Delaware journal., 1827-11-23

and Chester. The crop has been profitable and
the cultivation is extending. In good seasons, the
product Is equal to about barrels of Wine to the
acre.
About million of bushels Of salt are annually
manufactured on Kenawha, Virginia.
there were in New York in 825-2, 2G4 grist
nliil-, 5.l95 saw mills. 1sl oil mills, 76 cotton fac
tories 80 w00llen ctories, % cotton and woollen
Iactoles, 1884 carding machines, l7O iron works, |
Oh trip hammers, l.I29 dislleries, g. 05 asherles
---aod the domestic (househod) manufactures Of
sonilen, cotton and linen cloths amounted to near
l4.5OO.OUU yards in that year Several large
manuiar villages have been built l825,
ami the cotton and iron manufactures have greatly
increased.
We believe that the navy of the United States is
entirely supplied with American canvass--as are
very many OF our merchant vessels. 1t has been
preferred by the navy board, at all times composed
Of practical and long experienced seamen, as better
tta:i the foreign. And such is the extent and ex-
cpiience of present factories at Patterson and
elsewhere. that, though during the last war CANVASS
was sold for one dollar per yard, it might, III ano
,her such crisis, be sold at one third Of that prce,
though possessing much greater durability than the
imported article. 1t is to the public spirit OF the
navy board that the establishment oi this important
manufacture is attributed, and especially to Its We
teran president, kudgers.
There are between 40 and lilty steam boats that
ly between New York and the adjacent places east,
orh. west south. Many thousand passengers
arrive or depart daiiy-sometim as many as four
undred ~ single boat
i The village Of Dunknk, on lake Erie, had 36 in
,abltants IN June. 1926, bur i'll last June 525-Ihe
aht house at inns place IS to be lighted with natu-
| 'al gas.
Il i, proposed to light the city of Pttsburg with
.,t,atca Oit. 1t is found III abundance iluating on
ne 81, face Of some Of the creeks-and SAID that it
,l' be furnished at 25 cents per gallon, II mar
80 was opened Tor use.
New Bedford is described as very hourshing. A.
bout 100 vessels Il 2OOn seamen, it is thought, are
employed in the whale fishery, (suppying ml for the
factories )and the town contains 5000 inhabitants
II is stated that 1000 lioms are IN daily opera
hon in Philadelphia, weaving the stronger Or more
l.iicult stuifs than those made by thepower looms
.nd computed that the whole annual value Of Labor
and profit caused by them about 800 600 dollars
year The houses occupied and articles con
e suned by the laborers. make up no small item in
the concerns of the property-hoders and a.rlcu
urasts Of that city and its vicinity.
!. One concern has shipped from the wharves on the
: Schuylklll (Phlladelpnia) one hundred cargoes o
! coal during the present season. Twelve or hteeI
,ea-yessels often seen loading or dischargins
r. at them. at one time.
The quadrant of Godfrey. the cotton gin .
Whitney, the application Gf steam to navigation b,
Fulton, and the carduaking machine ct Wittemor
are among the most Important events IN the proges
e Of power, and mastery Of science over matter an'
IS space.
d The canals Of New York are happily called "ry
y ers Of gold'' from the west and the n rtb.
,f Excess quantities OF British wooens have late
i been thrown into our market, as to CO plete tn
a. prstration Of our manufactures, snd sold at yer
= reduced prices.
d. The Pennsylvania convention Of the 27th Of Jun
of last in their address 10 the people ot that state
es said-ss Pennsylvania has we'll nigh ceased TO ei
n port to Europe. any thing, the growth OF her ruitt.
NJ soil, her expectations excepting manufactures III
r. reduced almost the coasting trade the manufa
lures of the eastern states which last year consur
as ed upwards Of six hundred thousand barrels of til
o. -four of the middle states being their principal ma
Of ket. In the mean while the citizens Of Pennsyylv
e. mia buy abroad large quantities of wooens, hare
ed wares, silks and cottons, mourning hopeless eb
ne or paying for them at the most runous dlsadva
er tages In the midst Of natural influence and hab
tual industry, penury and degradation are newt
e. bic. unless the citizens Of Pennsylvania use the
as to procure at home the clothing and cor
n nodities they require. The rich ani athletic cor
We mon wealth must be reduced like spendthrltt
en- want and wretchcdness unless it ceases todepend
others for what with proper attention IT can DO +
M itself.
q. "'rhose alone who never practice frugaty, I
81 commend that as remedy. No doubt it is a Vi
IN tue without which all the rest unavailing. b.
IL it avals nothing to be frugal when nothing can
sold, for saving is worse than useless when noood
as will buy. ;.
nut "All the farming states are in the same predci
is ment. Excepting some little commerce anon
ad themselves, they have hardly any left at all =
as The Ednburg Review. taking deduction iro'
at .sa careful examination of facts" scrupes not
h assert than the health. morals. and intelligence
of the population. have all gained by the establish
or ment Of the. present manufacturing system"
en- There is no doubt of ths--fur however wretche
nd the overworked and underted manufacturers {