Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-02-04

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article, heretofore almost exclusively i'm.
ported, has recently been undertaken in
( Worcester, Mass. on an extensive scale
The establishment employs fny hands,
and il under the direction Of Mr.. Moses
L. More. The knives are equal in work
nanShip and quality to those made in Eng
! land.
Button factory Mr.. Robinson has a
gilt button factory at Auleborough, Mas
sachusetts, which employs twcaty or hiHV
hands, about half females he supplies up
wards Of 40 trading houses in Philadelphia
with buttons. Most Of the labor is per-
formed by machinery; the metal is first
rolled into plates; circular pieces are
struck out by dies; the eyes, formed from
copper wire, are soldercd to the buttons,
the gliding is added by covering the but
tons with mixture Of gold and quicksilver,
aud then expelling the quicksilver by heat,
finally they ure FURNISHED, aud made brill
| liant.
! Buttons are made at several Places
The chief par, ftho consumption is ofdo-
nestle manufacture, but the people don't
know il. The Yankees make them by
machinery, got up out Of their own no
TONS with great rapiditv F.; and fully meet
the English in tho market, and beat them,
as Jonathan always feels able to meet
'John'-with fair play So We are i'idc-
pendent for buttons
Stockings and cotton 6agging. The
Providence Journal mentions having re-
ceived two pair Of cotton stockings from
the Newbnry-Port hosiery manuf0ctOry.-
In appearance, these stockings are stated
to be quite equal to the imported article,
and probably much more durable. From
the same paper we learn that cotton bag
ging is manufactured in the vicinity of
Providence, from refuse cotton, which sur
passes that made ofhemp. In a very short
time, the Journal thinks they will be able
to supply the southern market with bag
ging, from the raw material itself, at very
reduced cost.
Gunters' scales, rules, &c. Nearly all
used in the United States, except Of infe-
rior qualities, are of domestic manufacture
Stamped by machine invented by
Samuel Hedge, Of Vermont, and entirely
corroct-the machine admitting o. 40 var;-
alton.
Shot. The Philadelphia Gazette OBJ
serves-The tendency high duties have to
drive into particular channels, an unneces-
sary quantity Of capital, is strikingly illus
trated by the shot mandatory.
Beck's tower on the banks Of the Schuyl-
kill, could furnish shot enough for the whole
United S,ates.--But the imposition of du-
~ after duty, has led to the erection Of six
towers on the Atlantic coast, without count
ing those on the Mississippi. Here, then,
the country has six capitals employed in
furnishing that for which one capital would
be sufficient.
We export no shot. The English pro-
cure the raw material at SO small cost,
that we cannot compete with them in for
eign markets.-Niies' Reg.
Flight ofthc Nessdge.-The following
items were collected and are recorded to
show the amazing speed with which the
message Of the president Of the U. States
was transported to different places. In
most instances, and we believe wholly so
on the great mail line north and south, and
east and west, the exertion was made by
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