The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 25, 1871, Page 1

gue IRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, THE PAMINE IN COAL The Conspirators Hoping to | reuigu'sui susquenmas Kaiiroad Vepots aad thelr Starve the Miners, — —_— Tho Story of the Coal Striko as Told | S's/i "corer which the om: Noro dragged up, or let down, Both Sides, ont union, od Kew York and ht's Supply ef Coal Fears of a Riot heir Wicked © The leating carrying comp: idieulty in obtaining | 88 fur as the track was bela At rbredhdt Aa ttind aperation, Te completion oF ie Easton mad® an linprovement in fe Arrangement CB tbIAT route MOFSI® Gnd Basex, whieh f ew Jersey Central y injured (io passongor traMe of the there companies | road 1; does, however, a laige business in carry aro engaged tn the transportation of passengers, the | 16g cou! an evil of sperisl logislation for them ean be endured fee Mewweliing vuplic Will pay no heed to the trivial | ready iadicated, many o fleecing to which tt fi When, however, an effort is made to holst Of an article of vital necessity toa fzure beyond the | The combinadon was of the men who formed it are in our ui Joguslation for their own one Legisiitures know well requiring Gve or more Ageres to express the dollars ade of sins," even with their too eondving constituents. ta balan ive of won-resistants nor, the most p Must fool tuut son.ething ought to be doue, # Less tian a your after Robert Fulton made the first succes eamboat trip fi Albany und back, Jesre Fell ngton and Northau Rickory wood. fog through bie erat structed, aod hebad arude iron g ate cor | tvs, to ke the results of his ef wine expectations. pressed wi's: the importenco of his discovery, *brigit freomason, be selected most aclein place for recording the transaction the | Sito. tseluting th fy leat oi is * Free Maron Bistori al and formed at s me id On the Oftieth anpiversary | Eight hundred avd tty dollars ©!) of the burning of anturacite coal, in the very room | tirely from of the THM FORST ANTURACITE FIRE The entry, which we quote from | titled ob having seen it for six ears), is oe! sw Wivexenaane, Fob. 1. in Durning the common sloLe coal « ang find (hac it answers all the pur er than Wood. Like most great discoveries, tois h way grada lly into the favor of th iniog were rude and imperfect. Trans Binwe Upon the ¥ Was $0 expensive a8 Lo confine the use of immediate neigbborliood of the wines At mines they conit be called. Foad question | thay the smoke (rom the eng tlence through ‘Were ignorant of the mature omed to wood, the fire by using doit @ kin bad spent the morning tu make their fre buro. couts and went to dinner, leay On their return, and bad difficulty in opening nes Would spread 7 f the new fuel One day the RACITE PROBLEM WAS SOLVE Por a long time o w keen # Bnew what was in store for fair Wjomive.” Que gentlemen who had sioner, and who baa been amon moting internal improvements forty years ago for §3,000, wt possession of the Delaware and Hudson Canal worth more fold a tract of land Kren as recently near Wilkesbarre was doug! While the coal, under the terms of the present lease, ts worth more than $200,000 At the time of the mass 1A, Matthias Hollenback swam a Banna to escape from his savage poreuers, His othing was ocanty, but be kept in bis mont golden guinea, exhiviting @ prudence which was of the fortanes of } Kept the soll-gate of the britge over the game river "¢ when Fitz Green Halleck visited He fined tho poet five dollars for bts romar te freak in galloping across the briv of the solemn warn for travelling faster th Balleek revecged him Ocien'ious oMicial in his wel.-koown poem, * W) Holleubeck's descondants receive a hand some income from the lands of the Hollenbeck Co. Company, within two miles of this bridge, Tuv €oal business became xigantic, aw that the possession of mines, toge ‘With their control of facilities for transportation ‘Would give them the “ inside track."’ The coal com w that they must not remalo at the mere ef railroad companies, if they wished to fulfli their ontrets, or obtain reasonable r came by telegraph and tons of * within @ week, and delay the buyers tw Ket accommodation elsewhere, THN WORK OF CONSOL Individual operators were t 4 or enjolet The Consolidated Coal Compal ro of Wyoming, July 3 awalk over thie bride The carrying com peasceilinb from aur cause forc into» unton afterwards the Wilkesbarre began to buy or lease all ay nos to remain long without rivals, The Dela Ware aud Hudson, and De Western Companies, originally formed ot or near Beranton, came down the valley superiority of ware, Lackawanna ‘The Orst-nimed company now guna sixteon collerics. and bouglit at one time one | the Atlantic Ocean, to 2 Worth of ands, breacers Delaware aud Hudson) contains several New York | own bands, und i® Very prompt This company (the Leckawanoa and fice th eollieries ip Vie and manages (wo the Lackawanna and Booms) composed of 80 x0 o0gagod in the coal businers THE AVONDALE MINE to keep the collieries at work t at the time of the disaster; a Jisnster whieh could | 2% provented, if the request of an operator neighboring mine had | months before the nt the ditecyore H niog might be made between the cclent occurred to one shaft, the workmen | {luntarily, the public wi might oncape through the other. have been very slight, but thy request was denied, pon the ples bu jondale mine. nd re 0 the mae, the cost of pump reasvd, but ove bundred aud eiglit men would d from a terrible d ef such » company was a futlni Goctiva of this wicked ‘Wle of oppression. ——S——————— he Lehigh und § (Lei ‘ are Coal cout comp Company t ono of the ol kind to Penasylvanis, and wi THE PERIL OF THE METROPOLIG, | Siictcnteizanie, 54, rss once considered one Lehigh Vasey Railroad wae baiidin who te stil Presiden! of that Company and its lead i Herta ice weat to La wanazers of the Col : ana Navigation Cov : Tho Trio Railway Cheokmating | Mita fuss 4a wanploaseat F womeretnture ot the c the Operatora tani call the Leaiga, Valley Compa and ite rival the “* Lehigh.”” offer was relected with disiain, and Judge | » J sh h hi od ot Chained Neos STO FROM PHILADELPHIA | from ’a'“canaes, and krmoy Hat mC nvany, (the Valley) curity, The Lebizh road at that time ez'e twenty miles, io and luconvenient cars applied to his friend Commodore Giving oonds on his own from White Haven to Wiikesbarre planes,” A janerion with the however) was effected ansi and with eesy crades, the Valley Company A way to cro Irutore tion betwen n nearly every Easton an | up to Seran 0: ad, with favored of d sment, Obseaui- | {> fu bank feurteon mise has permaj Than the freight, vennsylvania forced increase ip tho price of evs f the en andjected, | Companies are New Yo Bever3 Lughing ab tae UPLPLEseN ts only by perfect om New York to on streets, Wilkes: | Blizavetaport, N © a remedy for this trouvle ? ty Wout the a oom w te exceeded bis | be ‘seen’ ond not heard.” Ih He seemot to beim. | aud O% bil" above mentioned Le Leg store and signe id. Jin defance of @ petition the | more than twenty-Ove hundred by was found too lous beer. nd beer sellers wax held, ove the collected, and an agent wos a ovore re This toctoty waa Ono LO piss were no less than twenty bilis be n act supplemeniary the ci'y of Phitadeip y 2 yore of Our Lort | may be initrd to atiead to the ca Sree cr eye ana Jesse FEL que warorin to work its - stors Contrive public, Appi | How the Ope dred and Five Colliertex ot yet bad the r 1 vely prov nermore, peoric mul before it reaches t asses are just now ind roprietors o: ainong tuemsclves, each t drnitives (eorte € eh deiermined to hog aton their | egy In this particu € the furnsce doors | 6129 ies emp! found their furaaee | yy poys, The operators are avo terested In the earryin tra then, less than 80,00 peor! © quarrel among themselves the rst in pro reat communities is now in the cast of this p are threatened rivation of cual at midwinter because of the 1851, a farm of Hfty-wo acros | [oS id: ht for 68,000, The sur. THR PARTIFS TO THE QUANRSL Forme wed sold. pi g6ar x0. fF 987.000 The coal miner te a laboring ma, capital beyond bis hea! oss the Susqur tal, suMcient to tea pie ® 7) notar the mij he employs, o that make the land valuable, and ein otter die | ices land Five dollars Gn rtalizing the con con'est between ca fur regions of this ton, Lehigh, aod § nection, The Scranton r her reigh', Oc for fifty or slaty sion. that regton, bat much of chuses the product of al! the coil ported 10 New York and Oswego ree of four lines of fa x 2 Company propetry, but it e valley Onde an o bh tie Susquehanna Valley oads centering at W ams} L region is phia and Readin much of Its y River and Canal convinced of the Mammoth" or ¢ around, via t w York housand dollars’ its payments to MINRNS’ STRIKES. ave lvaned lands embers of | a eccount of that rd, amore ex | yy twenty-one | { ke for ¢ 60 €: nl Region :" tion, ‘The production of coal in this State greatly ama ro exceeds the demand for consumption. Leapitallate who Iwas working | 4a would naturally fall off, ‘Theref 'ouly work them long en experienced eu ent * But w to that, | 2 i uid coal, arguing that of the a Jo the price The expense woud | jn ihe Orice K monld have bean | ZOX stoppage of sll ‘he works, Hoan soa tee tuee | ® comsequeut rise in the prices. 1 the Oret The tii Yored to redace the price of leases, by refusing to carry conl taken from lands, the owne: charged more than ten cents per ton in the ground, equehapna Railroad ‘oinpany } i virtually and Tron & ninion h: ving been offected two or three yea! OFFICR ON BROADWAT bass doud's sien, on one face of which the railroad company has the frst place, and on the other the y. The Leniga Coal od Navigation Judge Packer. aunion. (To try thro ance of tuo New Jersey Central a ‘ough route was secured to New York ew route was found or tho Le: UB PRELNG IN AND NRAR THR CITY, | Shevbaice te Wave Maren distance to thirty miles, Lut gave comparatively the mountain» ced toa Fort- THe Finst THROCGM TRAIN up the Lehigh Va'ley Railroad to Wilkesbarre the roads was sovere}, aii high’ Company, le% with only a si n of the local traMc, pushed ity route running pa not alone to bo blamed f ding mien Ke cap.tuliais, Dros way trom Soath Ferry. t 6 business places alg passed before reaching the AL atin this e oF THEIn vicTHNS. Jon thet such ac tion os the present has been loraed who kept a brick tay. is now cl erzed for its pastage frou Wi kes J. $7.10. ‘The thronga far . fencer from Wilkesbarre to New York common stone coal | Fey} of Wyoming Valley in an open grate, made of green ie lie a Encouraged by lis success in burn. | Les anxiously fixed upon the Pennsyivan ors of that aug wisider themselves children, at tthe proverb. “Lite ch nines of every Olprouicer in Penvasivania. A cert Monitor.” The book | Nquor is n tho cadinet of the Wy ing couaty. A meeting ounty! A yoar ago a dl ie after pita tiles, This was a hozardeue proc i re the House « tie wet Howey quent deuiyciutions of the pres, by belt ton r to Throw the Yorkingmen Yweutyesevea Mines Worki ‘orrsviite, Pa, Feb. 23,—A very athe Britis Paria need Jon in woiskey, even with the revon gulon, There are throes classes ng abcut n they ean ini ton, and si) the intermedute country posaessed of nu and Stren; ent for his daily breal gad that of his family up Ls dat! toil, ‘The coal operator has a timited @ ploce of , and take o8t @ small quantity of coal. man; and very frequently ts as poor that he ¥, His +0 | carrier is the millionaire. Re it is that owns most ofthe land oe well as the means of commu: the facilities for (ransporting the product cf the mines opened on to market, Ik ia weil shat thewe distine dione be hept im mind, asthe e:quel will show th: ihe injary Which they sre doing w the masses of the Middie and Eastern Sta'es is the result of the old and lavor, ant is mai tributable to the domineering spirit of tho fe THE SOURCHS OF COAL SUPPLY ‘The country is supplied with .uthrac 6. three of,which, eluylull, are Important In thie rion iv tively controlled by the Delaware, and Western Railroad Company, w owss the priveipal raliroad «otan he coal !a giont# more open to competition, being tappet by ai, and the y Canad, Still these carrying interests evnt the region, the product of which follows t New Jersey railroads to New York, oF passing up tet toward by the system most wholly at the mercy Railroad, wR Delaware River and 1 ton the railroads have the whole coal trade in their 1t ie no modern or new thing for the miners em ployed in digging this coal out of the bowels of the Western Ce earth to object to the share of the profits upon iniquitous | ybich is seeorded to the... Periodically wo hear of & miners’ strike, Sometimes, it ts true, the miners crease of wages, Dut 1d strikes will not 'beur close inve ‘That is, were al, the collieries kept at work throughout the entire the markets would be glut 6 it oughou gh to furnish a foir supply Proportione! to the consumption, Moreove orators say that a colliery should not ne worked more than ten mouths out of every that on | SWelve The other two months are required for re- the operators to close their works for a reduction jemand that the collieries had stopped. "To avoid thi embarrassmen miners don’t strike voluntarily the operators man- age (o coax them juto it, oF at loast to unite In & co! impression of 8 fear of @ coal fawine, and THe PResext srorrsgs, ‘are virtually all closed, Of the 189 In ‘bie i7gion Dub #1 are Working, and (hese are kept | een deck to the mines cori, sad siore cing for reasons that will be explained horea‘ter in the Lehigh region work {9 absolutely snspended {In the Scranton region it is anderstood to be the game, though of this Tam not positive, These co Herles suspended on the 15th of Janaary last, nomi naliy Decatise of a resolution of the Mine: cia tion, of the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association to quit work on that day unless their wages were incroased, But the actaal atoppare was not due to that cause, As a matter of fact—and toia 1 have from a leading operator of this rerion—most of the would have stopped on the Ist of January bis resolution of the miners, Wien toat II the operators crowded their toreos And took ont the utmost qurntity of coal poxsil'e np to the 15's, and then ali siopped togetunr. It suited the operators to stop at that (hie, and it was con Venient 10 lve the means of charging the eloppace tow nuuors’ strike WHERE THE RAILROADS PUT THEIR FINORRS IX, Now, tos! ow the correctness of this statement look at subsequent events, What the minors asked Was @ mero abstract concession, as will be shown Prosently. Some of the operators, who hada de mand for their coals, after fixing up their collieries, cone'uded to resume work, giving the miners wisnt disposition ty they asked for, Others manifested follow the exampie, ‘i hen tho ere: And capitalists sieppe! in and said, vesumne work, We wiil compel you tot by putting a prohibitive tarif on the transportat of coul to market.” And this was done. All the carriers unite! in fixing the tarif ata ficure that would absolutely prevent the coais reaching tar. ket, Thus the tariff from Mauch Chunk, the bead. quarters of the Lehigh region, to Elizabeth, N. J Was fixed at 87.10 per ton, From Scrauton it was raised to the same exorbitant ure. From here to Poiladeiphis ant Richmond it was pas at $4.18 ihe highest (rrightage ever charged heretofore has deen, to New York by canal $9.33, and by rail $3.11 + Thos tt wail be apparent to everybody that the trouble, however tt may have originated, is now solely with these wealthy raliroad corporations, whieh have thus deliberately laid this o (ax upon tie people lor their own aggran FiGUTING OVER AN ABSTRACTION. Lost winter and spring, when the miners were on @ st.iko, sfler there had’ been a cessation of work suMicien'ly long fapuis the curpores of thy onggatyrs aqd carrigrs. crene*Tient Was mads with th minors, aud a scale of pil es was creed upon tle Was mutually satisfactory all around, ‘This w Known as the Gowan compromise, under whica the price of labor wos made contingent uoon the pri Of coal at Port Carbon, and Muctusted with the Ia ter, The miners croper, it must bo onderstood, are hot pall by day's work, but receive a certain com ation per yard, of Wagon load, aa she case may be, but this prica'ts predteated upon the standved price of cout, Under thin adjustinent, mipora’ way at the priseipal inine tanged during son fom 2 90 per day at ihe lowest to $460 por tay at the pighest. But these prices do not show the value of a (ull day's work, because the miners not Work Mull days, ‘They seliom work over six wars ; Aud, J, sbouid any be industrious aod Wish to work longer, their fellows will not percait them to do eu, Orcasiona ly, however, it 80 happe (Wat the micer i# in danger of @ pinca by reason o bowind him He is employed by e day in securing the works. ‘There are variow sons that operate oneo ina while to cali a mine: Hom evu'rict Work, When ho accepts time work Ai bastes back LO dy ContRAct Ax 8000 as poxsl9 The Gowan comprotisa fixes the price of time ator, When cot {8 $2.50 per ton at Pork Carb niner, $169 por Week, inside laborer, $10 ontai te fidorer, 89.19%, ‘The miners now ask thot the imperfret propping 0 tho wal then gav'# nis contract work, an tuese prives be declued Baed; that is, that $2.50 TUR Basis, and (he above their wazos wines coal {9 at that pice With False of 81 per cont. on al Th ty make any dete cua per ton, but charge th Uist they ean eunply fig of ine mout Is" Work each you! etn steadily employed througout the your, tourorstick the market and bring abort ar fin price and @ consequent diminution in wires iis ta the staccteub of the case as tmade dy Mr Jolin Sinsy, Proawlent of tho mnon's idk nevolont paciety, I give bim the credit for it, ao Witiswnding Is places tue workin.men berore t Tuvle we tuo advocates Of Ligh prices, wateu Ld hot believe bs Just On the contrary, I believe that Mfr. John Siney ts morely & (ool in ite hands of those capisali sre seening 10 Create a coil fainine ts tie by it. ‘The os rothe basis sia 3 F434 arseiorige | this abov aber aad sO Ht isin the fullest seare, sae Cie miner 6 pay bo 4 traction in einer cass, 'T. desis 19 3, and coal is worth only $2 roop, tae uiiaer nite to @ discouat “0 THY WoRKINGMEN work f toa etary at Arriors say nuit 1 vow simply captal ag abor, and iin dinieult to Loreseo the result Tue RATORS WORKING IN BRCRRT. ni ¢ re is | on ut y ca a ' {ue me ° th ey ch n tie puviie wed the worsingm: Le conclusion of that mecting Ue represenia tives of tho Schuylkill trade will return here repurt to the veal Byard of Trade for this resion jen A clearer ides of (he condilion of the Oght w be avallat To-morrow the Letigh trade ge through the eaine ceremony, La either instance tneetinge are werely © thy carriers to 4 the operators: COAL FOR TUR IRON MONG ison the p backbone mu Ib {4 not true, os bas been state of the Lelian and Sey Va out, tod suspen led work for the etfors bas bean made, ond iy sit) ea 10 dO £0, Dub they are still Worn turpaces are a power ia tbemseives, an rors are extremely anxious to proitinte tein, For this Ferson. sevoa cvilieries ‘souil of the Broad Mounts this region are oO continue work, the oberators pn 3 raibers wand, The product of these eo. ep tiese furnaces In operavion, ad is trang to them by the Fi ing and conus the old raves of freigut, Those mines p adout 5,000 sons per woek, ON# ROAD STILL OPRY, In the upper part of th that part trio {—the coilleries aro nearly all at work, ‘ibere are seventeca at wors in the Shamoken region and threo in Mananoy, prc ducing, With tie seven at work tn Lbs coun y, ana, Div week, ‘This, mateat Of 14,000 to average produc: whea all by certain old coutracts, by whic) cual cvirving are at work, Tre arn Conr'ral Railroad is bound business Wis trans to private parties, so th It could pol, fit Would, cuter the lorgae wish ihe oihercarrters, Bat coal that fais an outlet 2 (yom rather thi Yew York J to Bato and the West, MINRRS QUIRT AND ORDRLY 4 this region are very qnict ving from al BAe iouN ary ty property. Indevd, this plice, on woult not kavw trom the appar f the sire that there was any Unusial Gisturbance of the labor of the country. [tis commonly riportet, however that the funds of te Worstngmon's Beaevotont As Sociation are nearly exhausted, and that the men Will be foreed to disbauil ani go work from starvation, Aa aginst this revort TL have tae Assurance Of o prominent bank oflelal, that 1 the miners lave considerable deposits i sty s avin. ® ks and are no where Kear exhausted, Probably th isthat their associated surplusis running whether they will be content to vit still wt reusing to be see Doubtless there are wany of them Wuo have no such resaurces to fall Deck upon, Sho will be ready to resuise work & any price they can get when ihey tho low vatup their persunal savings, find they cau no longer subsise in lalevens, THE FAMINE IN THE MESROPOLIS. oe Only a Fortuight’s Supply of Coal tu Brook- jyn-Williamaburgh Nearly Out-A New York House Favoring tts Frieuds, Messrs, Marston & Power, the largest coal dealers ia Brooklyn, who supply farnilies almost ex clusively, say that their stock of coal will supply their customers two weoks longer. Yesterday they were selling at $12 per ton, but the probab that the price will be higher next week. Mr. Mar ston thouglit that no yard had coal enough to satisfy the demand longer tian ten or twelve days, ana scouted the notion of any resort to violence to ob. tain fuel, Others think that a riot is inevitable in the event of the supply of coal giving out IN WILLIAMSDURG the eupply is nearly exhausted, Mr, Gafaoy, at the foot of Grand atreet, has about 1,500 ton the largest quantity held by any one a Hamsburgh, probably more than is held by all the reat pus together, Mr, Armfield bas about four weeks’ eupply, A friend of Mr, A, at Belvitere, that no coul can be had there, sight of the mines. They are obliged to send to New York for supplies. iva eur FEBRUARY 25, fe aboot half their ase! pout one-oighth Mis Whon he tried to replenish his soe, dealer to whom he NEW YORK, SATURDAY, S Tuttle & Co. B, Hoyt has to cut the coal “ By the way,” said he, ont Has he told you everything about com, porter—Well, yo of an tonight into the subject. Fisk—I told that Gould ist usual supply. ve waa asked by the wholesaie $13.59 per. ton tor coal delivered in Wile HOt More than 30 or he tos given mo something tT. F. Tayior hss Gould knew ail about Ttell you when hase to get up put the price of a1 Company at thelr depot in have no coal formed that should the mi et ahead of nim Gonid, why the d coal down to $60r $7? 8 cot of $5.75, and make monoy at that T wouldn't Lave siapped the price rig i dian't you Wo cam bring coal oud be Iwo Woeks bovore they could got eoal ta Williamsbargt, Tho price 14 8 A touse With A sow! Jeremiah Skidmore & Sons, succossors to tha ol Orm of Randoiph & Ssid irigenth wrest, Are 807 chatomers with one oF two bin per ton, sithongh they could s Ie at a higher rate, keeping with t THRRR COAL APRCULATORS SICK. t —shame that the pooi York should be compelled to pay $15 or $¥) 8 ton tor coal when there is no necess boon going to cto it, T woalt ha: at once, and let the at Fourth avenue lying their resuar of coal each a! $12 | their whole Tais course people of New o doug tin big thing have all the coal they want Jealings of this Orm aud their Weil, It costs about. doilar tho river, and on this side woul! be about Keep it at that for th As the reporter of Tim SUN withdrew, bo taw the from his pocket and to & poor widow wio liad appiied Cor aw Tthoagnt thar ® A COAL COMPANT'S APPnet 1 guess we will The fears of a riotous attack upon thoir property by the freezing poor of Paterson, lod the Delaware, ern Railroad and Coal Com: f tiveir more valuabie pro No riotous de nonsira ¢ take Ove dolla Lackawanna and W ny to piace 4 guard o Thursday night Lows were made, howeyer, janger is over, the Erin Ratiway’ TUE CONSPIRATORS! APPRAL, coal ut $8 per ton will reileve imme ro bas beon much on seconnt of th Lackawanna aud to be one of the ereit coal ore, a8 they continued to eas than to Pater against the Company was tie ra all danger is pase will be no riot, rovwituatunding the impolitic course of the Company AND MH, CANAL COMPANT SATS, advertisment mont from the Phila Convention Wrougs of the Poor, Helpic Pita, Feb. 24. following addr: An Ingevion the Delaware, Company was bei ta mecting of coal to the seavor concerned. operators to: was adopted : committ Schuylkill ragion, But itis hoped tha Mmiareprosentations by ofMcers of the Workingin Association have it necessary Setuytatil regio to the facts in t possible the cai 0 being maste waiting may misundersandings oO grand strike of Apri Seavor to show bow unreasonable tite WHAT THE D, to eail the attention of the public ater, and to show aa bricly which have fet them fnaliy of thelr owa property Tho Editorial Articles the misrepresentation 6 Company's ex v4 that during the men Were a pert + of 190) wae’ on a eldlog scale opward Port Carbon ; that on coal being worth in the Toe sizes taken ju aaverace of g0.08 Vebruary 1 was ton at that point Were lump, stermboat, broken and the ea'es $6.59 por ton 2) Lows, which Ti conciusion, the C 6 production of oa 9 be embraced in tne price ruled so much below other rogate quantity was perunited to be esitinate 1 as cheatnut coal WORN THAT Bas! the prices of all necessary articles of living were higher than io Ls7 in market values coal wus u« production was fa #pring of 1870, the price of eoal fel jo to #0 alter the bubis as to h the market pt; the Com Benevolent Associ Work woen the wil retail at $3 and $3.90. ‘nd only tea Fold ali the coal on hand for dlasribution to fami lies at the prices above named. ERLE TO THE RESCUBR Keneral decling to Fill the City with Coal Corporation to anytuing i advore to. their presoat offer ani re Checkmating the Monopoiiat itative of Tum Suw call huve it dechwe as welas ady ris Oort effort was treated wit street and Kigh claiming that they w tng, he turned oie . What can I do for the re of the great luminary to day 1" Pisk, 1 see by @ eard from Mr Gould in the morning newspapers, that tie Relic Railroad offer to bring coal reporter and sail, W at waich coa: justinent of wazns, on one and ano witn the consaat of the owners, THe EDICT OF THE CoMMITTE jation rendering it imposaivle to fad tug to iuenr their displeasure, entire existence of tis Assuciation, it hes teen the operator to dischatze from lis © mombers, without its cer pension of wil his , decide what and whi oiore than do our roalors, to market at a much > than is demanded by other and T have called to got the centre of the Sehuyit nized by the minors aa their organ, The Miner's Journal, padiis represent the vi proposition : Gould knows all al on'd knows all nore in a iminuty js busy just now, but smoke a good c to talk with you. about every was the caus be watted upon by a Committ the Workingmen's Benevo be ordered to res Branen Asa out Association 6n, bia fermer position rater has in his employ aman, nota m @ Who is am. an order of the men's Bonevolout Association ail their mombers Cease TO WoRK aT THAT PL arrangement to auit Ul regions ae regards the zarket, 1 groand only arrange wa, In fact some basia ‘a adoptet the basis whica both had adopted and ucceytel it at the close of lust year wita a siding 6 condition attached to it is tbat ff the mea accept | above 3° at Port Carvo ko above $3 antil ald say we wo a ton delivered he might do {t less than that co, T would have put it rieh ng our collivries and « bile the waces contivoed at that point, Upon a new dasis elormiael oa t Thy result was an ent ba, and finally a com rust, known as she Gowen ¢ Delow the haste of 1879, thone:t by consaim work cthers co to work or not, ing of tt, Or advices to vi be taken in we ore cortain war aia aay man wh INCOMPETENCT, or bai conduct, Will be sble to go on. end the Co: of a very fa: Committee of the teon, ropresonting the partieip bare ¢ artion at Phi bas cated a conier ave no¥ 89) meu at work in (and Inteation of the the mines, an bus we cap easily increase tha furce suf avon. that viaty, and it TO DELIVRR IN of th ae a branch lin ntemfiug to tho Towanda mines ty Ror cent oD dyer 822), to be Feluced forty per cout. ou uumest )mport is coucorned, (be great question to-day is, Will the men seco} monthly, the Pre: g 14,09) tous o} FIVE OPERATORS, various and conflicting that an opiniou can lost. followin, produce as ro owned ond worked by the B Lean doitver now what Tam al iu New York tor $3 i Operstovs aval! by eelecked from a lit of whore anipping over Wy.000 LOu8 that the miners {Work in yOUr mines, wills all tie oiher miner hall DX tie rates of wares tor in regard to th. a in fores during (he year K. Sigiried, MP. ais bayo a different sy ur miners (rom thy otwer mien by the day, while What t# your opinton, Mr, Gould, of Gould—Phe dire © thirty conta p oid eeale of pric price ot livi siihe was a Tn In thewaeestot |. The recion stertod work on the 94 of Ancust, bet thrown in the way of their ‘ijustment of wages based on the Work was, howey: ng the balance of the year secord! Our agroement al hos been satd and published Lion to the wagus earned Gowen compromise ulated hy any One, Dut earnings of miners unde: contract work can only be arrived at from pay rods to get the earnin, by contract froin the pay-rolly ries in the region, which w Josterday over his stgrature, Ho say doolle that of the Ficur was 14 per burrel, and every On this wecoust VEST POSSIDLE PRICES Thoy have boo Ober influential miners expr ty to the proposed sottloment, and especially to the Anh claw the tn the work, fie and exerci 4 the miners pining districts, be employed ih the mi allow no Workinguer 4 hey Were menburs of th ploy say Lo nen a tion to work from tiveir bab rom $13 to $25 a day Companies bad uo contol of neither employ ont of the Union. every ton of coal tha! reveral montis #8 of thirty cents a ton, ant the n of the wages of the a Of a day's Libor would th kind of labor i five of the b following result Average por day for Aigust, in 18 beptember, 1870, $4.14 35 on $9.50 for feven iours y masing average NET RAMMINGS PAA MAN for Augnst, ly exceed that of ang ¢ 8 Working by only employed aud suck vilior Jub work ve beeome sick d by the won ined to come to w and tired of bying terme until they ein have fy month's roll tn fret, a day's and miner will not average of the cost of prod y have on the ininors OF COAL IN THK MARKETS od Piiladelphia, and Jincharging Workmen, We bave yet to hear of n lived up to; bul we und they miy cor however, that the Erie supply ull the coal that is needed for this market fu November, 1¥ Board of Lrade ) acommittee of the Anthracite aod the Work Several large manufacturers and consumers ave been using anthra y this morning and jeft their orders for bituininous 04), f bringing in ri! the coal wanted, and have purchasod t the property of tie Weel 1 Docks Company, situate just nortts ken, giving ® Fiver’ frontage of two thousand feet, al (aie and the pre y is Cost of $1,600,00. er Cobiage tw be granted the now priee handiing of coal, in transterring it f THW ADVANCE OR DRCLIND ho excuse for th in New Yors c the price up to from §15 io $80 per ton. Reporter-—W hat in jour opiuion of the duty on cou), and allowing 16 to Le brought trom Nova Scotia and other Br or fur rusning factory arr ang ‘This is ell, Leout know; Thave nos given that pari of the snbject much attention from Nova Scotia is all bitumipons, that before arranzemonts could made for oiinging coal from there tits wh: TY WiLL BR ADJUSTE and that ib would not p At this jupcture Col Mr, Gould that several gentic Writing 9 eee kina ox Gmpurbant business, aud the: Workingmen' is my opinion Fraucies, Edwa Thin was subsequently agreed t on the bret of December e Lackawanna regi wases of bie working mea, Which ~prasion, aod an appenl va tbe part of the men the mining com Armfold gives n dotermined & credit to the assertion that the mining companios sulted in the those of other regions tq sustain tham in thetr position by joining in. tne strike. By order. of thé Genoral Colinetl total suspension took place oF 10th of Janaury last, On Jan. 95, the delegates of the Workingm Benevolout Aasociation in Sehnyikill county psssod the following resolution (No, 12); That we. the workinginen of Schuylkill county, do Hrictly adhere to the $3 basis eo long as those of Luzerue and Carooa * WORK WITH U8 IN GooD FArTH. If Lazern do not work with us in good fn ¢ Hoch agrowmnent m9 Will be bevt for our own Welfare, ‘This was in dircet violation of their agreement of Novomber. In the mean time, several moetings Were heid in New York botwoem coal operators, carrying companies, and largo cowsminyes, romuiting Tinally in tho adoption. on fob. 2 of the Feeolutions Which were published yestord . It {4 bellevod tint the above rates will be ae nearly as possible equal in_ail the regions, and will pay workmen of the Schuylkill region fully os hizh Wages as thoy earned under the Gowen compro. ‘he public must perceive that the great point in dispute between us I# that while the workin tre determined thut coal shail’ nos go. below $3 at the operators claim and Insist upon tho advantage of the increased consumption derived from low prices, and which shall be regulated purely by eaoply and demand, When the workmen determine to accept this just and equitable bas offered them to-morro we hope aud b it will obviate many of the diMcuisies heretofore expericnesd, and tat we will be caub ed to goon without Interruption, thus In suring a atoady supply of cual at fair prices for all The a ve was ordered to be published by the of fiteon of the coal operators of t THE FEELING IN POTTSVILLE this Mernla: Nowspapers inthe Mining Kegion—Bo: Sides Meard, Porrsvitts, Feb. 24—Evening.—The proposi- tion for resuming work iu the eoilleries throughout his State avr in Phliatelpila yesterday, ox in this region. The Anthraziée Monitor, the recog nized organ of the Schay ‘kill mine to-morrow, will treat the proposition with the fol: lowing editorial comments: upon by the operators and carricrs general comment io its number of Wo have n to comment at length on tthe apacr theabove. The proposition will of course receive dae conaiiteration. AS ceptod or rejoctos, we woether it will be ac ave nothing to aay. Ib Manifest that notwithsanding tho poverty of the Sehay Ikill reghow cousequent opon the long atrik of last year, the tnipers are determined not to accede than fair wagus. Tho companies ve the priv tas circaratances ity require ection rogurd tte proposition to of clangi: en oft Dut one dotlar per diamoal ear as tuole uli metum ; they aro a PLEDGED TO REMAIN OUT util these terms ary acceded to, If non-interfer ence with the man that we shall fore Whenever an attenpt is made to introduce black went of their works means 0 Gur right to call oat Union men Ke, WO appreliend that the Union will be slow to ceade to the proposition, ‘Ihe coming week will ction will bo taxon on the proposition, that decitton wil be we do not know aus ‘This paper is printed at Tamaqua, in this county, Il region, and is recog. in this town, and supposed to ws of the operators, says of the This sooms to ng to bos fair and equitable Porition of ithe different ey do not take ainst the organizition of the W. B.A, bus sto suit the state of the market, ine! t alopt the basis of 1369, wi't ation in the rate of wages paid on said the owner ¢ Sevaylkiil county le up aod dowa, Tho only and the price of coal should go tho wages cannot ALL TH MINES GO To WouR © provision i regard to rociow and tat pordon of the Wroming <pe tue conpanics who own their own ion, Who are left to doal with tusir m HW lerns as they may choose, but are not to ikber rates tu proportion to Witat the otuers Way, as ib provides for each region (9 rosume as hey acce; torms propuaed, waich, wo ey Were snc riers, Ir ts arn, Wil Jerstood also ul companicswit! reduce tee rates © cordingly, It the men in Scliuytieil s-08ed, oF ig th . MC CAN EO to Of ite acceptance, whether his #9 our understan. mou i# to accept It al rena tbes tee H4 oppose It, 80 that work can be resumed on the Let of Mured,’ It is a yposed would bs mate. and i the state of the market will not provomtion, By acsaptias i} imme: diately and STARTING SNVEQAL COLLIBRING, furnaces thatare on the point of bi wing out ainiwe so maueh prey The Sub era! Committes fit chniylkill trade, which 4 in the Philadelphia conference ported to ths General Cominit vd their elphiais approved, This Commities we With the Committee repre sohuyikiM miners, to bo bold in this oaded abroad wit t senting th town to-morrow, vhea the terms agrev! upon Will be formally submitted tothe miners for (heir n7@ OF Tejection, Both the Comuittecs Hourd of Trade and the miners’ Committes who ore fo meeh «6h Mhem bave full powers to com clude a Jarrauge for fesumption of Sork in the re Bo that this mootiag is of the So far as the Sciuytkill region I regret to vay that opinions’on this point are #0 rool formed, The Workingnen's Benevolent Associa. certaluly getting short of fuuds, Its officers aot been paid thelr lastzmonth’s salary,vod are pot so urgent to hold oat, John Siney, their Prest dey roads have joined with (he operstors it was of no use for the miners to fight any longer; tney might as well give up at once and go lo work, as thoy mast come (o that sooner or later, Sinoy is credited with the remark that as tho rail REPCDIATES THE CARD ch appeared in the Pailadelo a newspapers he never wrote it, and refuses to be lield responsible for it their bitter hosts by which the operators domy re tho right to control or manaz ‘oure the mien have claimed 1 thy right of determining ployed, but who diamis.- They haye ‘even carried the emyloyment of thelr own nd ty determine who tors undar the pro iners’ Association aot only who shonit be ed from the muses rule 40 far as to for mew on particular Joba, terms still recaguiay tne A aud bactily agree to KAPLOY ONLY UNION MBN, nthe right of employing whom they pleas» provide thoy are Union 41 of dismiss ng suchas wo not suisthem. Muey aiso lnsiss upon ailoiing Mheiv job to suis thomeeives. 1 find, on Conversing With number of operators, (hac they are by no moaus salisilet with the Feaolt of the Vhiladelphia meeting. They claim that 0 Auras wage aro concorned, everything 14 conceved that t) mivers hive asked. I have just returnet from an informal meeting of Blteci oF bwouly operators, at which the intricate subject of a basis was discussed for ‘wo liours, ‘Tho ooiuion prevauing at this meeting Was tiat the Philadelphia proposition wii not wetilo the diflcuily,. It wae siiggested that the mon of this region night be induced to go te Work because they are hard up, but the Lo'iix' roginy, where the men are better o! terms would uot be accepted, ‘Thus, Mion, the iin ere herevter working for sbony a mont, and {nu the price of con, ut Port Carbon above. throe doilare, Would strike again, and the whole dimeuity Would be reopenest, They odjectot to the of the secoud article of the torms, and u . absolute rate have bee Gxed. The 1 delphia and I Railroad aud the oti but Instat ap nies Will on Monday next pat on the screws w litle tighter, to compel the absoluce AGE OF ALI SHIPMENTS The recent advance in freichts only to tirough freights, W bat are t 1 al Fatee=-that is, rates from (he mines to points } werg left unchanged, ‘These will be donbled up aa Mon day uuleas in’ the mean Mus do adjustaeng is effected on the precise letior of the Philadel phia terms. The carriers aro not at ail anx us for resumption, proerring 40 starve the men tnt atanloniont of their or Fanization, which ie contemplated fn the fith article of the terms, Many of the operators Would go to work Without insisting on this, but the marrisre will not permit, ‘They wilt rigidly hold the prices of (relzht at tho prohilitory Mgures until au hdjustinent is made on the proposed terms, wlich they argue Will Pruvent & recurrence of strikes. It generally conceded that the miners in tus re gion are belaying in a comu pend ng Uhvir strike; Indeed, there are (ower ac's of vio Jeace end lawieesneve reported thao wien tae col eries are as work, PRICR TWO CEATS, EUROPE: PEACE IN —_——— The Treaty Said to have been d Yesterday. France to Pay Germany $24.0,000,000. Alsace and Lorraine, with Metz and Nancy, to be Ceded, FRENCH HOSTAGES LIBERATED, rralne, inclu be Gobbied French Hostag: Conditions of Ponce. Despatches received in the early part of yestom day showed doubts as to the conclusion of peace and reported that tbe guns of the Paris forts hed beon turned towards tho city. Later information, however, indicates a more favorable state of things Ge the Mbbjoined telegrams show. Lonpon, Feb, 14:30 P. M.—The London Stan@ Special despatch from Versaiiles, whieh announces that a treaty of peace was sicned to-day by M. Thiers and Count Von Bismarck. the detat's ere yet anarranged, but all will be dually settled to-morrow. France »ays to Germany three bundred and twem joes of thalers ($240,000,000.) Alsace and Lorraine, including tho cities of Mote and Nancy, are ceded to the Germans, ‘my wilt not enter Paria, The Emperor Williain leaves on Monday for Bag —Paris is quiet, M, Thiers is expected here to-day, NOM CAPITAL, Lowpon, Feb, 4.—The Telegrapn from Paris 234. i “All tho conditions of peace are now settled, em ‘The Germans demand twe while France §Tho Gorman bas 0 despatch that of money. millinrds of thalers (¢ has offered to pay one milliard, lave allowed sovea hunired and Sfty millions for Fequisitions and fines and the debts of Alsace an@ Lorraine, but hold out for one and a quarter mall> A frlendly arrangement is anticipated, ERATION OF FRENCH HOSTAGE: Bremen, Feb. 24.—A telegraphic order received directs the immediate liberation ef all the French hostager THE CONDITIONS OF PRAC Borneavx, Feb. 21.—The Court of Rome has ee cogaized the new Government of France, Nonews has been received here respecting the negotiations at Versailles. maintained until the conditions of peace are fully This silence will te Buntin, Fed. 94—The Prussian Crowe Gasette sage | the dispateheos ia the Belgian journals purportidg te give the cenditions of peace now a are altogether incorrect, Lint, Feb. 4—P. M r negolation, A telegram from the Gow ernment at Bordeaux warns the public agatnat false reports as to the terms of peace, wluch it nod yet be known, DISCOSAING Tht FINANCIAL QUESTION. Loxpos, Feb. from Versailles to discuss the financial question varck, it is maid, contributions which 1 proposition is vigorously Count von Bi Geuranus un inued rom, however, oppose d by M. Thier WA NorES, The Prussinas Kequisitions-The Corps to be Dissolved, The covtridution imposed on Alencon remaige the stocks of vying on Merchandise-Ne Garibaldian the Prassiaos have seized {n the principal shop: The amount of the requisition made by the enemy on Honfleur is 645,000 fraces, ys that Count Von Big» marc’, at the request of M. Thiers, has ordered the onthe inhabitants of aff contributions 1 of requisitions uj Sections, and Las declared that lovied sinco the 3h of January will be deducte@ The Durly News says that M. Thiers and his ea to leave Paris for Borde er with the Assembly on Friday, ‘aris on Saturday, wi Lave & decisive inverview with Count Voo Bis von Thar day, and will The Journot de Macon says that Gon, * Penhoos 1 to dissolve the Garrib dian Co ad to disband the free corps under his command, A despatch from Havre fays that great indighte is foit at the fact that the vied Honfleur, which was etipuiaied by the erin stice to be neuiral ground. has beon or. Germans have ecew AN ANNEXATION. Canadian Clud-Canada te be the Fortleth State of the Union-Vas Mines tn (he Dominion, The Union Canadian Club met last night im The Club is composed of Canadiag and the specehes of the g were enlivened as usual%with singing and mee Profesor George Batch Frenchmen, and Fronch Louisianixns, forming together a pope» on of three millions om this continent, to act i concert on the great question of annexing to the Uyitot States ads was a8 intimate a ns tbe aria tot of Freach Canadians had ea! tates within a few years, tack of prosperity in their native land, induced by, ched colonial goverume served that the Fi Jd be large if united Masonte Mail French of both sexer jor appealed to al iven here by the The speaker obe an vote i this State ‘that one ow, ed three eb State in the ston the imment 40f god aud Governmon® ©, Windredw ni enough of of mines would } Clous motals obti ‘Lhe speaker 1 the gnestion. as bosh, ant earnestiy hoped that t 1 BROOKLYN DIVO The Williamaburgh Widow's 610,000, as@ $100 In Board, the Widowe: City Court yesterday of 1506, whee, Kobler was widow, Each hi rst husband ti The woman's vely indepeme comparative comiory, The aequaintsu 7, they avreed to me ‘They lived vo; The’ plinutt Which she lent oa of Increusiug is Koller adwitted the receipt of the but claimed that he boarded the eo chiliren, clothed then ines for sev him several sums of money, amountiog This he thought sum@eie Tey lad agreed op separation thas ‘Phe jury gave Dire, Konler 6348.00 to recover § the #privg ot 1867, for tn all to 6133.