Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-10-10
American IastfSs te,

day, informed tAat articles Of almost every
sort were coming in rapidly, and that splendid dis
play was anticipated bat there was very little tina
was new yesterday, and we understand that the con
duet Of the managers Of the iasttste has given great
dissatisfaction, and that many individuals who have
heretofore presented articles for exhibition, and tt
whom pre- miums have been awarded, are determined
never Ia suSjec themselves to such treatment a.
they have heretofore received. Loud and genera
complaints have long been made of encouragement
Of the Of tie association, bat is said
that specific and direct charges Of msaSpcation Of
the funds have been preferred. Large sums of mo-
ney we're appropriated to procure medals that had
been awarded by the society, but the medals have
not been Forthcoming And when inqHiry is made
on the subject, they have been put off with frivolous
excuses that the dies are broken, or that the me-
dals cannot be finished in suitable style This, and
other species Of injustice, submitted to for
time in silence, in the hope Of reform in the
nagement OF the Institute, but instead thereof tho
evils complained of have been increasing; and the
consequences are seen in a comparatively mesgre
display Of ornamental articles, and limited number
of improvements in the useful arts.
This state Of things furnishes matter fer deep
greet to all Tho have at heart the interest Of the
musity at large. This Institute is capable, under
proper cement, of doing great deal for the pro-
motion of every branch Of enterprise and industry hut
as it is ging on, very little good is likely TO
suit from its operations 1t is not just, however that
the Ingenious and spirited individuals who have sent
the products Of their invention and labor for exam
nation, should suffer through the nismanag cement Of
the officers Of the Institute, and shall speak Of
their articles according to their merits.
The steam engine in the end Of the wing, in
operation Wednesday, and several of the machines
were at work through its agency. A machine which
is called a d" complete stave dresser" recent in
vention, stand, next to the engine. This machine
will dress out 100 slaves per minute suitable for dry
or LIQUOR casks This is a very valuable invention
for the saving Of labor. The slaves arc perfectly
uniform in size aad to those who have the slow
and aborious process Of getting them singly, by
hand the rapidly with which they thrown Off
here, is truly wonderful The peculiar shape re-
quired for the stavc rendered il extremely diff ult
to do any portion Of their dressing by machinery and
until 1885, all attempts to construct any ng that
would answer the purpose, failed This machine is
simple and efficient, and seems of
any Improvement.
Sik Culture and SILK Manufacture.-There are
some very beautiful specimens of raw silk the
second floor Of the wing. which is devoted to the
more useful articles, and there is variety Of reels
and other machines for manufacturing silk in the
rooK, below. We noticed miniature reel extreme
" simple, but combining important principle,
which is wanting in the Piedmontese reel, which is
in general through bout France and Italy. There
is another machine that takes the cocoons as they
are spun by the worm, reels them, winds the silk
doubles and twists it, aud at last finishes il OF into
capital sewing silk. This is OF the most ingeni
Gus pieces OF mechanism in the whole exhibition,
but we have doubts Of its practical utility. Its
necessarily extremely complex, and the process OF
turning out sewing silk is very slow.
The multieau.is mania, which ragged so severely
all over the country in 1855 and 80 has throw back
the silk enterprise for several years Many farmers
who contemplated cmbarking in the business, lost
money by purchasing this description Of tree, and
abandoned the proie ct in Disgust There is scarce
IN a subject upon which much misrepresentation,
so muck fslschood, has been disseminated, as the
growth Of the mulberry and The culture Of silk
Nursery men and others, who wished to sell par
ticuar kind Of tree circuate the most absurd sto-
ries in regard 10 is hardihood the amount of the
foliage il will give, and its prospective valao an
market At the north and east to which sections the
culture of silk has BEEN almost exclusively confined,
ard where /; be grown the best ad vantsge, the
ma.icaul.s is good for nothing, and the harder
riet,s, the white, the Alpine, ard the Brusa, are
alone available.
sone unsuccessful experiments by Incorporated
Companies ard associations Of Individual, seem 10
have sat fed the pasic tina, with tho presen; high
price OF abour in this country, silk cannot be grown
alvsntasoopsIy except by farmers, in small quan
titles. Labor cannot be ob,an~i Tor the few weeks
required for feeding the wor-As, except at high
price. Every farmer rare yearly from 500 to
ESQ WORTH merely by bringing into requisition the
,xrr,ior. N nj. family. IL this way, shsndsome ad
Ji'ion wcrid be made ts the proceeds Of hi. farm
IL woals BE- in fact the creation Of so much capita
yearly.
The amount of silk faiscd in the country has beer
steadily increasing ever since ISIS, when the attcs
tion Of Congress WIS DIR, cted 20 the s.elect and
der the impulse siTeu the business in 1885 and 30
il would have RAPIDLY augmented Bat for the revul
sior in the mulberry speculation
The manuisc.ure &C sdk, for sors TINE past, la
\ bern almost exclusively domestic. This i to 10
syesribea 10 a two-fold cause.-The pressure Of ih'
ier.-, and the increase in the price Of raw silk IVY
s,g 10 the Chiness difficulties. The heavy sill
| manufactures at Dedham, Hartford. Northampton
Pouyhke cpsis, and Paterson, are all hnsy stopped
or temporarily suspended. Those establishment
ealrlovrd an aggregate capital OF upwards ola quar-
4 ter eta million Of dollars. They depended prime
l paliy ON importing the raw silk, great pa I :
thss grown in this country being made Into seNin
silk bv the raisers. In consequence 81 the difiicu
Tie, between Engand and China, raw silk has rise
twenty. Eve PER cent nprice, while the 'nanufacts
ed articles hav. remained statonary;so the bushes
cf course, has ceased 20 be profitable.
| PARE TnEtTag.-Mrs. Wood had trcmeudou
aitendancs last night at her benefit. Az the fall
the curtain some one threw boquet from the pa
which the lady ran out to pick mp, and came mes
having the roller of the curtain on her head.
shudder ran through the house at the narrow eseaI
she had. Why DE- they not attend TO this a, n
Park Twice in one week is rather too mach to 50
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