The New York herald., 1872-09-16
WASHING
he Progress of Cotton
Manufactures.
Failure Of the Commission to
the Ute Indians.

The Steamboat Law and the
Metis Disaster.
The Spanish and Mexican Claim
Commissions.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 49, 1872.
Statistics OF Cotton Manufacture In tho
United States.
The complete statistics of the manufacture Of
cotton goods just sent to the press from the Gen.
sus Office, show the number Of distinct establish
ments In the United states to be 956 ofwhich Mass
achusetts has 1o1, Rhode Island, l3s Pennsylvania
1873; Connecticut, Ill; New York, 81; New HampJ
shire, SO; Georgia. "a; North Carolina. s3 TennesI
see, %; New Jersey, 27 Maine, %; Maryland, 20;
Alabama, IS; South Carolina, 12 and Virginia, II.
Number Of steam engines, 44s; aggregate horse
power, 47,l17. Number OF water wheels, 1850; ag-
gregate horse power, 102, 400. Number OF looms
used 1880; frame spindles, 3,eo4 AT; mule spin
dies, 3,437,oss Hands employed, 47,790 males,
above sixteen years; 90 ea7 females, above nfteen
22,s42 children and youths. The aggregate amount
OF wages paid during the year was $39,o4A, 1872
Materials used, e,222 lS9 pounds OF cotton yarn,
1885, pounds OF cotton warp 5,2a4, ,26O pounds Of
cotton waste
Value OF mill supplies, SIC, ,o72; total value Of
oil materials, Sill, $50. Articles produced
47S, ,204 151 yards sheetings shirtngs and twilled
goods; "a, 533, 462 yards lawns and fine musns :;
s9,25o,05S yards print cloths; So.3Ol,oS7 pounds
yarn; 500 241 dozen spools thread 045 yards
cotton warps; ILLS l27 pounds batts wicklng and
wadding; 493, ,S92 tablecl0ths quilts and counter
panes; 2,7e7,Oeo seamless bags; 6,oS7,454 pounds
cordage lines and twines; eOe,Oee pounds thread !;
q ar1o CotfO flo arlo min
hams and checks; 1921, ,44o pounds waste; 4s4,4oo
pounds tapet wadding; 405,5s pounds seamless
bags; 13,940,s95 yards cassimeres, cottonades and
jeans; 10,s11,o2s pounds miscellaneous products
Aggregate weight of goods produced, $40, ,314, ,592
pounds; aggregate value Of product SIT, ,4so.z zao.
or these statistics, b. F. Nourse, OF the Cot
ton Manufacturcrs' Association, says:-
This portion OF the census has the nighest
attainable accuracy. It is in remarkable CONTRAST
with every previous census since the cotton manu-
iacture became one Of the important industries Of
the country. II, in other industries and other de-
partments OF production the same degree OF
accuracy has been obtained as in respect to the
cotton for the year prior to June so 1870 then is
this census worthy OF the confidence of statesmen,
political economists and men OF business
The Reservations OF the Utes-COmplainti
OF Ure-The Intrusion Of the Miners
Refusal to Sell Their Land.
gentleman present at the recent Council with
the Ute Indians write, as follows;-
The Special United States Commission, consisting
OF Mr. M o. NJ McCook, Mt John D. Lang and Cen
eral John Mcdonald, failed to accomplish the OBJ
ject OF their mission, which was the purchase Of
about one-thIrd Of the reservation OF the Indians
larger part OF their tillable land.
The Council was held at Los Rinos, was attended
pssre ana White River Utes. s.''' ~ ~
consistent friend Of the whites and OF whom every
one speaks well, said they did not wish to sell any
TO take care OF them and to keep the white people
on their reservation, and all tney asked was that
IT. should fu Its part Of the Every
not only peace, but friendship, should continue to
s5ey sSS sSS0 g s W aaa and that
over hundred miners have been at work on the
reservation for more than year, and during the
while the government by treaty promises to keep
all whites Off the reservation. Not one OF these
miners has been moested by the Indians, although
they have repeatedly notified the authorities OF the
presence OF the miners and asked that they be ex-
the Whites, and settlers who i've upon the borders
OF their reservation not only have no complaint TO
make Of them but express their G unwngns,ss IN ,n
sively on their reservation.
Hon Felix X. Brunot ana Thomas X. Cree, Secre-
tary OF the Board OF Indian Commissioners who
were Investigating the affairs OF the agency and
inquiring into the condition of the Indians were
Ure, In conversation with Mr.. BrunOt said he
did not believe that the Utes had killed Agent
opinion that it had been done by white men. He
promised to make an earnest effort to find out who
the perpetrators were, and that if they were his
people he would deliver them to the authorities.
With the exception OF this one act no charges can
be made against the Utes.
The recent dispatches in regard to depredations
in Utah fail Of confirmation at army headquarters
and arc highly sensational and the presence Of the
troops has been secured more to quiet the camer
of those having provisions to sell and to avoid tho
possibility Of danger than to repel attack or punish
depredators.
The Forty Sioux savagcs.
A delegation, forty in number, reached here this
morning and are quartered at the Washington
House. They came under the care of Assistant
Secretary Of the Interior Cowan.
The Loss Of tho Metis-Damaging Evil
dencc I'm Hand.
The Secretary OF the Treasury Is In possession Of
evidence which will, in addition to the testimony
already taken regarding the disaster to the steam
boat Metis, prove beyond doubt that the vessel was
only partially equipped and that her owners
knew that she was running in violation or
the Steamboat law. This much, 1t Is said, has
been got since the disaster, while documentary
evidence beyond question will be submitted with
the report OF the inspectors. An investigation In
dependent OF that conducted by the local inspectors
has been going on for week past, and, it is
alleged, will prove more than all the testimony
taken from passengers.
The Mexican Claims Commission.
Our government has lately received communica.
tions from Minister Ncbson relative to the inter-
ruption OF the proceedings Of the United States
and Mexican mixed Claims Commission, owing to
the conduct OF the Mexican Commission; but
there Is as yet no definite action by the Mexican
government. There is no doubt that remou-
STRANGE will reach the Mexican government,
against the course OF its Commissioner The Com
mission will expire, by the terms OF the convcn-
Eahruaru and In nnini0n az