The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-17

YANKEE AND EUROPEAN MANUFACTURES
One Of the gratifying results of this wal
will be, we trust, getting rid OF Yankee
manufactures, and supplying their places
as much as possible with our own anu
with European fabrics, to make up the oe
felt of our own industry in supplying ou'
wants independently of the feelings q
eternal hatred for the Yankee engender'
ed bv this war, there are considerations
which would make this change OF the
source of our supplies most agreeable to
our people. The Yankee is great swirl
dler-a great deceiver. He introduced
fraud into his manufactures to the full ex
tent of the gullibility of those who pur-
chased them. He was close calculator,
and just went in all cases as far as he could
in trick and fraud! He employed arts and
devices which no manufacturers OF any
nation ever dreamed of employing mot
that people in other countries were less IN
genious or shrewd, but that they were
more scrupulous. In the world OF manu-
featuring it had not been deemed honest
or safe to resort to such arts to deceive
purchasers and increase profits. Exam
inc all the fabrics of Yankee industry and
invention, and those practices which hide
defects and impose cheats upon the world
are multifarious and ever apparent.
The French and the English and the
Germans are more honest. They are
older workers, and their vacations being
directed by longer-established usages
and laws, there is an order and system
in all departments of manufactures that
shuts out the suggestions of fraud and
the arts of swindling. You know what
you buy when you make purchases from
them. You are sure that the articles
will not fall to pieces before you get home,
or be soon abandoned as useless after you
have tried them. The Englishman makes
his goods and wares especially in sub
stantial and reliable manner The
Frenchman will make in some branches
a more elegant and a lighter fabric,
but one that combines strength with
lightness. In one of SCOTS novels
there is trial of prowess between
Richard of the Lion Heart and Sala-
din. The former with his battle-axe
breaks in pieces large iron bar. The
latter. with his scimetar, sewers at
stroke a feather pillow! The compari-
son illustrates to some degree the differ
ence between the French and English
handiwork, at least in some Of their de-
partments-the one distinguished for
strength, solidity, and massiveness, the
other for lightness, elegance, and that
sort of force and strength introduced
into them by art and skill. Nor do we
mean to say that the British fabrics are
wanting in taste and polish. Their Shelf
field wares, cutlery, and cloths, show
these in the highest degree. John Bull
is, nevertheless, stout solid man, and
the Frenchman is of lighter frame, more
elastic, and of more active and polished
social demeanor. They are both first
rate in their way, and if they would only
recognize us, and thus help, to some ex-
tent to end this war, we should be
soon large customer for their manufac-
lures. II they don't cooperate, how
ever, our favors will be due and given to
that one of them who best shows sense
of what is due to us and to national con.
sistency in the matter of recognition.
NORTH CAROLINA CoAL.-We have
seen specimen of anthracite coal,
discovered on the farm of a Mr.