Show I 1 what we pay to england for hardware the treasury department furnishes the following table of the value of goods tiered aured fro from miron iron and steel which were imported into this country during the last fiscal year ending june 30 1860 PORTS IMPORTS OF IRON IRO AND STEEL manufactures i analla adv I 1 Is and anchors tar I 1 rn 4 cahl cables s t culery 1 arms atrus 1 f hoop iron husked and rifles rifle nalis nails spikes needle needie Nee rites 1 34 I 1 sc scrap rap icon PI g tr ro an 1049 mno TOO railroad iron 2 rod Holl holbron iron tron ron 44 44 A I 1 saws h 26 8 beet iron side arm anna 1 n r I 1 ott olti goti stee teel teil 1 1141 iiii other steel wire vi e manufactures of iron manufactures of steel total imports I 1 of all this vast value there was not we presume says the iran ae mige a single sin I 1 e article nor an ounce of raw material except steel for which we are still dependent upon sheffield i which could not have been furnished in this country and not a days labor which our own skillful mechanics might not have performed does it not seem incredible that more than a million should have been paid for bar iron more than a million for pig pi 0 iron and two millions and a half for railroad d iron when the machinery for manufacturing can all be found in exi exl existence existent stene within less than a hundred and fifty miles of the port where all these things were landed but yet we can refer with pride de to the above list as indicating as well by by what it omits as by what it expresses the triumphs and successes of american industry twenty six thousand four hundred and ninety five dollars dollar sy worth orth of saws seems an insignificant amount of this great staple article to be imported into this c country in a whole year and yet the fact is so but an examination of the tho list will show that vasti vask varieties of shelf hardware are entirely left out n no carriage 0 bolts no acre ys no locks appear among the list of imports and our readers i conversant with the hardware trade know that the great bulk of the birmingham goods which used to be imported into this country within the last fifteen years is now almost entirely superseded by those of domestic manufacture |