The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-11

Pie last Edinburgh Review contains very in
teresting article this of national industry
| There are employed in the mining operations
$4,000 persons, and in the metallic arts and manu-
taetures $4,000. The annual profit is $50 600 600
The yearly produce Of copper is $4,000 tons of
lead, 10000 tons; Of tin, 5000 tons. The produce
Of iron is 100000 tons. The produce OF coal in
| 1876 was 317j4, 100 tons. In 1887, the annual
produce of the mines of Great Britain was valued
at SlO0,000,000 Since then it has greatly in
creased. But the supply of coal must be entirely
cut off, +" in period not 0eyy yemoten There
are 10000 square miles of coal yet to operate on
and when that is exhausted the writer looks to the
United States for proongation of the production.
In this country there are $4,000 square miles Of
coal But before all this is exhausted, the writer
confidently anticipates the generation Of some new
motive power. This may probably be effected
without any process of combustion, either by the
great agents of galvanism or electricity or by the
friction, hammerng, or rolling of solid and practi-
cally lndestructible bodies, by the forcbe com
preston OF common air of other elastic fluids or
by the chemical combination of different substan-
| ees. The object OF the reviewer is to prove the
necessity oil making charts Of the different beds of
metals in the Kingdom. Such are required BY
law in Belgium, Prussia and Austria: and here, II
may not be arniss to remark, that in Prussia and
Austria the governments pay great attention to
every thing connected with the industrial arts In
Vienna there is museum where are preserved all
the products of the Empire, from their natural
state to the highest state of art-the lump of IRON
ore and the delicate watch-spring, with every inter
mediate condition.
In Howitt's {" Visits to Remarkable Places"
lone Of the most interesting books in the Lyceum
Libraty,) chapter is devoted to Newcastle-on
lyme. 1t contains some statistics on this subject.
L is supposed that each acre of coal Yields 800 600
TONS Even if forty millions of tons were consumed
annually, it would take long period to exhaust
the 10000 miles of Great Britain Hewitt. how
ever, estimates the quantity of North England at
800 square miles, which would soon be exhausted
We refer our readers, who feel any interest in mat
tiers OF tins kind, to that chapter as it describes the
whole process OF coal mining. We must not omit
the name OF Mr. Granger, selftaught engineer,
who has rebuilt the ancient city of Newcastle, and
converted the coal-hoe OF the North into a city Of
palaces There is no denying that what is lost
IN historic association aud old renown" is more
than compensated in the cleanliness, airiness and
comfort Of modern towns
Mr.. Granger has been the master spirit in the
changes which have taken place. Ii NAV, in the
eyes OF some, detract from his merit that while he
has effected these improvements, he has at the
same time made for himself handsome fortune
Of 100000. We dstrust both the patriotism
and capacity OF those men, whose public spirit
neither leads TO the prosperity of the community
nor to their own individual interest, On the other
hand, we approve Of that patriotism which unites
individual and public inte5lss, al1 makes the one
move in equal pace with the other We publish
some portions OF this chapter We wish New
Orleans had many such men, who from charity
boys became millionarcs-not by dealing in city
and fancy stocks, but by great public improve
ments, giving work to thousands OF laborers and
enhancing the value of the property of the civ.