Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-23
Explorations Near Home.

No one going down Front Street. between Market &
Dock Streets would from looking around him. conceive
for moment the amount of busy industry in the
of the neat and quiet brick store fronts on the East side
of that street. A few days since went on a voyage
of discovery and we must confess that surprised
to find so large manufacturing establishment grown up
quietly in the very centre of town, yet compile
tey hidden from the public observation We aude to
the Wilmington Iron and Copper Works, L. A. Hart
& j. G. Bailey, Proprietors.
We found handsome steam engine at work driving
shaftng and this again driving machinery engaged in
turning, planning, boring, drilling, ETC., ec while work
men were busy fitting up steam and other machinery
We found above this of the largest and most COM
plete sets of patterns for castings. We found iron
foundry, with the moulders busy at work. We found
backsmiths shop Everything, in fact, necessary for
the construction and repair of machinery and for furnish
ing castings for any purpose or OF any required pattern
We found, perhaps the largest establishment in the
South for the manufacture of copper stills and the
ecution of copper work in all its branches. Oh how
much copper! How many pennies all those stills would
make. We fear that would, when small boy, have
been tempted to steal of them to make pennies out
of them.
This is one branch of business going up in town.
and we can notice it without any nvidous discrimina
ton as we believe it is the only one, far at least in
its line. But why should we not have them in eUery
line almost That is the question 1t is folly to talk
about non-intercourse until take make
that more than talk. Let US have cotton factory if
we can. The Ladies Benevolent Society and the chart
table individually, can bear witness to the amount of
suffering among those willing to work-among widows
with growing families, and indeed among families not
deprived Of their male head when work cannot be OBJ
tanned Diversified employments would remove much Of
this We getting into this somewhat. More cloth
ing made here than ormerly-more boots and Shoes
ETC., etc., but the thing only in its infancy. Push it
along.
Post Office Contributions Washington National
Monument up to ahe LIST February, 1s6O.
The National Intellgncer publishes statement of
all the returns received from post Offices up to the above
date Returns have only been received from 841 places
while from $4,000 places returns have been received
The whole amount returned in four months is 224O 81.
If all the post offices would cooperate and make the
same kind of returns that have beer received from the
64l then the annual fund would exceed two hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars There very doubt
full IF in it, however
We publish the return from North Carolina, as fol-
lows Beaufort, So 50 Chapel Hill, SO 73; Colum-
ba, 81 (; Currituck @. H., ST. Elizabeth City, 81 So
Fayetteville, 81 so Greensboro ST. Leesburg, SO 40
Louisburg, 81; Marshall, SO IL; Newbern, SO 80 ;
Plymouth 81; Ridgeway, 81; Salem, So Is; Sassa-
fras Fork, 81; Smithfed, 81 &c; Warrenton, SO 81
Warsaw, 50 so; WILLIAMSBURG, 81 Al; WILLIAMSON,
10 az; Wilmington, So 30; Windsor, $12 81.