Blue hen's chicken. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1848-1854, 1849-08-03

Nessrs Editors Permit a stranger who has
resided but few months IL your city, 10 in
dulge in such reflections and observations as
arc naturally impressed by The place. The
first enquiry which presents itself to the mind
OF an observer is, how is the city TO maintain
It's present population7 and this 10 such per-
sons as have invested their funds in city prop
erty, is certainly very important question.
W iimingtcn, II Is true, is quite mechanical
place, and her workmeu are justly appreciated.
But mere mechancsm will not support her
from the simple tact, that the sphere Of ex-
change is too limited. The productions of her
mechanics are too bulky 10 bear lranspona-
ton TO distant market. She cannot bring
the " consumers along side of the producer"
without which position she may not hope 10
prosper. 1t is evident then that she must look
to some other source Of prosperity; and what
snail That be answer, the same that places
the Eastern aiates in advance o: all others,
manufacturing. may be told that this BUSH
ness has been tried on tho Branjywine, in the
Immediate vicinity Of the city, 10 the ruin of
many who were engaged in it-Permit me to
say that 1t was not the business which ruined
the Operators, and made even terror to dwell
In lis name. Much Of The machinery used on
the Brandywine, was OF the unimproved kind,
totally unfit to compete with the manufactures
Of the New England states, who went later m
TO business and proited by our experience
What other advantage has the Eastern people
over us ! DO you not see their vessels at
your own whirves, waiting for cirgoes of grain
10 Iced their spinners and weavers Does
she not come almost 10 your door fur hnr coal
aud iron, and often for her cotton? Then il
lie Eastern manufacturers can transport from
your very doors the materials upon which they
and 4.
sTaiives, and send back TO be sold at your ow II
counters The productions Of their looms; is il
not obvious That Wilmington is sadly at fault
IN The position she now occupies Let her
capitalists look to this maiter-Let the owners
Vi real estate look TO it-Let her mechanics
and all other citizens reflect upon the advania-
yes she is iaclly suffering her more enterpd-
sing nelQlibors 10 spoil her Of.
am informed that there is a chartered COM
rany with a capital Of three hundred thousand
dollars existing In your city, with some fifty
thousand dollars of stock subscribed, and over
five thousand spindles in operation; suppose
the whole stock was taken and two thousand
dollars worth Of machinery in full employ, wi h
cash 10 the amount Of one hundred thousan
DOLLARS left to carry on the concern VINO is
not impressed At once with the change which
even this amount Of active labpur would effect
IN wilmington. Aud think you the Farmers
around town would moi participate in the gene
raj prosperity Yon hear politicians scof al
the idea of home market-pcmit ma to in
form those sages that if we Manufactured in
this country all the cotton goods we import,
it would require two millions OF bushels more
wheat to size those goods alone, than we ev-
or exported in year 10 say nothing Of feeling
our own, instead of a foreign population, and
the advantages resu Ting from placing the " pro-
Queer alongside Of the consumtr."
II my positions are founded in error, shall
be happy to have them corrected.
AN OBSERVER.
WiLMSGroS, July alst 1913.