The Charlotte Journal

Early Manufactures.—It has been recorded in Jones' Defence of N. Carolina, that as far back as the year 1775, the Revolutionary Congress of North Carolina adopted a scheme of bounties for the encouragement of manufactures in this State: and that, in 1776, while the council of safety was in session, three individuals presented pieces of linen of their own fabrication, and claimed the several bounties, agreeably to the resolve of Congress.—The board after a long deliberation on the comparative merits of the two productions of domestic industry, presented for their attention, being unable to make any distinction between their respective values, came to the unanimous resolve that the Treasurers of the Province, or either of them, pay to George Wolfenden, Junius Gibson, and James Morgan, the sum of twenty three pounds, fifteen shillings each; it being their equal part of the several bounties allowed by the Congress. The introduction of bounties by agricultural societies of the present day, as liberal as those which were granted by these early patriots to manufacturing labor, might, perhaps, open a fresh and permanent spring of prosperity to the State.—Ral. Star.