Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-16
NATIONAL INTELLIGENGER.
pRoGREss OF SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.

We have adverted two or three occasions
lately 10 the progress Of Manufactures in the South,
and especially in Georgia, which is, by her spirit
Of enterprise and selfimprovement, becoming the
leading State Of the South Annexed is a descrip-
ion of some of her new manufacturing estab.
lishments
THE COLUMBUS ESaUIRER.
Tar TaouP FAcToRY.-A friend has politely furnished US
with facts given below connected with this thriving
Enlistment Ii is situate in the southeast of Troup
county, stream of sufficient waer-power and owned by
Messs Robinson and Leslie of Troup, and Mr. A. Ragand
OF Meriweher county About month since put into
operation and since that time has given employment thirty
FIVE hands, working thousand spndes and consuming
upwards Of hundred pounds of cotton per day. There
will in few days be addition of six hundred spndes and
twenty looms that will require supeadded force of fifteen
twenty hands The whole will be started at cost Of about
$50, 000
Our informant mentions fact highly complimentary the
mechanical skill of State, namely, that the has
been put successful operation by Southern men,
but Georgian having been employed to direct superntend
any OF the works The machinery is equal TO any in the
Southern country the yarn, sample of which have be-
fore US, is Of superior quality and spun from good cotton
indeed informed that other kind of cotton will be
used in the establishment 1t is the opinion of the propre
tors that when they get fairly to work they will consume at
least thousand pounds of cotton per day
Tux HowAnD MANUFACTURING CoMrASr.-The corner
of the large building about be erected for the of
this company laid with appropriate honors on the 18th
uto al sunrise The heavy rock work tnat Is intended as
the foundation Of this splendid establishment is rapidly going
on and the whole building will be up and finished by the LIST
of January By that time the company expect to receive
about third part of their machinery and soon we shall nave
interval of stiffness between the clnking OF hammers the
buzzng of spinning ennies and the click cack OF The ever
moving looms. We love contemplate the present improve
and future prosperity Of beautiful city, and these
things are the habingers Of coming Manufactures
give employment and good 10 large number OF the
industrious and children of the country, and add i'm
nensey the independence and seireiance OF the people
hence we rejoice 10 see them pnging up midst We
have the MATERIAL and experience daily proving that
people have the ability do portion of the cooking.
OF the COLUMBUS FACToRr, some three miles above
city, and the CowETA FAILS FAcroRY, in immediate
vicinity it is of time to drop word of commenda
uon In the full tide Of successful and profitable experiment.
they weekly turning thousands of yards cloth and
thousands Of pounds Of yarn good the country
qae the world They are, also the others
noticed in this connexon, in the hands of of pecunary
ability, Of great energy and enterprise and rapidly growing
condition at once 10 supply all demands and bid defiance
70 al competition from distance.