Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03


the manufacture of various articles of trade. II
proves also that protective tariff, in The end,
invariably enables our mechanics to produce the
article cheaper than it could be imported, in ma
ny instances even without any duty:
Imitation of American Cottons.
For some years certain style Of American
printed cottons, as well as Al sheetings have
been imported regularly frow, Boston to this
country for the East India trade, and a mer-
chant of great distinction tells the amount is
considerable The goods have been initiated
here, and counterfeit tickets and marks put
/ upon them TO wake them as nearly like the a
mericen as possible, but The "lndians'' soon de-
tected the deception, and now they will only
buy the goods of such parties as can be relied on.
The explanation is this The goods white or
colored, were wanted for robes, and the Amcri
cans use much Better cotton than the English
for that quality (sze) Of yarn; the manufac-
turcrs will not put as good cotton into coarse
goods, as we do, but they size strongly to COM
plete the deception, and TO course goods they
use poorer colors. The difference in wca- soon
told the story, A great fass was made short
/ tine since, about the Americans stealing their
! stamps and les in case when large lot of
/ these very goods belonging to Barings were
seized because the pieces were stamp ped "Stark
/ Mills, Manchester, n. H." but when they
/ found there were no "Stark Mills" in Man
/ chester, and that IN. H." meant New Ilamp-
/ shire, they let 90, but stjll insisted that Man
chester was fraud, as we had 10 right TO such
name
AMERICAN Cutlery ANp llARpwARE-I was
a shor. time since in one of the great tailoring
establishments, and was shown by the master
cutter pair of shears made by r. lleinish, of
Newark New Jersey, 1889. The party told me
he knew but of two pairs of them in London,
aud he would not sell the pair in question for
ESQ, unless he had another that he had been
offered fl0 for them that they had been
shown to the best London cutters, who would
not attempt 10 initiate them. One trial was
made and proved failure. He wants two pairs
and # they can be sent to me by some steward
ola London packet, will checruly attend to
it, get him round price, and send the money by
the same hand in return. ! think, however,
twenty pairs could be sold by him in a week, and
perhaps ten times the number he had better
try through some commercial house ! could
give you many instances of a like kind. One
of your Oldest hardware merchants who would
have disdained domestic hardware business,
brought over here some months since variety
of samples of American Hardware 10 be m-
tated for his trade in New York, and found they
could not be made chcaply here as in A.
merica. From this he went to Belgium, Ilol-
land and Germany, and found everywhere the
same result.
TH WARE, &c.--In almost every article (u-
tenss) made from lin plate, or as they are call
ed, tin ware, we are greatly before them in
style, convenience and cost Besides, we have
a hundred convcnicnccs in this way, for the
kitchen and other household uses they know
nothing Of. Their prices are in general lN pei
cent above like wares in the United States
We see along the streets, something paraded
on the walk, at others in the windows of the
shops, an (out Of date with us) affair labelled
New American Baking Oven," &c. | an
sure half ship load of this order Of Yankee
notions would pay a handsome profit if shipped
to London or any port in the kingdom.
ThUNKs.-Another article is trunks You
, cannot get good convenient leather trunk in
London. Their solid leather "portmanteaus"
, are of good material and well made but snail
, and will not stand the nockS like those made in
New York Besides for trunk thirty nchc.
0 long and twelve inches square at the ends, o
: solid leather you pay about thirty-ive dollars
. ! have some trunks made by Catthatch that hav,
;, caused me much annoyance. Gentlemen at tn,
Il rail road stations and on post coaches will stoI
n and examine the trunks with great care, and il
h a number of cases | have been asked wher
. such trunks could be had. These trunks Cos
[ about Sl7 each, and would sell here for Is I
Y Gl0 sterling. l would wager the trunks an
e straps they coItain that they cannot be dupl
l. Gated in London by an English artisan.
: The EYE OF NATuRALIsT.-lt is said tha
, Audubon, when on visit to see the naturi
-, bridge in Virginia Tor the first time, trayelle
a short distance with farmer, who made a 6t
that Audubon could not tell when he came
at it. Mr.. A seeing Pee Weet, stopped al
an said, we are on the brige now. The farmer VI