American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-23
Correspondence of the American Republican,
NEwwuETpoRT, Mass. Aug. le, 1915.


.fdptcs TO "Dipper-H Factory Gtrts,--D Dinner
Messrs Eds!ors:---I am glad saw the vor,
elegant aud classic criticize of your correspond
ent, ga Difper-ln,n before leaving here la
deed | should have felt that had been unfor
tunate lie high degree, if my eye had no. rested
on this beautiful production. The piece Itself
certainly gives high promise cfiluture useful
ness aad distinction as a writer, and only re.
greet that "a Dipper-ln In" should have resided
so loUg as thirty years in this place without dis
covering his talents for composition. | sup
pose, however, that as his name would seem ia
Imply, ne was too much engaged in ''candie'
making to turn his attention 10 paragraphs
That may haze been the reason, or he may have
remembered that
Some neither can for wits uercritcs pass
As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass,
How mach am indebted to him for the dis.
c@rery he has made, can only be appreciated by
my taking this early opportunity of acknow-
iedgIug my great error, in calling the street in
which the largest stores are found, where most
of the business of the town is transacted on
which the largest Hotel is located, and which
is every here spoken of as 'the street." in
calling 1.-THE principal street. Probably if |
were to speak of Wall street as being one of
the principal streets in New York, ga Dppcr-
ln'' would challenge my logic" because Broad
way is ten times its length--and to make that
wonderful discovery he would require resi-
dence OF thirty years. Another grievous error
have fallen into, which conflicts with ga Dip.
perkins" "particutar affection for The latitudtnai
and longitudinal pecutiar;ties" of Newburyport.
is, that have stated High street to be near
ily three miles in length, and it is, according te
him, "quite three miles tsag"-an error, which.
it is feared by your correspondent, may greatly
'injure my reputation for accuracy | have
looked with good deal of care, through the
dictionaries, for some of the new words that
GA Dipper-ln" seems attached to, and | have
looked in vain. Probably he will see that the
next editions are more "acC,rate" Whites
am pointing out to- and thanking my friend
GA Dipper-ln''-for his novelties in the way
of words, permit me te-say to him that ''data''
is of the plural number, that "appendage of
is not English, and that his parenthess is not
in the right place. If, Messrs Editors, ga Dip
perrin" had employed the thirty years that he
has spent in NewburyPort in learning to write
his mother tongue, instead Of measuring the
length Of streets, don't you think he would
have added greatly to u.e high promise of use
fulness he already exhibits? For fear, howey-
err, Of coming in collision with "his particular
affection for the lattudinal and longitudinal pc
cularlties of" this town hereafter, shall pro.
vide myself with "VaEe and chain" and give
the length OF the streets to within 4 hairs
breadth-and for fear of firing you and your
readers, by dwelling on the nngp of GA Dip
perrin" | will pass to some thing more inter-
, esting and instructive.
: Every one of your numerous readers is
aware, from the protection which has been so
4 .nxously sought from Government by means
S2f what is commonly known as the Protective
e.system, That the great source of wealth and
"hSolitical influence in this section of country is
'hn be found in the manufactures, with which
u New England is alive. Every where, as
syu pass along, the ceaseless din of the steam
Songne, and the constant clatter of the busy
ellls cry into your ears with ten thousand
hpces, that this is no land of ''idleness and
rgse"-that here, activity, industry and energy
ARE expected from man, woman and child
that sloth knows no abiding place, and slug
gishness finds no sympathy. Every rood Of
ground and every stream of water have been
made to perform their best services and to yield
their most profitable products for mans advan-
tage Lynn, Salem, Ipswich, Lowell and
dozens more are already teeming with facto-
ries OF every description, and within the last
few years, Boston capital and New England
enterprise have united to CONVEX. Newburyport
iRto a manufacturing town, that will soon vie
ia ala pUTLdHce WIFI Tic DeSl Vi tHelIl. Every
additional factory of sufficient size to be profit
ably put in operation, brings to the town ali in
crease of about 400 inhabitants--and those,
too, of the most useful and industrious classes
either the actual operatives engaged in the
factories or the dealers to supply the increased
demand for articles of various kinds. The OPP
eratives are, by far, the most interesting class
composed of men, women and chldren-tho
greater number, however, consisting of young
ghls from ten to twenty years of age, neat, re-
spectacle aud intelligent III appearance, who
seem to be engaged at their regular work with
a cheerfulaess that it gratifed me to sea
cheerfulness that seemed TO result from lauda-
BILE object that each one had in view. Sc much
has been already said and written on the sub
ject of Factory Life, that any thing could
say, would be but repetition Of what has been
already said with much greater effect. Two
or three houses in different parts OF the town
were shown to me as belonging to some oil The
girls, who, by economy and care, had saved
from their weekly wages sufficient to purchase
themselves homestead; two or three sisters,
probably, working together for the same OBJ
jet, and providing for their aged parents
comfortable shelter in their declining yeals.-
Several of the girls, was informed had depos-
lies of no very small amount in some of the |
Saving Banks, and were continually adding
few dollars to this fund laid I'D "for Il ralng
day." or a sckly season. MANY tales OF I'M
wonted affection were told rae as things OF da- /
ly occurrence among the members of this sis
terhood--tales ofsisters laborng cheerful y and