The New York herald., 1866-04-19

Z, APRIL 19, l866.-TRlP.
Interesting stasisties-Nsw York ~ tho
Great Manufacturing Centre Of the
Country.
We publish in another part Of to-day's paper
some carefully prepared, interesting and
curious statistical information regarding the
manufacturing interests OF the country, showing
that, besides being the great commercial empo-
rum, New York city is the great manufacturing
centre of the Union. The facts are compiled
from the Census report Of 1860, Department. of
Manufactures, which has just been issued by the
government press.
Although aware of the gigantic strides the
metropolis has been making for years past in
all the elements of commercial greatness, we
confess we were scarcely prepared for the light
which these figures throw upon her position as
the first manufacturing city in the country. Its
true, Philadelphia had, six years ago, more men
employed snd more capital invested in manu-
features than New York; but the aggregate
value of the goods manufactured was in favor
of the latter city to the amount Of about twenl
ty-three millions Of dollars, the whole amount
ia New York being over one hundred and Afty-
nine millions; PHILADELPHIA, with nineteen
thousand more operatives than New Yerk, less
than one hundred and thirty-sik millionsI n
the, calculation for New York the very
heavy manufacturing. localities OF Brook
lyn, Jersey City, Newark and Pater-
son, which might very properly be in
cluded within the manufacturing area of the
city, for they are in the sane interest," are
omitted. If they should be included the posi-
ton of New York as the great manufacturing
centre Of the continent will be largely in ad
vance of any other localities that can be named.
In productiveness the manufactures of New
York eclipse those of either of the vast manu-
featuring centres in the New England States.
Taking the value of the manufactures in four
of those six States, and it will be found that the
city of New York exceeds them ALL even to the
amount of twenty-eight million dollars. We
believe a majority of our citizens will scarcely
credit these extraordinary statements; but
reference to the figures given in another col
umn will exhibit their truthfulness.
Now, what are the causes producing these
marvellous results! Everyone can draw his
own deductions from the facts given but our
theory is very simple. New York is the great
natural centre Of the money or capital of the
country. With unexampled advantages for
ocean and inland commerce, this city attracts
to its waters the great foreign and domestic
mercantile business of the country. This,
with the swarming population of the
city proper and the neighboring cities
and towns. and the immense and inces-
SAINT current of transient travel to and from
more distant places, renders New York pre-em-
inently the centre where al kinds OF traffic and
trade can be carried on upon the most liberal
and extensive scale. This is the great point of
sale and purchase. We have here supera-
bundance of labor, OF the necessaries Of life,
and q class Of people unsurpassed for their en-
terprise and energy. We have here no exces-
sive transportation costs to cut down the p: offs
Of business, like the cotton manufacturers in
New England or the manufacturers in Penn
sylvania, like those at Reading, and other
places remote from great mart for the sale of
goods. The quick eye Of the intelligent manu-.
fact,lker sees these great advantages, and he
promptly seizes them. He finds that the policy
of going to place whore goods can be manu-
factured cheap on account Of the presence of
water power, or where the cost of fuel for
steam machinery is comparatively nominal,
but where there is no market Is bad one;
and he sagaciously concludes that ii is wiser
to make goods, perhaps at little heavier cost,
where there Is q market for their speedy trans
fer into cash. Briefly, he reasons that it is
safer to manufacture goods where there Is q
great market than where there is none. Sew
eral foreign manufacturers have brought their
entire establishments hither from distant
countries, and have, by commencing opera
tions here and in the adjoining towns, impart-
ed tbriftiness to manufacturing communities
that would not otherwise have prevailed.
Hence we find the manufacturing interests Of
New York city and its environs swelling up so
prodigiously. We believe, however that the
city of New York is but in the beginning Of
her manufacturing greatness; and before many
years we shall find her absorb all the small
manufacturing interests in distant localities;
in short, that she will finally hold as conspicu-
GUS position in the world as a manufacturing,
as she has for many years held as q commercial
metropolis
CONGRESS AND THE ADMINIsrRATIoN.-We are
advised through our Washington correspond
ence that several republican members are con-
fdent that Congress will not adjourn this sum-
mer; that they assert that "many things are
worse than hot weather, and that an increased
disturbance Of the public tranquility by inju-
dicious Presidential appointments would be
worse than hot weather and cholera combined.
According to this representation of the matter.