Washington sentinel., 1854-05-24

| gate per day. In Hindostan, where they still
| spin by hand, it would be extravagant to ex
| pect a spinner to accomplish one hank per day
SO that in the United States we find the same
amount of manual labor by improved machine
ry doing more than 5000 times the work."
On many other points they are eminently
successful. They have machines for making
shirts entirely, except the gussets; and one
woman does as much as from twelve to twenty
hand sewers. In applying India rubber to many
purposes they are eminently successful. They
have more railways and telegraphs than any
otherpeople, andmake more use ofthem. They
do not waste their resources on ornamental
buildings before the railway is brought into
working order, but, good sense predominating,
they study economy in the construction and
speedy completion of railways. There are be-
tween twenty and thirty electric telegraph COM
panies in the States and there are not less than
$4,000 miles Of telegraphic lines, and more are
continually being constructed. The lines are
used by all classes, and for the conveyance of
all kinds Conformation. Thus, while it is quite
true that the Americans derived the beginnings
OF their knowledge and their arts from Europe,
they avelongsince gone farahead of Europeans;
and, in material arts, as well in political and
moral regulations, they surpass all that is con-
sidered. to be excellent in the old world. Their
progress which is connected with their free
dom, illustrates its advantages. For the COM
plete proof that political freedom gives birth to
individual superiority i'll every man in the
States approximating to the frst-rate geniuses
of the old world, we are indebted to the elabo-
rate and excellent reports of Messrs. Whitworth
and Wallis. Mr.. Whitworth visited and in
spected number Of establishments for making
steam-engines and machinery of all kinds he
examined all sorts of instruments and all sorts
Of factories Mr.. Wallis did something Of the
same kind, but was more limited in his range,
confning himself chiefly to manufactures as
q result; !" while Mr.. Whitworth extended his
observations to machinery as means" in
which, says Mr.. Wallis, the Americans are re-
markable for" originality Of conception, con-
struction, and application"
While other travellers have glanced over the
surface of society in the States, amusing us by
its oddities and its merry or farcical contor
tions, these commissioners have been privileged
to inspect the beatings of its youthful and
mighty heart, to examine the sinews and the
muscles of its growing and herculean frame;
and the picture which they draw of its impulse
and its power excite our admiration of the pro-
bable destiny Of man on earth. That civiliza-
ton proceeds with tolerabe uniformity, seems
CACuPilhVu Ny VIC Paee hiotoiJ VI L1uiOPC'
That all nations are hereafter to grow and ex-
pand together more than heretofore, seems
highly probable from the rapidly increasing
communication between all. The most distant
in space are brought within few days or weeks
of each other. The Oldest and the newest.
China and America a-are in close and continual
communication. Therefore, we may hope all
mankind will become what the Americans are.
At least, the addition, in century, of one hun
dred millions to the populationsso ssof the civiised
world the addition being in advance of the
majority Of. the nations of Europe, as much as
these are in advance Of the majority of the ma
tions of Asia, will have wonderful and bene-
fetal influence on the progress of all. Into the
various important details of the different manu-
factures carried on we cannot follow the reports
of the commissioners; but from no other writ
ings or books that we are acquainted with can
so much information be obtained of what is do
ing in America, or such an insight be gained
into society there.