New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-13
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country than ever, and in less remote parts there
!. no falling off Two of the Leading papers in
Philadelphia are now before US calling upon their
.,t;,,s TO attend and compete for the honors. We
IL. This. Pittsburg and other places are in ad-
-.,ce Of Philadelphia We have no doubt many
.boce fabrics will be brought from beyond the
maintains Notices are coming in Of meetings
and the appointment of delegates to the National
Convention Of Home Industry, which ensures a
s,eat convention on the 18th of October We
snb;on a notice from the United States Gazette:
p;fteenth Annual Fair of the American
Institute of the City of New York.
Nv notice in another part OF this paper it viii be
,baou ingenious citizens of Philadelphia manufacturers
mechanics artisans &C. invited 10 exhibit the great
aabual Fair in NewYork, the 7i and 9Th Of October
nett We know il is in their power make wide sweep
aropg the premiums. In many things they have attained
an excellence and perfection in advance OF any other place
hat after the Fair over, may how great pro-
norton of the honors they have The greatest
ssyidepce of this. have heard complaint from
,sngs of the numerous exhibitors who have contr
II The breeders fine cattle will an eye 10 the Cattle
show New jersey, the last season, riumphed The
ruund and some OF her newspapers she means to tr
The Convention OF the friends OF Home Industry
urmey appropriate takes place The 18th OF October
want this country The great eme interest has been
appreciated as il should be- our views are too much for
interest capable aorang ss!d and enduring mark 10
agriculture and of spreading the wiags commerce,
has been estimated IN the scale of comparison as il
The late census eomputes the annual products of
features tour hundred millions oil dollars This has
mostly been brous hit into existence few years. If they
only receive the patronage they deserve few years fig
ures viii almost iail 10 measure their magnitude and
foreign interests will be in comparison but as mess OF
poage Let delegates he chosen and together and
sir up spirit worthy OF the great cause.
Il will thus be seen that our citizens will have
\ 10 make great excrtion to obtain their accus-
fosped share of premiums. Let the manufacturers,
mechanics and artisans of New 7 rk exert them
selves.
SENT TO HALlrAx.'-The following origin Of
( this phrase is given by Mrs. Fanny Kembe Butler
in her account of her recent journey throushNorth
Carolina. In giving some highly interesting
revolutionary sketches of the partizan warfare
carried on by Tarleton, she says:
In many of these partisan fights, it is much to
be regretted, bit little attention paid to the
rules Of war in the treatment of prisoners partic-
uary when the tories fell into the hands of the
militia. A depot of prisoners was established at
Halifax, and many times order to convey a
prisoner TO Halifax synonymous to take him
out Of sight and shoot hm-and the non-coplms-
stoned officer would return in q half hour and re-
port the prisoner safe at Halifax. Hence arose
! lie expression Sent To H. Hnlifnx-'"
EpiroR1AL CHASGE.-Hon, John c. Thompson
has assumed the editorial department of the Demo-
!; cratic Herald, published at Huntsville, Ala.
9J 10 Smith commences a leading article in his
{ Nauyoo Times and Seasons with the scriptural
verse, If ye will live sodly, ye shall suffer perse
;uion, and continues in the style of deeply in
nred man to lament the caumnies heaped upon
The Latter Day Saints, and then proceeds to de-
tail The history of his own persecution and arrest.
The MINT AND IT'S OPERATloYs.--The new
ed6ce upon Tower Hill was completed about 1911
! al an expense OF about a quarter OF a million OF
money. This immense sum, however, included
BOuton's expensive machinery, In the present
Interesting process of coming the ingots first
melted in pots, when the alloy of copper, is added
Ito gold, one part in twelve, to silver, eighteen
pennyweishts to pound weight, and the mixed
i metal then cast into small bars. And now begin
The operations of the stupendous machinery, which
snneaualled in the mint of any other country, and
isineyery wav triumph OF mechanical skill. The
bars in heated state are first passed through the
breaking down rollers, which. by their tremendous
crushing power reduce them to only ene-third OF
their former thickness, and increase them proper
tonaby in their length. They are now passed
through the cold rollers which bring them nearly
to tue thickness of the coin required when the last
operation of this nature is performed by the draw
bench, machine peculiar TO our mint, and winch
secures M. extraordinary degree oil accuracy and
uniformity in the surface of the metal, and leaves II
Q! the exact thickness desired. The cutting-out
machines now begin their work. There are II OF
these engines in the elegant room set apart tor
them, all mounted on the same basement, ami
s forming a circle range. Here the bars or strips
are cut into pieces of the proper shape and weight
Tor the coming press aud then taken To the sizing
room 10 be separately weighed, as well as sounded
oaa circular piece OF iron, to detect any tlaws.-
he protecting rim is EeXt raised in the marking
room, and the pieces after blahching and anneai-
Inc, are ready for stamping The coming rooniS
magnificent looking place, with its columns and
as sreatiron beams, and the presses ranging along
The solid stone basement. There are eight presses,
each of them making when required, sixty or sew
eny, or even more strokes q rainnte; and at ench
stroke blank is made perfect coin-that Is TO
say stamped on both sides and mied at The edge
each press will coin between four and i've thou
aad pieces within the hour, or the whole eight be-
tween thirty and forty thousand. And to accom-
push these mighty results the attention OF one little
boy alone is required. who stands in sunken place
before the press, supplying it with blanks
knights London.
SucAR MAKiNe.--A communication has been
( made oihe London Academy Of Sciences, by NJ.
barruel, on the ameliora,ion of the process OF
manufacturing sugar in the French Colonies / his
gentleman states that at Guadalonpc, in order TO
obtain S5 900 900 OF kitosrammes of sugar, mol
less than % GOO, 0o0 arc lost by The action OF the