New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-01
AFAr on TIE BACK FOR JONATHAN

AFAT on THE BACK FOR JONATHAN
From TIE Dairy Nv.
pleasant and profitable lesson may be cleaned
some Official facts Just br0u ght fre-h from the shores
Of Brother JonGlen Ilese "a be found in the
report; # the Commsioners to the Exhibition At New
.ork. They give 10 announcement TO the vain.
glorious conviction that England hss nothing more 20 DO
and make il plain that the true business Of psirioin
low-neIt after the omertsry urgent demands on il for
purpose of warts 70 Prom,te the intelligence Of the
multitude and increase the national skill in az the wealth
creating ars. From the special reports # Messrs.
WhiwOrh ard eis, the truth CLEANS almost like
rev esion tLst tn pre-lence O our country is Oly
70 te maintained By increasing freedom. The growing
uIerorify of the Americans many points neither
be concealed denied They surpass England, and
therefore iaI sgrpess ell the w9Fd IN tie eng and IN iae
Of their railways They have according TO TIE
hrtrican Raiu1y T1ef eli nile of rai sni al the
rect Of The world, incluclg England hss Only :le9
hey have eOLe t0 work with good sense, and have
studied economy and the speedy completion ofthe roads
d" A single Ie Of r5il' says Nr Whit worth nailed
down 10 snsvese logs and tram at rare aterya are
deemed TO BE- sufficient as commencement, and IS traffic
increases additional Improvements can be made. They
lave not waited Ike he well educated gentlemen Of Ea
gland, immense capital on architectural railway
merits and in Parliamentary railway litigation, and the
suit il that railwa, successfully carried into every
part Of the land Tie American rails excellent prop
critics. To ib(se railway lnes, also viii IA make the CON
muncetion with the interior Of America more easy than
communication with the interior of Spain Europe is
this indebted for most Of the large supple, Of
food which have saved the people from hunger.
The Americans sufptss us alsO in the length Of their
telegreJhs, end in the which they make Of thcm'
They have says Mr. Whitw0rth l. 900 miles There are
ele' en- different telegraph companies in New York Que
bee and New Orleans are connected by the wire and
net work Of lines Cncs 10 the vest far Missouri,
about 200 and villages being provided with stations
when the contemplated lines connecting California with
the Atlantic and Newfoundland with the main continent
are completed, San Francisco viii be in communication
with ST. Johns Newfoundland, distant from Galway but
FIVE days passage. II j., therefore estimated that intel
gence may be conveyed from the Pacific to Europe and
rerso, in about sx days In America 1.-THE electric
telegraph Is used hy all classes Of society ordinary
men use the electric telegraph in their transactions to
very great extent About two columns Of m sitter day
is iran. ned by telegraph to the New York papers SO,
VI der the guidance of good sense the $4,000 miles Of tee
graph are not Improbable commercial speculation.
The Americans who, as Mr. Burke said, are It'll in the
griste smost equal TO who have been ages in the
bone in the tunnaso Of their merchant shipping while
they conn letely equal il they do not surpass
srGcting srd managing ships In ocean steam navigation
they our only com oetors and even IN that they are
not behind VI.
The application Of labor saving machinery working
wood is very extensive in America An abundance Of the
material and scarcity Of hands have led 10 inventions
which people in England are beginning TO import The
sswmis are wonderful self acting machinery makes
doors, and window frames, and cases. Bgders sup
piled with such articles cheaper than they can make them
Portable saving machines, driven By horse power
used for saving up logs Of for fuel Planning ma
chimes in common The character given 10
branch OF manufacture has gradually extended TO others
Applied 10 stone dressing is enabled 20 perform
much work a. twenty masons BY hand II the United
States one spinner by machinery doe; more than 900
uutr the WOTk OF spinner IN hiuIo-tan. Lasts are
made by machinery 80 are plows.
Every in America being perfectly free TO keep his
wagon, the use OF wagons almost universal What
advance for England If every could keep his
The manufacture of wagons supports great number Of
wbeelwrghts and artisans of that c!ass, who from the
nature OF their employment attain great skill and apti
ude enabling them TO turn their hands TO almost every
variety OF work and rendering them most useful and
important class. SO 10 have wagons perfectly untaxed
raises up among the free cotton trade has raised up
important and intelligent classes Of workmen.
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ports examples Of the great progress which the Americans
have made in all the essential arts which il is the
duty OF patriotism 10 promote but Is not purpose to
make catalogue Of their great We rather
point tten;ion to Both the Commissioners make
senibe that the Of the American far less
due to the assistance they have derived from Europe than
from freedom and their native intelligence.
Wherever machinery can be introduced. says Mr. Whit
worth as substitute for manual labor il universally
and willingly resoried to. The rorkmen kaa rA sal
ir6etioH al mechanical improvements. Now this is the
of the disposition Of the people of Europe and
is justly traced by Mr.. whtworh to the scarcity Of
bands in America 1T ia" he says. the con
10 machinery wherever il be applied, 10
which, under the guidance of superior educa-
ton and intelligence, the remarkable prosperity OF
the United States is mainly due combination Of in
dutry intelligence and freedom Is efecting wonders in
America The resources Of the country which great
denied the influx Of Immigrants and the rapid in
Of people be doubted and both will help TO
improve and extend the intelligence Of all bat the gen.
era freedom n the great source Of the general intelligence
unm peded by Others There is no apprenticeship system
so much prized By certain trades in England and "he
useful says Mr. W Wa- the youth in any ndus;ri-
a. pursuit becomes to his employer the profitable
is 10 himself The American worxng boy develops
rapidly into the skilled artisan, and having once mastered
part Of bis business he is content until he has
mastered all The restless activity Of mind the anxiety
10 improve his department Of Industry the facts
constantly before him of ingenious who have solved
economic and mechanical problems TO their own profit
and elevation ali stimuistive and ENCOURAGING and
il may be said that there IL not a working boy of
average ability. in the New England States at least
who has no: idea Of mecha 81 invention or i'm
provement in manufactures BY which in good time he
hopes TO better bis condition rise fortune or social
distinction For other and older nations, which dread
without sharing the progress Of America the fearful phe
nomenon Is the rapid development Of the mind Of man
there well the increase Of bis numbers The lO0.
100000 human beings who will probably live in the coati
nent of North America before the cOse Of the preen,
century promise TO be al intelligent men, full of activity
and knowledge Of the material world anxious improve
and powerful in the compound ratio of their intelligence
and their numbers. Our own commissioners re.
mark that of the moral effects OF increase of the
people increase of their mental activity and What
then may not the Americans, skllfll become be-
fore the elcse Of the century.
The prospect is however encouraging for us not sp-
paing We must initiate the Americans and set our
people free from al kinds OF anrise restrictions Al.
though the general report ascribes the quick Intelligence
the ingenious Industrious energetic psinsskiny Of the
producing classes TO thst esry education which il nike
afforded 10 ALL and although Mr. Wallis very properly
speaks in s praise az every page OF bis repo-snd we
have no; the slightest intention di.parsge eary ani