New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-05

will be able 10 do 80. CapitHl an. business are
both driven from the State by-this mistaken course
II is GOOD 20 YOU, but desth 10 a. There are many
indications that business .! ,riou. kinds is leaving
here aud goiog to New.iefk. In onr msnuisc.
turtd goods tie change is quite great Some OF
our heaviest nanulacs.rers sbo formerly SOLD al
their cloths through commission houses here, nov
send every yard - New York for sale. Your ten
denotes for rehabilitation are 81 decided that this
result. cannot be counterscted. lour COMMISSION
houses are absorbing us just as they absorb New
ENGLAND. And this tendency Is simulated oy tie
action Of the Penosy lyauis Railroad, on whi;h We
depend.d SO much 70 buid up our Western bust
ness, and for whose construction the very commQ-
nifty i is now iDuriDg subscnbed millions OF dol
Lars II il the opinion IF many o. these that MI.
Thomson has entirely too much on his hsuis. and
that when he thinks of giving up any Of his roads,
tie first thst lie shoald quit ought 10 be the Penn
sylyaDia.
Talking of business, LET me give you the pirticu-
lars of curious enterprise nov IN tul eiass under
Philadelphia auspices. Some time $50 The Briti.h
Government granted to Mr. James Winter OF tins
city favorable lease or hundred acres ot salt
BASH with land for buildings, wharyes and road
wsy, on the island Of West Caiccs one OF the
Turks Island group. Mr.. Winter went to work
and formed company here to work the lease, OBJ
tanned charter from the State, aud last February
dispatched TO the island a forcs of 80 men, with
materials for buildings, wharyes, and three miles
Of railroad The works are now so FAR advanced
that the compsny viii, n 20 days, begin TO rake
salt. and ship 1t TO market The average annual
product of an acre is 10 COO bushels. The cost OF
production is FIVE cents per bushel, and the selling
price eeht The whole annual product OF the
Turks Island group is about l,2OO,OOU bushels.
This is produced after the most primitive methods,
in use a century ego, the salt makers rejecting al
mechanical improvements. But our Philadelphia
company will work after none of the old methods,
J but with all tie new ones; snd, having none but
! skilled laborers expect next year to produce
! million bushels of u better article than has ever
been brought 10 market. The whole capital in-
vested in this enterprise is comparatively small,
when the rate of profit to be secured is considered
Witnessed the Lighting up OF Wilmington, Della
ware, on Saturday evening. with new gas pro-
duced from water, By Mir. Sanders OF Ohio. The
cool gas was stopped of from the works the water
Gas turned in, and presently the whole city was
illumir ated far more brilliantly than ever. Many
scientific strangers were also there on purpose 10
witness the feat, including representatives and
SUI erntendents Of ga, companies. This gasls pro-
duced by the decomposition OF water by passing II
over red hot charcoal, and combining 1t with the
vapor of rosin decompOsed simultaneously. The
light produced is winter aud stronger than that
from carburetted hydrogen, while the cost 10 said
to be only half dollar per 900 feet aud even
less. THIS trial Of the new gas, now that 1t has
been 90 apparently successful, has made greats
eel saton in certain circles, and you may expect to
hear more about it. If il should turn out all that
is claimed for IT, your citizens would save millions
per annum by using IT, You now pay 80 oO for
gss-this could be afforded fer 81.