800 
and for the use of family manufactures, 
or exported to other parts. Eleven 
hundred looms are said to be employed 
in weaving the yarn spun by those niills 
into goods, principally of the following 
descriptions, VIZ. 
Bed ticking, sold at 55 to 90 cents p. yard. 
Stripes and rchBckE - 30 to 42 do. do, 
Ginghams - . 40 to 50 do. do, 
Cloths for shirts and 
sheeting - 85075 do, do. 
Counterpanes at 8 dollars each. 
Those several goods aré already equal 
in appearance to the English imported 
articles of the same description, and su- 
perior in durability; aud the finishing is 
still improving. The proportion. of fine 
yarns 1s also increasing. 
The same articles are manufactured in 
several other places, and particularly at 
Philadelphia, where are also made from 
the same material, webbing and coach 
Jaces, (which icles have also excluded, 
or will soon exclude, similar foreign im- 
portations,) table and other diaper cloth, 
Jeans, vest paiterns, cotton kerseymeres,, 
and blankets. The manufacture of fus- 
tians, cords, and velvet, has also been 
commenced in the interior and western 
parts of Pennsylvania, and in Kentucky. 
_ Some of the mills above-mentioned, 
are also employed in carding and spin- 
ning wool, though not to a considerable 
amount, But almost the whole of that 
material is spun and wove in private 
families; and there are yet but few esta- 
blishments for the manufacture of woollen 
cloths. Some information has, however, 
been received respecting fourteen of 
these, manufacturing each, on an aver- 
age, ten thousand yards of cloth a-year, 
worth from one to-ten dollars a yard. It 
is believed, that there are others from 
which no information has been obtained ; 
and it is known that several establish. 
ments, on asmaller scale, exist in Phila- 
delphia, Battimore, and some other pla- 
ces. All those cloths, as well as those 
manufactured in private families, are 
generally superior in quality, though 
somewhat inferior 11 appearance to im- 
ported cloths of the same price. The 
principal obstaclé to the extension of the 
manufacture, 1s the want of wool, which 
is still deficient bothin quality and quan- 
tity. But those defects are daily aid 
rapidly lessened by the introduction of 
sheep of the Merino, and other superior 
breeds, by the great demand for the ar- 
icle, and by the attention now every 
where paid by farmers to the increase 
and improvement of their flocks, * 
i Bs basen AO 
* Tbe Bank of England, by discounting 
accommodation bills for woolstaplers, lately 
Alarming Report on American Manufactures. 
[Nov. 1, 
Manufacturing establishmenits for spine 
ning and weaving flax, are yet but few, 
In the state of New York, there is one © 
which employsa capital of 8,000 dollars, 
and twenty-six persons, and an which 
about ninety thousand pounds of flax are 
annually spun and wove into canvas, 
and other coarse linen. Information has 
been received respecting two in the vi- 
cinity of Philadelphia, one of which pro- 
duces annuaily 72,000 yards of canvas 
made of flax and cotton; in the other, 
the fiax is both hackled and spun by mas 
chinery ; thirty looms are employed, and 
it is said, that 500,000 yards of cotton 
bayvging, sailecloth, and coarse linen, may 
be made annually. 
Hosiery may also be considered as al- 
most exclusively a household manufac- 
ture. That of Germantown has de- 
clined, and it does not appear to have 
been attempted'‘on a large scale in other 
places. There are, however, some ex- 
ceptions; and it is stated, that the island 
of Martha’s Vineyard exports annually 
nine thousand pair of stockings, 
Il. Household Manufactures, —B at by 
far the greater part of the goods made of 
those materials (cotton, flax, and wool), 
dre manufactured in private families, 
mostly for their own use, and partly for 
sale. They consist principally of coarse 
cloth, flannel, cotton stuffs, and stripes 
of every description, linen, and mixtures 
of wool with flax or cotton. The infor- 
mation received from every state, and 
fromm more than sixty different places, 
concurs in establishing the fact of an exs 
traordinary increase during the two last 
years, and in rendering it probable that 
about two-thirds of the clothing, inclu- 
ding hosiery, and of the house and tables 
inen-worn and used. by the inhabitants 
of the United States, who do not reside 
in cities, is the product of family manu- 
factures. 
In the eastern and middle states, card- 
ing machines, worked by water, are 
every where established, and they are 
rapidly extending southwardly and west~ _ 
wardly. Jennies, other family spinning 
machines, and flying shuttles, are also 
introduced in many places; and as many 
fulling-mills are erected, as are required 
for finishing all the cloth which is woven 
in private familes. 
centrived to ruin the woollen manvfactarers 
of England, and it may be years before they 
recover the blow. The indiscreet discounts 
of that bank, granted to monopolists, bankers, 
and epicculators only, will, in due time, de- 
stroy every branch of trade and manufactures 
of Great Britain, if not checked by parlia- 
ment. 
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