WEAVING and TEXTILE FABRICS.
The following tables, extracted from an employed for this purpose, was the jenny of Hargreaves, which is represented by the following cut. By this machine one person was enabled to spin from 16 to 40 threads at once. The soft cords of rovings wound in double conical cops up on skewers, were placed in the in clined frame at c; the spindles for first twisting and then winding-on the spun yarn were set upright in steps and bush es at A, being fur nished near their lower ends with whorls, and end less cords, which were driven by passing round the long revolving drum of the plate article on Cotton Manufacture, written by Mr. Dodge for the Scientific American, are inserted here, as they present some valuable results.
Total aggregate of males employed in eleven years, 208,800; females, 702,000. Total aggregate wages paid to females for eleven years, $1.38,715,200 ; males,
$65,145,600. Total, $203,860,800.
Average No. of males employed per year, for eleven years, 18,982; females, 63,818. Average aggregate paid females per year for eleven years, $12,610,472; males, $5,922,827. Total, $18,532,800.
The chief manufactures of cotton are carried on in the New England States: it is only of late years that manufactures have sprung up in the South ; at the pre sent time in Georgia, there are 40 cotton mills working 60,000 spindles, and using 45,000 bales of cotton per annum. In Tennessee there are 30 factories, run ning 30,000 spindles and 700 looms, and using 15,000 bales. In Alabama there are 12 factories, working 15,580 spindles and 800 looms, and consuming 5,000 bales of raw cotton.