Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-05-07

OS-Wc hud the following letter in the |
Buffalo Morning Express. |, was written by |
an iutcliisen, gcniieman. whose observations
are close and general. SOM, slight errors arc
committed in relation to the Iron works Of
Nr. Stevens. He employs upward OF 200
hands instead OF 100, and consumes about u
tons OF iron pes day.
WHEsLtSo. Va, April Ia, 1915.
utSrsi-Lesv,ng Pittsburgh at z o'clock 2.
NJ. ~ the steam (swmiil, packet Pacific, we
arrived at tins city at u o'clock next morning.
distance "a mlles, fare Skp. The river is
bounded by the same Wfendicular water
worn banks, with narrow intervals nanked by
high hills, which entirely shut out from view
the surrounding country. Nothing can b.
sees, ol interest except the towns aud they are
oi little note. so miles below Pittsburgh is
The town OF Beaver, the point where Reeds
canal unitss with the Ohio River
From Pittsburgh to- Beaver runs a line of
steam packets, owned By Charles NJ. Reed by
which goods are transported by his canal to
Erie, at cheap and expeditions rates. Steu-
brnNhle, OHIO, I3 miles from Pittsburgh. il a
Thriving town. Wheeling. where | now
write, Is remarkable for being a manuiactu-
mp town III Nirglnia-it is a contrast with
all other towns of the Old Dominion. Here
the national road crosses the Ohio by means
. of q living ferry. Coal is abundant aud chcap-
er than at Pittsburgh, costing only two cents
per bushel at the mouth of the drift. The
a vein OF coal il FIVE feet three inches thick and
runs horizontally into the hills al all elevation
OF 80 or 40 feet above the water. | entered
one of the mines. following the hand cart O
the miner IN total darkness, 10 the distance o
1900 ieet. The path Is airy aud the atmos
- / pbC rekNNartp IN winter n nd .nnl a., po, 1,
can be worked at all times excep, in dam,
II weather, when the atmosphere is very light
or at which time the lights 20 out aud respiration
4 Is dificult--this Is d perfect ba rometcr. Til,
: miner receives one and a half cents per bushc
y for mining the coal and drawing it 10 the
al modth of the drift, and can get out one hun
dred bushels per day by working fourteen
a hours.
=. visited the Iron works OF Msssrs. Stevens
where they constantly employ 100 hands aud
consume ten tons oi pig iron per day. The
works orc complete and IN successful and pro
htable operation. The monster machines cal
the iron as a gourmand does salad. The
: works turn out 100 kegs OF nails and other
manufactures OF iron 10 match. The old
method OF making cut nails by taking the
4 nail from across the end of a baud of iron
rolled 10 the thickness OF the nail, made a nail
with the fibre OF the iron running across the
nail, and to prevent its flying they were com
PEELED to use a superior quality oi iron made
Y with charcoal which was cNpensiVe-tu make
a nail equally good and cheaper, they adopted
the plan of rolling their bloom of iron with
sheets the thickness of the nail about SIX feet
long aud one aud a half feet wide. The fibre
OF the iron running lengthwise of the sheet by
reason oil the rolling process. Then one OF
their monsters bites oil iIom across the end OF
the Sheetan across the grain of the iron d strap
or plate as wide a. the nail is long. Then
the nails are taken from the end of this strap
aud thus the fibre oi the iron runs lengthwisc
with the nail aud out of cheap iron made with
bituminuus coal, they make a nail as good or
better than the old and more exp, nsivc meth
cd. Success 10 infant manufactures" This
is a huge infant, but lis bones are in the pith,
aud the repeal of the Tariff will Iii, il and
ccnsign its hundreds OF iaborers to some other
employment and poverty. HuEah for the
South, huzlah cor slav cry, huzzsh for Polk.
] had the pleasure of looking through tho
very perfect glass works of Messrs. Sweeney,
and was amazed at the extent and perfection
of their work. They have sundry gold medals
Tor their cut-glass from sundry Institutes and
fairs in New York and PennSylvanid. They
sell goods to our very e~nterptising townsman,
Mr.. John Patterson, whose high intelligence
in his business directs him To the best markets
OF purchase. | found the wings of Western
: Virginia sound. wise and democratic. They
+. have been making an effort to amend their
E constitution, bat very wisely decline 20 call a
convention until il can be- upon the white or
. Tree basis, SO That the masicr, ot slaves east OF
z the mountains shall not by u.e of the slave
basis OF representation avail themselves OF a
p revision 10 Iivet the chains of slavery anew.
There - III this city a silk manufac,ory. but
had not time TO pay tia visit much to my re- !
5 grct.
We leave at Q this evening ia the steamboat
Hlbemid for Cincinnati.