The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-02-08
WAYNE COUNTY. md, FEB.

WAYNE COUNT
Material Advancement.
Very few people are aware OF the
progress that our country has made,
in the development of resources.
We are apt to judge of our pro-
gress by the stastictics of imports
and exports, whereas our home
trade is many fold greater than our
foreign trade. By the census OF
1870, our manufactures had reach
ed the annual amount of forty-tvo
hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars, employing more than two mil
lions Of operatives, and sustaining
at least ten millions of people. To
these results must be added at
least twenty-five per cent. for the
subsequent growth. Our cotton
manufactures have<grown in the
last forty years from $14,741, 900
to 1T, ,O22, 900, and our wool manu-
factures have attained to 1882, ,382,
319. Forty years ago we had very
few woolen mills, all located in the
Eastern States, whereas we nor
have nearly three thousand, more
than half of which are located in
the Western and Southern States.
In many essential particulars we
are already abreast of Great Brit
ain in manufactures, while in some
we excel her. Great Britian ex-
GELS us in tissues, steamships, iron,
earthernware, chemicals and in
some other particulars not neces
sary to enumerate, but she is far
behind us in carpets, leather, boots,
shoes, and harness, furniture, carri-
ages, tools, cars, and machinery,
doors and sashes, and innumerable
articles which come under the gen
eral head of labor saving imple-
ments. Great Britians exports much
more than half her manufac lures,
but she has not carried her exports
of them above-one forth the total
of our manufactures. Her commerce
is chiefly with foreign countries and
her colonies, whereas ours is chief
" with our own continent. The
development of our national re-
sources during the last quarter OF
a century, in particular, has been
wonderfully promoted bysthe great
mechanical inventions of the age
These inventions bear upon every
branch of human activity, and are
related to all varieties of practical
industry-the acts of the cultivatol
the navigator, the builder, the min
er, the manufacturer, working in
iron, cotton, wood and a thousand
other kinds ofmaterial They have
increased, to an enormous extent
the productive capacity of thenatior
and of the whole world. It has
been said of Great Britain that he1
steam propelled machinery accom-
plishes more actual work in a singl.
year than could have been accom-
plshed before it's invention by tn.
whole British population in thou
sand years, and the same may NJ
doubt be truthfully said of tn,
United States. Not the least among
the agencies that have been activ,
in the promotion of our industrie,
and commerce in our railway sys
tenn. The first railway in the Unit
ed States was..builtin Quincy, Mass
in 1826-27. It was three mile,
long, wooden rails, covered will
fat iron bars, and was worked b,
horse power, and used only fol
the transportation of granite from
the quarries to the Neponset River
In 1928 80 the country was aliv'
with railroad projects, several roads
being begun Locomotives wer'
/ first introduced into this countr,
from England early in 1929. Tht
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad claims
to have been the first regular pass
enger railroad in this country i
was begun July 4, 1928. TIL,
Charleston & Hamburg rs. c.
Road seems to have been the mex
actually begun-1829-though th
Hudson & Mohawk was chartere,
two years before. Operations wer
not begun, however, until August
1880. The first locomotive eve
built in the United States wa
planned by E. L. Miller, of Charles
ton, S. c., and manufactured il
New York in 1880, for the Soutl
Carolina road. From that time t.
the present the work of railroa,
building has gone on with rapi,
strides, until now there are 1886
miles completed in the Unite.
States. The aggregate earning O
the roads in the country in 1856
was about $40,OOO,0OO; in 1866
about $135, 900, 900; and in 1871
about $475, 100000. Here is q re
cord of progress and development
/ that may well excite the admiration
of the world. It is safe to say tina
the influence of mechanical inven
tions, and of new applications G
mechanical principles or forces, WI
be much greater in the future tha,
in the past. There is no such stin
illus to industry, to invention, an,
to enterprise, as competition. Thi
is all the time growing broader an
more active; so that it is impossibl
to forecast the changes it Will Pre-
duce IN the material condition (
the nation during the generation
that are to come.
Carlotta- the reject of the unfo1
tunate Maximilian, is reported
have ended her sufferings at Dres
4 y -