The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-03

the community And surely he who make s for our rom
an entirely new, profitable, and very extensive bnnc
industry may be safely placed in this honorable caleo
But this inventor has not alone benefited his own e.
Try; for in this age OF rapidly increasing nternat
communication, Europe viii not be slow to alopt NJ
we find more economical and better suited 10 so man,
dusria uses. As yet, no European has struck out IN
same path, and this Americans mechanical fame III
FORE bids fair to proceed with the application and rs
his invention, which, II it continues to advance as a
" for twenty years, as for the last three, will in i
time be found applied in almost every house in the In
to very many purposes. As most tropical plants
the fig genus produce the glutinous juice or sap N
which the caouchouc may be made, there is far less
ger that the supply viii not run apace with the gon
demand, than that our own pine forests will evenm
fail to afford turpentne in sufficient quantities 10 SUI,
the market
We have but the other day description of IA,
gum elastic tree, which found BY our troops on
Island OF Lobos. II grows in Cayenne, the Brazik
in great quantities in Paraguay. From this last cou,
we may look for copous supplies as as our ed
to open AN extensive commerce with that strange int.
territory shall have succeeded, and soon as CREATE
cilites are secured by exemptng the navigation Of
rivers from the blockadng restrictions imposed in cod
quence of the war between Buenos Ayres and Mont
deo 1t is well worthy of consideration, whether
tree canno, be transplaned into southern States
ida especially, and cultivated TO great extent II w1
furnish a and lucrative material for one of our n
ingenious and productive manufactures Specimens Of
extraordinary plant, with its uncommony thick ear
are TO be found in our hot-houses and the one VT
is growing in the green house of the flower deposi
attached to the Patent Office is The finest we have SCI
! This country is much indebted to Mr.. Goodyear o
great ingenuity in the application OF the gum to so N,
Ina mi IA is mn lee
able to himself than useful for many purposes His "a,
right is extremely producve--brings him in large
come and his interest in his inventions is estimated Ia
worth from two TO three millions of dollars perh
more We congratulate him on his success, and hu
his efforts another proof of the unparalleled invent
ingenuity OF the freest people the globe This chan
ter of countrymen, OF which we witness so ma
proofs in the Patent Office and in the variety of specn,
that are every year exhibited in Washington, from
most useful, common manufactures to the fine arts and
lhes plendid productions from the pencils of Rossee
Powell, is at once the result and the embeishmenl
the free government we enjoy. We are never tired
diating upon this proud and agreeable theme, And
never fail to connect it with the principles of free III
to which we are devoted Surely if any people in
world can dispense with a tariff, which is INTENDED
protect our own manufactures against foreign comp
ton il is the most industrious, enterprising sagacio
ana inventive people upon the earlh lhose Wn0a
such protection to their ingenuity are not themsel
aware of their own resources. They do not pay 81
cient compliment to their powers, TO The bold
yet prudent character of their countrymen or to the tn
sand blessings which spring from their free inst
tons. A free people the least shackled by anci
preudices former CUSTOMS and therefore the m
original and the most inventive people. Not content
readRg in the paths of their foreiathers, they think
themselves and discover new and better modes Of
complishng their objects The republics of Greece
famous for their genius and invention The republt
America is carrying the go-a-head principle OF this
to the greatest degree, "with eye that never win
and wing that never tires"