New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-06

ment to enigrate disappears. II cannot be other
wse with us. If it were desirable to strip the
Norh Of its cOlored population, toe wping oat OF
Southern Slavery would be quick and potent
remedy. Thus nen look at this question from
point directly opposite to the tue one. What the
nation needs is courage 10 grnpPe with Its over.
importance. But the vast Issue is evil
IDENTIFY coming. All others are rapidly becoming
dwared beside the gigantic proportions it has already
assumed. TIE blessing or the curse OF God viii rest
on this people as they fail to wash themselves from
this enormous siu Slavery has defed the nation TO
crush it. and the nation will show itself to be bot
pusianimous and rotten if it fails to accept 80 ar.
rogsnt challenge.
Touching business and money, ard why the times
are 60 much brighter and easier as We enter upon
Winter, than the crOakers predicted some months
ago. There are golden reasors for it. Pennsylvania
bias in round numbers, 100 900 men IN the field, who
receive $l3 each per month, making Sl,3Oo,coo.
Then almost every factory in the State capable Of
producing wooden and cotton cloth for the army, or
canvas for tents, is running full.handed on these
goods To convert all this cloth into tents and cloth.
ing requires an immense army Of laborers Then
the whole fraternity of shoemskep never had so
much TO do, neither did they ever receive such good
wages. The same activity runs through every
branch Of the leather manufacture. 1t is the same
with wheewrights, blacksmiths, iron founders, ship
builders, machiuists, and every other trade which
can produce anything needed by Government. Many
factories are turning out vast amounts Of work they
never touched until now. In ordinary times this
city manufactures $780, 900 900 of and fabrics
annually, and is then highly prosperous. But now,
it is estimated that Pennsylvania is receiving
SIC, 600 900 monthly from Government, counting IN
the soldiers pay. As most Of the manufacturing Is
done here. go most of this large sum is bere dis
bursed. Our city has some 10000 soldiers earning
over $500, 900 monthly, most of whom are taken
from the working classes thus leaving the very gap
which nsures such full employment to those who re-
main 1t is probable that near Z 100000 IL scat
tered every week within radius of ten miles OF the
State House. The Maryland alone pays weekly
wages to the amount Of over $4,000 1t Is tins m
expected demand for labor by the Government which
IL going to strip the coming Winter Of its anticipated
horrors, the war we so greatly feared being capable
from seeming evil of edueing general good Nor
when peace shall come do we fer any runons coi-
lapse of this general activity. Peace on the proper
foundation will infuse vitality into thousand inter-
ests now made sluggish by the war. La addition to
this manufacturing activity, there has existed very
lively dry-goods trade for The West, r,her unusual
for the season. Some houses have sold more goods
than they ever did. Cash payments are the order of
the day, aud short credits the exception Houses
which have weaihered the storm and maintained
their credit have done a most advantageous business.
But those who have been crippled or driven to tie
wall are quietly waiting for the advent OF the coming
bankrupt law TO make fiesh start.
Perhaps the world has witnessed such re-
surection of old clothes is going on all over this
neighborbood, on behalf Of the cause Of socks and
mitiens for the army. Drawers, closets, and cock
lofts ransacked for forgotten scraps Of carpet, and
dsmantled coats and inexpressbles. Hero, rs in
every little countyto the forming Nit
ten Clubs and Sock Societies, TO which the Aforesaid
coal and carpets are contributed by carloads, and
then converted into socks and mittens. Huge quan-
titles Of them have already been sent off TO the army
and many grateful responses have come lack show
ing how much these cheap Contributions have boon
needed. Thus. If our brave i,llows doing their
whole duty through rain, and mud, and cold our
women at home are lovingly performing theirs. So
far it seems that no army want u this Kind has been
named to Northern women, without their instantly
stirring Themselves 10 supply it,
The iron plates for the steamer building here are
curosties to look at. They are fifteen feet long,
about thirty inches wide, by four inches thick. The
four edges are paned true and plowed and grooved
like floor boards tho grooves being inch wide by
q half inch deep. The plates arc secured to the
planking by bolts from the inside whosc ends are
screwed into holes two inches deep in the plate
The plated surface is feet high four feet being
under water and three above, reaching to the spsr
deck. Shot striking the vessel viii glance of owing
to her angular aides. This frgste win be go feet
long sixty feet beam fourteen feet drauglt, aud Of
3, 500 horse power, with ia. bottom. Her engines
are to be 30 provided that her smoke stack may be
shot away without imparing their efficiency. She is
TO DO finished in July.