American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-10-03
WILMINGTON, FRIDAY OCTOBER 1928.
BRITISH wooLLEN MANUFACTURES.

BRITISH WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES.
The value of wooilen cloths consumed in Great
Srtan annually. is estimated at eleven millions ster~
ling, and the quantity ofexported at seven millions
making total of eighteen millions. The raw ma
teria costs about six millions, leaving twelve mill
Hons as the aggregate aaount of profit and wages.
The Manufacturers share Of this, and to indemnify
him Tor the wear and lear Of machinery, and the
waste OF capital in general, is estimated at Is per
cent OF the IL millions, or 1880, OO0i leaving
.9.S40,Oo0 as the total amount Of wages. The
number OF adult workmcn employed is calculated at
$4,000 independent of children who are mnch
more numerous, and whose labours are estimated
Jas equivalent to the adults. Exclusive of the mas
ter manufacturers those who live on the p offs of
stock il is thus plain that no fewer than ! 100000,
Tor one thirteenth part 'of the inhabiianta CT Britain
are supported by the woolen manuiactures.--.N
I. Erening Post.
A principal object with me in rcpnbiishing the
above article is to enforce upon FARMERS the
growth Of more Wool. Let them bear in mind that
all the Wool we grow, we manufacture--that we
import and manufacture millions OF pounds of Ratu
Voot, every year, besides the millions of dollars
worth of Woollen cloths, blankets, &c, &c. which
we annually import and consume. The Farmers
will bear in mind that Wool is in demand that the
demand is increasing; that it feches good price
that the growth oft is not only duty they their
family, but their country; and that, therefore, IN
lers-" Grow more Wool" ] beg again to recon-
mend the importation and increase of the breed of
Sheep which gives the Tong staple Wool. We
want it for blankets and various other necessary ar
tcles. Editor Dem. Press.
| A late number of the British Traveller, speak,
| ing ofthe Caoal in ". Y. state, which it calls the
g Great pnercan Canal" holds the following Lam
guase.-Ths great work, which was begun in 1917,
and will be completed next year, is The longest ca
nal in existence and though upon small scale as
to breadth and depth, is we believe in point of pc
cunlary outlay, the greatest work of the kind ever
esecued. 1t ia 959 miles in length, IS feet wide &C
1.-THE surface Of the water, % at The bottom, and four
feet deep and will cost about Ave millions OF dollars
III, 10000ot.) 5000l per mile an average.
4 Such a vast undertaking, completed in the short
lperiod of seven years, by state, New York,) with
500, 900 inhabitants, affords striking proof OF the
energy and enterprise generated by free instu-
tons. 1t is work worth thousand Escurials and
lVcrseilles, because it creates wealth, while these
loniy consume it 4; and it is monument of public
spirit and national prosperity, while these are only
monuments OF idle magnilicence, vain glory, and
Idespotc oppression. When shall we see the in
habitants of small province Of any of the torpid
and priest-ridden monarchies oEContinental Europe
execute such work by their own spontaneous act
and with their uaasslsIed resources 7
! VAUDEVILLE, (MArwE,) sFp. l2.--The fces
are making dreadful ravages in this vicinity. The
woods and fields are dry, that many hundreds of
acres burnt over 10 little time In the town
lof Fairfield, several houses and barns have been
Iconsumed, large and nourishiBg wood-ios entirely
KILLED. Were this calamity confined to single town,
|. liz would be comparatively light but from many
Il miles round we almost daily hear Of great damages
Having been sustained. Without speedy rain, a
most gloomy prospect is before us, and much of
this pleasant section Of the country will be rendered
E almost desert.
The New York Apprentices Library nov con-
: ltans about six thousand volumes. TO this large
and valuable collection the apprentices of the city
have free access thereby enjoying greater advanta-
ges for realizing and acquiring knowledge than most
citizens possess. We understands says the States
: man, that the privilege is eagerly embraced, and
:, books taken from the library and read with much
regularity. Such an institution cannot fail TO pro-
duce salutary and lasting effect upon the commu-
nifty. 1t is one of the most important charities OF
= the present enlightened age.
ID From Campeacky.--Capt Bancroft at PhiIadei-
pha, in 90 days, states that there great re oil
cling at Campeachy few days before he sailed. on
account of the first meeting of the Congress Of yu-
H. catan at Merido. Spanish vessel had been cap
10 lsurrd by pirate and manned. The government
iof Campeachy fitted out vessel in search OF the
IN pirate. She fell in with the prize, which they re-
Icaptured--all the pirates ran below. The captors
lg lcaIed them up one at a time and shot them en-
ne !cept French boy, who is iii prison, at Cam
IN lpeachy-he says the pirate was Fitted out at New
to! Orleans.
= Tatemperance.--T house OF Mr.. George J.
.. Siberian, of Mayville, Montgomery county, IN "
o. was lately destroyed by 6re and Mrs. Siberian, was
az burnt to death in the flames. Her intemperance is
s. supposed to have caused the accident.
: An honest German Journeyman Printer, having