Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-13
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TaR NArIoxAL FouSDRY.-Yesterday morn
ing, there appeared in our paper, report of
meeting convened at the Court House, on Sat
urday night, to initiate some steps towards me-
morializing the General Government to the
propriety of locating in this city, their proposed
National Foundry, for the manufacture of ord
nance for the Army and Navy. The great de-
sidcrata on the part of the government we learn,
will be the cheapness and facility with which
coal and iron can be misunderstanding
healthiness of observation-disclosures of labnr, and
security from invasion This foundry will be an
immense establishment at the starting out, and
as the wants of our rapidly growing country
quire, will be necessarily much enlarged from
time 10 time. There is no estimating, hardly,
the advantages which it would confer upon the
city OF town selected for its site. 1t would en-
ploy vast number ofpeoplc, and bring into cir
culation great quantity of money, not to speak
of the constant influx of persons attracted either
officially or non-oficinlly, by its operations
There is no doubt of the great advantages which
it will confer upon the fortunate community that
gets it. The only trouble about the matter is,
to make the government equally certain of the
advantages which any given point will be to
them. This difficult task the cities of Richmond
and Alexandra have already undertaken, and
with what prospect of success, we know not
We have never heard that either of them pos
sessed any marked advantages as the site for
such an establishment. On the contrary, we
believe that in the two very necessary elements
of coal and iron, they greatly lacking. Al
4hnncI, tI.--O Lzl CUaI IN the vicinity oil
Richmond, yet we learn that most, or much of
the coal used there, is brought from other pla-
ces. Alexandria, we believe, rests her claim prin-
cipalIy upon her proximity to the Federal Cap
ital--her accessibility for sea:vessels, &c. She,
we presume, is equally, if not more, destitute of
the raw materials than Richmond; and in the
matter of accessibility to the sea- seems to us,
that would be an obiection-if liability TO
invnsionis to be guarded against.
But aside from the advantages or disadvanta.
ges which those cities may have in the requis-
ties mentioned, it seems to us, there is one 9TH
or consideration, Zone which Mr.. C. w. Russell
touched upon in his forcible remarks on Satur-
day night,) which ought to have great weight
with the government 1t is this: centrality of
location. Both Richmond and Alexandria are
much too far cast for such an establishment A
very great portion of Onr army supplies are now
moved ui- sOsS 0r 0strrtage must
be very great item; and any place which will
diminish this item of expense, aud at the same
time not increase the cost of carriage or of
manufacture of The raw materials, ought to meet
with favorable attention at the hands of the
government. These advantages, we think, we
have in most eminent degree and taken in the
aggregate, probably in greater degree than
any other city or site in the country. COM
mittee has been appointed, with whom the
proper exhibition of these advantages will rest
This committee is composed of men, who are
not only capable of producing powerful and
complete statement of our advantages, but who
are known to have great deal of personal in
fuence at Washington. We may, therefore,
very reasonably hope fora careful, and even ).
favorable hearing.