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'",.7. ,• h ” tt.•.._,:.,:',::•:•-...,7:t"-.L..,`.-4,,.;•., ."-:'''''''''_:-'• ;.:,,_47,.."',.. 5 ;- ! .:_`-,•- •'.-.-- .. '';77* ! --‘13. --- -' i.v-.- `h _. F - ' .. _. -..... _c r'. , . _ _ • ,"•-' • , - , • #: ' ' • •,; ` - '-;=r+- 1 - , ) 4 4-`'` • • „ • ai `-- • ;:t• J- :::.r; t "`-;~.: ~/~ VOLUME XVII. Vie Pailu JAMES P. BARR, EDITOR AND •PROPRIETOR: TERM Five Dollars per year, strictly in ad vanes. Weekly, Single subscriptions Two Dol lars per year; in Clubs of five, One Dollar. ii.PITTSBII49II INSTITUTION. ;1: SOME' frk[psr. WHO TWAT IT AND THE PURPOSES TO WHICH IT IS: 'APPLIED. We present the readers of Tar POST to-day .witti r a capitally executed fee sintileengraving of the new Iron. Bank Block on Fifth, street. It is the work of Mr. B. Marshall, an art* who has but recently made our city-his home. This, exquisite specimen of his talents as an ert giaver will at once introduce hira to the favor able notice of or those who admire artistic taste, or Who may desire to employ the talents of a first-class artist. '\'c-style the engraving Vac sisal, , and it is literally So. It was not drawn, as is usually the es -e in making wood engravirigs, but was auminer. ped directly,,upon a prepared Week, and thnsl.ll .graver secured the most perfect correctness into. Aesign. The Iron Bank Block is a matter of just and honorable pride to our city. It is a develop ment of home resources, au' evidence of enlarg ed liberality on the part of home capital—a qaieitnen eftlieelfeet 6/lionise roanufactariand mechanical skill, to which every Pittsburglier points :with satisfaction and.pride. . It is an or nament to the city, aim at the same time a vis ible proof of the energy. enterprise. taste and liberality of the men of solid capital among us. Everything -about this beautiful and ,substan tial structure, from cornice - to feundation stone, bespeaks the most liberal expenditure of money, and a most praiseworthy determination to cre ate such a structure as should not only be most perrnanently useful but most exquisitely orna mental., The architectural design of the build ing; the mitterial'of its structure. the Men Who wrought out the designs of the architect, the elaborate style and finish of all the details, are the work of Pittsburgh hands, and the sugges tion of Pittsburgh taste. ' , The, feasibility of using iron , to architecture . has been admitted only within the last few year:. A structure like that ofwhich we write, so large, so compact and ornamental, mid so permanent in its solid unity and completeness, is even yet en unusual achlevernent in orna mental iron architecture. Here is an evidence of what men M . practical science have fOretold, , that iron will soon conic to be the material for the construction of all edifices which are de signed to be at ones lasting and ornamental. 'ln all large cities it is economy to construct tire proof buildings, and to secure this end iron will be the chief material used. The great staple of Pennsylvania will prove a cheaper ar ticle for building purposes in the long run than any material not fire proof. It is not affected by the vicissitudes of the weather, and is sus eeptible of the highest degree of ornamentation. It combines all the qualities of strength, dura bility, safety from accidents from elemental CP.IISe.S, and architectural beauty. There is no effect in romildings, or statuesque ornament:t itan, which may not be re-poduced in iron,and that very cheaply. We can have all the style - and fastefql effects of costly Marbles, .without the expense. The Coliseum, with all its coma picas :m:4 iltited columns, its 4tatues, its niches find its delicate arcbe+ might be re-produced in a Pittsburgh Foundry. The use of iron in architecture is yet in its infancy, but such buildings us this cannot fail to attract the attention and admiration of all persons of taste. It is our purpose, in what we have to sac concerning this magnificent Block, to bring before the public, which will award them the "relit they deserve, the liberal minded man `.!no have with no higgall - hand expended their Honey to ppdhce in the heart of our city an firer presUnt and permanent monument of t.t4litirgh taste, •:1 4 the artistic talents of Pittsburgh workers. They have given us an iron building worthy of the name of the Iron City, and one which every stranger who shall isit our city, at once notices as unequalled o; kin 4 itt ally city of the &Autry. It is 4140 ot4r iiitention 10 Inuke especial mention of the niunitfueturers who have'aided in producing, and the atizrans •wbuse hands have wrought upon Wiz 41endid structure. The scope of our design n'io in :lude brief notices of the business of thu.,..l l wlie have heen so 'fortunate'as to secure the ochuptiayof the spacious warerooms and apartments ; of this busineis centre of our city. We c6mreonce With a 'brief' architectural description of the building. The proprietors of this splendid structure, which is, in feat, four immense buildings with a single fl:orif, are i'/lessrs. C. G. Hussey S.-. Co., *Blain tia,galey; Bsq., the Allegheny Bank and the Bittsburgh and Boston Copper Mining c,;orr t pany. t viould ben)yorli of supereroga tion for ns, in this punruttnity, where the indi viduals whose capital and enterprise have pro duced this splendid architectural ornament, and most useful public improvement to our own city, are so well known, to speak of their per sonal character. No better evidence fOr what manner, of men. they nre eoutd, be 'etodueed than the building itself. Men, sometimes, ..o often, perhaps, board their wealth for the enetlt'Of'posterit} these gentlemen . have, irithil liberal hand; expended scime of the no-_ cumulations Of their aetive busineSs enterprlies and'pa tient toil; for . tbe benefit and enjoyment of the prisent •generation. They, themselves, dnci - 4/ . 6 4 City, which is proud of such t citizens, reap the present advantage of their liberality, I ,a4cl,,those who ; come after. them : will find the olid structure, which theif wealth has reared, Issting and ever t.,ciful monument of their . progressive spirit.. • There can be no "old fo gyism " inthe compositfon'of men who origin ate and so speedily consummate such an enter prise. the beauty and correctness of the view which our artist has presented, precludes the necessity of an elaborate, artistic architectural descrip t4on of the .front view of this magnificent Is, 'arid each nai4 , view it for hiinself. A few details, regf;rding the ex tent and manner of the , streetnre; may ? hosi ever, provo et Interest r ekpeel,4lY to ii°l!"r!si dents in our city. It is located in the heart of the city—at its very centre of business, upon the broadest and best street in our city for business purpeses.' little,more than .a year r i sr,:fTuptin the. site which it occupies; stood the SeCo - fidtgkeezyteri an Church. Natural business , change, incit-: dent to all large cities, liaving'rendered:Fifth street a thronged thoroughfare the location f hacit l t came "unsuitable e or the 'silent . so y of religious worship, and the congregatiitia sold their lot and removed. UP:an:tore quiet location: The joint purchasers of the lot ininsecEitely ...." ....fi , i . ( .....:: ..,,):: , . , ..., . . .A`/ . . I • . " , • • t` ' , .. . . . . , . . . .. . ... . , . 0 A . •t , .. . ... i . '7l - , , T ...'-. 1..' 7 • ..- :' .:. :, _ .: :.',, '• ...!....": :1:;;;••••:: .f-, . _ . . Matured. the design of the present noblestruc ture,. which Was demanded by the business necessities of the place. They resolved to have , . . . . • a spacious, central, solid, commodious and:, or namental business house. Another lot adjoin ing that occupied by the church, was in the market,and was purchased by Mr.WM.Bagaley, than whom Pittsburgh possesses no more enter prising merchant, and `thus four of the largest lots in our eity. were included in the design. This splendid structure is, in dimensions, one hundred and four feet front on Fifth street, by one hundred and twenty feet in depth. A wide alley runs along the eastern side, as may be seen by reference to our engraving. It is seventy-two feet in height, from pavement to cornice. As we have already stated, it is in fact four distinct buildings, with four di iTerent own erships, harmonised by art and architectural skill so as to present from the front view the appearance of a single building. THE 'ARCHITECTURE. To Mr. Charles Bartberger belongs the credit of the architectural. taste displayed in this fine building. Desirous of displaying by all the means in their power, the mechanical capabili ties 01 Pittsburgh and her artizans, the projec tors of amstracture determined that its front should be entirely of iron. All of them were gentlemen of intelligence, and all possessed of no ordinary degree of taste. Having employed Mr. Bartberger to carry out their design, each had his suggestions to make regarding the gen eral style and ornamentation of the building. It was fur the architect to combine and perfect all these ideas and suggestions, and ut the same time to embody with them the great practical knowledge of architectural efliscts, and to apply the superior skill and taste which his thorough knowledge of ancient and modern art has given him, in such a manner as to produce a complete, elegant and satisfactory font ensemble. This was no ordinary task, and most exquisitely and perfectly . has Mr. Bartberger performed it. All the old styles of architecture. were in tended to be used for buildings in which stone was the material of construction. He had the new material of iron to contend with, and it was necessary for him to use a large degree of orig inal inventive power in adapting the style of the building and its ornainmtation to the new material to be used in its construction. The general style which he has adopted, is that of the Venetian Reaaissonce, used at the beginning of the sixteenth century. To this he has added such details from the Gothic and Moorish styles of architecture as his own good taste suggested, and as were rendered necessary and desirable by the nature of the material employed. The character of the or namentation is to a great extent original with him. It is due to him to state, in order to meet the objections of severe architectural critics, that it he had had it in his power, ho would have given a break in the front, which would have made a better appearance in a building of such length. had th,.svhole ground occupied been under a single proprietorship, this might havebeen done but the space in theheartof our city was too valuable to sacrifice any portionof it to the arbitrary demands of a severe critical taste. Happily. the architect has completely remedied what might otherwise have been deemed a defect, by additional ornamentatlon upon the tipper stories of the y eentral portion of the building. The centre of the block is orna mented with a beautifully designed fi:ontis piece, and embellished with cast iron statAll 4 r3' , in excellent taste, repMsenting Commerce, Navigation, Mechanism and Trade. • • ' • e 1 4:- • , • . THE BUILDING The entire building is :I,mimetrical, well pro portioned, and harmonious in all its details. It is the first structure of the kind done in our city on so large and extensive a scale, and in the country there are but one or . two which eval it in size, and not one to, be compared with it in i oposing grandeur and richness, and originality of taste and design. The most:com petent judgment and 864nowle4ged qpericupo and taste have pronounced it a uptsler piece of architectural and niechanic.al art—faultless in conception and design, ,an 4 perfect in CNI , - cution. II il= Pittsbt.rgh claims to be the greatest 'iron manufacturing city of the country, and she is proud of this eol,le specimen of her workman ship. The entire front of this magnificent building or rather block of buildings is of cast iron. It was made here by our OVllmartufac, turers and mechanics. The progress oftlic iron manufacture in the country has no more potent illustration than such structures as this_._ present. Within the memory of the prese;at generation ploughs were made of wood, pointed with a bit of iron; we enjoyed. the blessing'of "corduroy roads" and " mud pikes,". a cooking stove was an heir loom in a - family ; the canal boat was the-. fast line" to Philadelphia, and the weary blackimith'ironght,with his hammer, nails, twenty-five coUts peg p.o,Un4. how wo have iron implements of everylc ind, in cheapness and abundance ; iron roadq,' with iron loinesywhirl us from point to point with lightning speed iron ships convey' our merchandize ; and mag nificent iron palaces are the places where our busihess is transacted. The Spartans used iron for money. We use it for everything. Science and art and skill and labor, applied to lt.„ . ,have made it the great material minister to human wants and human balminess. • But wo are digressing. The the practical talent, end the immense pre-: dUctive'enpacity of twtiototir old6t. and largest foundry establishments were eihmloye4 in tlid. production of . tfti. immense..irort , ittructure. lifty,•tay twenty years ago it:wonld'have been itimossible for all the foundries in our city , to have turnedeut amountof. 2r01..1gs useditt thhi ton -Ilessrs. Pennock & Hart arid 3tessrs. Anderson kik Phillips, hive done-this 'gigantic Incolltitliefli work in less than eight Months. t ndeeci,this im posing structure has risen entire from its loan-, datiOnitone in leis ttiarra year:' The promptness with which this block of buildings has been constructed, as well as its solkd and • s orrytte z charaptor, 4.r9 a Speaking evidence of the energy, enterprise and produc tive•capacity the contractors of the ironwork,' entering into itscomposition. line year ago, on the approaching 44 of.Tuly, (tl'iY4t3i laid. The purchase of the ground had been constun ,ted but two weeks - be .fo , mare: " The contracts, the plans, the designiltad all to be'figpiAed co-incidently with progreis of the - work, as they were needed. But'eapitidliberalli_expend ed, and mechanical skill nowhere lo .sur fassed; were brought to beard and from story to st c `g 919 8 Y? ° , 4a 1 _ .s r° ll rose. The foundries of Messrs. Pennoel it Hart and Anderson & • Fbillips; lire at a distance from each other, yet their skillful vioriereti l .having noToppiri.unity = Of cOmpiariliiptt,',4eF.,,qauo,o4-14rpish- ed by,theAeajgna of tlkq supayintendiag archi tact, have praduced united, perfecl. and;bar i c iathie nts zi v fi c ad . •,-, 'Ae , ctiotlernid , whb are the proptietors Fifth . Street, between Wood and Market, Pittsburgh, COMMENCED JULY :id, 11358, AND COMPLETED WITEILN THE YEAR. PI-101=y1.imu. , optis: Win. Dagoley, The Allegheny Batik, The Pittsburgh & Boston Milling CO., C. G. Hussey & Co. OCCLPANTS—Wm. E. Schmertz S. Co., Shoe Dealers ; Allegheny B C. G.llinssey Si. Co.. Copper Manufacturers. and Dealers in Tin, Zin Boston Mining Co.; Office Allegheny Insurance Co.; Office Evans It. lice of the Allegheny Cemetery . ; Duff's Merchants' College ; Chia' Mugger, Drawing and Painting Academy; A. Frowenfeld & Bro., I these foundries are the progressive style I rm•e. Foreseeing that iron must and will coin(' into general use as a material for architecture. tie v have spared no labor nor cost in ~I mwing to the world its eminent 'utility, its perinanemn its high suseephilityt. o;namc:rianditscheapness as a material for the construction of buildin -. The moral' effect of their labor is already felt. fora largo number of buildings with iron fronts are 41relAy going up in our city, and mere will follow. ''he construction of iron kidding,: will be a leading and permanent feature of the iron trade of l'ittalalrgh, and Messrs. Pommel; Hart and Anderson s Phillip; have turned out a specimen which, while the cite lasts, will redound to their credit. These gentlemen are the proprietors of two of the leading and in. •-t extensive foundries of our city, and their capa city of production is unlimited by any ordinary commercial demands. Anything to, be made of cast iron, from a skillet to a four-story ware house, they are prepared to all orders for. promptly and in tiliy mnouM, The displayed in the iron work i re markable. it is as smooth es if of marble, nail highly finished. To Mr. James Donnell, the foreman of Venuopk. 4 Dart's foundry, hod lar. , 4lfred VISViS, foreman of that of Messrs. Anderson 64 Phillips, the greatest credit is due for their aid in the production of thi , , most ad mirable specimen clime and skill in tho work manship of iron. . Aside from its beautiful front, this block of buildings is a model of architectural construc tion in all its departments, Of one of the buildings, that owned nod occupied by the Al legheny Bank, William M. Edgar, Esq . ., was the contractor and supervising constructor. Mr. Edgar combines all the scientille and.prac ticaf qualificsu r imis of a lrst-class` tfe is in arAiteet ns trell 4•3 4 Carpenter, and has been the builder of a large number of the largest, itandsoute-st and most substantial sum , - thies in arufabo;M (49i• Oily, 'hilt. no,ne of them 40, gpater. credit to 114 skill and genius than the Allegheny Banli. The buildings of Messrs. - Hussey & Co., tho Pittsburgh and Boston Copper. Mining Com . - pany, and William Bagaley, Esq., were con structed by Mr. Abraham Patterson, the survi ving Partner of the well-kt.own firm of I. & A . T'atterson, who probably have constructed more buildings-than any other cOncern in our city, • ‘ ; , The entire, workmanship of these buildings, done' under, the superintendence and direction of the best mastergneclitanies cki,:r city, and 9ompotent Workmen, is of the very hestapd reost subitantial character. The choicest material has been used, abd fiU labor or expenp has been f;pared to render I.l{e# structttre elegant, substantial and complete. Notwithstanding the surprising quickness with which the work has been done, it well done. Thera IS Alit ill the city, a building which surpasses it., Diary detitil has been care fully carried out, and the solid and substantial most happily combined with the ornamen tal. . Mr. Edgar and_Mr..f'atterson may point to the Bank Block with pride, for in its construe' tion they have add e d to - their previously high reputatien, narineclumica who:cannot be thceel, t - 4001i+thisLor any other city. MEE PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1859. ' . 15 1 '). - . ''-i'....., - 2,.110.K - S.,AN)K ..AfJ,.:I7ILiDiNG CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, W3l. M. EDGAR, ABRAHAM PATTERSON MANIFACIFRERS OF IRON WORK, PENNOCK & HART, ANDERSON & PHILLIP, VIE BUILDERS. ME= • •,.. ,-:- ,- , _ ARCHITECT, CHARLES HARTBERC ER & s'l4. toPPER ANt' lilt NIANI I'ArIVREIZS AND DEALERS IN TIN, LEAD. ZI ANTIMI.NY,SIII.IET 110 IN.TINNF.ICII , IIII24, El' Dr. Hussey was one of the iiioneers in the de s elopement of the great mineral resources of the Lake it 4 uper:or country. Soon after the etistence of great mineral wealth in the then almost unexplored regions around our North ern lake., wit, fully established, the attention of a number of genthimen, in this city and elsewhere. was turned to the subject, and they devoted their attention :Old 11 portion of their means to the dcselopnient of the hidden wealth Or this district. The into lamented Charles Avery, Hon. Thomas M. Howe and Dr. Curtis G. Hussey, were the leading spirit-, in this splendid enterprise. if lie is a benefactor tohis,race with Makes two grains of :wheat to grow where . but ono grow before, how much more largely is mankind indebted to those who cause the bowels 0f the earth to dis gorge that hidden mineral wealth which Pros - idertee has deposited there for the use of man ; and with a singular'and most wise adaptation to human wants, provides for its discovery and useful employment at the very periods of time and in the parts of the world where it is most needed and can render to mankind the grente:it amount of good ; Thu progress of the mechanic arts, in all civ • ilized countries, had created a demand for cop pet', greater than the copper producing locali ties of the old world.eould supply, when the new world stepped in wit.h rich deposits, and men of enterprise and capitablike Dr. Hussey, at once foresaw that - the development of this mineralwealtli world notonly bring a rich re muneration to theselves, but would add largely to the real wealth of the cgatitry• The opening 6.1 the lake Superior Xining I..;egion hns given employment to thousands of persons. It has peopled a region before wild and deserted.- It has furnished the material for thonsands of artiz,ana in different parts of the world to ho employed upon, and It has kept up a supply of a material without which many of the mechanic arts would have lan guished. The State has no more useful mon than those who devote their energies and their wealth to enterprises like this, which furnishes 1 , employment, directly and indirectly, to so many 3 hands, and which result in an actual, perrhanent,' produced addition to the national wealth. , As:we have said, Dr. Hussey was one of the .. pioneem.in the copper hnliness 1p Wis 4\lllll - Aim of which /leis now the head, and which occupies for its bitsiness a portien of this, block, i 4, :perhaps, one of . most eten- Sil7lo copper manttfactgring . Arm in the world. ts, -we believe,-now granted; that Ameris pan .copper is the standard copper of the cm:11 E4min' tiorldittisurpassed in purity and ex cellence. Although not esteemed one of the precious metals, it certainly comes very near them iu valua,, and comes next to iron in me chanicainsefulness; , The Unrivalled advantages which our lcication offers for maitufaCturing purposes, in its Inez hamitible supply of cheap fuel, was a fact well known.to-Dr. Hussey.and his compuers, in the business:of copper veining. It was' manifestly a coMfnerciaiimpo'ssibilitY,tO talMour coal to the mined in aulleifint4uantitieS forte predlta ble'rediletion, of their , rich 'virgin errs; but *theteCresCotildte'brouglit hereand profitably p'i't; • 2 ' • {•••:: 1.4 , Mite John Anderson It Coo inh; Kramer 6. Ralun, hankers; Antimony, &c.; Pittsburgh and lurlington, Insurance Agent ; Hartberger. Architect ; I. N. 'lothiers. worked into the copper of com merce. Thus Pittsburgh at once reaped the benefit of an ad dition to her branches of manufacture. The manutheturing of the copper. of the Great Lake Districts was initiated here by Messrs. Hussey & Co. Others have since gone into the business, which is now a regular branch of our manu facturing trade, but none of them as extensive ly as Messrs. Hussey & Co. Their Copper Rolling Mill is. located a short distance from the city on the bank of the Monongahela river, and is a very complete establishment. The raw material used is purchased from the "Cliff," ' National," and other mines on Lake Superior, shipped by the lake to Clevland, and thence by rail and canal and river to this city, where it is rolled into sheets and prepared for general use as an article of commerce. Nearly a year ago the Orizette gave a correct and well written description of Messrs. C. G. Hussey t 'i;; Copper Rolling Mill, which we bore re-produce: On Tuesday forenoon, wo made a little excursion to the it dling Mill of C. G. Hussey & Co., ol the Monongahela river, in Pitt township, about two miles from the central bu siness part of this iron city. "To a person who has never before inspected a copper rolling mill, this will be an object of great curiosity. And here we may add that every facility for the manufacture of copper as well as iron, is enjoyed in Pittsburgh to it far greater extent than elsewhere in the Union. As this is the natural depot 'for glass and iron manufactories, so it is for copper. %%e have such an abundance of the best fuel, an abundance that cap r ‘ eyer. haye at tracted thither tuch numbers of skillful me chanics from all pints of the world—we aro so situated with respect to all the Great Western and Southern markets—that thereshould be no successful rival of Pittsburgh in point of quali ty or quantity of manufactures in the line for which sho has long been noted. It is far cheap er to bring the crude copper from Cleveland to Pittsburgh than to take our coal from hero thither. If we enjoyed no other advantage, this alone would entitle us to supremacy over the only city which has even put in a claim to great advantages in copper smelting and manu facturing. "Messis. Hussey & Co. were the pioneers in copper manufacturing in this city awl vicinity. Their mill vics in 18:10 and commenced eperi4i4s in auly of that year, just eight years Ago. It' was in fact an experiment which has been a perfect success, and has made and in.. creased the demand for its manufactures to a very great extent. In the mill of Messrs. Hussey S.; Co., there are the largest rolls for cap per in the United States . . , In them, sheets eight feet eight inches in width can be made, and of any required length, shape - and thickness.. In fact, there are, as we are informed, but one or two mills in the World—and they are in Eng= land--where work of the above dimensions can be done. There are three large furnaces here, constantly in heat, a large number of rolls in motion, and a large number of men constantly at work. The demand for skillful labor haS brought together here a.large number of men from E,r..c.:land and from Wales. The whole number at present employed is sixty. When times are lively there is work Dar,more. , " We have thus far alluded to the makineof sheet copper only ; but ilte'capacity and real 1 :: 4 , •*. ' • chinery of the mill is by no means confined to that. All sorts and kinds of copper dishes, tea-kettle bottords, bottoms for stove boilers, locomotive tubes, copper bolts and bars, round, square or octagonal, &c., &c., are made herein any quantity and of the best material 'in the world. "More Over, the' manufacture of brass occu pies a good portion of the spacious buildingi. They have recently made improved arrange ments In this "branch, and now manufacture sheet and other brass of superior quality. We saw the making of brass kettles, and some of the same after they were finished, and never have seen elsewhere articles of the kind com bining in a greater degree, symmetry of shape and beauty of finish. "The copper used in this great mill is the product of the world-renowned Cliff Mine, which is owned and worked by the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Co., whose smelting works.'. are near the rolling mill of which we have above written. The copper drawn from the exhaustless shafts of the great "Cliff" and other Lake Superior mines is known to combine in a greater degree than that of any other mines in the world, the requsite qualities of softness and tenacity. Most of it comes from the ground in a pure state, having been smelted in a fur nace more perfect in all its parts than any ever built by the hands of men." For their commercial sales room, Messrs. Hussey & Co. occupy the large ware room of the Bank Block nearest Wood street, No. 37 Fifth street. It is thirty feet wide by one hun dred and twenty long, and side doors on the alley give excellent facilities fur loading and unloading their commodities, without interfer ing with the thronged thoroughfare of Fifth street. This immense ware-room is crowded with piles of copper, in sheets and pigs, im mense copper bottoms, Luch 'as are used in the manufacture of the largest chaldrons, and all sorts of articles tranufactured of copper and brass. Pressed copper bottoms, locomotive tubing, braziers, and other copper in endless variety, copper bolts and sheeting, copper rivets, and sheets of copper cut to any size and of any required thickness, are among the vast stock of articles of their own manufacture. They are also most extensive wholesale dealers in block tin, tin plate, lead, wire, sheet zinc. antimony, :beet iron and tinners' tools. It is needless to Say that the capital invested in this immense business is enormous. But it 1 Ta is a noble investment, and made in the spirit of the most liberal enterprise, for in no other way could it furnish employment, and food, and happiness, to so large a number of persons. The investment pays them well for their long years of labor in bringing their business to its present high degree of perfection, and it pays them doubly In the thanks of a benefltted community. They who successfully develope natural wealth, are of greater value to the State than the inheritors of the most colossal for- THE PITTsEI'I2GII AND BO ;TON MINING COM As early as IS4n, Prof. Forrest Shepherd, of New Haven, who had been employed by the Pitt-burgh. and Boston Mining Company, to make a full and thorough geological examina tion of their exten,ive lands upon the southern shore of Lake Superior, for the purpose of as certaining their mineral resources, reported as the result of his observations "that the Lake Superior Copper region does not suffer in com parison with the best mines yet discovered on the globe. - He then gave it as his opinion that it was altogether equal, if not superior, to either Cuba, Cornwall or the Ural. Ho very justly concluded, from the facts. which crane under his observation, that these males would "serve as the foundation of permanent wealth for our selves and our children, and all we have to do is to see that the mines are to be worked with skill and economy." If they fail, says he, it will be only for the want of capital, or from capital misapplied. Basing his remarks upon sound doctrines of political economy like these, he proceeded to present in detail the character and cast e%tent of the discoveries of copper and silver with which the region abounded, and to compare results with the records of mining in other lo calities. The same year a chemical examination and assay of their metallurgic value was made of the ores by Prof. Silliman, which proved That they were of the richest description. The practical operations going on at the mines at this time, furnished such results as surpassed the most extravagant expectations. Solid masses of copper of two and three tons weight, and some even much larger, were turned out,' and the ores generally had a very large per centage of copper, and all more or less silver. The Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Mining Company, was formed by Articles of Association, dated May 13th, 1844, between Curtis G. Hussey, Charles Avery, and Thomas 31. Howe, of the City of Pittsburgh, William Pettit of Copper Harbor, Thomas Jones and Charles Scudder of the City of Boston, and George Bates of the City of Detroit. The six first named gentlemen were consti tuted Trustees of the legal estate, which consist ed of three tracts, one .at Copper Harbor,' another at the mouth of Eagle River, and a third at a point six miles west of 'the last loca tion. AU the property of tho company was merged into six thousand shares of stocir, of which Meisrs. 'Hussey, Avery and Pettit had a thousand each, Mr. Howe seven hundred and fifty in his own right, and two hundred and fifty for the use of John Hays, at one time manager for the parties. The remainingtwo thousand shares belonged to the representatives of the Isle Royal Mining Company. ' Thus it will seen that two thirds of the stock of this most successful of copper companies be longed to Pittsburghers. Pittsburgh' men in itiated the movement, Pittsburgh capital and enterprise huil,t up and developed this vast Nv,eulth—producing interest to its present gi gantic proportions. The expenses of the company , up to Jan: Ist. 1846, wore $99,591, of whielh $67,291, were for the Cliff mine.' At the same date, the =sets of the Company, not including real estate, stamp mills, steam engines and machinery, were $132,560, leaving a balance in favor of the Cliff mine, almost at the begining of the work 6f, $65,269. • , • Among these assets are mentioned 109 tons of pure copler, worth,at least, $330 per tor', or $135,000. At this time there were employed at the Cliff mine one hundred and nine men, including agents, miners, - carpenters, black smiths, .ire. These figures show a most wonderful success, when the gnat disadvantages attending a new enterprise, -commenced'`in a wild country, without experience in the business, on the part of those • raost interested, 'are' considered. It was only in. 1843; that; by the treaty with the Chippewa Indians, these rich' ininerat lands were' cedeilte•the' United - States ; - lit the 'same year, locations !nada , by &Mr. Baynttord, MESE #NUMBER 214 under certain governmental restriction.s,"were purchased by the Pittsburgh gentlemen whom we have named. During the year 1846 the copper mining was Continued with good success. In thatyear a deposit of silver was opened, which was rep resented to be.very vtduable, some of, the ore yielding as high as twenty-seven per cent. A fragment of the rock, in which sliver:was not perceptible to tho naked eye, yielded seven per cent. The news of this wondrous yield of sil ver had the bad effect of throwing the price of shares in the company sudden ly up, but that deposit soon- gave out. • The mine was, however, rich enough :or copper alone, and has increased in richness as the mine was opened.. With the copper, silver is mingled, but the production of the. eaeaper metal has proved the more profitable. • By an act of the Leaistature of Michigan, approved March 18th, 1848,: "The- Pitts burgh and Boston Mining Company, of Pitts burgh,"was incorporated, with a capital stock of $150,000, divided into six thousand shares, of twenty-flve dellarseach. By the by-laws of the company, its principal office was to be loca ted in Pittsburgh, at or. near which city the President, andt he requisite number of Direct ors to constitute a quorum, were at all times to reside. Tt scarely comes withiirthe scope of a news paper article for us to follow the history of this company down to the present time. In. 1849 the first divide i rid, of ten dollars per share Was declared to the stockholders. In 1850, another of fourteen dollars. In 1851, two dividends, five dollars each. 1n1852, the same. In 1853, fifteen dollars per share. In 1854, eighteen dollars per share. Until in 1853 and 1857 the enornious and most satisfactory dividends of thirty dol lars pei• share vrere.declared. This, for a stock 'par at twenty-live dollars, and only twelve years old, is wonderful. • In 1857 the company aceepted the provis ions of an act of the State of Michigan, and in accordance therewith, the capital stock of the company, although not increased in amount, was, in 1859, divided into twenty thousand, instend of six thousand shares, and upon this, in June '5B. a dividend of five dollars per share, amounting to one hundred thousand , dollars, was declared. Some idea of the value produced at the Cliff Mine, may he formed from the following tab ular comparison of the results of the several ears included therein : • Mineral I Ref:lced Yield' Price Value Re- Year. I produced. I Copper. l'f ct. I I " lb alized. 1 1853 2,263,182 lbs. 1,071,2= lbs. 47.33 27...= 0202,647 05 1854 2 332,614 " 1,315,308 " 56.35 24.38 320,7= 01 ' 1855 2,995.837 " • 1.874497 " 0/56 25.33 175,911 24 1856 3,294= " 2,=1.934 " 67.48 24.12 535,843 67 1857 3,363,557 " 2,363,850 "t 7e.28 21,14 497,870 47 Product from accu mulated slags. 71,=0 " ai- ° slags. This brief and imperfect sketch of tho rise and successful progress of this great mining company will give some idea of the value to the world of the proper use of capital-in the hands of liberal, energetic and philanthropic men. No words of laudation, which we can write, would add a lustre to the memory of Charles Avery; who was the President of the company at the time of his death, and we arc content that the present able managers of the company should be judged by their actions, their character and their enterprise, of which their aid in producing the elegant and useful building in which the office of the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company is now locaied, is by no means tho least. The general business office of the company is in the second story of this magnificent building. The names of its executive officers and directors are as follows : EXECUTrVE OFFICERS. President.—Curtis G. Hussey. Seeretary and Trea.satrer.—Thos. M. Howe. Curtis G. Hussey, James M. Cooper, Har vey Childs, Thos. M. Howe, Pittsburgh) Jo seph W. Clark, Boston ; Edward Jennings, Michigan. DUFF'S Mlilte.‘NTlLE C ILLEGE. This is now, beyond. all question, them, - st splendid establishment of the kind is the United States. It occupies the whole third story of the eastern section of the buildings, having an area of al , ..ut four hundred square yards, and is finished and furnished with a de gree of elegance and comfort unequalled by any educational establishment in the country. These incidents in the history of this institu tion are characteristic of the enterpriking pro prietor, who has long been known as the founder of one of the first commercial colleges in the west. He founded :this institution in 1840, when schools of this kind were unknown, and when there were, perhaps, not fifty houses in the city keeping their books on sCientifie prin ciples. And since then, probably no man liv ing has rendered more valuable services to the great commercial interests of the country, by extending and elevating the merchants' educa tion, and probably no one has prepared an equal number of persons for the merchant's professton. The fruits of his labor are to be found, not only in this city, butin all the prin cipal cities of the Union, among our most suc cessful merchants' and most expert and talented accountants. - Connecticut, Maryland, Georgia, Missouri; and lotra, besides all the surround ing States, are at this moment represented in his classes. Such an institution is an honor to the city, and the act of incorporation , granted' to it about ten years ago, by our State Legisla ' tare, was in 'this instance well des4Ted and very properly bestowed. - About twelve years ago' the proprietor pub- lished his plan of commercial education in a new system of accounts, known as "Duff's Book-keeping;" in which the public found, for the first time, the science extended goer the whole field of the merchant's affairs.: This work was soon after adopted by the Board of Edu cation of the State of New York, for the public schools of that city. Other eminent commer cial authorities in tluit city, including -the Chamber of Commerce and the American In stitute, gave it. their official sanction, as one of the ablest and most valuable cOntribtitions to oar commercial literature; and it may be in ferred that one capable of ?Producing such a work,' must be eminently - qualified to teach the subject of it. - Since the appearance of this work, commer cial colleges have sprung up in nearly all the principal cities of the - Union, fonnded f it isgen orally believed, upon information dravrn from this treatise. But the institution from which it originated is still justly'regarded, even in the most distant points in the Union, as the head quarters for obtaining a thorough commercial education. For, so far as we are aware, the principal is the only practical•naerchantin this country-engaged in conducting an establish ment of the kind. This is, indeed, the first in stance that we are aware of of a practically bred merchant giving the public the benefitof his professional experience. And to this circum stance alone is to-be ascribed the general suc cess of his students in business. His valuable IBM MERE!