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REPORT
OS TUB
SECRETARY OF THE TREA
SURY
ON
MANUFACTURES.
(Concluded from our last.)
TIN, JAPANED, PLATED
WARES.
The manufacture of tin ware is ve
ry extensive, and Connecticut supplies
the greater part of the United States
with that article ; but the sheets are
always imported. The manufacture
of plated ware, principally for coach
makers and saddlers, employs at Phil-;
adclphia 73 workmen ; and the amount
annually made there exceeds one hun
dred thousand dollars.—There are o- j
rher similar establishments at New
York, Baltimore, Boston and Charles-1
ton.
GUN-POWDER.
Saltp-ter in found in Virginia, Ken
tucky and some other of the western
states and territories : but it is princi
pally imported from the East Indies.
I he manufacture of Cun-Powder is
nearly, and may at any moment he
made ahogether adequate to the con
sumption ; the importation of foreign
j powder amounting only .to 21)0,000
jibs, and the exportation cfAmericau
Powder to 100,000 lbs. The manu
facture of Brandywine, which employs
i capital oi seventv-hve thousand dol
lars, and 36 workmen, & is considered
is the most perfect, makes alone 225,.
090 lbs. annually, and might make
600,000 pounds, if there was a de
mand for it. Two others, near Balti
more, have a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, and make 450,006
lbs. of a quality said lately to be equat
to any imported. There are several
other powder mills in Pennsylvania,
and other places ; but the total amount
jf gun-powd r made in the a. S. is
not ascertained.
EARTHEN and GLASS WARE.
A sufficient quantity of the coarse r
species of pottery is made tVcn
where ; and information has been re
ceivedof four manufactures of a finer
kind lately established. One at Phi*
adelphia,*with a capi.al of 8 11,000,
manufactures a species similar to* that
made ;n Staffordshire, in England, and
the others, in Chester county in Penn
sylvania, in New Jersey, and on the
Ohio, make various kinds of Queen’s
ware.
Information has been obtained of
ten glass manufactures, which employ
about 140 glass blowers, and make an*
m<aily 27,000 boxes of window glass
containing each 100 square ftet of
i,las8. 1 hat of Boston makes crown
glass equal to any imported : all the
other m ke gree* or German glass
worth 15 per centum less; that of
1 ittsburgh u .es coal, and all the others
wood for fuel.
1 he annual importations of foreign
window glass amount to 27,000 box
cb : the extension of the domestic man.
ufacture, which supplies precisely one
hall of the consumption, being pre
vented by the want of workmen!,
\ bomt: of l,‘»8c manufactures make
also green bottles and other wares ;
«r.dtwo works, employing together 6
glass blowers, have been lately erect
cd at Pittsburgh,and make decanters,
tuniblcrs, anti every other description
°* Mint glass of a superior qualit'-.
CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS.
Copperas is extracted in large quan
tities from Pyrites in Vermont, New
Jersey and l ennessee. About 200,.
<XAJ lbs. of oil of vitriol & other acids,
are annually manufactured in a single
establishment at Philadelphia. Va.i
05,H otht"r preparations and drugs ure
also made there, and in some other ,
i) ices, ar.d the annual amount-export
cd exceeds $0,000 dollars in value. ,
SaLT.
The Satr spring* of Onondaga and
Cavuga in the stare of*N. York, fur- '
•ii»h al*ont three hundred thousand**
idshelf a j e.tr; and the q ;ar.tfty muy '1
t *
be increased in proportion to the de
mand. Those of the western states
and territories supply about an equal
quantity j that known by the name of
the Wabash Saline, which belong- to
the United States, making now 130,
000 bushels. Valuable discoveries
have also lately been made on the
banks of the Kenawha. But the an
nual importation of foreign salt a
mounts to more than three millions of
bushels, and cannot be superseded by
American salt unless it be made along
the sea coasts. The works in the
state of Massachusetts are declining,
and cannot proceed, unless the duty
on foreign salt should again lie laid.
It is necessary to shelter the works
from the heavy summer rains by light
roofs moving on rollers. This consid
erably increases the expense ; and it
appears that the erection of ten thous
and superficial square feet, costs one
thousand dollars, and that they pro_
duce only two hundred bushels a year.
A more favourable result is anticipat
ed on the coast of North Carolina, on
account of the difference in the cli
mate ; and works covering 275,000
square feet, have been lately erected
there.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Respecting the other Manufactures
enumerated in the former part of this
report, no important or correct im
formation has been received, except
as relates to the two following :
Straw bonnets and hats are made
with great success, and a small district
in Rhode Island and Massachuaet's
j ca|juh3 lowintr parts ot the
Union, to the amount of 2oO,OCO dol
lars. See communication (N.)
Several attempts Rave been math
to print calicoes ;but it does not seem
that the manufactures can, without ad.
ditional duties, stand the competition
of similar foreign ariclcs. The diffi.
culties under which they labor art
stated in the petition ot the Cilicc
printers of Philadelphia to Congress
A considerable capital has been vest
rd in an establishment near Baltimore
which can print 12,000 yards a weel
and might Oe considerably extended
i» the profits and the demand aflbrdcc
sufficient encouragement.
From that imperfect sketch cf A
merican manufactures it may wit!
certainty be inferred, that their annu
al product exceeds one hundred anc
twenty millions of dollars. And it i:
not improbable that the raw material:
usrd, and the provisions and other ar
tides consumed by the manufactures
.-rente a home market for agriculture
products no: very inferior lo that whicl
* arises from foreign demand. A re
! suit more favorable than might hav<
| been expected from a view of the na
Itural causes which impede the in
troduction, and retard the progress o
manufactures in the U. S.
i ^ ,n0st prominent of those cars
es are the abundance of land comnar
|ed with the population, the high pViei
; of labor, and the want of a suflicien
j capital. The superior attractions o
i agricultural pursuits, the great exten
ision of American commerce durinj
the late European wars, and the ron.
11nuance ot habits after ihe cause*
winch ^reduced them have ceased tc
exist, may also be enumerated. iJev
eral ot those obstacles have, however,
been removed or lessened. 'Ihe
cheapness of previsions had always to
a certain extent, counterbalanced the
nrgh price of manual la!>or ; and this is
now in many important branches near
ly superseded by the introduction of
machinery ; a great American capital
has been acquired during the last 20
t ears ; and the injurious violations of
the neutral commerce of the United
States, by forcing industry and capital
into other channels, have broken in
veterate habits, and given a general
impulse, to which must be ascribed
the gr<at increase of manufactures
during the two last years.
Ihe revenue of the United States
being principally derived from duties
jn the importation of loreign merchan
h z.e, these have also operated as a prt*
mur* tn favour ot American manu
tacturcs, whilst on the other hand thw
;*T.tii:u .nce of peace, and the frugaliii>
»1 government, have rendered unnece#
ry Sf,,y oppressive tuxes, tending
Materially to enhance the price of jU.i
or, or impeding any spei:,c» ot juU J I
Of ' 1
!No cause indeed has perhaps more
promoted, in every respect, he g-me
r d prosperity of the United S ates than
tl.e absencce of those systems of in
ternal reslric ion ?nd m* nopoly which
continue to disfigure the state of soci..
jetv in o her countries. No laws ex
j ist here, directly or indirectly, confin
ing man to a particular occupation or
(place, or excludicg any citizen from
|any branch he may at any time think
j proper to pursue. Industry is in eve
ry respect perfectly free and unfetter
jed ; every species of trade, commerce,
i art* profession and manufacture being
equally opened to all, without require
ing any previous regular apprentice- 1
ship, admission or license. Hence the
piogrets of America has not been con„
fined to the i provement of her agri
culture, and to the rapid formation of
new settlements and states in the wil
derness ; but her citizens have extend,
cd their commerce through every part
of the globe, and carry on with com
plete success, even (hose branches tor
which a monopoly had heretofore been
considered essentially necessary. The
same principle has also accelerated
the introduction and piogre sot manu
factures, and must ultimately give in
that branch, as in all others, a decided
superiority to the citizens of the U
States, over the inhabitants of coun
tries oppressed by taxes, restrictions
and monopolies. It is believed that
even at this time, the only powerful
obstacles against which American Ma
nufactures have to struggle, arises
f rom the vastly superior capital of the
uiji u.auuuuunng nation oi Europe,
which enables her merchants to give
very long credits, to sell on small pro
fits, and to make occasional sacrali-'
CCS.
.The information which has been ob
tained is not sufficient 10 submit, iti
conformity with the res ludon of the
House, the plan best calculated to pro
, tect ;inc^ promote-^Americ:tn inanufac^,
turcs- ^ he mast obvious means are
bounties, increased duties on importa
tion, and loans by Government.
1 Occasional premiums might be be
nehcial; but a general system ofboun
ties is more applicable to articles ex,
ported than to those manufactured lor
home consumption.
The present system of duties may,
, in some respects, be equalized and im
proved, so as jo protect some specie s
i manufacture without affecting the
; revenue. But prohibitory duties are
! liable to the treble objection of destroy
ing competition, ol taxing the consu- J
mer, and of diverting capital and in-!
| dusiryinto channels generally less!
, profitable to the nation than those'
which would have naturally been pur-1
■ 3ued by individual interest left to it
self. A moderate increase will be less
dangerous; and if adopted should be
I continued during a certain period ; for
the repeal of a duty once laid materi
ally injures those who have rditd on
its permanency, as has been exempli
fied in tile sale manufacture.
Since, however, the comparative
want of-capital is the principal obsta
cle to the introduction and advance
ment of manufaclures in metica it
seems that the most efficient and most
obvious remedy would consist in sup
1 plying that capital, licr although the
extension of hanks may give some as
sistance in tnat respect, their operati
on is limi-ed to a lew places, nor does
it comport with the nature of tho.e
institutions to lend for periods as long
as are requisite lor the establishment
of manufactures. The U. S. might
create a circulating stock bearing alpw
i ate ot interes., and lend it at par to
manufacturers, on principles some
what similar to that formerly adopt
ed by the Slates of New.York and
Pennsylvania, in their loan oilices. Ii
is believed that a plan might be de
vised,!^ which five millions of dollars
a,year, but not exceeding in the whole
twenty m Uions, might thus be lent.
Without any material risk of ultimate''
loss, and without t xing or injurin''
any other part ol the community*
All which is respectfully submit
[ted*
A. GALLATIN.
Tretsury Department, April 17, 1310. ,
1 WMegg-’.'U— ■ r- • -■ngi.ua. L„jm.
BARTLETT BTILL.^j
Tobacco Broker anti VcndueZuilj
Gominission Merchant, |
Richmond, Virginia,
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FOREIGN.
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N*W Yomk. Mar j|.
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
Yesterday arrived at this port t!>«
sb'P Anadoe, captain Burrows, from
Cadiz, which she left on the 4‘h of
April. Captain B. informs us that a
British fle-t had just arrived from En
gland with 5000 troops, who were de
barked the day he sailed. Fourteen
British ships of the line were in Ca*
diz Bay ; and the Anglo-Spanish »>*„
my were determined to hold theci'v.
Tne French armv were on the oppo
s te shore, progressing with iheir for.
Eord Collingwood died
°“ l oulon; hts body was br tight to
Cadiz m the Victory, and put on
board a frigate which sailed for En
gland on the 3d of April.
Markets good at Cadiz for Ameri
can produce.
Latest from England.
On Saturday arrived at this nort.
the ship Laura, Taber, in 42 days
trom Hull, which port she left on the
first of April, and has brought Lon
don papers to the 24:h of March in'
elusive, one day later than our for.,
mer advices.
Captain T. inform u«, that the fri
"urate Tnhn A/l-»r^„ _ •« . r
Fngland for France; that it was un
‘‘SP^d, Mr Pinkney, the America-*
Minister nad arranged a treaty with
t.ie British Government, an 1 that :»
splendid dinner h?.d been uiven^ip ..
him (Mr* Pinkney) on the happy%^''s
casion. . '
We further leara, from a passenp-er
in the Laura, that a British fleet ol men
of war consisting ol 22 sail of ib^lin^
were fitt^out with the greatest'ex’
| Pillion,destined, as was supposed, a
i g»inst Croastadt.
Lonlox, March 23.
We l f ceived last night French an<I
Dutch papers to the l(hh and I8;h of
this mon hj they are in general unin
teresting. liussia has cpenTy ftr
knouleded all the evils entailed on her
by her subserviency to France, and
has proclaimed a national bankruptcy
by an Ukase, which the M nitcur ac
knowledge s to be remarkable.
The miniature portrait of Bonaparte
which he sent to the Princess Maria
Louisa, is set in 16 sciiturres, ecch of
which is estimated 30,OCX) florin.
By a Heligoland ma l arrived this
morning, we have received German
letters and papers to the date oi March
11. By these it appears that the spe
culations on the continent are strongly
in favour of an alliance, offensive ami
defensive between France and Am
tria, the object of which is to compel
1 urkey to enter into the general lea? ue
against this country, and shut our
coinmerce out of all the p rtsofth#
Levant. It is also stated, that Prussia
....* —uy r ranee to tie
prepared to engage in a war with any
Northern power, in allusion it is sun
posed to Kuasia. ‘
March 24.
Price of Stocks thi* day at 1 o’clock,
.i percent, cons, for money, 68 15*28 •
»cc. 68 7 7.
American papers to the 20th tilt, ar
rived in town yesterday.
1 he question on the comparative
disadvantages of war with Great Bri
tain and France, has occasioned much
discussion in Congress, and indeed
throughout the United States; and we
are happy to find a more just disposi
tion to appreciate tne consequences „f
a war with this country, than has hi
therto been displayed in America, be
gins to be prevalent. The resolution* of
the local legislature of Massachusetts,
an the dismissal of Mr Jac k on, rtfr
to this subject,& cnnr.ot toil, w« »fcuu'.i
hope, mj make a due impression on «.
cerv aober-tn oded matt in the Ucki .U.
Siatea*
Letters received yeaterdtjy from t?-*
*oa->t of Fiance ergtr, that a1t t;;»
neriran property gtised in the sever'd
/ortsofthat country to t e •thiimati ,
iad brea so!d, and the proceeds r>;o d
nio the French trea»u y. Th^ a
nount is *md to be considerable, ft
in audei to.it Octcrtil Armstrong on