New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
N MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS, AND BUSINESS
MEN IN THE HOUSE.


Continuing our look through the House Of Repre-
uentatises for manufacturers, and other business |
men, we readily encountered Mr.. George w. |
Scranton of Pennsylvania, one % the largest iron
masters Of the country. Born in Connecticut, on
he shores Of Long Island, he while yet q boy Of
seyenteen, showed his indomtable energy Of charac
Ger by navigating vessel and cargo from New |
I.ondon to Washington, which he disposed of in the
latter City. The next year he emigrated to New
Jersey, his entire resources consisting Of scanty
education, an empty purse, and determination to
succeed in the world. After being engaged for
{, . xhile as lumberman and trader, he commenced
his career as an iron-master at the famous OXFORD
Furnace, the second establishment Of the KIND In
! the United States. In 1910, he pushed MS way
across the Delaware into the mountainous county |
ef Lackawanna, and bes ian the manufacture OF IRON
BY anthracite coal, at a wild spot called oioculn
Hollow where there dwet only two families, but |
xuhere NOW stands the f0urshing town oil Scranton
seeming with varied manufactures, and supporting
thriving population of 1900 souls. From the
, pmall furnace erected in 1e40, and which was the
third successful experiment in the use OF anthracite
fhe works at Scranton, inspired by the genius and
energy of its founder, have swened TO four large
farnaces capable of yielding 40,OO0 tuns oil iron
annually. COL Scranton and his associates erected
the second rolling-mil in Pennsylvania, which now
turns out some L. 600 tuns Of finished iron per year.
Z chiefly railroad iron. He conceived, and manly
contributed to carry through, the connecting rail-
road link between the great coal region OF Penn
yylyanla and the City of New-York--a project pro-
noupced wild aud visionary when first contemplated,
but which has proved eminently successful giving
New York a direct communication through Central
New Jersey and Northern Pennsylvania to the Ere
Railroad, and thence to the Great West. Mr..
Scranton was elected to the House by the Peoples
Marty in a District which usually gives 4, 0OO Dem
ceratic majority but which he carried in 1855, by
$500:
Gen Moorhead of Pittsburgh is another distin-
psished ironmaster. In the earlier years OF kis
Gie. he was a contractor OF the pubic WORKS oi
P.npsvlvania. and his character exhibits the
shrewdness Skill and energy which mark the CLASS
that has done much to influence the condition and
develop the resources OF that State, as well as OF
New.York Beginning the world with nothing ne
has by his tact and industry risen to afiuence lie
was for some time engaged in cotton manufacturers
but bis works having been destroyed by hre III
1649, he commenced the manufacture OF locks,
scales, and maleabe castings of various KINDS
which he and his partners are now carrying on ex-
teDsively, employing from 400 to 500 hands. He is
President of the MonOngahela Navigation Company,
which erected the necessary structures for, and
now prosecutes, slackwater navigation for many
miles above Pittsburgh, on the MOnOngahela River.
His sound sense and practical acquaintance with
laroe business enterprises, make HIM useful MEM
her of a body which deals with such vast material
interests as does the House of Representatives;
Mr.. Schwartz, the member from Old BerAs' Is
aJso an ron-master. Doubtless he is lar more
suitable representatiye of that substantial county
than was the oily politician Mr.. j. CLANCY Jones,
who so ANONYMOUSLY fled from that dlstrct 10
Austria, before the Anti-LecOmpton storm Al
ways Democrat, Mr.. Schwartz no more DeneVes
that genuine Democracy consists IN forcing Negro
Slavery upon a Territory, against the Will OF It's
people than that the best way TO promote the In
dusria interests of Pennsylvania is to sell her p0-
tical power to the fre-eating Free-Traders OF the
Southern States.
be- a manufacturer of some sort, but OF what the
writer does not know. Mr. William Mlllward OF
PHILADELPHIA. one of the clearest headed, most up
right and straight forward men IN the House, is
retired merchant. 1t Is thought by those VINO
know him best that his extraordinary physlcal
powers. backed by an indOmitable courage might
possibly be put in reGusitiOn in the event OF GER
tain struggle invoked by Senator Chngman the
other day. being precipitated suddenly upon the
House. Mr. Chapin Hall of Warren, Penn, for
merly raftsman on the Allegheny and ONO Rivers,
has risen in business till he has become one OF the
largest lumber-deaers in the western section OF the
State, sending down to the Southwestern markets
some $500, 900 worth annually.
Doubtless there are other members OF the Penn
syyania delegation who belong to the classes we
are new considering but we are not cognlzant OF
the facts pertaining to those cases.
AS we Journey westward we find the number OF
merchants, manufacturers &c, as compared with
the lawyers, dimnishes. .
Mr.. Carey. who represents the Sandusky District
of Ohio, is a large and enterprising farmer. MI
Tbeaker who resides at Bridgeport, Immediately
opposite Wheeling was bred milwright and engi-
neer. being himself practical workman. For
MANY wears he has been engaged in carrying on a
furnace and steam saw-m, and in the manufacture
of steam-engines for mills and steamers, and mil
machinery generally. u.
DIR. Trimble of ChillicOthe is highly Intelligent
pbysican. He belongs TO one of the Oldest and most
respectable families of Ohio. His father well
known as the Governor of that State, was one OF
the pioneers who aided in building up, and making
great and prosperous the rst-bOrn offspring OF the
immortal ordinance of Jefferson and Dane, wmch
consecrated the then wilderness lying northwest OF
the Ohio River forever to Freedom. Though the
Cblicothe District has heretofore been Democratic,
DIR Trimble carried it, at the last election, by
about 600 majority over Miller, who voted for the
Iecompton. English swindles in the last Congress,
and had the temerity to appeal to MS constituents
for ratification of his course. Dir. Gurley, one OF
the Cincinnati representatives was formerly cler-
gyman and an editor. He beat Mr.. GrOesbeck, the
learned member of the last House. alter warm
contest He will make an able, active, anu uSeiui
representative of the Queen City
Mr.. Colfax is the only Republican from Indiana
who is not lawyer. He is practical PRIMER:
and has long published and edited Tie S. Joseph
IoUey Registey He is now serving his third term
an the House. Many years before ne came TO Con,
oress he was known TO the craft as an accomplished
journalist Since he entered its stormy halls, though
a comparatiyely Young man, be has won hlgn POI