The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-30

in the week ending 23d inst were small in amount al
. .hs the s was an active for staple styles
ce OF tckings During the preceding week of the
leading houses had commenced sales OF Spring goods
the West purchases having been made both for Cncnna
Ii and Saint Louis
In Philadelphia during the week ending 22d inst but
very few new goods entered the market and the prices Of
Brown Sheetings, Shrtings and Ticks advanced. In
consequence OF the continued demand for early spring
sales good business is looked for by most houses
Annexed is the quantity of cotton sheeting and wool
shipped at Lockport for three seasons
ls43. 1912. ls4l.
Wool: eo65s $3.50 1887
Sheetng .......... 1905 5,044
The following exhibit of the cotton &C. consigned
to or lett at L0ckport in the same PERIOD.
Merchandise, tens. ...... l,l2l 9O6 1873
Cotton .... .l57.4S7 33,2Ol 81 45l
There nown progress of erection in Ogdensburgh
on the St Lawrence, two woolen factories, which
expected to go into operation early in the ensuing
mer Baron S. Doty, is building which is OF stone,
and is to be five stories high and Haskell Co. are
building the other
There is new factory going up in Georgia ]. Wilson
Co. are now erecting extensive works ten miles north
west of the manufacture of cotton and wool
len goods The work of erection has been proceeding
ring the greater part ofhe year. and is expected
to be completed during the next.
There are $50 handlooms in Kentucky for the manu-
acture Gotten baggnga factory for the purpose
in Cincinnati and Powerlooms in Maysyille Louisville
ufacture is estimated at l0, 200, 900 yards
The Norristown Register says that Lewis Cornig Co.
rough, and fitting it up for cotton factory,
which is expected will be in operation in few weeks
The St Louis New Era, of the 4th ias informs that
large storehouse Chestnut between Main and Water
streets in that city, has been purchased and is be
mediately converted into Cotton Factory The spindes
and machinery will be at once put up and the whole
be under way.
The Louisville y) Journal states that they have seen
some brown sheetngs manufactured at Pittsburg They
are not so smooth of the Eastern coons
heavy and strong show exactly what they are and
will suit that market These the first coons of this
description and OF superior quality produced in the
West Nearly all the coarse cottons jeans and nseys
used in the south, are manufactured in the east
One OF the eastern manufacturers engaged in producing
suspenders has within few months past added
dred hands to his establishment 1t said that American
suspenders are both superior in quality, and lower in
price than the European Our own manufacturers now
furnish for 81 per Dozen good article for which
we formerly paid the foreign producer So.
Prices in Boston well sustained the 9th inst
There was good demand from the trade with few sales
for shipment Raw wool higher and in active de-
mand the stock small Manufacturers shares selling
Pnrcns or MAsurAcrvREns' srocKs.
Merrimac Mang Co. lbs la5 Hamilton Man'g Co. 9s7s
Methuen do. do 800 Nashua do. do 4sOa4so
Great Falls do. do. $50 Middlesex do: do. 100
York do. do. Ii N. +. Worsed do 81
The dividends making by these corporations are
large the Appleton Company six per the last six
months nn NASHUA h six cent with
dends These high rates paid to shareholders while
the wages OF the hard worked operatives oneourth
less than they in ls0 with additional loom thrust
upon each poor girl to attend
We stated that domestic goods begin to accumulate
in store in Consequence of falling off in the demand for
China. We mentioned short time since that our manu-
featured goods not liked in China In looking over
the shipments ofdomestics in the last months we find
that not bale has been sent thither in that time All the
exports have been to Turkey, South America and
West Indies
In the face of this falling OFF in the foreign demand it is
that cotton has advanced and that going up
In Boston, Bangor and other places the east there ex-
lists an active demand and in this market the sales
have been rather large To offset this difference in
the price of the raw material the manufacturers
are importing set of operatives from Canada
who are willing to work, according to the Mon
trea Herald for two dollars month We lately saw it
announced that a great number of young women had
been induced to remove from about Chambly the fac
tories at Lowell and under the auspices Of agents who
were recruiting in that neghborhood, many more, who
were about to follow. We here the intention
Of the owners of the Lowell and other mills American
girls have made by their work from 81 to So week and
were enabled to deposit money in the Savings Bank
This is to be taken from them, and they either be
compelled to work cheapy the Canadian hatans
not work at all This movement the part of the
ufacturers will produce curious results Is is
duce wages mills to level with those paid in the
English mills, and is to fill manufacturing districts
with French Canadians with their plump forms and bad
French