AGniCUtTURAL MUSEUM 61: 



The subscriptions to this object, in its consequences 

 compared with the cost, perhaps the most important 

 of its nature that can be proposed to the citizens of 

 Piiiladeiphia, are now progressing, so as to justify an 

 expectation that a considerable part, if not the vvhule of 

 the road iroin Perkiotnen to Reading, may be com- 

 pleted th(" ensuing sea-on, which will then give a con- 

 nected luie 01 IJO miies to S^mbui-y. 



AincriC'-iii D^ily AdvcrLiser. 



DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES, 



We have seen with pleasure a Report from the Com- 

 iDittee of the " Mar\land Association ibr the encourage- 

 ment of Domestic Matmfaetuies." — This association, 

 says the Whig, is a Society formed in Baltimore city 

 and county, for encouraging domestic manufactures, 

 particularly those of cotton, linen and woollen; — the 

 members, near 2000 in number, having subscribed arti- 

 cles of agreement not to wear foreign cloths, or use 

 other foreign articles ; provided good substitutes could 

 be produced at home. — The facts detailed in this Report 

 are of the most a^spicioas character. 



Various itistitutions for the spinning and weaving 

 of cotton, are on foot, near Baltimore. The Union 

 jNIannfactory on Patapsco, has a capital of one mil- 

 lion dollars; and will have from G to 8 thousand spin- 

 dles, 800 of which are now at work. The Company 

 prepare all their own machine! y. 



E. & I. Leveri.'ig and Go's, factory, on Gwynn's Falls, 

 has a capital of 200,000 dollars ; and will have 5,000 

 spindles in operation in Auguet next. It will go exten- 

 sively into the corduroy, thickset, and velveteen wares. 



The " Washington Cotton Company." on Jones's falls, 

 have a capital of 8000 dollars, anfl 1000 spindles in mo- 

 tion ; with which tiiey spin 2000 hanks of yarn per week, 

 fi'omNo, 8 to 30. Th^y have a dye house, and 7 looms 



