Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-09

STYLE When ready for work. the mill will require 200 oper
ativeshee fourhs females-snd will manufacture when
full operation 5000 yards Of yard wide sheepg per day.
The motive power consists Of esgnes Of horse powe
EACH low pressure tweny-inch cylinders four feet stroke
forty revolutions per minute four boilers thiry-sir long
which located in adjoining to that which contains
the engine The smoke stack is eghytwo feet high
feet square the base and five by six the Top and located
thirty feet from the MILL The smoke taken from the boen
to the chimney under ground.-Aduerfiser.
AUGUSTA (GEoReIA) TRADE-There is no city in the
Union with enterprisng merchants than Augusta wher
her population is taken into consideration; and there
city in the Union where better prices paid for produce
goods sold at lower profits Her merchants provebial
business and they act upon the principle of quick
sales and small profits. they what they call
margin between this and other markets. they are liberal
purchasers but frequently they figure ahead and purchase
ch the hope Of finding margin elsewhere There has
hardly week during tho past season when cotton did
bring high price in this market either Charleston
Savannah, and such will continue to be the case Some
planters know have shipped their cotton Charleston and
Savannah by way of trial. but they have nearly all come
bock again, and doubt satisfied that 20 further
is but to fare worse"
All our merchants ask is ral-they now have on hand
good stocks of goodsand offer them moderate profits and
buyers do better elsewhere, they will lock to their
interests if they do not do so.
Those who wish TO give market trial would do well
to examine our advertising columns.
SALuDA FAcToRr, 8. C.-Ws had the qualification re-
Gently Of visiting this factory, situated the Sauda river
Columbia and Of inspecting its operations Il is the
labor anti free soil system operators in the
bishmen but blacks The superintendent and are
whe and of great experience in manufacturing They
principally from the manufacturing districts Of the North and
although strongly preudiced their first arrival the
bishmen against African labor from observation and
experience they all testify their equal efficiency and great
superiority in many respects So not act preciptaey
the experiment of African labor first tested in the spin
ming department. since which, the older spnnes have been
transferred to the weaving They commenced in that
department the Let of July and are turning
many yards to the loom performed under the older
system from Lowell has charge Of this depart
men and she reports that while there is full much work
done by the blacks they much attentive the
dion Of their looms They all appear pleased with th mani
pulaons which they employed and thus afordng
the South the best evidence that when the channels Of
agriculture choked the manufacturing Of produc
lions will open channels Of profitable employment for our
slaves The Of the South great and should
be gratifying to all who view these facts with the eye of
statesman and phlanthrops that the Of profitable
employment and support to rapidly increasing African
abor lmable, and must all motives for emgra-
ion 10 other countries. By enlightened system Of internal
improvements making all parts of State accessible and
udicious distribution OF labor South Carolina may
than double her productive slave labor and suffer
rom too dense population.
CoTToN Factory IN MIssIssIPpI.-ChoctaU, Miss
Tune lS50-Our mill is located ten miles south Of Green's
,oro in poor, healthy neighborhood fine water good
ety, churches schools, &c. We have but gshop
within miles Of us, and that will probably last long,
Dur building made of wood l0s feet long, 4s wide, and
hree stories high We running about 500 spindles
20 cards, IL looms, and all the accompanying necessary
hinery for spinning and weaving Owing the high price of
cotton have stopped looms We have 500 spindles
md five cards more not finished shall probably gst'hem
operation for the next crop. Wecary machine shop
which make every variety of machinery for cardng and
pnning. Our looms are built by Messrs Rogers Kechum
Grovanon, of Paterson N. ]. They are heavy and sub
santia and built for making heavy nsey and osnabugs
uch most used in the Souih think that companies
this State Intending to embark in the manufacturing bust
would do well to call and machinery before
uyng elsewhere. We have just completed the finest -four
nill in this State equal to any in the South We will
how -four with the st. Louis, any other mill North South
We use large fine Semple Engine, made by Messrs
rhurstoD, Green & Co., Providence 1t is admired by all
listers for its great capacity and simplicity i is by
egro engineer, who also fireman, who had
uantance with engines until he took hold Of this
double cylinder wool card that cards the wool twice well
most of the country cards that have only one and will
q two hundred pounds Of rolls day. for which charge
light cents pound.
CorToN FACTORIES ALABAMA--We seldom take up |
paper published in the Southern and Western States Of
Jnion that does not contain some new development OF
manufacturing industry In brief notice of the progress Of
Alabama in that direction the Tuscaloosa Observer remarks
"We shown last week samples Of cottonades,
nghams, checks and osnaburg coored and plain, made
be factory Of Patton, Donnegan Co., Huntsville, which
quality and durability would compare with similar goods
nade in the manufacturing towns Of the North The coored
oods were excellent and assured Of the contra
y, we should have pronounced them Eastern goods.
The factory at Florence, owned by Martini Weekly &
;o is doing thrifty business 1t works 46 loomsturn-
1000 spndes and produces 1000 yards Of cloth per
week. Besides this large amount Of cloth, il manufactures
lso 5000 dozen of thread per week. The weekly consump
ion Of cotton is about 900 pounds averaging 75O bales Of
otton per year. ii. a ,
As an instance Of the prosperity Of factories in this
ion, one is about being established the stream,
the opposite sde which, it is calculated will consume 40
aes of cotton per week.
The factory in this city is about increasing its number of
At this time works only 40, which chiefly en-
oyed in manufacturing the four qualities Of goods In
weeks the present number Of looms will be increased to
o. The cloths made this factory in high repute and
meet with ready Sales"