Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-12-03

Wereit not for the coal and iron ofPennsyl-
vania, it would be a question of serions import
to find out to what extent the Philadelphia
ladies could go on wearing more antique silks,
Mechlin laces, and India shawls, without dis
turbiDg the balance of trade, and creating a
panic in the money market. Black diamonds
and the despised currency of Sparta still ex-
ercise an importsntinfuence upon the welfare
of every nation, and the people who reject
coal and iron from their industrial pursuits,
must make up their minds to part with their
gold, dress their women in hOmespun, and be
content with low grade In the scale of civili-
cation.
The inheritance of the manufacture of iron
is most stFkingly Illustrated by taking one
weeks product of The Railroad and Bar Iron
Works, located at Phenixvlle (nesr this city,
belonging to the Phoenix Iron Company Of
this city, the details of which have been hand
ed to rs by friend.
Produced in one week as follows:
First quality R. R. iron, 80 lbs per yard, 732, rs
" Merchant Bar iron assorted, 1875 rs
Prepared iron, known as No. L, 90 95
A" Puddled bar iron, COS, rs
Total tons rolled, 1882, 50
| OF the above, over 900 tons consisted of rail-
| ftidu lIOil, HltTCudDl DdT lItEl. anu wrought
! iron railroad chairs, the market yalue of which
exceeded $4,000. The consumption of coal
! during the same week at these works was over
/ 400 tons When in full operation they con-
sumo some ], 200 tons per week
| Let it be remembered that this valuable pro-
| duct consisted of materials taken ont of the
! bowels of the earth, every ton of which comes
| from the neighborhood, within our State,
worked into useful form by labor performed
! by over 1000 hardy workmen, who spend
their earnings in the substantial product Of
| Pennsylvania soil, in supporting their families
1t is from such sources, and upon such fOun-
dation, that Philadelphia must draw her life
streams and base her prosperity. Home indus
try, if properly encouraged, is the surest reli-
ance of every community. 1t is the mother
of commerce, and without it commerce is a
treacherous and tickle nymph, ready to betray
her votares and impoverish them for the lures
Of some new Alexandria or Venice, upon the
discovery Of a shorter cut to the land of Ophir.
Phil Bulletin.
The Washington correspondent of the n Co,s.
rier d Enquirer says:
The Clerk Of the House, Hon. VIM CULLoM,
has just published an official statement of the APP
preparation regular and definite, of the lst and 2ud
| 90S'" " NV Ci'" H5'09o' AHS i"i'O"AS arc
the aggregated items:
Civil, Diplomatic, & Miscellaneous $50 634, 1916 10
Army, Fortifcatons, & Mily Aca'y, 1915, l59 %
Indian Department and Pensions, $3.50, 9l7 SO
Naval Service, II, 2S5, 045 SO
| Post Office Department, 1881, 6Sl 90
| Ocean Mail Steamer Service, 20l3, 800 90
Total S67 ,27I, 799 %
have not had time to examine the document
concluding with the ABOVE statement with the re
quisite care, but suppose that according to prac-
tee, it omits certain indefinite appropriations pro
vided by generalaws, which may amount to S.
600 900, and which would swell the aggregate Of
Appropriations Of this Congress to SO, 600, O0O