New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-12


- making, which give employment TO sumber oi
=. hands among our country population"
The consumption Of wool is go Rn'sian asoat
equal to l75 American pounds per head, giving
total of more than 100, COX, COO of pounds, and
for tie converting Of this wool into cloth q large
amount Of labor is required, and those laboren re-
euire large supplies of food.
A little more than twenty years since the first
eotton-nill in Russia was erected Now Russia
has 35OCOO spindles in full operation, which pro-
duce annually more than 10, 10000 pounds OF
warn. The yarn spun is generally very low, the
numbers varying from twenty to forty for the wool
because there is large market for coarse taorles
Central Russia especially vladimir, KAOHgA
Kostrona, and so forth is the seat OF this manu-
facture aud the peasants receive the yarn from the
contractors and occupy Themselves with weaving
during tie Winter, receiving but very nhng
wages. while laying IN industrial founda-
ton for their country, BY so turning no ae-
count their waste time. The goods so produced
are equivalent 10 seven. eight and nine cent
| EDgli.h cottons. Beside these, there are 14o
manufactures producing superior articles, not
counting cotton-yelyets and muslins. The cotton
velvet finds its chief market in China, which, up to
the recent period Of these Russian establishments,
was supplied by the British monopolists. Russian
! printed cOttons are now said to equal those oil
Nan, hester and Alsace-all the growth OF twenty
years. and exclusively due to the protective tariff
We say exclusively due, for countries like Ireland,
Portugal, Turkey and India, which have had no
protective tariffs but which have been dictated TO,
or trampled upon By the British monopOsts, show
| decrease OF home industry corresponding IN an
inyerse ratio TO the increase have just described
The chief seat of the manufacture OF hne eottOns IN
Russia is at ST. Petersburg, where it is mainly car
red on by Swiss workmen. The quantity manu-
fctured is estimated at s. COO 600 pieces sufficient
to supply the whole Empire, and with the growth
| ofpopulation and wealth the demand steadily IN
creases. Not more than 500 pieces Of the high
est quality Of prints are now imported into Russia
! The manufacture Of musliRs is also augmenting
| Beside this must BE- mentioned the successful IN
/ PRODUCTION Of the cottOn-psnt into the Caucasian
provinces.
| The total value Of the cotton fabncs q Russia
may now be estimated at thirty-two millions ofdo-
! lars a year. The movement of her industry m
this branch NAV, however, best be estimated from
the following table OF her imports in 546 and l55o;
Raw co,,o.....s lsis' li,sti ls. ni51.s l9SS' s..
Cotton Sarn...........ls. q 275O lbs 6bJ3,750 bs
! This shows that in FIVE years Russia's importa-
tion of raw cotton has neary doubled, while that
| Of cotton yarn, for which she was dependent on
| Great Britain, has diminished by two thirds. In
1882 Grea. Britain exported l9,5S7,76l lbs. of
cotton yarns and fabrics, valued at u, 1885, 7S7; ;
while in IcJ0 the total amount Of cotton yarn i'm
ported by all parts of Europe but 8 CO., 2is lbs,
or little more than fourth as much 81 iu 1852.
| Such are the effects OF the Protective system Of
! portions of Continental Europe, ia which gosd
work Russia has played an important part.
The export Of indigo to Russia has continued
steadily to increase, as is shown by the following
! figures, proving great augmentation OF manufac-
tuYes in the years subsequent TO those given above:
1919. $3.50. 1881. 1892.
Further, greatly increased attention is given to
| bringing TO light the metallic treasures Of the
| earth. The manufacture Of iron has steadily in
creased, and large deposits of coal recently dis
covered promise greatly TO augment this branch
Of manufacture; while the product Of gold and
silver has risen to more than S20 10000 year.
The manner in which many other branches of
manufactures are carried On, is thus described by
| recent traveller:
I'm the Government of Yasorlaf the whole nhsbi-
tsnts Of place potter-. Upward of 1000 nbab-
itants in another place are rope-mGkers and harness
makers. The population of the District of Ugi,ch IN
ls5 sent 600 of yards of linen cloth TO the markets
of Ryb,eck and Moscow. The peasants on one estate
all candle-makers, on second they are al ma IL
fadsrers OF felt hats and on third they are solely oc-
cupied in smiths wo<k chiefly the making of axcs.
In the District of PashechG there about 20 tanne
ries which give occupation to large number of fami
lies they have no paid workmen, but perform oil the
operations among themselves preparing leather to the
value Of about 25 900 roubles year. and which dis
posed Of their account IN kybeock In the districts
where the fores-tIees mO~ty consist Of ndens, de
inhabitants principally engaged in the manufacture
of mating, which, according to its greater or less de-
gree OF neness, employed either for sacking sail
Goth, or merely packing matt. The linden tree
grows only on moist sOiLs, ch in black kRHls, or veg
.tGbe mould but will not grow at al in sandy SOi-,
which renders comparatively il parts of
Ruisia, while in other il gTOws abundanty. The
mats prepared from the inner bark, and the lin
den II ready FOX stripping al only fifteen years Of age,
and indeed best st that age, these trees form rach
of profit for those who dwell in the districts
where they grow"
These manufactures grow with the growth in the
demand Tor labor in the cotton wooden, and other
departments; and thus it is that commerce grows
hot only that commerce which results from
differences Of employment at home, but that which
is dependent upon differences of soil and climate
among the nations of the world More tallop goes
abroad, and more coffee and cotton are received
in return, while wool, coffee, corn and Gotten are
converted into cloth with which the markets Of
A.. Il. 4 - l..
OF the products Of the British loom 1t is not