ANTHRACITE COAL TRADE FOR 1861 AND 1862. The following table exhibits the quantity of anthracite coal sent to market from the different regions in Pennsylvania, for the years 1861 and 1862. It will be seen that there is an increase of 314,948 tons in the amount sent to market this year over last year, and yet the price has risen from $4 to $8 per ton. Who can give the reason for this rise? It cannot be said that greenbacks are to blame for more than a small portion of it. Nor shall we again be told that the supply is short, for these figures tell a different story. Does the man live who can give us any good reason for the present exorbitant prices? IMPORTS OF FOREIGN WOOL AT NEW YORK. The Journal of Commerce gives the following carefully prepared statement of the imports of wool at New York for the last six months of the last year, giving the countries from whence it was imported, the number of bales, weight, and sworn custom-house value; also the total imports for the years 1860, 1861, and 1862. The trade in both foreign and domestic wool during the year just closed was unusually large and prosperous, the imports showing an increase of about two hundred per cent over either of the two years preceding. The domestic wool growers were slow sellers of the new clip, and thus realized |