The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-16

SOUTHERN MANUFACrUREs.-The report of the
Committee on cotton and wooden manufactures to
the Miners and Manufacturers Convention, late
y held at Richmond, Va, states the following
important information
AS far rs your committee informed, there
are in the State Of Virginia twenty companies, in
corporated and private, engaged in the manufac-
ture of cotton, with an aggregate capital Of ST.
100000. When in full operation, these compa-
MES employ about "a 900 spndles, producing
generally coarse yarns, and sold such, or con
verted into shlrllngs and osnaburgs 1t is not known
to the committee that there is single factory de-
signed for the production Of yarns Of higher
number than 20.
For many months pas, these have not been in
full operaion-at pr esent about 1000 spindes are
running time ; 5000 spndes time about o.
600 spindles at full time at wages to the opera
tives ; 5000 spndles stopped, and the remainder
Of the 81 900 spndles believed to be either work
ing short time or are entirely idle From the facts
gathered by the committee, they are of opinion
that the present production is about one-haIf the
capacity OF the mills and that the entire capital in
vested in cotton mills in Virginia will be found to
have paid no profit to the stockholders or proprie-
tors for the years lS49 and lS50-the very few
mills which have paid small dividends in the early
part of the year l849 will be much more than bal
anced by the lines Of others-there can be no
doubt that large losses have accrued upon the en-
tire capital invested in cotton manufacturing IN
this Stale.
In Maryland your committee find the state Of
things, If possible, than our own State ;
and your committee submit in evidence synopsis
Of the factories in that State, which will show
very large proportion either entirely idle or work
ing short time.
Whole number Of cotton factories %
Working short time IS
Working full time
Entirely idle g
The total production less than half the capacity
OF the mills.
Of.the two Wooden Factories in Maryland, the
Franklin Mills have at work, and the Culver
ton Mills working half time In Virginia there
ale 10 Wooden Factories, running 80 sets of ma
chinery, and having n capital Of S275, 900. The
exact state of the Virginia Woollen Factories the
committee were unbhle to ascertain.
CENSUS OF New Yonx.-The complete returns
Of the population of New York, with the excep-
ton Of one ward, estimated, makes the population
Of the nineteen wards SIT ,S49. In 1916 it was
81 ,223. Increase Of the population of the city in
five years Jag, 626, or nearly forty per cent. The
population Of New York has been, at various pc
RODS, as follows: 1890, 33,l3l; 1900 60, 4S9:
1910, 96,373; 1920, 123 706; 1926, 166, 0s6; $780,
300 $50; 1885, 2700S9; 1910, 3l2, S52; 1916, 81
223 1850, 5l7,S49. In Europe the population OF
The largest cities by the latest census follows:
London and suburbs, lS4l, | ,S23,47 Paris, 1916,
,035, 900; ConstantInope, $40, O00 ST. Peters
burg, 1910, 476,oOO; Naples, 1892, 35s 1874; Vi
enna 1897, 1893 $50; Berlin, 1884, 2l7 1896; Lis
bon, 239 ,s72; Amsterdam, 2,354. New York
by this showing, Is about the fifth city in the
world in point Of population. Including Brook
Iyn and Williamsburg, with their 1870 900 popula-
ton, it would be the third city in the number Of
its inhabitants.
WILD CAr.-The Fort Smith Herald of the 9Th
instant, says;
"This fellow has left the Seminole country, we
understand, for the Rio Grande, and has taken off
with him about one hundred negroes. large
number started with him, but company Of Creeks
pursued them and succeeded in capturing 20 or 80,
mostly women and children. Wild Cat did not
succeed in getting many of his tribe to follow
him, only sin eight Seminoles being in his com
pany. 1t is said that the agent, Marceus DuvaI,
is convinced that this wiley and ambitious chief
has some mischief in view, as he found that he
told the Semnoles one thing and him, the agent,
another. 1t is probable he will give the United
States a great deal Of trouble on the Rio Grande.
He now has Il wide range, large field for his OPP |
erations. The troops on the Rio Grande will have
to keep sharp look out for him.
Tue Protestant MEETING IN New YoRK-I
The following is notice Of the so-caled " Pro- |
tes,ant meeting" in New York, on Monday ev-
ening, brought about by Bishop Hughes late lee
ture:
A meeting Of the American and Foreign Chris
tan Union was held at the New York Tabern
on Monday evening, the OBJ jeCt being to set forth
the designs of the society, and expose some
of the errors that have lately arisen in regard to
Professionalism. Rev. DIR. Dewitt presided, and
the meeting was addressed by Rev, Or. Baird,
Rev. Leon PLATTE, one Of the Socety's missiona
ries in Paris, Rev, Or, Downing, Rev Dr.
Cheever, and Rev. Dr. Cox. The speeches were
animated and pungent. DR.. Baird was especially
severe and sarcastic upon Archbishop Hughes,
and his lectures on the decline Of Professionalism.
The address Of Dr. Bowling was reply to the
lecture Of Archbishop Hughes, on the " Decline