360 Intelligence and Miscellanies, 
The average price in the New-York market is $8,53 per 
chaldron of thirty-six bushels, making a gross sum of aint - 
000 per annum paid out of the State for coal in the pres 
‘amount of population. The quantity of Rhode Island aad 
consumed cannot be accurately ascertained; but it is thought 
not to exceed 4000 chaldrons at an average of $6,50 per 
chaldron. 
The annual consumption of wood fuel in this city may be 
considered as amounting to 280,000 cords, and it is stated 
in a publication recently made, that the steam vessels which 
ply from New-York consume annually more than 200,000 
cords beside. Valuing the whole 480,000 at $5 per cord, we 
ave a gross amount of two millions _ four hundred thou- 
sand dollars annually expended for w uel. It is univers- 
ally known that this article is beteteitig scarce, and with a 
population seine eaves upon us, the substitution of coal is 
y measure that can save us from the inconvenience of 
a acapelty, of mye 
g these apenas facts and general views before 
orialists ha 
State for bitumino 
nd ear memorialists will ever pray. 
Signed Jos. Devariexp, Pres't. &e. 
Lyceum of Nat. History of New-York, 
February 2, 1829. 
Gold mines of North Carolina.—This remarkable local- 
ity “of the most precious of the metals, continues to attractan 
increasing share of public attention ; and the territory of the 
* Gold Country,” has within three or four years been greatly 
enlarged. Until within a short period, these pace were 
