Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-05-16

VA.-These historic Iron Works, which did
such immense and famous service during the
war in supplying the armies and forts OF the
Confed eracy with artillery pieces Of the most
improved pattern, and which, since its close,
has so Strikngly illustrated the TACT that in no
city on the continent can great mechanical anu
manufacturing enterprises be established with
better prospects OF success than III Rlchlnond;
and no where are mechanics of worth and III.
telligence appreciated in higher degree than
in this same beautiful city on the James.
The Tredegar enjoys the advantage OF being
supplied with water power from the James,
with which the machinery is operated. Its
rolling mills contain twenty-tv pudding fur
uaces, fourteen rcheatng furnaces, four trains
of tiuing rolls and one forge train.
The establishment can turn out 30 tons OF
railroad iron per week, or 50 tons OF spikes,
&c, per day.
The foundry has three air furnaces and
three cupolas, with l daily capacity of eighty
tons Here are made car wheels, bridge cast
ings, &C. Two of the air furnaces are equal
to the demands of the heaviest work, and cna-
bic fifty tons of iron to be melted into 4 single
mass.
The car factory turns out eighteen freight
cars per week, which are sUld to the various
railroads south and west of Richmond. Then
in the blacksmith shop are thirty torgcs, which
are kept busy finishing cars.
In machinery the owners of the Ircdegar
keep pace with I'LL the improvements OF the
day, knowing that they can only compete sue
ccssfully with the North by having machinery
of equal excellence with Northern manutac-
turers The result is that whatever is made
at these works, from spike to i car, Is equal
to the best made anywhere else
The establishment uses about 2OOUI tons OF
coal annually, and gives employment to nearly
500 hands, among whom are mechanics whose
skill and practical wisdom would make them
conspicuous in any community in the world
Very nearly $40O,0 600 are paid out annually
for wages alone, being largely over 81 900 per
day.
We have already stated in the Enquirer that
the Tredegar Works are shipping spokes to
Cincinnati for the Mississippi and Ohio rail
road, and that they have contract for the
bridges on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
beyond the White Sulphur.
When the projected bridge to connect the
rredegar with the Danville railroad shall have
been finished, great trouble in the transporta-
ton of cars, &C., will be avoided.
The example of these works ought to stimula-
t. capitalists to the erection of other large estab
Gsh ments here Richmondis to be nude great by
manufactures and the sooner We begin on
large scale the better \ sermon might be pro-
ftably preached every month to our business
men and moneyed citizens from the text,
Look at Philadelphia What made her what
she is ?' Richmond Enquirer.
The RING and the Fancy. ii From the
New York Herald The Canadian Sheriff who
so bravely put an end to the Mace. .Coburn
fight, and aWed thousand New ! York despera-
does into submission by the dread recital OF the
Canadian statutes, must have been himself
amazed at the ready obedience which the ma
iesty of Canadian law, ,as represented within his
own person, enforced upon the formidable crowd.
Doubtless, however, he comprehends the rea-
son, now that he mourns the loss OF his thirty
five guinea gold watch. His assistant, who
also Yentured into the ring. and endorsed Dy
his presence the reading of those Canadian
statutes, has ere this probably discovered that
his valuable jewelry is also missing; and no
doubt the gallant miitiamen from Simcoe, who
the representatives of civil law at safe dis
tance, have to thank their discretion for any
yaluables that they may still retain about their
persons From the manner In which the hrst
round of the fight commenced-Joe Coburn
backing away from his antagonist, and an hour
elapsing without blow being struck or even
feeler being put int Is evident that the IN
tention of the fight is TO get money out OF some
body's pockets, and there is no better way to
inaugurate the new system than by taking it
out of the pockets of the ''Kanucks.
The fact is, these honest artisans, who turn
their mechanical genius to the frcscolng OF hu-
man faces for amusement, are very generous.
They charge no admission and demand no con-
tributions; and yet they have heavy monetary
expenses to bear 1t costs something to draw
L.. L. ftln fITlfn
chaneery' so frequently is sure to entail q heavy
hin of fees likely, according to accepted tra
dition, to eat up all the property involved
They require some income: therefore, and ap-
parently have no way of getting it, except the
way in which they got the Sheriff 5 watch
They are certainly pardonable, and we feel
sure the Canadian Sheriff, when he recalls the
respectful attention which they paid to the
statutes of the Dominion, relative to the WICK
edness and penalty of prize fighting, will forgive
them He read nothing relative to the WICK
edness and penalty larceny and pocket picking
on that OCCASION and the repentant prize fight
ers probably thought that there was no wicked
ness or penalty attached to these latter irregu-
arities in Canada, or else the Sheriff would
have told them.
PEACHEs.-Dover was somewhat excited Oh
Tuesday by the appearance OF large number
of fruit.growers Of this State and Maryland,
who assembled for the purpose of canvassing
the prospects of large crop of peaches, and to
discuss the best and cheapest plan Of getting
the same to market when ripe. The growers
from all parts of the peach section report that
the trees are as full of peachesas they can well
bear, and that the crop will, unless; something
not now expected occurs reach at least $500
900 baskets about 100000 more than were
gathered in 1869, the champion peach year
This increase over 1869 is based upon the fact
that thousands of new trees will come INTO
bearing for the first time, and that the eXten-
sion of the Maryland and Delaware and kent
railroads have stimulated the business of fruit
growing along the line of these roads From
100000 to 100000 new trees have been planted
this season, not only to supply the place OF
those that may die but to increase the total an