esti
mated by the company at from two to five
hundred dollars? Its stock has been parcel
led out 'amongst the verdant Atarketetreet
pedlars in sums ranging from fifty to five
hundred' dollars ---thongh I have heard of
one fi rm who ha d some eighty thousand dol
lars in this and other companies. (This firm,
however, has failed, as any man in his senses
might have sworn—"or as, any one who rens,
Might.read.") The people of Lancaster, who
have been absolutely loaded down with it,
(and w4se banks are so tightly wound up in
consequence that the leasil snap would burst
them,) have been trading it off for• booki,
fancy China-ware, and babies' tops, wherever
an opportunity has offered. -h is thus with
all these stocks--I say all,hecause I know so
exception. Many of m have been orga
nized for two or tb past; and not
one of them but proms or the year just
- closed, a product of coal of from one to ante
hundred Rheinland tons; Making the aggre
gate amount from the whole region between
one and one and a half millions of tens f And
what
less
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