Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-12-02

lnounced Iast week (says the Baltimore
Federal Gazette very large and re-
Ispectable meeting of manufacturers IVA.
held in the County Court Room at Ph;la-
delphia on Thursday last. Mathew Ca
rey Esq. the uniform friend & indefatira-
Bile supporter of every thing likely 10
lpromote the interests Of the mapufactnr.
ing establishments of the United States.
was made chairman, when the propr;e,
ty of forming society and establishing
a warehouse for the reception and sale
of American manufactures, was taken.
into consideration. The meeting resoI-
we'd to form company to be called the
Manufacturers and Mechanics Loan
Company, with a Company, with can.
ital OF $4,000, with the privilege of ex-' .
tending the same toy$aoo, ooo.--Also to .
open warehouse for the reception and
sale of American manufactures. and to.
make as large advan ces on them as NAV
be consistent with the security of the.
company, in order to- rescue those
manufacturers in narrow circumstances
from the necessity of making such ruin--
Gus sacrifices of their property by ven.-
due and otherwise, as frequ entity occurs
at present. Thisis on the plan of So
ciety established in this city about TWEEN
ty years since, which was found emf
nently beneficial. A committee was
appointed to receive proposals from
manufactures inclined to send goods to.
an exhibit on to be held at Washington
in the mouth of January or February
and IN ,,,alyo Ill tI,a
engagements for the purpose, and direc-
ted to open correspondence with New
York, Boston and Baltimore, to ascer-
tain whether or not they will co-opelate
in the measure.
In the state Louisiana, the cuItiva4ior
OF the sugar cane for the present year,
produces forty thousand hogsheaas- of
sugar, which at valuation of twenty
hive dolls.rs per hogshead, amounts to,
two millions eight hundred thousand
dollars. The next article, the cotton
plant. Is worthy of notice, and produces.
this year forty thousand bales of cotton
OF tire hundred and fifty pounds each
This at valuation Of forty dollars per-
bale, amounts to one million SIX hundred
thous and dollars. In the next place mo-
lasse'', rice, corn, SC. have been estima-e
ted at six hundred thousand dollars, ma
sms, AN aggregate of five millions of
dollars. The population of that state
averages about three persons to each
So. uare mile, and yet such are already
oAe results. Who does not see in this
the future grandeur of the Western :
world Bali. Amer,
Change Of Air-Dr. Darwin, one day.
at Nottingham, assembled large crowd
q round him, and standing on tub, thus
addressed them-"Men of Nottingham.
listen to me. You are ingenious and in
'dustrious mechanically your indus
try life's comforts are procured for
~ ourselves and families. II you lose
y our health the power of being indus
trious will forsalse you. That you know
but you do not know, that to breathe
fresh and changed air constantly. is not
less necessary to preserve health than
sobrety itself. Air becomes unwhole-
some in a few hours if the windows are
shut Open those ofyour sleeping rooms
whenever you quit them to go to your
work shops open whenevever the wea-.
Their is not unexpectedly cold have
no interest in giving you this advice.
Remember what I, your countryman,.
and physician, tell you If you would
not bring infection and disease upon
yourselves, and to your wives and little
ones, change it many time, day, by
opening your windows.
U. S. SHIP NORTH CAROLINA.