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Three Dolls, per annum."] Volume X.} , REPORT or THE Secretary of the Treasury on MANUFACTURES. (continued.) Paper and printing. Some foreign paper is (till itnpor* ted; but the greater part of the coniumption is of American manu facture : and it is believed that if fufficient attention was every where paid to the preservation of rags, a quantity equal to the demand would bt made in the United States. •'Pa per mills are ere&ed in every part ot the Union There are twenty one in the (fates ot New Hatnp- Ihire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware alone, and ten in only five counties of the (fates of New- York and Maryland. Eleven of thole mills employ a capital of two hundred thoutand dollars, and 180 workmen, and make annually 150, 000 dollars worth of paper. Printing is carried on to an ex tent comineniurate with the de mand. Exclusively of the numer ous newspapers which alone form a confulerabie item in value, all the books for which there is an ade quate number of porchafcr* are printed in the U. Stares. But fut fi'*h-rt data have n<>t been obtained to (ortn an eftfmate of the annual aggregate value of the paper made, printing and book-bind -1 ted m the United Stares, what may be inferred population. The manu factures of hanging paper,, and of playing cards are a 110 extensive; & that of printing types, of which there are two establishments, the principal at Philadelphia, and ano ther at Baltimore, was fully ade quate to the demand, but has lately been afteded by the want of regu lus of ant mony. Manufactures of Hemp. The annual importations of for eign hemp amounted to 6,200 tons. But the interruption of commerce has greatly promoted the cultiva tion of that article in Maflachufetts, New-York, Kentucky and several other places; and it is believed that a fufficient quantity will in a (hort time produced in the U. States. The manufacture of ropes, ca bles, and cordage of every deferip tiun may be considered as equal to jhe demand, the exportations of American manufacture for 1806 and 1807 having exceeded the av erage of 6 500 quintals, and the importations from foreign ports having fallen (hort of 4,200 ditto. Exclusively of the rope walks in all the leaports, there are fifteen in Kentucky alone, which confutne a bout one thousand tons of hemp a Year; and fix new works were in a tlate of preparation for the prelent year. The manufactures of fail duck formerly eftabliihed in R. Island, in Connecticut and at Salem, have been abandoned or suspended part ly on account of the high price of hemp, and partly for want of capi ta!. Some is (till made ; and the MONITOR. WASHINGTON, (Georgia) Printbd weekly for SARAH HILLHOUSE. species of canvas commonly called cotton bagging is now manufactur ed in various places on an extensive feale. An eftabliihrnent at Phila delphia, employs eight looms, and can make annually 17,000 yards of duck or 45,000 of cotton bagging. There are thirteen pianufactories in Kentucky, and two in weft I'ennef fee. The five at or near Lexing ton, make anuually 250,000 yards of duck and ctrton bagg : ng. Spirituous and Malt Liquors. The duty on licensed dills 2- mounted in 1801 to 372,000, and on account of omiflions might be estimated at 450,000 dollars. As the duty adually paid on the spirits distilled in thole (tills, did not on an average exceed five cents per gallon, the quantity of spirits dis tilled during that year from grain and fruit (exclusively ol the large gin didillcries in cijies) mud have amounted to about 9,000,000 of gallons, and may at present, the manufacluritig having increased at lead in the lame ratio as the popu lation, be ellimated at twelve mil liens o( gallons. To this tnuft be added ab<'ut three millions ot gal lons of gin-and rum distilled in ci ties ; making an aggregate of fif teen millions ot gallons. The importation of foreign spi rits are nevertheieis very consider able, having amounted during tbe year 1806 and 1807, to 9.750,000 gallons a year, and yielding a net annual revnue to the U. States cf 2,865,000 dollars. The quantity of malt liquors made in the U S. is nearly equal to their consumption. The annual foreign importations amount only to 185,000 gallons. And the annual exportations of Ameri an beer and cider, to 187, 000 gallons. But the amount a&ually made cannot becorredly dated. It has been Paid that the breweries of Phi ladelphia confirmed annually 150, 000 bufheSs of malt; and exclu sively of the numerous establish ments on a finalier feale, diiperfcd throughout the country, extensive breweries are known to exist in New York and Baltimore. From those data the aggregate value ot ipirituous and malt liquors annually made in the U. S. cannot be eflimated at Ids than ten mil* lions of dollars. Iron and Manufactures of Iron . The information received res pecting that important branch is very impeded. It is however well known that iron ore abounds, and that numerous furnaces and forges are erected throughout the United States. They supply a fufficient quantity of hollow ware, and of cadings of every description : but about 4,500 tons ot bar iron are annually imported from Russia, and probably an equal quantity from Swedenpnd England togeth er. A vague efti mate dates the a mount of bar iron annually uled in the U. States, at fifty thousand tons, which would leave about for ty thousand for that of American SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1810. tnanufa&ure. Although a greaf proportion o( the ore found in Ver ; manr, Penufylvznia, Maryland and Virginia, be of a luperior quality, arui .fome of rhe iron inanuta&ured there equal to an) imported, it is to be regretted that from the great demand, and from want of proper attention in the manula&ure, much interior American iron is brought to market. On that account, the want of the ordinary supply of Ruffian iron has been felt in fbnie of the flitting and rolling mills. Bit whilit a reduction of the duty on Ruffian iron is asked from.fever al quarters, it is generally stated th*: a high o r prohibitory duty on Engiifh L'#t, Ui£. r.JIeJ aud lhc-et ir on woul<Pbe beneficial; that which is usually imported on account nf its cheapnsfs, being ma ( e with pL coal, and oi a very inferior qualiry The annual importations ot sheet flit and hoop iron, amount to five hundred anti sixty five tons ; and the quantity rolled and flit in the li. b. is eflimated at ft veil thousand tons. In the slate ot Maflachufetts alone, are found thirteen rolling & ft rrirg nulls, in which about 3,500 t ns of bar iron principally front R.::fia, art annually rolled or llit. A portion atsJ lor sheet iron and tail rod* lururou'hr nails; but two thirds ol the whole quantity ot bar iron flattened by machinery in the U. Stales, is ufid in the ir.anu fatture ot cut nails, which has now extended throughout the whole country, and being altogether an American invention, fubflituting machinery for manual labor, de serves particular notice. The de tails on that iubjtd will be found in the communications (L)and (M) —•and it will be fuiliuent here to flute, that the annual produff of that branch alone, may be eftirnat ed at twelve hundred thousand dol lars, and tha cxclufive ot the having of fuel, the expenl’e cf manufa&ur ing tut nails, is not one third part ot that ot forging wrought nails. About two hundredeighty tons are already annually exported, but the U. S. continue to import annu ally more than fifteen hundred tons of wrought nails and lpikes. An increase ot duty on these, and a drawback on the exportation of the cut nails is generally afkedjor. A confielerable quantity of hlif. tered, and fome refined ftetl, are made in America ; but the foreign importations exceed 1,000 cwt. a year. l’he manufacture of iron consists principally of agricultural imple ments, and of ail the ufua! work pertojmed by common blackfiniths To these may be added anchors, shovels and spades, axes, feythes, and other edged tools, laws, bits and (tirrups, and a great variety of the coarler articles ot irontnonery ; but cutlery and all the finer species of hardware and of A eel work, are almoil altogether imported from Great Britain. Balis, (hells and cannon of small calibre are cast in several places ; and three founde rics for calling solid, those oi the [Payable half yearly. largt ft calibre, together with the proper machinery for tooting and fimfhing them, are tflabhfheJ at Cecil county, Maryland, near tbe city ot Wafhiogton, and at Rich mond, in Virginia ; each of the two lalt may cast 300 pieces of ar tillery a year, and a great number ol iron and brass cannon are made at that near the feat ot government. Those of Philadelphia and near the Hudson river, are not n>w employ ed. it may be here ?. and J, rhit there are several iron founm-ri ior catling every species of wo. k want ed for machinery, and that .tm engines are made at that of Psi la delphia. At the two public ar'nouri.s of Springfi !d and Harper’s, terry 19, ■ oon mulkcts are annually ma. e. About twenty thouiand more ae made at several factories, of which rhe noil ported is said tc be ! .at near New Haven, and which. U-b the exception of rhat erected at Richmond by the itate of Vi*gi i.i, are all private eftabhftntenfs —— Tliafe may it wanted, be tm.n Ji ateiy enlarged, and do not in. ude a number of guufmithsenpl \ and in making rifles, and (even, ob'n-r species of .rtns.— and p it o!s are dllu iuanuiattured in sever al place*. Ahliough it is not pradicab .; :a make a correct ftatsu.e .t of rhe va lue of all the iron and manufactures of iron, annually made in the U. States, it is believed to be from twelve t'> fifteen millions of dollars. The annual importation from ail foreign countries, including b*r i ron, and every dcfcriptkm o. man ufactures or iron or ileel, nrc etti* mated at near four millions ol dol lars’. Copper and Brass. Rich copper mines are found in New Jerley, in Virginia, an I near lake Superior ; but they ~re n t now wrought, The principal 111:1*!- ut.i£tures of that material, arc tlv.fe of dills and otlier veflels ; but rh copper in ducts and bolts is -.ilmoft univerfaHy imported ; the onlv nu nufatlure for that objecl, which is at Boston, not receiving fufficient encouragement, alth ugh a capi tal of 25,000 dollars has been \ect ed in a rolling mill and other ap paratus The true realon is, that those articles are imported free of duty ; and the owners seem to he principally employed in calling bells and other article. Zinc has lately been difeavered in Pennfylvgnia; and there area few manufactures of metal but tons, and various brass wares. Manufactures of Lead. Lead is found in Virginia & fome other places, but the richefl in; us of thnt metal are found in Upper ■ Louifiatia, and affo.it is laid in s he adjaceut country, on the eafl fide of the Mifliflrppi. They are mt yet wrought to th?* extent of which they are susceptible, and after Inp plyuig the wcflern country, do not fumifh more than two hundred tons annually to the Atlantic flaies. The annual importations from [Number 488*