The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-02
DOMESTIC.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
May 90.

DR.. M1TCHILL has compiled from the
returns made to the Treasury Department
by the marshals, deputy marshals and other
persons, pursuant to the third census law,
the following interesting view of certain va
iuable manufactures in the Us.
~f Some most valuable information is deri
we'd from these returns, incomplete as they
are. Under the head of sheep, we learn that
Vermont contains a stock of CSC. 600 sheen
Massachusetts,, 500, 1872 !; Connecticut, 400
600; and Pennsylvania 400, 9lS. These
papers contain more distinct and interest
ing exhibition than we ever had before of
the saltpetre manufactured in the u. States.
thus Virginia prepares 5s,175 pounds
Kentucky, 20l ,937; Massachusetts, 2S, 500
Tennessee l62, 426-making nearly half
million pounds of home made nitre, as good
as that usually brought from foreign ports.
1t is alledged, the quantity may be increas-
ed to any desirable amount. The connecti-
on o. this with numerous manufactures of
gun powder, puts US quite at our ease as to
the nitrate OF potash; and to the means we
POI Sess OF compromising it.
The manufacture of straw is eminentIv
worthy of notice. In Massachusetts, where
the forming of bonnets from. that material
seems to have first begun, the yearly a
mount OF thegsale - not less than SIS 1873 dol
lars. The manufacture of straw bonnets
mas been since undertaken in Connecticut,
and produces the yearly value of 81 j 90 dis.
and 1t is worthy of remark that the labours
oftwo women in New Jersey in the same way.
yielded them 40 dis amounting to the sum
OF 579,22S dis. for TIE single article ofstraw
bonnets.
Nor is the preparation of sugar from
the luice OF the maple tree unimportant.-
vi this domestic sweet, Ohio produces in a
twelve q
All '647 Vermont 100000, and East Ten
nessee, 162, $40; making a quantity ofnea
~ seven millions OF pounds in these States
only, wherein the returns may be conceived
tobe greatly within the truth
Works III horn, ivory, and Shell have
mace progress that is worthy Of notice.
The combs, for instance, which Connecticut
prepares annually for market, are estimated
at 70000 dolls. Massachusetts 8O,s24 and
SCI dis.
may mention too the abundance of COP
peras which West Tennessee and Vermont
auord' The quantity per annunn from the
former, is stated at $4,000 pounds and
from the latter at 5000 The quality of these
sulphatGs of iron is declared to be very fine,
ana that druggists and dyers may be suppl
ed to any demand they may make.
L he quantity of ardent spirits annually
distilled appears, by the returns, to equal
the prodigious amount of rs, 720, 900 gallons
The extraction of brandy from peaches, of
an alEoholick liquid from cider, and of
whisky from rye, and even ma ze, is carried
70 TINS alarming excess. The products
OF the distilleries are chiefly consumed a.
mong ourselves, though portion of the lat
ter is converted to gin before it reaches the
human stomach. While therefore, wc OBJ
serve the increase Of these home made
fluids, we must reflect on their inebriating
effects. 1T cannot be disguised that their
quality recommends them to
such general employment--No ought il to !
be concealed, that in a country where a gall
lon OF this maddening stimulus can be
bought for half dollar, gill may be OBJ.
tanned at retail for three cents and the sell
Ter at the same time double his money!
The tondness for this bewitching beverage
and the rcpugnancy to an excise upon it,
raise IN the mind a curious association be-
tween the free use of it and of political
it deserves the consideration
Ut all the thinking part Of society how far
disease, idleness, immortality and other mis-