Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-04-17

CoTTON MANUFACTUEE.-ln regard 10 the COLloh
manufacture it is stated in the report OF the Boston
BOARD of Trade lust published that the prominent
features of the past year has been continued re
yiya of this great interest and steady advance to-
,,or,Is a tirlnC- Dosition. Manufacturers have re
tripycd in some measure, the losses OF previous
wears No large dividends have been maue' anu JllS
Trirps of shares in the corporate companies Is sun
ie,y lint the nosition of the companies and OF midi
,iIual manufacturers has been strengthened by pru
don't reserves of profit Thus far there has appear
ed little disposition to bring forward new ehterpIl
srs The quantity of cotton used IN the Cmtcu
States last year was g27 G5l bales. The year before
that If was 500 j62 bales The former Is larger
than for any previous year, and 1t occurred WIN
ont any addition to the machinery of the country
This year it will be larger than ever before. Inc
report says: ,-...I
States will be shown by the next census to be about
1850. with capital of SSj,0OO,OOO, using 947.OOO
600 worth OfcOttOn. and producing SeOOOUUVO worth
of goods The increase Of machinery during the
mast five years has been very small ~. U. b"ua"-
Crn TrANsERwyG mzR ORDERS To ANEmcA.--
Within the past few months, says the Pmladeipm"
Tyirer large orders have been received IN Ihat cry
f,1, engines and boilers for the Cuba MUS ana IN
the establishments making up TINS WORK inc Udllus
ar, enpoyed late in the day, and IN one or Two IN
stances ali night The aggregate OF thus KIND OF
work to be sent to Cuba alone this year VIII eAceue
som OOO In former years the Cubans were enJlre-
~ snnlied with these articles by the English manu-
iaCtUrcrs.
TIE Srrrkr.-The shoemazers' strike in Massa-
cbusetts is nearly done In Danvers, Grovelaln ana
Walthrra. it has been entirely abandoned. OF the
one thousand workers in Marblehead three quarters
are at work at prices somewhat higher than before
the strike. In Lynn A considerable part OF the
strikers have resumed operations.
NTrcmG,v LAND SuEs-Land Sales are to take
rlace in Michigan in July and August next OF alter
nate sections. under the railroad act of 1896, the
minimum price of which Is - 30 per acre; togeth-
81. with the lands heretofore unotterea, embracing
nm aroa of a million six hundred and eighty thou
Psnd acres.
ATova Tarr.-It IS stated that Kentuckian ha $
c,,,cb,s,l nine hundred horses and mules at
Brownsville Texas, which he lntenus driving 10
Springfield. ILL.,. shipping thence by railroad 10 Ne"
Haven Conn. from whence they are TO De shipPed
TO the West Indies.
subs.ription is on foot in London for the family
ofJrrLuEvthe artist. lately deceased,wheh promise
p, Ia. successful the contributions varying from Is
To SO each.
The Pensacola CFlal Tribune states that JUAN
REIr,. one of the men formerly engaged WIN La
Frrrg the nitrate. recently died in that state.
The maple sugar crop of Vermont this season Ii
estimated at nearly fifteen hundred 'on2 Inc run
of sap this year las been remarka0le'
The Boston friends of her late husband have pre-
scented the widow of Capt. Harrison, of the Great
Eastern. with a splendid set Of jewelry.
The Charleston Mercury says there Is rage
among the ladies to enjoy balloon aseensions' and
/ Prof LOWE is arranging to accommodate them.
line of steam pr9pellers is shortly to be started
! between Philadelphia and New Orleans.