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" POETRYX.
The lings below, are ccpigd from the New-York Evening
M\fm wrilten o commemonts the virtaes of Joux
Dzwas Bexvorp, the son of Henry Eekford, Bsq. who
diedén the 7th viiimo. Mr. Eckford was o gentleman of
grent promise; had just compicted hiv Edacation und travele
Weonigh Europe, ard promied te be one of U brightest or
naments of soclety. [lis decth waus coused by his being
soverely bumt, in éndeavoring 0 reseue his wister from the
flames, aboul a month previous to his demise :
& Tjou Bast ali séasers for thine own, O Death.”
Why lies he there & miently,
. With moveless pulse and limb?
Desth cometh in cur infancy,
But mantood dawns oi him !
What means that cold and faded eye,
That brow’s ungentlc dew ?
1t s the lot of age to e,
But life 10 bim is new !
Awake ! arise ! —mako good the ciaim
W iich ali tor thee advance
Upon the futuie’s sciil of fume :
Arouse theo tioin that trance !
Go bask in menhood’s morning rays—
flope calls (tom coming yours,
Thou urt & theme (Lr mvin o pirales,
And not for woman's tears,
Where is thint milily bonining eye
T2t saniles o bright and bl:uul.’
A chiango = on him fo wfolly—
O Death ! it i thy band.
Was it for this Lis generons heart
Would bid the world pantake
The good of wiich bimeeld had part,
The wenl that he eonld make ¢
Was it (cr this, misforiome’s Ul'ght
A parent’s peoee (bt moved,
Brought kuowwdfi; like & boacon’s M'ght
I'o guide a son beloved ?
Was it for this, in youthiful prime
He east light thonghts behind?
And that the flowers of many a clime
Were cull’d 1o grace his mind ?
Por thie, were man!iood’s earlost hours
linproved beneath a sky
Far distaut fromi his native bowers ¢
Aud amw.lw botno—to m«:? &
* . - .
ATER TR 4.0 ®.O 0 #® o o
*'l_v_o_vc ‘o‘tnr.d by that untimely ber
“Tha (riunds of o}l his yeam ;
And woman's piaintive woe wae these,
And grief tint kiww not team.,
Eot there were none of all who steed
Aronnd that sident earth,
Pt mourn’d the loms of present good,
The hope of fubnre worths
And there were two, whose hends were bow'd
O'er that depoarted san, .
Buw, yesterday, a dnugl‘um’n shroud !
Yet suid—"l'hy will be done.
But one there was—for her the lay
Hath tears, and pought beside !
The towers of hope that strew’d her way,
All wither'd whean he died.
Qur falr correspondent * E.”” has been pleased to send s
a copy of the following poem, the original of which was re
eedved and lest, some four or five weeks since. We thank
bex for her kindness, and hope to hear from her often :
FOR THME LITERARY CADET.
A PROTHER’S LOVE. .
Wihat ean 2 wweeter charm impart,
In a varying world like this,
Yo a true, confiding youllirul Leart
In its fairy dreanis of Liiss,
o pure, that .{lmn ifght <toare it abave,
Is & Brother’s kind and el oo love,
*Tis like the frmg oot reath of morn
When the sui's bright bean s are glowhug
Or the purple tints of early dawn,
New lifo und hope bestowing.
And thoughts are cherished, wherever we rove,
That delight w dwell on a Brother's love.
When tears of sorrow fill the eye,
And youthful hopes decay,
That cheering smilc is ever nigh,
To chase our cares away
-And deeds of lond arfaction prove,
“A Brother's kind and faithtul love,
*Tie dearor [+, than the bright display
Of the richest sparkling treasures,
Than the golden hue of tie morning ray,
Or the poagive evening's plearures,
Or a dlooming garland of epring flowers wove,
Is not hialf so yweet as a Erother’s love., E.
Wo cspy from * The Pledge of Friendship,” for 1828, the
sabjoined stanzas, They are from the pen of Joun Bow
zixa, Laq. a poet distinguished for the corroctzess of his
verse, and the purity of his diction :
W hen memory 10-ks ek on the record of years,
Ere reason and feeling decay
Fore the footsteps we leave 1 this valley of tear
Are swept it ol ivion away
Tia sweet, when delight has been sober’d by age,
T'l‘n glanece on fis minur; nf‘i'l 3
‘0 glide o'er the clonds of adversity’s page—
‘l“ny seem not 20 desolate then.
As the tempest hrinfn calm, as the hoar frost that eprings,
As the dawning disperses in day,
8o the sun and the shade of vbchnnude flings
A beantiful light on our way ;
And passion and rapture, when tempered by thonght,
Nor trace but of happiness leave ;
B'en grief, when rememtor’d, is tranguilly taught
How vtin, how ungrateful to grieve.
Life’s briars and roses—iis gladnom and gloom,
Do they vanish together? Oh no!
The flow’rews we pluck, and cond nse their perfume,
The weeds to the desert we throw
Like tivs boe, thoughits ty o'er the field of the past,
Findiug sweets w heresoever they roam |
They wancer through sunshine and storm, and at last
Store raught but their honey at home.
The following lines were written somne time since, to a
young hd} who watched with unremitted attention, by the
wiek-bed of her father and moiher, and was with themn when
they expired.
TO MISS E. 8.
You’re left as ‘twere, alrost alone,
To wander on life’s dreary way ;
The tender guardians unce yovr own
Have felt the chill of life’s decay;
Yes, from the dull confines of earth,
They’ve soar’d to an i'nwortal biith,
*T'was your’s to watch their slow decay,
And soothe the pangs of nature’s strifo 3
Yo eoe thy parents pnss away
From off this rhnn;'ml stage of life ;
And hear their foohle volcos rise,
T'o bless you, ¢’cr they sought the skies,
Tow soothing to the sufferer’s breast,
To know aftection novers ronad
Like some Kin:i spirit of the bicss'd,
To pour 4 balni un every wound ;
And lull the fever of the brain
‘Which soon will feel nor heat, nor pain.
“whdh.;‘-t:’o“y now "r'i hl:,-’:'i,
ho walc your early, tender year ;
In anfl realina their souls fin | rost, A
With Him who dries the orplian’s tear
And when lile’s fitful dream s o'er,
You'll meet with them to part no more,:
MISCELLANY.
A TALE OF TRUTH.
If the fallpwing story meets your
spprobation, please (o give it a place
in your valuable columns ; it is found
ed.on fact, and has transpired within
the limits of my recollection.
Within twenly miles of Dublin,
stood a neat and rustic mansion, which
_ im summer time was eclipsed from the
. teaveller’s view, being shrouded by
rieh foliage of a lofty elm tree.
t. S..4he gentleman to whom the
m belonged, had two children,
C.P.C.
FOR THE LITERARY CADET.
' .
ke by the name of Charles, the oth
er Emily. "T'his son, at the age of
thirteen, received an appointment in
the East ludics to s very valuable of
fice. ‘lke youth wasintelligent, and
gl:u!ly CrbTac (l ‘.!;"‘ O pol d.‘:.;l) 0l
quitting his native soil, and sceking an
employment, which in a few years,
witK cconomy, might secure to him a
large fortune, It was with difliculty
that his parents conld be bronght to
give conscnt to their only son’s de
parture, but on reflection they unani
mously agreed that as his prospects in
hie depended on the income arising
from this situation, he might leave
them—perhaps forever! ‘t'he morn
ing arrived, and a fresh breeze rising
from the south, gave notice that the
¢hip was in perfect readiness. He
embraced his father and mother, and
then his sister, who was dearer to him
than iife—as a token of remembrance
he presented her with a valuable gold
ring, which she promised to keep
while the breath of life pulsated in her
breast. It was with the outmost dilhi
culty that they coull be scparated—
Emily hongged her brother in the ten
derest embraces, and fainting in her
father’s arms, inscnsibly dropt the
hand of her only brother. Chailes
soon disrobed himself of parting gricf,
and jumping cn bourd the vessel, soon
lost gight of his Fimerald home. After
he had heen abzent from Ireland onc
vear, a young man of prepossessing
appearance was introduced to the
family ; his visits hecame constant,
and the lovely limily was ensnared in
Cupid’s iutricate net. They walked
ont every fine evening on the banks
of a river that meandered with play
ful waves through the romantic woods
which circuitously curve through the
estate of this venerable gentleman.
the father of the heroes of my story.
—The young stranger at length ten
dered his hand,—it was reccived, and
the marfiage day was scttled on. But
alas ! the unzuspecting female knew
not of infidelity, and to treachery she
was A stranger. The fairy wave of
love had music in its very roll. With
‘a serpent’s wile he crept into the gar
den of den, and with the hissing ve
nom of destruction coiled around her
chastity, * that it was virtuc to have
adored, and worse than sacrilege to
have violated.” The sylph-like form
of loveliness was but the summer sea
son of beautly, that the cold blast of
icy winter had chilled. Her father
became acquainted with the villainy of
her seducer, and poor Emily was
flung upon the world in Night’s own
darkness. In vain did the trickling
tear flow down her rosy check; in
vain did she plead theweakness of her
‘sex. The parent, incensed at the u;_r-j
Pgra\-ation of her crime, was unmoved
oy pity, and rage gave to direful re
‘ venge. Next morning, when day
light barst forth from the heavy clouds
that seemed to lower upon her fate,
Ishe awoke from a disturbed slecp,
and found herself prostrated beneath
the spreading boughs of a stately oak,
l ehe pondered npon hersitiation—she
Cwas young, and the haunis of viee <o
was ignoran of 3 bat when woman
once oversteps the boundaries of vir
tue, she tumbles headlong into the
abyss of ruin. And so it was with
| Eimily!—Like a poor maniac she
plodded her weary way to Dublin,—
hungry, tired and heart broken, she
wandered the streets without a house
to shelter her, without a friend to
breathe consolation. Night soon stole
forth with its sable darkness, and the
world was shrouded inlonely sleep ;
the post office clock had tolled twelve,
and the midnight ruflians were on the
aiert. Poor Emily fell a victim to
ona of those heartless vagrants, and
she was borne away to commence a
life that her violated innocence shrunk
with horror at; a year had clapscd.i
and she was an accomplished vaga
bond ! Four years had elapsed, and
all the fine feclings of woman had
abandoned her! "Twas then her
brother had obtained leave of ahsence
to visit his Irish home,=-he sct sail for
Dublin, and after a voyage of four!
months, was landed in the metropolis
of his country. Oan his passage from
the East Indies he formedan acquain
tance with two young men, who were
determined to have a night of mirth
before they parted. Charles, with a
buoyant heart, conscnted to any thing.
Next'morning he expected to be in
the arms of his dear parents and gis
ter ; but mark how misfortune stamp
ed his hopes, how ill fate directed his
course. He and his companions be
came inflated with wine, and proceed
ed to a house where female vice
crawled upon the ruins of female vir
tue,~his sister was there! Every
individual was intoxieated—Charles,
unable to return to the Hotel, remain
ed all night—"twas then, indeed, that
“ natare erred from itsell.” Next
morning he beheld on his sister’s toi
lette the ring that he had presented
her previous to his departure from
home,~he turned to speak to her,—
he beheld in her countenance Emily’s
features, She knew her brother!—
inafit of agony and despair he hur
ried home, embraced his partnts, and
then shot himselfs She plunged into
the River Liffey,~—and left a father
and mother to bewail the loss of their
only children, that the villainy ol one
‘man had brought heavily upon them!
—LDuston Traveller.
BRUMMELLIANA,
] A great deal used to be said of
jßeau Nash and his witticisms ; but
certainly we never et with any thing
lnf his which was at all equal to the
oracular seutences of the gentleman
‘who gives a name to this article, Of
all the beaux that ever flourished
':\t least, of all that ever flourished to
| the smine score=—cxcmplary of waist-
Icoat, and having authoritative boots
| rom which there was no appeal—he
appears to have been the only one
who made a proper and perfect union
of the coxcombical and ingenious.
:()lhcr men may have been as scien
tific on the subject of bibs, in a dra
'pcr-likc poiut of wview; and others
'have said as good things, which had
‘none of the coloring arsing out of the
| consciousness of fashionable pre-emi
tuence. Dean Fielding, we believe,
|stands on record as the handsomest of
ib(-:\ux. There 15 a bean Skeffington,
(now rather Sir Lum!ey, who, under
all his double-breasted coats and
!waislconls, never had any other than
a single-hearted soul; he 1s é0 be re
':cordcd as the most amiable of beaux;
llmt Bean Brummell for your more
than finished coxcomb., He could be
!gravc enough, but he was any thing
bat a solemn coxcomb. He played
with his own spectre. It was found a
grand thing to be able to be a consum -
mate fop, and yet have the credit of
being something greater ; and he was
both, Never was any thing more ex
quisitely conscious, yct indiff rent ;
extravagant, yet judicious. [llis su
periority in dress, gave such import
ance to his genins, and his genius so
divested of insipidity his superiority
in dress, that the poet’s hyperbole
about the lady might be applied to his
coat ; and
*“You might almost say the body thonght.”
It was a moot point which had the
more tact, his gloves or his fingers’
ends. He played the balls of wit and
foliy so rapidly about his head, that
they lcst their distinctions in one
crowning and brilliant halo.
Mr. Bruinmell, it is true, is no long
er in favor as a setter of fashions.—
Why, it is not our business to inquire.
But though it may be said of his
waistcoat, like Troy, that it was; his
wit 18, and will remain; and here, for
the first time, a few specimens of 311
are collected. If George Etheridge
himself would not have acknowledge.
“a brother in George Brummell, then
are no two gloves of a color.,
- To begin with what is reckoned the
prince of s good things, Mr. Brum.
mell having fallen out of favor with
an illustrious person, was of course to
be cut, as the phrase is, when met in
public. Riding one day with a friend,
who happened to be otherwise regard.
ed, and encountering the personage in
question, who spoke to the friend
without noticing Mr. Brummell, he
affected the air of one who waits aloof
while a stranger is present ; and then,
when the great man was moving ol
said to his coanpanion, loud enough
for the other to hear, and placidly
adjusting his bibs, “ Eh! who is our
fat friend 2
Having taken into his head, at once
time, to eat no vegetables, and being
asked by a lady if he had never eaten
any in his life, he said, ** Yes, madam
[ once ate a pea,”
Being met limping in Bond-street,
and asked what was the matter, he
said he had hurt his leg, and ** the
worst of it was, it was his favourite
leg.”
Somebody inquiring where he was
going to dinc next day, was told that
he really did not know ; “they put
me in my coach and take me some
where.”
He pronounced of a fashionable tai
lor that he made a good coat, an ex
ccedingly good coat, all but the col
lars; nobody could achieve a good
collar but Jenkins,”
- Having borrowed some money of a
city beau, whom he patronized in re
turn, he was one day asked to repay
it ; upon which he thus complained
to a friend, * Do yon know what has
happened 77 * No,” “ Why, do you
know; there’s that fellow, Tompkins
who lent me five hundred pounds, has
had the face to ask me for it ; and yet
| bad called the dog * Tomn,” and let
mysell dine with himn.”
“You have a cold Mr. Brammell,”
observed a sympathizing group.—
“Why, do you know,” said he, that
on the Brighton road, the other day,
that infidel, Weston, (his valet,) put
me in a room with a damp stranger.”
Being asked il he liked port, he
said, with an air of diflicult recollec
tion, “ Port? port 20, port!—Oh,
ay ; what, the hot intoxicating liquor,
s 0 much drank By the lower orders [*
Going to a rout where he had net
been invited, or rather, perhaps,where
the host wished to mortty him, and
attempted it, he turned placidly round
to him, and, with a happy mixture of
indifference, and surprise, asked him
his name. ** Johnson,” was the an
‘swcr. “ Johuson,” said Brummell,
recollecting, and pretending to feel
for a card : * Oh, the name, | remem
ber, ''haunson (Thompson ;) and
Jauhnson and ‘Fhaunson, you know,
Jauhnson and Thaunson, are really so
much the same kind of thing ?”
A beggar petitioned him for charity,
“even il it wae only a farthing.”—
“ Fellow,” said Mr. Brammell, sof
tening the disdain of the appellation
Lin the gentleness of his tone, * 1 dow’t
‘know the coin.”
Having thought himself invited to
somebody’s country scat, and being
given to understand, after one night’s
lodging, that he was in error, he told
the unconscious (riend in towyn who
asked him what sort of a place it was,
that it was an exceedingly good place
for stopping one mght n,”
Speaking lightly of a man, "and
wishing to convey his maximuin of
contemptuous feeling about him, he
said, ** he 1s a fellow. now, that would
send his plate up twice for soup.”
It was his optmon, that port, and
not porter, should be taken with
cheese, ** A genticman, said he, “nev
er malts with his cheese, he always
porls.,
It being supposed that he once fail
ed in a matrimonial speculation, some
body condoled with him, upon which
he smiled with an air of better knowl
cdge on that point, and saia, with a
sort of inditferent feel of his neckeloth,
* Why, sir, the truth 13, | had great
reluctance in cutting the connexion ;
but what could I do? (Here he look
ed deploring and convulsive ) Sir |
discovered that the wretch positivel)
ate cabbage,”
Upon receiving some affront from
an illustrious personage, he said that
was rather too good. By gad, | have
half a mind to cut the young one, and
bring old G——e into (ashion.
When he went visitiag, he is repor
ted to have taken with him an elabo
rate dressing aparatus, including a sil
ver basin; ** For” smid he, it is im
possible to spit in clay.
On being asked by a friend, during
an unscasonable summer, if he had ev
erseen such a one? ¢ Yes” replied B,
“last winter.”?
Oa a reference being made to him
as to what summ would be suflicient to
meet the annual expenditure for
cloths, he said ** that with 2 moderate
degree of prudence and economy, he
thought it might be managed for eighi
hundred per annum.”
te told a friend that he was reform
ing s way of life, * For instance”
said he, “ 1 sup early; I take a-a-lit
tle lobster, an apricot putl, or so,
and some burnt champaigne, about
twelve 5 and my man gets me to bed
by three.
[Concluded from first page.] |
Question, Can you staie the luss or gain of
your establishment [or the years 1825, 1826,
and 1827.
Answer. [ can state our loss for 1826, which
was an aggregate amount of $23,095 31, from
which deduct 500 dollars, for bad debts, &ec.
not properly belonging to the manufacturing
loss. This loss was exclusive of interest on
capital, in machinery, real estate, and build
ings, but not exclusive of the borrowed active
capital. In 1827 and 1828, we still have found
it a losing business, and that no economy can
sustain it. The business will not pay its ex
pense, exclusive of interest on the capital,
~ MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1828.
TESTIMONY IN RELATION TO IRON.
The Honorable Richard Krese, of Keesville,
Clinton county, New- York, admitted and
sworn.
Mr. Keese, by permission of the Committee,
presented an estirnate, which he considers to Iml
a fair calculation of the operations of a forge,
engaged in the manufacture of bloom iron, sitn
ated twelve miles from the ore hed, and lhe]‘
same disiance from a place of transportation by
water, and requests that the same may be re
ceived, and made pact of his evidence, in the
present examinaion, viz:
“ A fair estimate of the average business of
the manufactures of bar iron, in the coun
ties of Clinton and Essex, inthe State of
New-York, in the shape of an account cur
rent. One forge and water privilege with
capacity to make ul;anly-floe tons annually.
226 tons rock ore, raised from the |
bed,and lying upon its bank,worth
per ton, #ix dollars $1,350 00
Carting the above ore, say tweive
miles, to the forge, worth two dol
lars per ton 450 00
87,600 bushels of coal, delivered at
the coal house, in good order,
worth 4 1-2 cents per bushel 1,687 50
Bloomer’s wages tor making 75 tons
of iron and hoarding themselves,
worth, per ton, 18 dollars 1,350 00
T he wages of one comunon laboring
man the whole year, to measure
coal, wash vre, and make small
repairs about the forge, &c. &e,
boarding himself, worth, per day,
one dollar n[v 800 00
Blacksmith’s bill,timber,work of me
chanics in making repairs far the
year, over and above what the
man can do, worth, per ton, §8 225 00
Insurance against fire on buildings
and machinery, 1 1-2 per cent,
on 2,000 dollars, which is their es
timated cost 30 00
Carting 75 ‘ons of iron from the forge
to tie lake, say, 12 miles, worth
2 dollare por tom 150 o 0
Wharfage, storage,and freight, of 76
tons of iron to the cil({ of New= {
York, by water, a dietance of b
about three hundred miles, worth |
per ton 6 dollare 450 00
Commissions on sale and all other
charges at New-York, woith 5
per cent, 837 50
$6,330 00
CR.
By 75 tona of iron in the city of
~ "New-York, woith per ton, 90 dol
lars 6,750 00
-~
i Balance, $420 00
| T iy
‘ln the operation above detailed, the
' business indispensably requires
nearly the whole time of one pro
' prietor in procuring the materi
. als, keeping the works in opera
tion, eupplying the workmen,
teams,&c. with necessaries, mnaik
eting the iron,&c.&c in the course
of which business, considerable
personal expenses, as well as
time, are incurred, and this Item
would be estimated much lower -
than its value at 500 00
The capital invested in the water
| privilege and dam, may be fairly
estimated at 2,000 dollars ; the
interest upon which, at 7 per ceat.
per annum, is 140 00
The capital invested iu"the forge
machmery, coal houses, and
bloomer’s houses, may be set
down at 2,000 dollars; which *
considering its perishable nature,
ought to pay at least 14 per cent.
but I will bere carry it out at 7 per
cent, 140 00
| $7BO 00
' The bloomer’s house is usvally fur
i nished by the proprictor, without
rent,
By real loss upon superintendence,
and simple interest upon capital 360 00
By the above balance brought down 420 00
$7BO 00
This loss is, and can only be, made up to the
proprietor, by the fact that he is a farmor, or a
merchant, aud by the sale of his produce or his
goods, at an ordinary profit, to pay his hands,
and for his stock and team work he may be re
nnbursed.”’
Question. How long have you heen engaged
in the business of making bar or bluom iron,
and when did you ahawdon that husineas ?
Answer I sold out my inferest in the estab
lishment last May. I was enguged in it for
about seven years before that time, and, since
then, have ceased to be nterested in the iron
business.
Question. What description of iron is that
of wihich you speak ? 13 it bloomery or other ?
Answer. It is bloomery. I have never been
engaged in the furnace business, or in making
refined iron.
Question. What was the worth of bar iron,
hammercd from bloorrs, at your factory ?
Answer. It was generally worth from eighty
to eighty-five dollars per ton, of 2,240 pounds,
cash orice, less 25 cents per ton for taking it
to the rolling mill, which may be considered its
market. If carried twelve miles, it would cost
two dollars per ton,
Question. Into what was your bar iron con
verted at the rolling'm.!l ?
Answer. Most of what [ rolled was made into
nail plates, and other manufactures. Some has
been rolled to order. The nails have been most
usually sold at the works, for country use ; say
about two liundred tons per year. Some, how
oever, has been sent 10 New York,
Question. In‘o what other articles is the iron
of your neighborhood generally manufaciured ?
Answer. Chain links, and bolt iron constitute
the principal manufacture, and are then sent to
New York.
Question. Is the protection on nails suf
ficient ?
Answer. It is quite an ample protection.
Question. How much iron have you usual
ly made in the year?
Answver I had but one forge, and usually
made about seventy-five tons. -
Question. Have you bought iron ia your
neighborhood ?
Answer. I have bought for a company in
New-York, during the last reason, about sixty
rons of the bloom iron, for which I paid from 80
to 85 dollars per ton.
Question. What does it cost a purchaser in
New. York, when he purchases in your neigh
borhood?
Answer. I purchased, last Winter, the best
bloom iron at 85 dollars per ton. My com
mission was two per cent,, and the frieght
from the mill to New-York was $7 25 per
ton.
Question. Can you form any estimale as to
what quantity of iron is usually manufactured
in your section of country ?
© Answer. About 3,010 tons are manufactur.
ed inthe neighborhood of lake Champlain, in
the States of New York and Vermont. 1 speak
of bar iron before it is converted into other ar
ticles.
Question. Have those manufactures increas
ed or diminished within the last ten or twelve
years?
Answer. During the late war there were
several very important establishments erected,
and they did well. In 1816, and jor a few years
afterwards, they declined. Withm the last two
or three years, they have revived again very
considerablv, excapt two large establishinents,
one at Vergennes, the other called the Eiba
works, which have not been revived. Some
new works have been erected.
Question. Do tha location of the works, in
regard to the falicities of procuring the raw ma
terial, and the means of manufacturing, affect
the value of the capital emploved?
Answer. They do in proporiion to the price
of transporting the raw materwul, fuel, &e,
Question. Are there any furnaces or forges
in operation in your section ofcountry, pro
polled by steam?
Answer. None. They all go by water.
Question, Is it a fair average that three
tons of the ore, in your section of country, will
make one ton of iron?
Answer. [tis, if the ore be of the best kind.
Ifu be inferior, it requires more, but that ad
ditional quantity does not affect the estinate,
becausa the ore costs less
Quastion. [s 5 0 bushels of coal the usual
quantity necessary for making a ton of jron?
Answer. It is, it the ore he such as 18 refer
red to in the first part of my last answer. All
ourore w converted directly into har Iron at the
forge, without the intervention of a furnace.
Question, Is 22,000 a fair estimate for the
waler privilege, lot, and dam? and are 2,000,
dols. in ldxl’tion. an equivalent for buildings,
forges, &e.?
Answer. Theso are fair estimates. Sychan
establishment, with 'wo fires and one forge
hammer, will make 76 lons ol iron annually,
Question. What is the capacity of the coun
try to turnish ore?
' Answor. The qeantity of are withis forty
mies of my residenee, appoars (o Ba wilolly ‘-
ox}_ytblo, and would seem to be eroungh 1o
last the United S:ates for centuries. The wa
ter power is-ver\ great, snd much of the coun
try still a wilderness, fornishing materials for
fruldqulutiliu of coal, but that may ultimate
y fail,
Question. Have the expenegcs of manufae
turing iron increased of late? ¢
Auswer. Ido not think they have for the
last five years. There have been variations in
several of the items of expense, but | think the
average about the same,
Question. From your knowledge of the man
ufacture ofiron, do you think thet hoop iron is
sufficiently protected?
I'thok that it is safficiently pro~
Answer.
tected.
Question. Is there sufficient protection teo
boiler and sheet iron?
Answer. I have been inclined 1o think it
would not be bad policy to aflord further pro
tection to thin sheet ron. The boiler iron ¥
do not think requiresit, I draw this concla
sion from the fact, that all, or mostly all, we
use, is manufactured in the United States,
Question, Do rolled and slit nail and spike’
rods, require further protection ?
Answer. 1 think not, There is a kind of
hammered iron, resembling the spike rods, im
portes from Russia. They interfere with the
nail and spike rods, and affect their prices. |
congider it an evasion of the revenue laws, be
cause they are entered as hasmmered bar iron.
The duty on thisarticle I think should be in
creased, or provision made to prevent the eva
sion of the cxistirg revenue laws, by placing
<hem on the footing of nail and spike rods.
Question. Do youn know of any establish
ment [or bar iron which was not a losing con
cern to the owner, from the close of the war te
the revision of the tuniff? #
Answer. Answering the question in general
terms, [ would sav, I know of none, except it
was sositunted as to be protected by a home
market, which the forcign article could not well
reachi, by reason of the cost of transportation.
Quesfion. Does your experience enable you
to form an opinion as to the necessity of an mn
crease of duty on hammered bar iron?
Answer, On this [subject [am of opinion
that it would be prudent to increase the duty to
one cent per pound. More than that, I think
would be mnpolitic, both for the country and
the manufacturer. [am (riendly to manufac
tures, but [ am opposed to any sudden high in
crease of duties, upon the principle that such a
cotrse would be prejudicial to those interested
in manufactures, and to the community.
Question. Weremany manufactories of bar
iron, eng-ged in that wole'y, conducted profita
bly between 1818 and 18247
Answer, - I know of none that succeeded
well, who had tocompete with the foreign ar
ticle.
Question. As a fricnd to the permanaent in
terests of our munufactures, do you deem it ad
visable that the manufacturer should be reason
able in his requisition for protection?
Answer . T do. I think the manufactnrers
ought to be moderate and reasonable in asking
for protection,
Adjourned until to-morrow' morning ten
o'clock.,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11,1828,
The FHon. Mr. Keese again admitlted, and
Surther examined. gt
Question. When you speak of the price of
bar iron at 8) dols. to 85 dols. per ton, do you'
include smal! bar?
Answer. [ speak to that from two to four
inches in breadth, and halfan inch to an nch
in thickness, or, of square ivon, fiom an inch
and a qnarter to three inches square.
Question. If you drew small bars, either
square or flat, for any particular purpose, did
you sell for a higher price?
Answer. We did. Iron barsof an inch square
would be five dollars per ton hugherthan coarser
iron.
Question. Is there any. hammered bar iron
made in your section of eountry from pigs?
Answer. [ know of none.
Question. The estimate vou have furnished
supposes you to make 75 tons per year. How
many men would it take 10 dig the ore,draw it,
cut the wood, prepare the coal, and deliver
the coaly do the labor of the forge, and such
other services as are incident and necessary ?
Answer. From the bes: estimate I have been
able to make, I am of opinion, it would require
seventeen laborers, able bodied men.,
Question. If the forge was at the ore bed,
would it not follow, as a consequence, that the
second item of your estimate, of 450 dols. fer
carting the ore, would be deducted from the
cost of making the seventy-five tons?
Answer. It would.
Quesiion. What is coal worth at the coal
bed?
Answer. Itis worth from three and a half
to four cents per bushel. Those who buy in
that way, gencrally pay about that price, de
pending upon its distance (rom the forge.
Question. In your estimate furnished to us,
where you say that ironis wortk at the forge
from 80 10 85 dols. per ton, ara we to understand
that this i« independent and exclusive of the
em of #1 50 for carting it to the lake. of
#4 50 for fieight, wharfage, &c. and 85 37
for commissions on sales?
Answer. Youare so to understand it.
Question. s the bur iron ol your seciion of
country cons'dered as valuable in price and
quality as the bar iron made on the Juniata,
n Pennsylvania?
Answer. 1 think that which we e¢all the
Peru iron, in point of tenacity, is equal 10 any
in the world : but fiom the reputation of they
refined iron made on the Juniata, I ain inclined
to think i# inore valuable for mav uses
J. F. B. PLAGG,
SURGEON DENTIST,
[IAS removed his Oflice to Mathewson-st.
three doors North of Westminster,
where he continues to perform every operation.
upon the teeth, Refer 1o
LEVI WHEATON, M. D.
J W, RICHMON O, M. D
L. L. MILLER, M. D.
Providenca..
J. F. FLAGG, M. D.
Dec 12 Boston.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT,
THE subscribers having taken the stand re-.
cently oceupiod by the iate €hristapher
Vaughan, Na 1 Cranston Street, and having -
formed a cannexion in business under the firm
of HART & DAWLLEY, :
for the purpose of carrying on the Tailoring
business, in all its branches, respactiully solic.
it a share of public patronsge,
They soep constantlymon hand, a general
nssortmen: of Cloths, Cféeuneres, Veatingsand
Trimmingsyof the ost fashionable patterns
and colours,
ALSO.
A general assortment of Rzapy Mane
Crorming. ' ’
o=Particular attention paid 1o entting,
I.ORIRG HART.
Jan 19 JOHN G. DAWLEY.
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