Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-20

The total number of cotton factories in Great
Britain is ,932, containing 90, 977, OF spindes,
and 249, 627 power looms. The moving power in
these factories is supplied by steam, representing
II, ,Oo5 horse-power,-an water, / $50 horse
power. The total number of persons employed in
these factories amounts to $50, 924. If to these
we add the persons not employed in factories
such as hand-loom weavers, calico-printers and
dyers, makers and reparers of machinery, ETC.
total of 700, 900 would be obtained
The total value of the cotton goods and yarn
exported in 1850 was f28, 952, 078 in t849,
G26, ,775, 1856 The capital employed in the cot
ton manufacture of Great Britain is estimated at
not less than f45, 0O0, ,OOO
The London Dispatch noticing the Exhibition
and the display of cotton goods, says:
g The yarns, exhibited as the basis of other pro-
duets, show to what an extent the ingenuity of
man can be carried, when employed in given
direction. There we have specimens of yarn
spun by machinery, which is of so delicate char
acer that the fibers of cotton only be discov
cred in the fabric by the aid of microscope; and
intangible is it that it falls to prices by hand
ding. This curiosity of manufacture is exhibited
by Messrs. Thomas Houldsworth & Co., of Man
chester, and is the result of the energy and enter
prise Of Henry Houldsworth, Esq, of that firm.
In the contributions of this house, we find speci-
mems OF cotton yarn ranging from No 100 TO No
7OO in single yarn and No. 100 to No go in
double yarn or lace thread. These figures express
the number of hanks to pound weight, each
hank being 500 English yards and the last nam
ed number of 700 in single and 67O in double yarn
is the triumph of cotton spinning for all practical
purposes, since find that pound weight of
cotton is elongated, in the first instance, to a length
of 338 miles, and in the other to double thread
325 miles, at cost of E28 as the price of a sin
gle pound weight. The most remarkable example
however, is the specimen shown as No, 900, both
of yarn and thread, a curiorty, by which a sin
Ole pound OF cotton is extended to 430 miles,
This is useless for all manufacturing purposes, be-
ing too fine to be servceabe or even capable of
being handled. Still, it is all it processes TO be-
The finest of the cotton yarn used for lace making
has always been a great desideratna1 and the
firm has had a world wide reputation for spinning
finest numbers. So late as 1910, $50 was the fl
nest yarn attempted In 1841 Messrs. Houlds-
worth spun 45O, which was considered as the
limit, until the great Exhibition stimulated fur
ther trial and the result is before the public,
as palpabe a fact as the building in which it is
exhibited. Another still more astounding speci-
men exhibited by the Messrs HouldAyorth is that
of No. 2,150 yarn, in which may Eairly pre-
sumo that they have reached the limit at which
the fbers at all cohere A single pound of this
yarn would yield the extraordinary length of ,O26
miles 1t is needless to say that yarn of this
character is useless for all practical purposes, tho
highly significant as Illustrative of human skill
BicknelES RepOrter.