The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-08-01 00:00:00, page 2

3,880,060 pounds , value 3,240,000 dolis.——
Posons emploved, Men 500 ;3 Women and,
Cuil‘:r'ou 3 500 3 Towd 4,000. . ‘
. Fhe inelense of cﬁlﬂinwaml.spmglg
cotton by muehinery, iu'utubl;w s for
that purpose, and esclusively of thilf' dove in
piivate farilies, has therefore been fourfold
Auring the last two years, and will have been
tendold in theee years. The table (B.) shews
the situnation and extent of these several mills
"an,d that .lthongh the greater number 1s lln
tiie vicipity of Providence, in Rhode-Island,
they are scattercd and extended th!.'ough'nut
- all ths states, Those stiuated within thirty
iniles of Providence, are exhibited in the ta
bie (C.) and the statement marked (CO.)
gives the detail of one of the establishments,
as turnished by the proprietors. .
The 17 mills in the State of R. Island, in
cluded in the table (C.) which are in opera
tion, dnd worked 14,290 spindies in the year
1803, are also stited to have used during that
year 640,000 pounds of cottuny which produ
ced 510,600 Ibs, of yarn 3 of which 124,000
Abs. were soid for thread and knitiing; 200,000
Ibs. were used in manufactures attached to, or
in the vicinity of the inills ; and the residue
w.ib either sold for wick, and for the use of
tamily manufuctures, or cxport.:d_tp other
parts, Lleven hundred lo.ms are said to be
emp'oyed in weuving the yarn spun by those
mil'« into goods, principally of the following
descriptions, viz, . '
Butiticking, sold at 55{0 90 cents p. yard.
Stripes and checks, 30 to 42 do. do.
Ginghams, 40 10 59 do. do.
Cloths for shirts and '
sueeting, 35 to 75 do. do.
Counté 4 Ics at 38 ¢ach.
Those several goods are already equal in
appedarance to the Fn clish imported axrticl?s
of the same descripsion, and superiour 1n
durabiiiny ¢ and the finishing s siall i.uprc.n.
ing. The proportion of fine yarns is also in-
Creasing, .
'l‘vf”ne articles are manufactured in oth
er places, and particularly at Phitadelphia,
where gre ufw made from the sane materis
al, webbing und coach laces, (which apticles
have also exclndéd, or will soon exclude stin
e foreign imporcations Jrabie and other dias
per clotns, jeans, vest patterns, couon ker
eeymeres and blunkets. ‘U'he muannfucture of
saitine, rords, and velvets, has also been coms
tienced in the interiodr and western parts of
Ponnsylvania, and in Kentucky. "
Some of the mills abovementioned are al
so employed in carding and spinoing wool,
though not to'a considerable amount. But
almost the whole of that muterial is spnun and
wove in private familtes 3 and there are yet
but few establishments for the manutacture of
" woolen cloths. Some information has, how
evur, been received respecting fourteen of
these, ds stated in table () manufacturing
euch, on an average, ten thousend yards of
cloth a year, worth from one: to ten dollars a
Jveh e fo motic et whiwe thiere are others
from which no informrtion has been obtain
ed ; and it is known that several establishs
ments, on o smaller scale, exist in Pniladel
phiay, Baltimore, and some other places. All
those cloths, as well as these manufactured
in private families, are generally superiour
in juality, though somewhat inferiour in ap
pearance, to imported cloths of the sume
price. The principal obstacle to the exten
" sion of the munufictave is the want of wool,
which, is still deficient both in quulity and
quantity. But those defects are daily and
rapidiy lessened, by the introduction of me
rino anl other superiour breeds, by the yreat
dom i for the article, and by the atiemtion
now every where paid by farmers to the in
orease and himprovement ol thew locks. .
« Manuficturing establishments for spinning
and woeavine fhix, are yet but tew. In the.
state of New<York, therve is one which em
ploys a capital of $lB,OOO, and 26 persons,
an m which about ninety thousand pounds
of lix nre amnunly spun and wove into can
wos und other coarse linen. Information has
heen recetved vespecting two in the vicinity
ol Puiladelphia, one of which produces annu
ally, 72 000 yards of canvas, made of flax
and eotton ; in the other, the fl.x s bLoth
hackled and spun by machinery, 30 looms are
emnloyed : and it is said, that 500,000 yards
of cotton bogging, sail cloth, and coarse lin
ed..muy be made annually. \
tostery may also. be consiner as almost
exclusively a household manufacture. That
of Germantown has declined, and it does not
appear to have been attempied on a larger
scale in other pluces. There are however,
‘some exceptions ; nd it is stated that. the
island of Matha’s Vineyard exports annually,
9,000 pair of stockings.
I, - Household Munufactures.
But by far the greater pirt of the goods
mude of these materials (cotton, flax und
woot), are imanufactured in private tamilies,
Wastly for their own use, and partly for salé,
[hey consist principaily of coarse cloth,flan
nely cotton stuffsy and stripes of every de
scription, linen, and mixtures of wooi wili
ﬁ % or cotton: The information® received
tiom every stite, and from more ‘than sixty
dmw:zm Places, concurs in - establishing tne
factof an extraordinaey increase during the
twn lnst years, and in rendering it prababie
that &b”_\ll two thirds of the clothing inelud
g hosiery, and of the house andable linen
wokn and used by the inbubitames of the 0.
S aies, who do net reside in ciies, is the
. produce of fumily munuf clures.
o Juorhe eastern und middie states, cardin :
4 Mac h_incs. worked by water, are every where
. """W" ?"“ arc rapidiy extending luu:n;
- wardl "‘f“ wcuw:wd:y. Jetnies, other fune
; :i spisiing mochines, and Rying shutties.ure
: trodued i wmiay places ; and as m-,
oy Faiimg vhills ire ecected, 1y are requie |
!‘""m all 8¢ cloth wuich is woven in
3 Alaw for the supresion of duelling has
passed in the Lilinois Torritory, fonaded on
toe Virgioia code. The punishment of the
surviving duellist, [if las antagonist die withe
i 3 months ! the widers. abettors and councel
(ors thereol, to suffer doatn by hansing. The
challenger or person, iccepting a chalienge,
is declared incapable aier of holding or beiny
slected to any office of profit or teust, civil or
military, within the territocy, Persons when
mtering upon the duties' of office, are to
swear or adirm. that taey have never been en
yaged in w ducly cither Q‘cyctly or indirectly,
in any way whatever. :
-~
private fanilics. ¢S2¢ note T and stuic ment
G) ‘
Difficult as it is to form_an estimate, it is
inferred from o comparison of all the facts
which have bLeen communicated, with the
population of the U. States, (estimated at
6,000,000 white and 1200,00 Q ')l'dckd,'ersons)
that the vulue of all the goods made of cot
top, wool, and flax, which are annually man
ufactured in the United States, exceeds
$ 40,000,000.
‘l'ne manufacture of cards and wire is inti
mately connected with this part of the sub
juct. Waittemore’s machine for makin;
cards has completely exciuded foreign hmport
ations of thay article. It willuppear by he
communication (H) that the capital employ
ed in that branch may be estimated at $2OO,
000 ; and that the annual consumption a
mounted till lateiy to 20,000 dozen pair hand
cards, and 20,000 square fedy of curds for
machines, wortn aboul" $200,000. The de
mand cf last year was double that of 1808
and s still rapidly encreasing. But the wire
itself 18 altogether importeds and a very seri
ous inconveniency might arise fiom any reg
ulaticn which would check or prevent the
exportations from foreign countries. It ap
pears, howevery by .the communication (I)
that th acture may and would be in.-
m.cdi lished, so us w 0 suppiy the de
man r cards and other objects, provid
eldt dy :“ imposed on wire, now
imported duty , which 1s luid on other ar
ticies made of same material. The
whoie amount of wire annually used for cards,
dods not at prescnt exceed 25 tous, wourth a
boul 40,000 doilars.
We congratulate every friend of Ameri
can mantlecture, who sndoubtedly should
possess a zeal for so impertant and so useful
an insutiationy, i a spak of parviotick Sirve
glows in their breasts, thatby a unilorm per
severaice in the path aleudy trod, we muy
be independent of foreigy natons.—{ furore.
The domestick manufacture is therclore
neurly equal to the bome consumption. ‘l'he
nuwinber made 10 the state sl Massachusetts,
15 estimaled by tne hat company of Boston,
at tour times the number required for tue
COousumpuon of the slate ;3 ahd from other
intogaution it would appear that in that suate
atoneytne capital appiled (o that branch is nea
D 4,100,000, the number ot prisons empioyed
aLUUL 4,000, and the number ol aats wunay
made, 1,530,000 ; of which 1,150,000 are line
hats, worth on an alerage H 4 cacn, and 400,
000 Lelt haloy, woirth $1 cucn., That tie mau
ulacture is st proac.bie appears from a e
estwabisament on Cuarles River, cuiculfited 1o
Mane aniany 35,000 hats at 5 o Pl®e,
Cupivy 150 workmen, fk"
Llic yuautity made in Rbode-Isbing, .
stated at 30000, wurth B 5 cuch,f CACMIBIV LY
ol felt hats. T ey
A peculiar variety of line-stone found in
Vermont, which muy be cdied a chrystalized
carbonate of iime, und which very much re
sembles s cular gypsum, has been empioy
ed with success in agricaimre. It was gen
eraly taken lor plaister by the {urners ; but,
on examination, wroved ndt to be a sulphate,
but 4 carbonate ol lime.
Nothing can muniiest the zeal in tis branch
of Munulicture. * In every quarter of the
unton new establishment are daniy lorming.
We teainy that near Inettord, Vermont, an
immence body of what minerdlogists te m i
ron pyrites | sulphurct of ivon ] is found,which
18 manutuctared into copperss. The estab
lishmend 1s new, and the guantry already
manutactured is sutficient te supply the U.
States. Near the same tovn a quantity of
galena (sulpharct of lead) his beea discover
ed, attached to w brownish sibstance, which,
by the examinution of a chenist ol this city,
was found obe the carbonwed oxid of zine
or calamine.
- Connecticut and New Yeuk make more
than is necessary lor thetr cous o®a ;e
la, gest estublishment being 100 of O Wby
where 200 persons are empioy ¥, < aJ 1o uie
amount ol A 130,000 annualy wianulactur
ed. 3
In Vermont the manufacture supplies the
consumption. It is stated by the hauers ot
Puliadeiphiay that 92,000 hats, worth $5 ¢s i
are annuully made there,in addition 1o which
30,000 country hatsy, worth 53 eachy are an
nually sold n the city.
In various quarters, the scarcity of wool is
compluined of, as preventing the making of a
sutlicicat number of coarse bats. From all
the inflormation which hus be#h recerved, it
15 belteved that the value of all the hats annu
aily made 1n the U.States, 1s neard 10,0004000.
(Lo be continued. ),
. This mineral, with the cpper which exists
within the same neighbourtood, wili if tound
in_abundance, prove of the greatest utilivy in
the manulacture of BRASS. T'he miues ol
Perkiomen, however, turnisth both these ma
terials.
Huts, ‘
The annual importations of fore
elgn hats, amout to $ 350,000
The annual exportation of A
mericaa hatsy 10 100,000
CHLUMICAL MANUEFACTURES.
“‘-’ / . .
*And maude game of a Comey, soavkwzard and tall,
Wik, 81y al cuch ohier wo quiz her.
Now a hage erazy garrett he draws nigh unto,
Al in st the siybight he darts,
"While the mof all around, fearfui, rocks to and fen,
Luke & Avaien's vord sheil, when tire North-sca wind:
- blow. P
And scems jumbling and tumbling to parts.
Not 89 near to thasd sones ers, the Heavenly spheres,
Notwizlistande > his “ sly s,
»
FOUR vearsina Colle;ge young Hezxry did doze,
_ Fhree years in an Otlice did nod,
And "us vue, hat when brisk in the morn Le arose,
His eyes o'er his book he would open and close,
Tl at mght, he laid down likc a clod.
Young Hexwry was blest with a milky blue eye,
lis arrows gave teasing delight,
Wien open, "twas like April’s first morning sky,
For sunshiny showers, and Love’s red durts were
nigh,
But when clos’d, "twas like April’s dark night.
“ 0 Fawmg, thou gueer creature, whom mortals adore,
Bounce here in heshapeot a fiddle,
And this gap, how "twill gll when thy spring 1 adore,
And the men and the boys, all arownd, cry encore,
And dance up e gh-dum-hddie-diddie.”
Like Arorro of old, verse I'll spend all the day on,
Sweel rhyme witl I saw up Like lumber, .
Likc the Jersey-dance fiddler, six monthis will 1 pay
The Sorc’ress now laughs, and savs “lav, pray look
out ;"
When upwards he looks with dismav,
Fora cuaw,lwiceas b.g as the Crub-King's so stout,
Dungles down through the wall, and secns fumbling
wbout, : :
Todrag the young Lawyer away.
Oh ! &\ ' how his flesh, like a fis' «in 50 rough,
And his bair hke acat’s back #tanes sufi'!
\nd how through the wall, like a pinch of Scotch
snuft, : ,
By a damn ble Giant, all bloody and grufl,
Ishe dragyg™d without and, but, orif / ¢ ¢
“ Who art than ™ says ilan,—“l'm the CRITICAL
KING ™ ?
Savs a voice, erabbed, harsh, rough and soar,
Which rakes through the head much like yonug
Davin's sling, °
And makes the Moon’s mountains and vallies ring,
nng,
For three quarters, at least, of an hour.
Then owiﬂc& than light, through the dack night he
w 3
And these facts admit no contradiction,
"?hc Stars backwark whisk'd, just like lightning
"~ 80 blue,
And his wings far belind him fierce hurrricanes
A threw, , :
And the air Lecame warm with his friction.
on ;
Liues, short, tong, and common, white paper I'll lay
Ul
This evening ("twas winter) bis Office Ha v sought,
The door ne uniock’d and went ' ;
Mude a biighe cheermy fire, with sume wood ke had
boughe, .
Bousi'd the hewr b, it a candle, sut down to his
Lthougat,
And upon a huge book did begin, :
The book wus 50 Lirge "tway plac'd on a table,
Aid o er e he hetd is large head,
Wi o scon grew so hieavy, he nadly w s able
1o ol tcupright o'er the book on the table,
ror hoavy iwscem’d as of lead. .
“ Must Twrite it in verse " he eries out in amaze,
* O yes,” she exclaims with a smile.
Then o write it i verse he tries vorious ways,
And his exes ail th@time like wild-c..'s do gazc,
Aud the nedden stunds tt'ring the while,
“That book,” quoth the Goblin, “belongeth to me,.
On those leaves nought but st.r-sinalt shall shines
So serateh ont them blots you young rogue do you
sec ! .
Or spitted and reasted, this night vou shull bey
And a glovious Lot supper be mine.”
Though the mazes of pleasure he often had trac'd,
In s bead & sad vacwam he found,
Wlhich reach’d down to his breast as musing he pac’d
Atl so ghbo'or the ghittering, chungable waste,
Audﬁnc trow’: what wouid fill up the woumd.
Inlong eracefa! Hids her pure white robes deseend,
Her right hand « Volume doth nold,
Long wings ifrom hoeshondess i sofl curls depend,
Uie spr.tand mortal in harmony blend,—
T her ldhand a Trumper of gold,
War stares, nd replies with . grin :
“Ope this volme,” she s.ys, “and with prying eyes
|()Uk.
And perbiaps you muy find out a sly little nogk,
That your name may be written therein.” :
Most sveetly the Moon-queen w.lk’d into the Hall
OF Nux, for a neighbouring vis sir
Winle wie stars, litue rogues, went wo play, one and
Now sudden he sturts and looks round with surprize,
Gapes wide, and extends his long clan,
For ol ut the window, a fuce be desgries,
Wiih two hitde cunning, sly, curious eyces,
Winch scem'd wanung a place to getin,
Now slow apes the door, und before the tall wight,
A maiden majestick s seen
Hor fignee is groace, and her features are bright,
Bweetly cul’d s her hair, and her eyes are pare light,
And very encllanting her mein,
“Pru Fame,” crics the paid, and presents him the
booK —=
Hat scratches his head—*l can’t scrateh out those
blots ;==
Gen'rons Giant—you pinch like a vice e
And besides, dearest Sir, will uot those black dots
Render whiter and lighter the many bright spots
“ 0, you dog, how your flesh | will shice.”
Amuz’d, up he gets, and turns over his chair,
Ana scrzes the ligot in one hand :
Fo e window he rushes, but nothing is there.
tor the two hitle eyes in vain does-hie stare,
And ne seem'd bike a p@eure to suand.
And print-deviis shall scatier each number.
FOR THE HKHUDE-ISLAND RFPUBLICAN.
ORIGINAL POLTRY."
THE CRITICAL KING.
A vast pile of old books furms al;ug'e musty Throne,
W hicrcupon sets the Monarch so feil,
Borne by ten thousand Authors worn down to the
« bone
dVho tug it and sweat it, and grin it ‘and groan,
And are longing to tip bim e fiell.
Tad Fav been before f—and To ! wond’ring he Reurs,
As the musick sicals sweetly upon bis large ears,
A tune, call'd * Delichs,” m all parts.
His face like a mist of prismatical dyes,
All gash’d up with circles and angles’;
His proboscis is circ’lar and ung’lar likewise ,
Like volcunick craters, his firespoliing eves ;
- His grey beard like a waterspout dangles.
Now a massy roek-quill, twice as big as an oak,
He flirts n.{l $0 fewrfully round ;
The feather it seems like a column of smoke,
As the point grinds on paper, HaL’s car-Crums ave
+ broke,
With ahideous tree-fulling sound.
Now hislips ope with glee, like sceae-paintings €o
thin,
As his pris’ner regales his grim sighe,
And the horrible, horgble, horrible, grin,
Discovers a sad yewning cevern within, _
For poor Hexev’s bed-room, ali night.
We eapy the fullowing account from the National
Inteliigencer of yesterduy. Lieut. ’l'rip(p had aequir
ed the reputation of a brave efficer before Tripeli ;
but, our navy like our government, scem dedicsted
to British insult. Licut. Tupp has been ordered to
repair i Waushing on, to undergo an enguiry, for rot
retuming the five of the Moselie. 'The wiiter of the
uccount, however commends him, s 2 Vs his vessel « as
promptly prepared tor uction, which he woilld hive
commenced bad tic apology not been deemed sufliei
cul, o T
viish naval commanderson former oceysions
The Moselle, « 20 gun brig, carryine 32
pounders, wus lying at unchor under the Stire
rup Key near the Bahama B.nk, the Vixen
approached her under full sail, with her pen
dunt and ensign hoisted =The capt. of the
Moselle hoisted French colougs, and exhibited
wany private signuls, Cupt Tripp, on perceiv
iny a boat wirich he supposed wished to speak
his vessel, hauled up and received the officer,
who requested him to ¢o down to the Britisih
vessel. «With this request Capt. Tripp de
clined a compliance, furnishing the officer at
the same time with the nume of the vessel
and her destination. Capt. Boyce, who com.
mands the Moselle, fired a shot at us as we
passed, which Capt. Tripp considered as an
intimation that he wished tn speak gith us.
Several musket balls were fired from the boat
into the vessel, and at the very moment the
British officer was politely received on hourd
the Vixen, and before be bad taken a menio
randum of the reply which was given by cupt
Tvipp to the message,~capt, Boyce fired 2
round shot, which came over the quarter
deck, and peuetrated the main boom of the
Vixen.
“ On the 24th inst- [June] un occurrence
took place, which was equully unplessant and
unexpected. The charueres of the affiir
however, correspogds with the treatment
which we hav: so oflen received from the
By the arrival at New-york of the ship Oa
iver Elisworth from Gotteuburg, and brig
Luna from Tonningen, we huve *received
some very important particulars. ITtis stated
by both these avvivals, that Americay proper
fy was vespected at Tonningen.
The British have given another prooi of
their friendsip for the United States, in what
is termed the Blockade of Stoeeden 3 but which
will probubly terminate in the blockade of ev--
ry port inthe Bultick. Admired Sumarez,
was already before Gettenburg, with the Vice
tory and Murs; and had dgelared that his
blocka ing orders extended to ALL VESSELS
that should s rrive without British licenees ! !
Of course, the American commerce in that
scais rompletely annililated. A nomber of
British vessels, with American colours and
Sorged papers, were at Gottenbury,
Arrived at New=York, on Sunday, the bric
Luna Southworth, from Tonningen, which
port she left the 3d of June. Capt. S.informs
us that Aingtican vessels were not Jugke \ed
S Capt. Tripp imme fiately discharged the
British officer, and prepaied for action. The
Engitsic brig slipped her cable, und got under
way, menucing an attack npon our vessel. So
soon as she approached within o preper dis
tance, capt. Tripp despatched a boat with his
first Heutenant, to demand of the British ofii
cer an expl.nation of his conduct 3 who sent
nls lieutenant on bourd the Vixen, with vari
ous apologies, which were not understood 1n a
satistuctory manner ; and capt. Tripp addres
sed a note to capt Boyce, requiring a written
statement of the rcusons which had induced
him to fire two shots at his vesscl, Capt. B,
returned for answer, that he recognized, with
pleasure, the existing amity between the wvo
countries, and was extrewely sorry for have
i fired at us-—=tpat the reasons which indu
ced him to fire, were, that he could not uis
tinguish our colours, and saw wo preparations
for taking in saile=thut he d been inforned
that two French privatcers were fiiting cat in
the United States, and supposed we might
probably be one of them. e also pledged
his honour, thut his shot was not aimed at our
vessel. The explanation was deeemed by
Capt, Tripp, sufficient to prevent any turther
conflict ; and wo instantly made sail,und pro
ceeded on our course. The injury which vwe
sustained was trifling.~Mr. Roduey’s soun
was siruck by a spiinter from the heam v hich
occastoned hiw month to'bleed a shiort tiinge—
no otherpersou was touched. o
Lie Laiest Forergn Intelligence,
CHESAPEAKE, No. 2.
Attack on the Vixen
From the Haltimore IWhig.