The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-04-01

AMERICAN LABOR SAVING IMpLEmRNTs
l-"NO people are 80 full Of ingenious little
lexpedients for saving labor and material
as are the Americans. The force Of circum-
stances has made the Yankee master in
mechanism. Self.help 10 the great Lesson
q man receives when he sets foot in q new
country, and it is in the invention of hel,n
in metal and wood-helps which need M
wages, and which never strike, or tire. or
grow sick-that the New Highlander excela.
There Is nothing more ludicrously cleyer
than some Of the inventions which have Of
late years been introduced into this conn
try from the West:''
| Awhole volume Of truth 10 contained in
the above paragraph, which we extract
from Scotch journal Of recent date n
any doubt existed aboutthe Americans h.
ing the most ingenious peopleih the world
that doubt would be dispe.led, we think
by looking through some of the leading e..
cultural implements, house furnishing ar
ticles, &C., in tie principal cities of the
loyal States. The reputation of American
mechanism has become world wide, and
| the exports OF the innumerable articles ~
virtue-the handiwork of native artizans
| Ito nearly all parts Of the habitable globe.
forms no uncomfortable item in the wealth
/
in their definitions of wealth. Some wri-
ters affirm it to be the useful products OF
the soil, whereas country may be the
poorest IN its agricultural and mineral
products, and yet the richest from its COM
merce and manufactures. Adam smith
says wealth il the result of land and labor.
1t he had said result, we think he would
although rnistaking cause for effect, he
does not state precisely what that reeultis.
We would rather adopt the somewhat
vague and yet Ineligible definition Of
Lauderdale, that wealth is everything uae-
ful and delightful to man. What this lacks
in precision 1t supplies By com prehensive-
uesS.
wealth as an economical question, but to
glance at the genius of the American peo-
pie, which is rapidly claiming proper re-
cOgnition at the hands of all civilized na-
tons. That the United States are equal to
any other country in point of natural re-
sources there is no great reason to doubt,
while in everything pertaining to the me.
vance Of any other nation. Labor is the
Archimedian lever that moves the world.
Mind tolls to devise means for giving labor
greater effectiveness, until the efforts of
child may achieve more than the uuguided
muscle Of a thousand men. Through the
skill and ingenuity of American mechanic
arts, many kinds Of labor are no Longer
rendered burden but pleasure. Our
Scottish contemporary, quoted above, fur
ther tells its readers that the American is
partial to machinery because It does not
grumble, is not impudent, is not extortion-
ates and hence it comes that his crops are
gathered with patent reapers, his linen IL
washed with wooden hands, hispotatoesas
well as his apples are pared by one Of the
III ar rif0lNofl mo xnh
has no Followers and who wastes none
Of the fruit, and even his chairs, his tables
and his cabi0et-work in general come from
manufactures as large "a British cotton
mills, where they are turned out in parts
by s"ist-moving machinery. His gun
boats are floating martell0 towers, thatCan
Ore fore and oft as readily as from theside;
while his river steamers are amphlbiOus,
and may go any where 1t is little damp
all of which we take to be highly oompli-
mentary to American genius aud skill
Shipping Last.
Flight OF FAcErIous EDrroa FROM
The Fayetteville 7ele-
graph of March 10th, says: ,
I'VE do not know but that wa may he
compelled to suspend publication OF the
Telegraph before next year. If all the ac-,
counts OF excited couriers be correct there
must be i've hundred thousand Yankees
WNuA0 Two uuuOEeu yAEuS VI ayssseVAIO
to-day. They have guns that can throw
two ounce shells over three hundred yards
80 the city ia in easy rs0ge. As soon =
four hundred thousand Of these dear fol.
lows enter the city from the south we pro-
pose to retire by the road leading north
some of them don't like rs, and rather
than have . difficulty we shall fall back.
We beg that some Of our friends will ~
member rs very kindly to Mr.. sherman,
If he should come this way. and inform
him that the speediest way Of ending this
war il to hang the best men of his COM
mand and make HE way back to his fami-
~. II he don't like the proposition hs
can trade his army of for . dog, and hang
the dog