Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1829-09-16
Fran The PMsBra5 Caretts.

american SKk.-M.. D'Homerague, a
French gentleman, practically acquainted
with the subject, Is publishing in the Ma
rational Gazette a serus of numbers on
the culture and manufacture Of Six. It
is his deliberate opinion, formed upon cat
| isiactory experiments, that the produce Of
the silkworm is better in quality and con
sIjeraby greater in quality in this coun-
try than iu tho sest silk Districts of Europe
He is ofopinon that the acility with which
the raw material may he produced here
will render 1t a very valuable article Of eE
pert; and that for many years, at least I'M
/ tll practice shall have perfected a sufficient
number of females IN the performance Of
The duties that must be performed by them
on the process Of preparation, 1t will be
much more profitable to sell the silk ia The
cocoon 90 fore gners, than 10 manufacture
IL 10 this country. The time, however,
must come, he AYERS, when this country
Will surpass ali others IN both the prcduc.
ton aud manufacture.
The following gratifying extract Is from
his ! I,h number.
Having endeayored to show, 10 the pre-
cediag numbers the advantages that will
result TO tie United states from the mere
preparation Of raw silk for expectation, |
shall now proceed to point out the course
which the silk business will probably take
and the prospects that it holds ont, if the
plan that have suggested be followed
until America shall at last become, what
sooner or later, it is destined to be, q rich
six growHg and silk manufacturing co2H-
try.
The business Of raw silk will have TO be
exclusively followed. until in process Of
time, chow long and hoS' short, will depend
on the degree Of activity and industry that
shall be applied to it, there viii be enough
Of that material in the country to warrant
the dIverting some part oft from the chan
mel Of expectation. 10 the establishment Of
manufactures at home. fit be true, ac
cordlng to my calculation, which submit
however, to those who arc better informed,
that raw silk NAV be made here at the av-
erage cost of three dollars a pound and
Immediately sold on the spot, to the agents
Of the foreign manufacturers, for six OF sew
en-, there viii be ay very great reason to
wait with anxiety for better times.
Better times, however, will arrive, and
America will have manufactures of her
own, which VIII, in time rival those O. the
old world, and perhaps surpass them. It
is fin To ob-erve here. that those m0nufac-
lures will have great advantage over
those of cotton and wool, IN this, that they
will not want to be supported by prohibito-
tory or even by protecting duties. For as
% IS fact hat cannot be denied, that The
American coc0ons produce one third more
Of silk, and ola finer quality, than those off
Europe, no manufacturers in the world will
be able to stand ia competition with those
of the United States, who will be able to
ofer at the same time cheaper and finer
goods.
This is a prospect which cannot fill Of
being realized, if rational and regular
plan be but steadily pursued.
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An association has been formed BY tho ne.ro,s
of Cincinnati Tor establishing colony in Canada
and ihe agents sent out 10 obtain place f1r tbsr
'acltau hIye been 90 treats Tor the sBar ll1i.'
winch Ao ID mi'es from Lake Erie. on Grand RI
.vr The agents report that there are 70 p-csan,
Two -'nushug settlements Oh these lznls-ole
Oh Dutch people The Other OF QulEo-s
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COCNILRFEIFs.
The Philadelphia papers say there are ID dollar
c7aateriel noes on The Book of North America
ID oircl.lil7H- ten dollar check. clluter.ei,, o1
,ho Bank OF the Ca.ied States by the Pil.bsrsi
5rHcH, letter ID, has been noticed al, I.7acl..-r.
Pennsylvania a dollar note of the Conn.rcial
'ud FARMERS Bank ofBaiiimore. altered 90 ID. ll4
been detected Q, ihe same p8co. Counterfeit l1
to-lr 5..s 90 .he Farmers 3 aux OF Vir1;aia. pay