Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-10-16

has lately been invented and is now in Gl
ration IN The family respected member of the Snce
~ OF Friends, IN Rhode Island, very simple machine
by which The SILK is by operation rrrled directly
from thr c"conns into wing silk and silk twist of
very superior quality, and suitable for immediate use
-Ana'her Paper advises the Public that this I" ne W
machine Tor 'eens and doubling and twisting silk,
thought 20 be superior any hinr before de vsed
and would be exhibited al the ilh Annual Fair at Nib
los Garden, 18th October next-invented by Jonathan
Dern!s, Jr Portsmouth, Rhode Island A sumple of
this rseed aud twisted silk thread, may be
The Repository, Isl Broadway. Mr. Dennis states
thaby means of one Of these macinps 800 such skeins
Of silk as isle may be made in one day by one person.
The cos. we have not ascerained with accuracy pro
badly will be from $50 TO 500 each, with boiler, aud
all The other apparatus complete
Virginia is already doing somehnr-indeed, not a
little III The first step towards the manufacture Some
money has been made upon the tree understand
That arrangements making 10 raise il much greater
extent Tor the ensuing yearThe Norfolk Beacon states
that "The cultivation of the Mulberry is not only be.
coming subject of great ineres, in the u S generally
but IN this immediate section of the country. Many re
already engaged in planting the Horus .Nucauiis, and
snug profits have already heen realized. We hail its
cultivation, however the first of introducing
the silk factory among and Of establishing that branch
OF business firmly in our Borough. The soil of the
neighoor'ng country is admirably adapted 10 The rearing
OF the tree, while the Of Norfolk presents adyan.
tages for the location Of acories uncqualled believe
BY any other place in the Union With proper energy
and spirit, Norfolk might accomplish in the silk business
what Paisley, Glasgow, Dundee, Birmingham and Man.
chester have done and doing in other depart
ments OF industry. Let it be remembered, that the
brisk linen manufacture of Scotland, is from a raw
material obtained from Russia, and ought we not IL
make effort, with the Mulberry and the Silk worm
at doors, to follow such good example? The
silk business is destined 10 become of the most i'm.
portant branches of American industry AS late as
1885, England imported her cotton fabricks from India
and until the of this century, imported
all her cotton from Egypt and India. The introduction
Of steam into the factory enabled England TO engage in
making cotton fabrics which she ported 10 India
and sold at lower prices than those for hich Indian
nufacture could be procured. The whole cotton
acure thus engrossed by Great Britain, until The
United States entered the market. But our own hiso.
~ furnishes example of the prompt and profitable
American exchange: we mean cotton. AS late 1893,
when Mr.. joy negotiated the famous British Treaty,
that eminent man. who penned the most able of the
Revolutionary Stale papers, and who resigned his Of
flee Chief Justice Of the United States 10 enable him
10 embark his mission, was ignorant of the exist.
tence Of cotton article of export from the United
States and this day the reader need be told OF the
value Of that great and specie. paying bank Of the
South There is strong ground TO believe that the Mul
berry is destined to work revolution thorough us
that ought by Cotton and experience has shown TINT
the climate Of the South is most congenia tn the pro-
duction Of this valuable tree
Let only be up and ADDING Go ahead; but not so
far or fast lose sight of the dictates of prudence
and tho calculations Of Interest. The energy of our
character is loo apt scducc into excess OF
enterprise. But within proper bounds it will behoove
us TO be up and ADDING. AS means for acceeratng
this work beg leave TO request facts and statistics,
from one (who have the benefit Of cxpcrience in the
shane of COMMIT nicalions.