New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-11


the fine Glassware now made IN this Oily sn'
Brooklyn is hardly surpnsed, while the DC"
| Psran ware of Vermont is q superior M'c'e'
Though we are doing less in this department gen.
orally than we should. yet the researches and ai'-
coveries Of the last few years have established De-
| yond doubt that our country is eminentiy ncn In
the raw material required for every Description OIL
ceramic manufacture, from the cOarsest earthen-
ware up TO the finest porcelain. This kno 6ie'se
will every day be turned 10 account.
Ill Our vast and constantly increasing network OF
Railroads ard Canals is an immense faculty 70
home manufactures. Here Is an illustration: Az
Scranton, Pa, in the Susquehanna basin, IL very
large AID prosperous msnufactory Of railroad roo'
turning out some ten thousand tuns per snnum.-
But, though there are iron mines just at hand, oy
reason Of which iron works were first estaolsnso
at this point no ore is now taken from these mines;
but the ore Of Oneida county, NewYork, q hundred
miles away on one side ia brought BY the Chenanso
Canal, Erie Railroad and Scranton Railroad, 70
meet here different ore from New-Jersey and the
limestone of the Delaware Vslley,-cOal, the bulk
lest and heaviest eemsnt used in the manufacture OF
hVb5 otibH hcicO"c1P obu oouh"e~-~ - Vs.
of railroads. the making of iron at this point, or
anywhere, out Of the materials here advantageously
combined would be q pecuniary imposslbllity-
This is but one case in thousand. The Iron
Mountain in Missouri and the Iron Region Of Lake
Superior are soon to be made extensively available
BY means Of Railroads now in progress or in imme-
date contemplation. Probably hundreds of thou
sands of tuns Of Superior WILL within few
years. be transported to Chicago, or some point
more directly over the ccal-beds Of Illinois, and
there made into iron. We estimate the advantage
already secured to the Iron interest Of this country
through the multiplication Of Railroads, as folly
equal TO an additional duty Of ten per cent on i'm.
ported Iron.
Nv. Another element of strength to our Manu-
fscture. is The extent, avidity and constant expan
sion of the Home Market. Our Twenty-Five Mil
lions of people require and consume annually far
larger aggregate of manufactured products than do
any Hundred Millions of Asiatcs or Fifty Millions
of Europeans And the American demand, large
ID it is increases by five to ten per cent per annum.
Now the capacity TO produce Manufactures chespy,
unlike what is experienced in the department of
ayidity of the demand than BY the chespness OF
materials and labor. Hence we find newspapers
cheaper IN this country than esewheteD thatlsbor
or paper cheaper but because the demand for news
is here universal Other illustrations of this prin-
cipIe are less prominent, but not less conclusive.
The demand in this country for Boots, Shoes, HAS,
Clothing, &C., u.s. considering the number Of our
People, unparalleled. It might be too much to say
that our people buy more Clocks, Watches and
Piano Fortes per annum than all the rest Of man.
kind; but that we buy more than any other nation
cal hardly be doubted. A single firm in Phila-
dephia employs six hundred persons in the manu-
facture of bronze lamps chandeliers &C., and its
fabrics were adjudged unsurpassed at the Worlds
Exhibition in London. firm in Broadway, en-
gagged in the manufacture of ladies' hoop skirts,
employs three hundred women, with nearly two
hundred sewiDg-mschines paying 81, 500 per week
for wages, utiDg up twenty thousand yards OF mus
lin per week, with other materials in proportion,
and turning out three thousand skirts per day, which
are sold to Wholesale dealers only for about So 900.
This is but an instance of the scale on which our
Manufactures are or tend tobe conducted WHEN not
crushed by foreign competition. The fact that our
people are consumers to an extent unknown else
where justfes this scale of operation. We are
confident that this cannot be psralleled in all Eu
rope, though it hiss many equals here The history
of the origin, growth and present extent Of the
American pre- dUctiOn Of Sewing Machines, could it
be given, would astOnsh most readers. Probably
no other nation now consumes annually so many
ysrds of Textile Fabrics as we do; and the day
cannot be distant in which GU, consumption of Iron
will surpass tia. Of any other country. The year
in which we shall produce more Iron than any other
Of ope is somewhat farther of; bat that, too must
come. We have Ore, Coal and Lime in abundance,
AID in convenient proximity to each Others inventive
genius, combinations of ores rendered practicable
by railroads, Yankee energy and vast, evere1pand-
ing markets, must in time do die rest
V. Our Annual Exhibitions, and other demon
strations of the excellence Of American Fabrics,
are quietly doing much for Home Manufactures. 1t
is no longer 40 necessary as it once was to affix
counterfeit European labels TO our home ade fab
RIGS in order to commend them TO purchasers.
True, the base and shortsghted policy is still pur.
sued but 1t has no longer the excuse Of necessity.
If it were by law declared felony to sell any
American product as foregn-made. and that law
were rigdly enforced, the result would be most
salutary. As it is, the illusion Of kno Wedge as
TO the excellence respectively of American aud for.
eisn fabrics is slowly working cure Of the evil.
Such are some Of the considerations which In.
cline us to hopeful views of the future Of American
Manufactures, notwithstanding the withdrawal of
Government support. 1t is 30 clearly best, no. for
onr conntr1 only but for mank nd that each nation