New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-02
IADCS trial rgTELIfGEHcE.

AarpIcAT CIock B'sISEss.-Out of thfy-oue
clock DaDufaotofi.s ebum.ret.d ty us in sItoles oa
The ruiJec two ytsrs ago. four have been destroyed
by ffe, nto have stoppod by felGre, and five have
tehac manufacturing Oa account OF small profits.
There ale ttd uutCtn iedotes making clocks, brt
oily Elk Of them runpiog full tine and with fud
compliment Of hands. These six will produce about
$4,000 ccis this year. The renening seven factories
will make nhout ~, 600 clocks, that tue total pcu-
duction Il CLOCKS this year will not exceed li3, 600.
The jerome Manufacturing Company In 1853 aud
1854 produced each year $4,000 clocks. Thus they
must have produceo more than an average Of one
clock per minute. TIE factory Of j. c Brown during
Is5l and 1852 issued from so 600 to lOOo 900 oc su.
ruaily, making total from the two establishments Of
over 500 900 clocks each year. The Ansoua Company
manufactured about 80 900 last year. Thus il will be
seen that all the thirteen factories running will
mtke hardly one fourth Of what was produced by
three Of the large factories row stsndipg STILL The
question raturaiy arises. what ehalI we do for low
priced clocks in the future There Is still large
amount Of fancy clocks on hand, which VII probably
lest out the season, but the wooden frame %. g."
and shbrp top Gothic" clocks are not being nad4,
and there is comparatively none in the market. The
wooden frame clooks cannot be made for the prices
that they have been sold at. II is es mated that
nearly half a million Of dollars has been lost in selling
clocks under the cot within the last three years The
clocks for expectation have amounted to about ore
million Of dollars abDualy, which aided us in the
charges with the old country. AZ an instance,
loow one house that imports shav Wis linen collars aud
lace goods iom Scotland and makes its exchange in
c6 cks But if they to send bill of exchange it
would cost them from TO per cent Bu' sending
cut clocks at per cent profit more it makes then
at least l3 per cent the clocks, which is paying
business There are doubtless many similar agents
in the expectation Of the article which is an advan
age to Ourselves and for this reason desire to see
il fosterCd and again take its place among the indus
trial products Of our country The business has re-
sutec 80 dsas ousy to those engaged in H. that come
time must eapse before capital will seek this channel
as Cd inve stInent unless something like combnati,n
be made to sustain the prices. Foreign countries
with all their low wages cannot il would appear from
The past, compete with us in making cheap household
clocks. The workmen of Enela cannot be induced
to put together work so klessly They are amazed
at the thought of shaping the parts by the bushe and
putting them together boy sets ten pins. America
makes clock while Europe is putting on its apron.
The dock business BOW stands in a peculiar position
There has been ii-e in pricts, but there appears
every reason to anticipate one. The amount of low
market and the expectation of the article must almost
wholly cease for a time at least II is said that one
or two Engsh agents have been to the clock districts
and lave secured them thoroughly to buy all that
could be found finished, but the amounts small
with, ut prospect Of getting more. II the American
manufacturers can con bne and form rules which shall
prohibit the continual cheapening process and fix
minimum price varyiD with the quality ordered, but
lever such to forbid living proht the clock manu-
facure may again ise without it there appears every
sign of long stagnation.
LIFE PREsrRyrRs Many of the life prfservers on
The "Norfhern Indiana" It is reported, wee found
ruined by having been used pncus HONS by the LADY
passengers. Can not yarkee ingenuity be induced to
get up lferresever free from this and every other
seIious objection. India rubber such ttese pin
cushion affairs appear to have been, decay very
at the best are ruued by the smallest pin hole
Thomrsohs the most popular, is heavy, ugly and
bulky, being q seat led with cork and adapCed to
clasp arouId tie body. Tewksburys, AID the ~hos
catalogue Of which bouyed up by tin boxes
updtrt atb, are admirably caculaed to drcwn the
victim uness able TO manage binself in the water,
However strongly the apparatus may be inclined to
foat itself The difference between beiog supported
and being supported right sde up. may have an ion
portant il fluence the termination of ones bogra
ply. There is no possible way in which bouysnt
seat car be held which will not bring the support all
to one side Of the head TIE consequence of tbs is
continual change of position tending to bring the
head underneat1 the float unless resisted with some
swimming skil. The quite common style which con-
fists Of two tin canisters connected by straps and
buckle seems rather the most available for general
purpose and if they be depended on as perfectly
tight we should presume any lady, however unskiled,
might steady herself in smooth water if she could also
have in her haLds some additional floating object But
tbs is srppo.iDg cor dtons which may not always be
attanabe. Davis, in sight on the Brooklyn Ferry
boats elliptic ring of cork cover with canvass, is
we think the most efficient Of any life preserver, and
although il occupies much room in the vessel this is
on evil which cannot well be avoided.
LAKE PRopELLERs-rheD Detroit Locomotive Works
are building low pressure engine, cylinder 40 inches
diameter by 10 riches stroke for propeller to ruE on
the Lakes. This we think is the largest though not
tie first low ~ ssure propeller il the Lake trade. The
Lakes are the paradise of screw proptlers ard the
size and perfection of vessels thus propelled seems
70 be continually increasing Oseiaiirg engines, the
ecorcmes OF condensiDg and every ingenious means
for Facilitating the loading and unloading Of freight
are being rapidly adopted and we feel assured that
in pouit of real plactc economy the propellers of
our Western Lakes are unsurpassed by any in the
word. The whole number We have lever learned
Kelloeg's shop at Derot has turned out n compet1
al Sh, phards at Buffalo, rather the fuest shop on
tie whole OF our freshwater seas, has supplied about
10 with huge required for propulsion. A large
proportion of the food which comes through the Enc
Caral freighed along the Lakes by screw steamers
and several arc now loaded and unloaded by steam