The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-24
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
lFrom our regular correspondent
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| lrFom our regular cotrespondentI
PHILApELPHIA, July %, ls45.
| There is nothing more plainly or more distnctively
marked in the American character than its energy
and enterprise under the pressure of the very worst
difficulties Our English friends may learn from
this useful lesson. The three fires which DESC
lated Pittsburg, and struck what was calculated and
probably intended, To be fatal blow to its pros
perity, have only served 10 increase the business
ardor of her ctZens and the fact becomes COM
mon one, that before the fire was completely ex-
/ tinguished, the mason and the carpenter were at
work in The ruined districts, and at this moment q
number of new houses already cover portion of
| the spot where the sad drama was performed
Everybody remembers the great fire which destroy
ed 50 large and wealthy portion OF New York,
several years ago; and everybody remembers the
inconceivable rapidty with which all traces of the
calamity were repaired. The disaster of last Saur-
day, by which at least six millions of property were
utterly lost, will only supply another cause for the
exhibition of the characteristic energy and enter
prise of our ctizensanother example Of that spirit
of Ego ahead, !" which has made its mark in all cor
ners of the country. A people thus superior to
misfortune, prepared for emergencies, and prompt
IN rising from every reverse, stronger and better
than ever, are not the rifing opponents that they
are sometimes declared to be and Great Britain
will find, that whether her rival in manufactures,
her competitor in commerce, or her enemy in ioar,
the United States can only be worsted after great
trouble and expense.
spent an hour or two yesterday at Gloucester
Point, few miles below this city; and, while there,
embraced the opportunity passing through the only
building now completed by the new Washington
Cotton Manufacturing Company composed of nine
wealthy individuals, the most of whom are Phila-
! delphlans, and the principal of whom is that
wealthy merchant, Mr. David S. Brown, of this
city Only portion of the building is occupied
with hands, operations having been commenced
within the last week but it is evident, from
the other buildings now going up, and the ac-
tivity manifested by the supervisors, that when
the whole affair is once fully under way, it
will be most extensive and interesting enterprise
The two main buldings-of which one is now
completed-are immense structures of brick, with
large and spacious rooms, and commanding full
view of the river Delaware, on the Jersey shore of
which they are situated The dwellings, of the
| hands-of which large number are already erect
ed-are large four-sory structures with every
venence, and so laid out to give to the place
already the appearance of town. The company
expect to have population of fifteen hundred per-
sons, in and about their works, before the year is
over The hands employed in the rooms now oc-
cupied, nearly all from the East--the girls from
the well.known town Of Lowell; and all seem to be
at work with equal degree of proficiency and abil-
ity. Gradually, the females of Philadelphia will be
taken into the establishment; but at the beginning
it would be ruinous TO employ those who are Who'll
| ly inexperienced. Hundreds of poor girls, who
now see before them nothing but poverty or dis
honor, can thus not only place themselves in re-
spectacle position of society," by taking advantage of
the chance now offered to them in employment fit
ted to their constitutions, and for which they will
be well compensated but, by following the example
of the Lowell girls they can actually place them
selves above all want l understand that the pros
poets of the company most fair and that they
have ready market for all their goods. They
driye the works by steam, and have taken pains to
obtain the best machinery, constructed after the la
test and most approved discoveries As they are
now only very partially in operation, but little can
be said of the various departments of this great
adjustment. hope, at some future day, to be en-
| abed to give you description tibet will be more
satisfactory. They possess great advantages Of po
| sltion. The raw cotton can be landed Immediately
at their wharf, and the coal brought directly, by
water, from the mines. The only regret expe-
rience in the matter is, that they did not choose the
Pennsylvania side of the river as the scene of their
interesting operations.
There is rumor now prevailing here, that
Mexico has declared war against the United
States. cannot believe it. The coming Au-
gust elections for the presidency are said to
cason considerable excitement among the Mex
leans; and doubtless the government, if war has
been declared, deemed that the most effective
means Of electioneering in their own favor. If
It should prove to be true, no one can suppose
that the contest will be of long duration; and there
can be no doubt that our country, "however bound
en- will be "defended by all our hands," The
cruel proposition that Texas should be left to her
fate, because annexation has not been formally
pleled--recently made by New York wing paper
is one that only be treated with unmitigated
soorn and loathing Texas is already much de
tacto portion of our Union as Pennsylvania, and
will be defended with equal pertinacity and valor.
1t remains to be seen what means Mexico will take
to carry into effect her declaration of war against
this country, II it has been made. She cannot hope
for English aid now that France has taken neutral
position--unless, indeed (and this is rather likely
she hopes to annoy our commerce with her letters
of marque-though this horrd piracy is Of too dam
gerous nature to be INDUCED in without great
ton and prudence and if the advice of the "Union
in all cases where these letters of marqne be de-
tected as mere cover for piracy and murder--for
they would be used such, in nearly every case
be carried out they will not be regarded as very safe
or profitable means ofplunder and blood But should
Mexico declare war, the land, and not the water
would be the immediate theatre of her defeat Tex.
would be invaded, and the contest would be dec-
ded there. What the result Of the struggle would
be, now that The United States is prepared to back
the army of Texas needs no great gift of prophecy
to predict.
Captain Elliott, sort of Wandering Jew on
small scale, now that Texas has been annexed has
left that country, POSSIBLY for his own good, } and
is now bathing his fevered temples in the waters Of
| old ocean at Rockaway. What a lot is his! His has
been sad fate, since he went TO reside in Texas
His intrgues have not only failed in the most ludi-
crous manner, but he has been plundered by the
very people whom he served. All his journeys be-
tween the Texian and Mexican capitals have result
ed in nothing but disappointment; and now he has
turned his footsteps eastward. He has certainly
served his masters well; but he could not stem the
wave of public opinion. The belief is expressed
here, that he would make capital negotiator in
favor Of the English claim to Oregon!
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