Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-06
Importance Of Manufactures.

We have frequently referred, during our
connection with this paper, to the impor-
lance Of Manufacturing industry ,as a means
of advancing the wealth, population, ard
general prosperity Of the community. We
purpose adding few more facts and sug-
gcstions to those already given, satisfied
that a thorough knowledge Of the relations
it bears to society, in its connections with
trade and commerce, will establish that it is
second to that interest only which is the ba-
sis of all others, to wit; Agriculture.
.Itcompensates for want Of commercial
adVlltagcs, and givosse pd cities and
towns the rapid growth and high prosperity
of the more cligibly situated sea-board cities.
Our country, and it is needless to refer to
any other for authority, furnishes numerous
instances Of this truth, and none is more
striking than that of Philadelphia, to which
place we refer more particularly, as it is ia
miliar with our people, who carry on with it
an annual business of large extent. This
great city, whose wonderful growth from
1910 to 1850 took the country SO much by
surprise, with population now Of nearly
700, 900, owes her vast increase and un-
told wealth, to the magic Of manufacturing
labor. Her sagacious citizens, at an early
day, approaching her secondary position as
a commercial city gave up any attempt at
competition with New York, as a shipping
and importing point, and turned their at
tcntion to manufacturing-the result Of
which is, that while she is secondary to
New York and even to Boston, as to for
eign commerce, she is the largest manufac-
turing city in America, and, startling as the
assertion may appear-tke world -sending
out from her extensive and diversified man.
ufaetories, articles Of greater value than
those of Manchester and birmingham, whose
celebrity for the manufacture Of articles of
particular kind is world wide. She Ger
tainly possesses great facilities for this
branch of business-the State of Pennsyl-
vania abound ling in vast beds of coal, and
iron ore, and also fine means for distribu-
ting to the whole country the products Of
her labor, in which last respect only is she
better off than the cities and towns Of Wes-
tern Virginia. Her manufactures are not
confined to those Of the metals-in addition
to Railroad Locomotive establishments, car
riages, wagons, &C., she has others Of wool
en- and cotton fabrics, Of cabinet work, of
pianos, and of wooden work of every kind,
character, and description, and sent out the
past year from her tanncries, the single ar
ticle Of morocco, to the value Of 81, 800, Goo
Pittsburg. Cincinnati, and St. Louis a.
like, owe much of their extraordinary
growth to Manufactures, and we mention
these three hourisLing cities lest their prog
ress may be attributed to some other cause,
situated as they are in magnificent agricul-
tural countries. The iron manufactures Of
pittsbarg have built her up, and it is doing
her nothing more than simple justice to say,
that in the extent and character Of her
work, she exccls all other cities Of TIE
Union.
Cincinnati is largely engaged in trade
and business of every kind-packing more
pork and distilling more whiskcy, than any
other city Of the world-but half of the
population of the city is sustained by manu-
featuring industry outside Of these employ
Daents.
When we consider the wonderful division
of labor which attends the encouragement
of these establishments-the introduction of
women and children into them, as active a.
gents, who would otherwise be in an agri-
cultural community Idle Or comparatively
inefflcient-the astonishing results which
follow from turning to account thousands Of
articles which would, but for them, be aba1,-
doned as worthless, we are not surprised at
the splendid results which attend develop
ment Of this species of labor.
AS an illustration of the value given tc
many articles VIII ich are thrown away, in 6
country without manufacturers, we take tht
case Of Bones. The bones of beeves, hogs
sheep, &C., &C. There is manufacturing
establishment at Yonkers, n 7. 4, employing
eight men, eight horses, and four carts, If
the collection Of bones, which pays OF
$50, 900 per aanum fer them These boacs
are first boiled till the marrow and fatty
substances are extracted, and the soap-fat
thereby produced in the establishment men
toned, isannually about $4,000. Suci
as are suitable are manufactured into han.
dies for brushes, knives, &c. The
hoofs are made into horn buttons and Prus.
sian blue. Those # fer s'bonc hlacl'' are
burned into that important article, which is
worth from q to 81 cents per pound. This
article is used in the refneries of sugar, and
STUART, the great sugar rcfncr, of New
York, alone, purchases annually $40, 0O(
in value thereof. TIE renaininlz bones are
thrown together and ground up for lhos.
pilates and manures The establishment a,
Yonkers does not pay less than Is per cent
upon her invested capital. Such is one O
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