The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-12-14

sion which they-deliberately and in cold
blood selected
Now what are we to say of these men
and how are they to be regarded? That |
they have committed a great and unpro-
yoked outrage upon the community,
there is no question. They have rebbed |
the rich, they have destroyed the weak,
they have distressed the poor, they have
obstrueted the public prosperity, they /
have clogged the wheels of the national !
industry, and all for the purpose of !
forcing an unearned current Of profit IN
TO their own pockets, already sorged by |
gains questionably gotten. If this is
not outrage and robbery in the eye of |
the law, it is not because it is not both |
of these in the eyes of all honest men
| through whose pure, clear vision God |
sends his own look through the world
In community where tricks Of tbs /
sort are not uncommon, the tendebcs 4
tasss,,ssssanaa lslis,5 as~ass-l
Indeed, there IS n Kind of admiration of /
these gigantic swindles, and the bold |
bad men who stand behind them. In
stead of turning the back upon them as
rascals, who have hopelessly disgraced I
and blackened themselves, very low (
bow is made to them, or to the power |
they bear. Instead of counting theni |
out of respectable society, affiliation |
with them is deemed desirable, an9Sr
their position is regarded as one 10 bes.
coveted. Wall Street holds thousank
men who would be glad to do Just r-lis..'
these men have done We are having I
all the time corners in money, corners /
IN stock corners II grain, corners in /
everything. The largest and worst gam
bling hell in the United States is Wall 4
Street, and the games played there
not one whit better than those which
are played at Baden, or Monaco, or Sar-
atoga-are more dangerous than all,
because they are carried on under the I
protection of the law We have no pro /
lection from them except in arousing I
the moral sense OF the community I
against them, and IN the social proscrip- /
ton of all engaged in them. These men /
are not beyond shame. They do not |
like to stand alone, but so long as their |
power is courted, and their society /
sought by those who lay claim to decen-
cy,-so long as their acuteness is admir- /
ed, and their success coveted, the whole |
community Is at their mercy, whose /
tenderest quality is unmitigated cruelty. !
DR.. T. G. Holland, in ScriJncr's.
c0rTOY M4NUF4 CTCRE.
The complete statistics of the manu-
facture of cotton goods, just sent to the
press from the Census Office, show the
| number of distinct establishments IN
the United States to be $50, of which
Massachusetts has 19l, Rhode Island 139,
/ PENNSYLVANIA l3S. Connecticut III, New
/ York 81, New Hampshire 36, Georgia
"a. North Carolina 80, Tennessee 2S,
New Jersey 81, Maine %, Maryland %,
Alabama Is, South Carolina IL, and Yir-
-.sis4ss-,- - z-.--.-
Number of steam engines, 4fS; aggre-
gate horse power, 7,I17. Number OF
water wheels, 1850; aggregate horse
power, 1O2, 409 Number OF looms used, /
157,3 $40; frame spindles, 3, 794, AZ; mule
spindles, 3, 437, ,9S8 Hands employed,
AZ, 790 males above sixteen wears; 90, ,637
females above fifteen: %, 942 children
and youths. The aggregate amount of
wages paid during the year was S39, OH,
132 Materials used-6, d., 1S9 pounds
of cotton yarn; 136, 100 pounds of cot
ton warp; 5,234, 260 pounds of cotton
waste. Value of mill supplies, so, 910,-
1 672 Total value of all materials, S111,-
1877, $50.
Articles produced AS, s,204,1s1 yards /
sheetings, shirtings and twilled goods;
81, 533, 462 yards lawns and fine muslins,
4s9, go, ,053 yards print cloths, 30,301,-
0S7 pounds yarn, II, $50, 241 dozen spooIs
thread, 73.01s,0 045 yards cotton warps,
! 1I,11S,127 pounds bats, wicking and
wadding, 493, ,s92 table-eloths, quilts
and eounterpanes; 2.767.0 seamless
bags, 5,057, ,454 pounds cordage lines
and twines, 909,066 pounds thread, s.,
$50, $50 yards cotton flannel, 80, ,275, ,247
yards ginghams and checks, 1921, 449
pounds waste, 4S4, 400 pounds tapet
wadding, 405, 5S5 pounds seamless bags,
I3, ,940, ,S95 yards cassimeres, cottonades
and jeans, 10, 81, OPS pounds miscellane-
ous products; aggregate weight of goods
produced, $40, ,314, 592 pounds; aggregate |
value of product, S177, ,3s9, ,7s9.
OF these statistics, b. T. Nourse, |
Esq, of the Cotton Manufacturers As
sociation, says: This portion of the
census has the highest attainable accu-
racy. 1t is in remarkable contrast with
every previous census since the cotton
manufacture became one of the inp<f-
tant industries of the country. Ii, in
other industries and other departments
OF production, the same degree of accu-
racy has been obtained as in respect to
the cotton manufacture and the produc-
ton of raw cotton for the year prior to
june so, 1870, then is this census worthy
of the confidence of statesmen. politi-
cal economists and men of business.
ENGLISH MEASURES.