New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-01
cyrE1IpOHEZING PROJECTION.

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Our statistical friend, Mr.. De Bow, whose
arthmetical exploits in tie manufacture OF Gen.
sus Reports did not give the world very lofty
idea of bis yeracity, whatever may have been the
opinion of his ingenuity, announces with some
flourish that blacking and lucilcr match factory
has been established in Lynchburg, and that
North Carolina has engaged in the production OF
peanut OIL Moreover Mr. De Bow lifts W his
voice jubilautly in respect Of eight tan-yaIds ID
Louisa CCnrty Estate not named). Also, many
females are "spinniug upon old fashioned hand
" looms in South Carolina" Mr.. De DO"
spreads his statistics, winch are dread uy meager,
/ to the thinues. possible surface and brings mp on
, bowie-huiyes. They are .urniI, cut ooN1e-
knives, those auiabe weapons, with consummate
alacrity, il appears, in Portsmouth, Va. Aud
this suggests a more careful examination OF Nf.
! De Bows new productions, watch turn out To be
principally 6ayonels, camp-stools, suupo"de1'
tcntpolcs. Lov ve-luiye', revolving pistols, drums
-aud. We presume, hos, aud even iass. but
I Srr. De Bow, while masking up the rose co!oroo
record. and telling us that they are producing
leaiLc, in Aibcmare aud shoes IN Madison
4 County. do not tel ia how much leather nor
bow maay shoes. There are eight tan-yaTds 10
Louisa County, but arc they largo Or htlo tau
ys-ls ord. above nh, aFe they uew or old tan
yaa,s and iuaily, are they tan-yords IA which
l.ltlcr i-as or - manufactured We shonlG
/ Ike 40 ba,o = veracous answer to the question,
becaust. IN war, shoes are OF more importance
4 than swords, particularly in the course Of rc-
treat Oae good side OF soe-ieather vii be-
worth more to the Rebels this 4 small cargo OF
peanut oil. We ire the more particular upon
+ this subject Of leather, because we happen 10
know ina. there is a considerable dcmand even in
the Rebel States ior Northern Shoes, about this
| time. Mind We do not say iba. there is any
supply--we only say that there il demand.
! But let Us 20 back TO De Bow. In lis
whole elaborate lst, we only find one manuiaciory
of powder On Charlotte County, Va, which is
turning out 900 lbs. per diem-nO very enor
nous amount 10 supply - considerable army for Il
vigorous campaign. Besides, here the iallncy Of
the De Bow computations is lamentaby eIpqsed
in general. One hundred thousand pounds Of
gunpowder, myriads Of bowie-kniyes, mile long
aud mile wide parks Of artillery uuuumberable
camp.stool. and millions of bushel, OF tent-pins,
add nothing, either in times OF war or Of peace,
TO the actual wealth of a country. Nothing 20
adds, which is manufactured simply that il may
be almost simultaneously destroyed. Once more,
We must call the attention of our readers TO re-
petition of the fact that physically and materially
considered, war is waste The pound OF powder
which is blown from u gun is gone forever, and
can never, b. any possibility, be pound Of pow
der again. The shell which bursts, may XIII a
dozen Of tlc cnemy-Abut that is tho end Of tit
wll never kil any more. Human industry, in
many Of ia departments, works over aud over
again the same maleyials-such as rags, iron, etc.
etc. But tins Is not true Of the materials of war;
or is 20 only IN 4 very limited sense. Hence, any
prolonged military struggle requires both capital
and i continual reproduction OF original material
War works with double mischief 1t produces
/ less and it consumes more than peace. Mr.. De
} Bows, who is not tic most profound of economists,
mistakes a petty, spamodc production for u
steady snpply sustained by capital increased or
und.minished lie is { the eat-yOur- -cake-aud-
nayc-t school, which ism I the most accurate in
the world. The Southern, slayeholding econo.
misis are always MAILING this blunder. Gov
Wise used 10 say desparingly to his lazy Yir-
/ gifian planters: " Don't you see that if you
&" raise 5000, 900 bushels OF corn, you will be
better oil, you aud your niggerpj and, if You
90 raise 50O0O0,OO0 bushels, you viii be still bet
% ter OIL" Southern enterprise has been forever
complaceuty cOntented with the discovery that it
wanted Somethiug-it has rarely gone TO the Ia
borious length oi supplying itself. II has fell the
want which has palsied tie production of many
people much more deseryiug-the want OF inte-
gent and well remunerated labor. Human beings
considered simply as capital, with no reference TO
their human rights, with no regard for the rule Of
Gods own express enactment, that the LabOrer is
Worthy of lis Hre-human beings, held as horses
OF heiiers are held, can never be or produce per-
nanent wealth. Behind all apparent prosperity.
there IL always the damnable fiction which makes
.le most splendid results only u show and a sham.
Tho collapse may at any time come. There is
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