Home manufacture of percussion caps.
--Nothing more was needed to develop the industrial resources and energies of the South than the suspension of trade with the North, which the Yankees, unluckily for themselves, have just occasioned. As soon as the fact became known that a more abundant supply of percussion caps would be desirable for the Southern troops, we find manufactories starting up in each of the Confederate States. We were gratified yesterday on being presented with one of the first percussion caps made in South Carolina. We are informed that the new caps are found to be in every respect equal to those made by the United States Government, and Messrs. Cameron & Co. are now engaged making the machinery by which they can be produced in large quantities.--Charleston Mercury.
