Antimony Vs Petroleum

A oompanv mgaged in boring for oil in Wirt Oouuy, West Virginia, struck a rich vein of mtimony, a rare and expansiva metal n great demand for type cnsting. The iuin of $350 per ton was at once offer3d for all thü discoverers could supply, imd at these rates their pro fits will rival those of the silver minas of Washo, and the oil wolla oí Venango. Considerable exitoment is created by the discovery, and antimony wells are likoly to be as rauoh a source of speculution as the oil wells are at present- Pittsburg Chroniele. fW Thero is now in eiroiilution aa exact fuc simile of tbe $100 TretiRury notes, under the act of Pebruary 1862, so well exocuted thr.t good judges might bc deoeived hy it. The tpurious note is smalloi' tliau the gonuine oue, and the coloriüg on the back is paler and less diatinet than the gunuine bill. The worda "One hundred dol'a'-s" on the right hand sido of the eounkorfe'tt, aro smaller than on tho genuino nota, aud the lettöring arouud the laurgiu ja diffreat.