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H. C. HICKOK, Editor,
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LEWISBUltG, UNION CO., PA., AUG.. 21, 1850.
Yolnme VII, Wnmfeer 21.
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FROM CALIFORNIA.
We have been permitted to lay the fol
lowing extracts of a letter to a lady in this
place, from her brother in California be
fore our reader. The initials will be
readily recognized, and we think the ex
tracts will be found to possess considerable
interest. Ed. L'hro. .
Sacramento City, Jane 16, 150.
Dear Sister: You will observe, by
the heading of my biter, that I am still in
thi place, where the renowned Fort of
Capt. Sutter, which U-llowtd forth its
lltunders in by gone days, is situated.
The great r.id saw mill, belonging to the
person when the gold was first dis
uwrtd, is
if.ia:al ab..u. 4-i mile irom
this place, and the name and place will be
remembered as long as goia is ieuna in
California.
This place is increasing with the most
ristonishing rapidity. A lilile more than
a year ago there were- not three frame
houses in this place. Nw the principal
business street is something more than one
mile in length. Mmy of the stores would
do credit to our Citiesat home, and range
in size of from sixty to onehuodred (eet
13 depth. Vessels of large tonnage can
come up to this place direct Irom the states.
The river has quite the appearance of a
ea-port. We have steam boats in any
quantity, and some of them of very large
size, and elegant accommodations. From
nts piace me n.er is navgauie ,or a
smaller class of boats for something like I
200 miles. We have no less than two !
Theatres and a Circus, and a very large !
and splendid concert room. '' n,s room ' j
130 feet deep, by 40 in breadth, so that j
you observe we do things upon a larj;e
-L- -i . - il. r
scale here. I
San Francisco has been almost literally
burnt up since last January. No less
than three most destructive fires have taken
place since then. This will always be the
case as long as they continue to build frame
houses, in consequence of high winds that j
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prevail there during the wnote year. i- j
tween the tires, and reckless speculations
that many persons were engaged in, ihe
town is pretty well used up. Many per-
sons who counted their hundreds of thou-
sands, are now not worth a dime. This
pince is uuni up.iu .o.., ......
hence, the business is in a more healthful j
i a ituui. nni
condition. are ",sl u us by tlieir emigration toother
There have been some new discoveries j pa"s as well as the large amount of ca pi
made near the head waters of Feather riv- j'al which might be invested thus and is
er, but whether they are as rich as they j not now a time which demands that the can
are represented I can not tell Hayes and did statement of a disinterested but experi-
I intend trv'imr nnr luck at the mines I
again. e think we can do better thcie
than here. It requires a large capital to
do business here, and the competition is
so great that the profits here are nearly as
small as they are at home, for all leading
articles. Profits therefore depend much
upon the amount of sales, and that takes a
large capital. When one is ordinarily
successful, mining is one of the pleasant
est employments a person can ensaga in.
There will he a vast deal of gold taken out
this summer. Persons are becoming more
skilled in searching and finding it. One
can find gold anywhere in the gold region,
even up lo the tops of the highest mountains,
hut it witl nit in all cases pay for working
it. In some localities you can not wash a
basin of dirt, taken at random, without
finding some grains of gold. John and I
have purchased a share in El Dorado City
at a thousand dollars. It is a new towu,
laid out on Feather river in the mining
region, and is accessible for steam I oats
nine months in a year. We though: we
might ns well try our luck in a little spec-
ulation as' not, J'verv person seems dis-
pcsel to engage m that kind of business,
and as all the world is coming to Califor
nia, Tarn in hopes thai we mav realize
something out of our speculation. We
hive a great many arrivals here every
day. It is supposed that the resident
population is from right to ten thousand,
and the transient population from three to
four thousand. It is not an unusual thing
to have arrivals of a thousand persons iu a
day.
Living is much better here than you
woulJ imagine. I took diuner yesterday
at a new Hotel dow n town, and we sat
r -
down lu as li .lulsome a dinner as you
ever saw in Philadelphia. The eiling ar
rangements ar different I owever. The
d:uing room is quite a large one. and it
is filled w ith smnll tables sufficient lo ac
commodate four persons ; and you eil!
for ar. tbiiisi you want, and are not el -
bowed and josiled as one is at those large
tables at home. After dinner is over the
j coffee is served up,
Every thing is done
in the most splendid style. j bore of others, who ply the implements ol j That bus'ness which affords the best pay
It seems that some of the public journals industry. The capitalists and the trader j for labor, is, as a general rule, most profit
at home, would like to make it appear that ' might jhus prosecute their respective j able to the employer, and he should con-
California is likely to kick up a small
nullification breeze. It was so stated in
the lust New York Herald. It was some
thing new to hear of this, in this region.
No person here had even heard of any
such thing ; and I do not think a dozen
men in California could he found who
would advocate any such thing ; and il
they did openly do it, their hides might be
very speedily covered with a coat of tar
and feathers. As for any thing like dis
affection to the Union and the establish
ment of an independent government. I
have not heard the first word. As to the
south being able to introduce slavery hnrr
is too utterly absurd to spend time in talk-
ing about. There have been instances of
slaveholders biinging slaves here to work
in the mines. Hut the consequence has
been, that when those chaps brought their
slaves into the diggings, they received no
tire to quit, and that notice, had always
to be obeyed to the letter. Men in the
m:u.vemior.nvM.hMtm:MAVi
T - , . ag hink f jn,r,,juc
; ing slavery into Pennsylvania, as intro
duce it into this Smte ; and the one is quite
' as likely as the other.
The d ffii-u'lies that California has had
' thrown around the question of her admiss-
j i-'ii into the Union, as alledged at home.
are all mere inventions. This is the opin
ion of well inform d men here, and I have
frequently heard it spoken of since the ar
rival ol the last steamer. ,
Mow the immense immigration across
the plains will ever reach this country, is
impossible to tell. Many of them last
year would never have reached this coun
try, had not Gen. Smith sent out large re
bel parties, with provisions and mules.
An(J wjlh n ,he jHies or last year,
, ,here Sfe n)0re CQ - thnn
,hen. J. M. D.
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J X 1 Vj JN jHjJJJ'0
Tu the Edilvr of the Lewisturg Chronicle i
' baud you for publication in your col-
umns, an address, made by General James,
of Providence, R. I-, to a convention oflhe
peo;ile of Hlnir county, (at their request,)
who were moving for the erection of a
Cotton factory at Uollidaysuurg. II is
equally appli.-ab'e lo the citizens of Lewis-
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j Taking into intelligent consideration the
'present condition find pros;.ect of business
j region looking at the number ol
; active, willing, working men and women,
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faWy employed, and those whose energies'
vuuii" ill mi it. w :iii nii.'iii luimrfpnn
encca man i.nouid nave 1011 weint.'!
uouutiess il the interests, individually and
of the community, are to be advanced,aew
channels of action ir.ust be made our
own money must be invested, before men
of much capital will join their fortunes
w ith ours and if we w ill move as we can
and should, the wealth and happiness of
the lower end of the West Branch country
would be largely enhanced, by the erection
of one or more Cotton Mills in our boro'.
A Subscriber.
ADDRESS.
Finding it out of my power, in conse
quence of prior and indispensable engage
ments, to be present at the meeting appoin
ted to beheld at Hollidaysburg, on tlie25lh
inst.,on the subject of Cotton Manufactures,
permit me to address you through tho me
dium of an epistolary correspondence.
On the subject of Cotton Manufactures,
there is, at the present day, but one opin
ion among those who are acquainted with
business, and that is, that when prosecuted
under the direction of the proper skill, with
I good machinery, and a good share of pru-
ldenceaiideconomv.it is more productive
than almost any other industrial pursuit in
thiscountrv. "A glance at the present con-'
anion oi ii:w r.uiunu, compared wiin
what it was forty or fifty yenrs since, is
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sufficient proof of the truth of this state
ment, if we had no o:her at hand. But
the individual fortunes that have been built
up by it. and the earnestness with which
experienced manufacturers make new in- j
vestments, and thus continue constantly to
exiend their operation, afford evidence of j
the fact nof to be resisted.
True economy in the employment of la
bor and capital, is the great point to be
considered in all plans and projects lo cn
rich a community, or an individual. To
be most productive, they mut be applied
lo the most profitable use. A capitalist
may loan his money to the trader, and the
trader, after having paid the interest, may
! have a hanJsome profit left for himself,
Hut these two men only accumulate wealth,
They create nothing. The entire basis
of their fortunes, is the produce of the la
scneines to me enu oi time; and, tnougn
they might accumulate much weailh that j communities, altogether agricultural, or al
others had created, they would not of j together something el-e, which seem to
themselves, create as much as tlo value of j think that, lo change would amount to
a bushel of wheat. j sacrilege ; and who keep on in the old bea-
The merchant and the capitalist are use j (en track, as a boy would continue to turn
ful, in their places ; for, though they ere-j a grindstone alter the tool was ground, till
ate no wealth, I hey serve, one as the rhan- their business is entirely overdone, and
nel of exchange, and the other as the foun- prolit-ceased to be rculizcd.
tain of the medium of exchange ; and thus, Hut I have no doubt you have plenty of
the industrial classes, who create the wealth spare capital for new enterprises. Nor
by the labors of their hands, are enabled . have I any more doubt, that you have ma
lo make sales and purchases with all desi- j ny capablcof laboring, and willing to la-
rable facility, with less trouble, at a small-
er expense ol time, and to greater advant
age, than they otherwise coulJ.
The firmer creates wealth. F.very
movement of his, is a part of the process
of making not accumulating .something
which did not exist befoie. Mis luxuriant
fields, clothed in the rich, golden garb of.
the harvest months, exhibits the fruits of,
his toil. -Theirs are rich stores of wealth
wealth necessary to human comlorl,
and to human existence wealth that all
the money in the world could not produce
wealth which could not be created by
all the learned professions that ever existed
and produced only by the sweat ol the
brow, and the toils of the body cf labo
sious industry.
The mechanic is also a creator of wealth.
Money is his inducement, and his reward;
but it is his labor, under the direction of
mechanical skill, which alone imparts new
value lo the materials which pass through
his hands. As a striking instance of the
value to l he materials by the handsof labor,
lake an example, the article of sewing nee
dles. Think of the enormous quantity of
these minute, though necessary articles,
constantly distributed throughout the civil
ized world tliink of the great value of one
ton weight of steel manufactured into that
form, and ol the very small value of the
ore from whicli that ton of steel was made!
And almost the entire amount of the differ- j
ence between the original value of the iron
ore as it rested in the bowels the earth, and ' object to all these, to be fully and profita
the value of a ton of needles, is so much bly employed. It is a great object to the
wealth created by labor alone.
What I have said on the subject of the
manufacture of sewing needles, is true, in
a measure, of all other productions of la
bor and mechanical skill. 1 he rarpenter.
,he cMni:i.muleri ,he tilior ,he boot nd
shoe-maker, and every other laboring man, j
creates just so much weahh, by the labor!
of his hands, as the product is worth more
than the materials, aftei deducting the in
j terest of ihe capital invested in the business,
r. .
from the premises thus assumed, we
hw imporlnnt facls. ,. As
labor is the creator of wealth, it should be
economized, and emplojed to the best ad
vantage, to make it as productive as pos
sible. 2. It should be as generally knownas
possible ; because, all unemployed persons
capable of performing labor, suffer, to
themselves, the waste of what they might
earn, capitalists miss of the profits they
might make from their labors, and the
community suffers the loss of the aggregate
wealth they might ihereby rreate. 3.
From the lack of employ ment, idleness, vice,
and dissipation, arc either encouraged or
promoted, and poverty, indigence, pauper
ism, and crime, are very certain to follow
in the train.
From what has been said above it is ve
ry evidently the interest and the duty of
all who have the means, to aid in any at
tempt that may promise success, to erect
establishments, and encourage and aid the
prosecution of business, intended and cal
culated to furnish full, constant, and profit
able employment lo the laboring classes. It
is ihe interest of all, because, by such
means, those who lend their aid, are moral
ly certain lo reap at least a reasonable
profit. It is the interest of all, as a com
munity, because, by it, habits of industry
are inculcated and promoted ; the poor
placed in a condition to support themselves
without the aid of pauper taxes ; vice and
crime consequently diminished ; the wealth
and importance of the community enhan
ced, and the population and business in
creased. It is the duty of all who have
the means, to aid in such ah'etiterprise.be
cause humanity demands their efforts to
better the condition of the poor because
the riches of the wealthy are the products
of the labors of such, and who should not
be left to suffer and because every one
who has the power, should put forth his
efforts for the upbuilding and prosperity of
the community of which he is a member.
Suppose your capital were all invested,
and your labor fully employed. .The ques
tion aiises, are they devoted to the most
profnab'e pursuits pursuits which offer
the hih -st w ages to I he laboring classes,
and the greatest returns to the employer
.-lid the community ? If not, then a por
tion of that capital and labor slioulJ be
withdrawn, and opplicd to somo other ob
ject. The wages of labor is a tolerably
- ! correct ciiterion ol judgment in this matter
; auct accordingly. Jiut there are many
bor, provided there was a suitable field
opened for the application of their industri
al powers, either but partially employed.or
not employed at all. Please to look around
you each one w horn I now address. Let
each call to mind every Jaboring man in
his knowledge, who, for want of employ-
ment, is idle any days in the year. Let
each one call to mind every laboring man
in his knowledge, who, rather than be idle,'
labors-for a compensa'ion hardly sufficient
to meet the demands of nature (or the me
rest necessaries of life. Having collected
these in his mind's eye, then let him take
another look, and add lo the number all fe
males who would be glad of respectable
employment, but who can not obtain it ;
and of girls and boys fourteen, fifteen, and
sixteen years of age, now a burthen to
their parents, and w ho, had they the oppor
tunity, would earn for tnemselves a com
fortable livelihood. And all these persons,
besides doing well for themselves, would
add to the wealth of the community, all
that their labors would create.
All of you who have taken this survey,
and have combined in the .aggregate the
results of your individual inquiries, I can
not entertain a doubt, have assembled a
very considerable company of persons, of
the descriptions I have named Some,
from the want of employment, idle a por
tion of the time, and others again doing
nothing to any purpose, or at least to very
little profit. It certainly must be a great
community to possess the wealth they
might create, and to keep them from indi
gence and vice ; and to capitalists and
business men, for the profits to be realized
from the pursuits in w hich they might be
employed
Do you ask, in what branch of business
these persons can be employed 1 My re-
ply is I know ol none to which persons
can so readily become accustomed, or' in
whicli they can be so constantly employed.
or employed to so much advantage to them-
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selves, as III llc iimiiiuiui:iuic ui vyu.iuii.
The labors oflhe cotton mill are light, and
impose but a light tax on the physical
powers oflhe operatives ; and yet they are
always able to earn a comfortable liveli
hood. And one very important conside
ration is. that Ihe company of operatives in
a coiton mill are, in great part, made up
of those, who, without the mill, would earn crease of cotton manufactory s, there
little or nothing; they being principally j takes place, of necessity, an increase of
females, and the younger class of females, population ; at least, when all the resident
Those acquainted with the general condi-j population have been brought fully into
lion of the laboring classes, need not bo re- j employ ment. With every new mill, there
minded of the great relief that would be ' must be an additional company of mana
extended lo them, by providing full and jgers, overseers, and operatives; and the
profitable employment for that portion of labors of all these go to swell the aggregate
them I named, and who now mainly de- amount of wealth in the community, while
pend on the labors of otheis for support, their earnings minister to their own wants,
With those to whom I address, the ques- and enrich their employers,
tion will now very naturally suggest itself, Besides the above, the manufacturing
supposing the working classes to be so
greatly benefitted by carrying out the con
templated enterprise for the manufacture of
cotton in this placa, or vicinity ; in what
way, and to what extent, are correspond
ing benefits to accrue lo capitalistsjarmers,
traders, &cc. who invest their money in the
buisness, or be in any way connected with
it? To this query, I will attempt a brief
and simple reply.
To those who feel disposed to furnish
funds for such a purpose, permit me to say,
and that too from my own knowledge and
experience in the business, no investment
can he made more safe, or more certain to
make the return of a handsome profit, than
that made in a first rate cotton mill, placed
under good management. A bad mill,
like every other bad establishment, is bul
of little value ; and a good one may run
its owners in debt, under a course of bad
management. Business sometimes fluctu
ates, too; and, in the dull seasons, which
sometimes occur, profits will of course be
reduced. But, la take it on the whole,
and in the long run, 1 am bold to say,
there is no business iu which money can
be invested, besides this, which, provided . ishing, inrluiJnall v.tlie amount ol taxation,
this be properly conducted, -will pay so Ot these facts. New England farmers are
large an interest on the capital employed, i fully aware ; hence, they give ail the en
The last year has been the hardest one ' couragement in their poer lo manii.'adur
known to manufacturers in this country ing establishments ; and well they may do
for more than a quarter ol a century, ad jso; for by thrm.tu manufacturing districts,
yet, even during that time, I can point the value of their real estate has been in
you to manufacturing companies hrch creased at least one hundred per cent.,
have divided profits at the rate of ten per
cent, per annum, and tome even more.
Dull as those years have been, and much
as profits have been curtailed, the confi
dence of old manufacturers remains unim
paired, as appears from the fact that mill
ions of dollars have been and are being in
vested in new undertakings of the kind.
This would Dot be done, unless those who
make the investments, were morally cer
tain of a successful result.
I have not the leisure nor would this bei
the nroner mode and lime, to enter into
details relative to the exact cost and profits
of manufacturing, but this I will venture to
say should you embark in the business,
you will be so well satisfied with the re- mained poor without it. In short, manu- I are the reu.t of long personal e.ericnce
suit, that two years from the time of com-1 facturers have, more than any other inte- j and observation. Connect with your en
mencing operations will not have passed, 'est, made New England what she is; and ' tcrprise sound judgment, mechanical skill,
before you will wonder and regret that
you had not commenced many years since.
A cotton mill of teq. thousand spindles, for
instance, will, with a sufficient amount ol
working capital, cost about two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. After having
been about two years in operation, and
paying everv hem of cxpense.labor except -
ed, it will I found to have returned its full
cost to the community. In other words.
a community with a capital of two hundred I have stated. Their first cotton mill was
and fifty thousand dollars, may, in two ( an experiment ; but it has proved an ex
years, or at most in two and a half yenrs, pertinent so successful, that it has become
by means ol labor alone employed in the
manufacture of cotton goods, enhance that
amount to five hundred thousand. May I
inquire, by means of what other industrial
operations cau that lie done !
Of tho nett proceeds of the operations of.
the cotton mill, you need not be told that
the owners will command a full share, in
Ihe shape of profits sometimes ten per
cent, sometime twenty per cent., and some
times even more than that ; but the entire
amount is in the community ; that com
munity will be enriched by so much and
its circulation through all Ihe chanels ot
basincss, of every description, can not fail
to wieldja very powerful influence on
every descriptiou nnd'department, to give
them increased energy and vigor and great
ly to promoteathe general prosperity.
It requires neither methodical proofs nor
labored arguments, to show that the sum
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ,
distributed in a community like yours oncej
in two years, and that sum the product of
labor alone, must be productive of a great
and salutary effect. But more especially
would it be so, when we take into the ac-
count the very important fact, that at least j no particular facilities for the business, ex-two-thirds
of the whole amount will belcept water power. The manufacturer had
produced by the labors of young women, I
girls, and boys, now probably entirely
unproductive, or producing but very little.
With such an increase of capitol from
time to lime, of course there would follow I
a corresponding increase of business.
When moneyed men had found that capi
tal could be so well employed, their gains
would not long be suffered to remain idle,
and the earnings of one mill would be ta
ken to build another, and so on ; in the
same way as the manufacturers have done
in Lowell, and in a muliitudc of other pla
places. In consequence of the in-
'business, as it increases, brings in its train
other important accessions. The carpen
ter, the mason, the blacksmith, the machin
ist, &c, all necessary to the manufacturer,
and to those connected with the business ol
the mill are equally necessary, the gro
cer the butcher, the baker,tbe dealer in dry
goods, the tailor, the boot and shoe-maker,
and a hoat of others. As a consequence,
the additional wants thus creating additio
nal demands, every species of business
must be augmented in the same ratio, while
the increasing amount of wealth, must im
part to it great additional life and activity,
as well as prosperity.
But of all the various callings, there is
no man in the community who is more di
rectly or largely benefited by manufactur
ers than the farmer The more of a suc
cessful and lucrative business there is pros
ecuted in his neighborhood, and the more
oflhe people engaged in manufacturing
and mechanical' pursuits, the more exten
sive will his home msrket become, and the
better his prices. Not only so, but the
increase of wealth and population have a
tendency to lighten his burdens, by dimin-
wniie me manuutctunn property among
them, is made to bear its dje proportion ol
the public expenses. Many agricultural
counties in New England might be named,
possessing soils originully ol inferior qual
ity, and some thirty years since, poor in
point of weaith and population, which,
having become manufacturing districts, have
greatly improved their agricultural charac
ter, while they have nearly or quite qua J
ruplfd their population and wealth. In
fuel, manufacturing has operated in New
England a9 a magic wanti ; and it has
called up many millions of wealth which
would not have exis'eJ without it. it has
enriched thousmd who would have .re
you need not be itiformed that she has a
high reputation for industry and enterprise;
her population are well educated and well
informed,and in possession of much wei.lih;
i while comparatively little of extreme pov-
erty is known an.cng them.
If you will lojk into the city of Lincas-
1 jour own State, and take note of
j past and present condition of that in-
! teresting place, you will find true all that
ine germ oi several otners, ana income is t
not far distant, w hen Lancaster will have
: become emphatically a manufacturing city.
j The probable speedy result will lie, that in
I ten years, if not in shorter period of time,
Lancaster will have added to her business,
j her population, and her actual wealih.more
than one hundred per cent. Results fully
: equal to these anticipation, hnve followed
the introduction and prosecuiion of lhejStll,e. Its population is nearly One Mimo.,
manufacturing business in many of the -of The princmai l0WDS are as fc.j.
New England villages, same of which, and j iows .
not a lew euner, nave grown up to large
important towns and cities ; and why, by
the same process and the aptlication of
I the same or similar means, should not the
city of Lancaster experience the same de
gree of growing prosperity ? Tnere is no
reason, obvious to me, to prcven' it.
If others are so eminently successful, in
the prosecution of the manufacture ofcotton
goods, why should not equal success be an
ticipated by Ihe cittz-ns of your borough
and county ? And what, there, should pre
vent that success, more than in other pla
ces! The manufacturing cities, towns,
and villages, at the east, had originally
his mill and dwellings to erect, and his
machinery, his coiton &c , and even his
operatives, to procure from abroad ; and I
his manufactured article to send abroad for !
a market. You are placed on equal foot
ing with him to say the least, and have a
decided advantage in the cost oPirgricuttu- j
ral products. Being in the neighborhood
of an extensive and an inexhaustible coal
region, and with plenty of water on every I
nana, jouare more than equal.m respect
of these elements, to the manufacfurer of
the east. Wut :r power, there, is scarce
and dear. Coal commands a high price.
Therefore, whether you apply wa'er or
steam, your motive power will not prob
ably cost you more than one half as much
as either cosls in New England, and this
is a very important item ol reduction in
the table of expenses. In the last list of
items including buildings, machinery, cot
ton transportation, Ac &c, no one will j
cost more than the same would cost in New
England, and some of them would probably
cost less. In vonr boroueh. should vnn
commence operations thcie, you would 'omnibus and took her to ttie u. . iioiei,
probably find a great porpoiion of the per- kplt by named Uussell. She corn
sons required for operatives, and dwellings jmenced growing worse, having all tlw
fnr- il.;- noonrnmnrtnllon Thr.cn m,n..1A ! SVOintomS of the CholeM. Mr. H. infot-
J 3 -
not only be extremely convenient, but pre
vent a very considerable amount of outlay,
when compaired with the erection of mills
in thiol v settled loenliiie, a. ha. on,.ll I
been the case at ihe east. There ibey
have to build villages, lay out streets and
roads, and procure operatives at a distance.
In a borough, town, or cify, ihe outlay for .
these is not required, inasmuch as the
manufacturer, in such a case, has all these
furnished to his hand.
An objection is sometimes raised to the
first introduction of the manufacturing
business in a place, on the ground of anti
cipated difficulty in obtaining the necessary
qjalified help. How, says the objector,
shall the people here, who have never seen
a cotton spindle, know how to guide the op
erations of a mill? and how are operatives
to be obtained 1 Thesameobjection would
have held good anywhere, in the incipient
stages of manufactures ; but it rests en the
k,wt.c. fuhru. of a a niinn. THa difficult V
of this nature has tver occurred, and not e 1
ever will occur. . The business of guiding
the operations of the machinery of a Colto
mil, is extremely simple in itself, and a
knowledge of it is readily acquired in a
very short lime. Take persi ns who have
no arquain'ance with il whatever, nr.d un
der the instruction and direction o'. a few
experienced hands, easy to be obta4std at
any time, they will, in the course of a. few
weeks, become an efficient company of
operatives. Such has been the experience
of the manufacturers at Lancaster, who.'
two or three years since, situated precisely
as you are in this respect, have long been
sending to market, at a handsome profit,
goods of supeiior quality, manufacluied by
operatives, not one in sis of whom perhaps
had, three years since, ever seen a power
loom or a cotton spindle.
Such gentlemen are the remarks whicli
I leel fuly justified in offering you at this
time, in rela'ion tojour contemplated er-terpri-e.
They are founded, not on bear-
- t say, nor on sircu alive conjecture. lUf
j and practical experience, all of which '
'either have, crcan readily command, and
j bring to your aidpruden:e and ecuuoim ,
! and you can hardly fail of success.
In the close, permit me to offer my best
wishes for your successful progress, nm
i 'or a result that may even surpass your
most sanguine expectations.
Gi n lemen, Respectfully yours,
I CHARLES T. JAMES.'
Pkovidence. R ., July 16, 1819.
Has3achusettf.
This State, although one of the smallest
and most sterile in the Union, has lori
j distinguished for itJ tquaI;,y M we ,
fl f wealth. intell.. .ml
happiness. Formerly, its advances was.
j most, owr;n , ; Commercial enterorise
! . . . . Manulacturinha. develoned
; and enarged iu nurx. ' It contains far
; more inhabilan,a t0 ,he 81inre mi!ei anJ
. ,ore wea,ln ,oeaeh , n 0,h
i,wt'on j3g
. Lynn ,13,613
Newburypori 9,:io4
Salem 18.013
Lawrence 8.35S
Marblehead 6,07:1
Gloucester 7,4 1
Andover 6,7 Irt
Char stowri 12,1)3:1
Worcester 15,90.
C reenfiel J 2,578
Springfield 11.331
Adams . 6,050
FallKifef 11,1 7"
Taunton 10,145
Kirnstable 405
Nantucket t?,77
j Marblehead 6,073
;unve" ' ' . .
; Wi
j Northampton 5,VJi
Chicopee 8.M1U
jPittsfield - 7,034
Koxbury 18.317
New Bedford 16.-14 1
PI v mouth 5.715
Middleborouh 5,123
The (ollowing comparisons in the popu
lation of some of the Manufacturing towns
will be found interesting :
1850 1840
Lowell 3.2 620 20.79fJ
Roxbury 13.317
Cambridge 14,825 .300
Worcester 15.9G5 .7,497
Springfield 1 1,330 Q
Chiconee S,319
Fall River 11.170 6.733
Lynn 13.613 7,36
Lawrence 8,358 0
The increase is 50 to 100 per cent, over
that of the commercial and agricultural
towns.
The Harrishur? Cotton Mill is to be Put
in operation about the 1st of September.
The Telegraph" says it will be one of th-
most perfect mills ever erected. Ancient
Lancaster as well as Il.urisburg. is reviv
ing greatly under the Factory influence.
Heartless and Inhuman Conduct
A circumstance has just come to our
knowledge, which makes us blush for hu-
tt j r .1.: .
o
manity. A Mr. unanes uowaru, oi mm
city, accompanied his wile to Columbus-;
on last Monday;; when on the cars his wile
was tkn ill. M't 'I'jr 'ned
at Columbus, Mr. Howard procured ao
. ... I t, u . I
md th landlord, and endeavored to in
duce him to arouse the domestics, (they
having retired for the night.) and lo send
for a nhvsician. He relused to no euner
a .
Meanwhile Mrs. ii. was c,........s
n-nr-te. llowara Knew nm wuai w
. J . . rt.t
no one was willing to go into" the room'
to his wife. He hnj pencd to hear some
one on ilie street he immediately" ran out
and acquainted a pcrssti whom he saw with
the circumstances, who immediately said
he would go and get his own physicians
In a short lime the gentlemen relurned.'ac
companieJ 6y a doctor, who did all Im
could, but it was too late Mrs. II. died1
ihe next day at twelve o'clock.'
the boarders all fled the house ; and no
one could be prevailed upon to perform
the last duties for the dead, and Mr. II.
had, with his own hands, to shroud !u
wire for the grave. During his absence,
when he wa? grading to pfacing hi
wife's remains in the ", human.
landlord of the V. S. Hotct, took the ket