New-York daily tribune., 1845-12-23
yankee Notiops'-Nores Of a TIP.

3,ad boarders sat down 10 Tea III lle C"'
Hotel on Wednesday night last lCoulo al!
yort bo,el match this in the middle OF December
of sncb state of things is partly the ln''
"a orosneri,v Of Manufactures, which Ne"'i o'A
"a .,onld have surrounding her TO an equai
o,.e,, with Boston y in part to me cofnPac'ne9' u
Tho nopulation whence her Trade is naih'S
-;od and the balance is due TO her 0neqoaieo net
work Of Railroads which have brought forilano'
Concord. \. r. Albany, Norwich and ffoVloence
,,;,bin cali and placed her nearer to Buffalo De
,ro, Chicago. &c. in winter than any other Atlantic
Civ is We rejoice in the prosperity OF Boston,
,ec,,se the beralitv intelligence and enterprise OF
her business men have deserved 1t. Ihey useo 70
take the lead in Shipping. distant commercial Ao'
ven,nre. &c and went with all their might Tor Free
Trade The Protective Policy was fastened on the
co,,t,v bv "the Democracy of 1909 l6-'2i and
'as against their earnest remonstrances and strug
eles New-York, Pennsylvania South Caroltna'
&c. decreed that we mus; stop importing our wares
and fabrics and make them at home. even II FRO
bibi,orv duties were required 10 effect the change.
Tammanv Hall issued peremptory edicts In favor OF
the most stringent Protection; Cows Geo. OInton'
Tomnkins. Messrs Calhoun, Buchanan, Z. J lnger-
soil &c echoed their thunders. Boston iought tne
bauc of Free Trade go long as the question was an
oncn one when the voice OF the Nation had settled
:, sbs CONFIRMED TO the sovereign decree, drew oil
en- far as needful. from Commerce. and invested her
CAPITAL in and devoted her energies TO Manuiac-
lures She has begun 10 do well In this direction
also. as capacity and perseverance are apt 10 do; ;
when the edic issues from the oraclcs of pretended
Dbl o.,oip
be upset and the Country return 10 its dependence
on Foreign work. shops This, if obeyed, will crc-
ate general distress and stagnaton; but Boston will
stand it as well as any section and will be making
money on the new tack-or rather, the old one-be-
fore ten years fast enoug TO excite the envy OF her
present assailants, and lead them to demand new
ovcrturn They may throw Boston under but they
cannot keep her there.
FALL RIyER.--This is one Of the most thriving
villages in Massachusetts, lying some 40 miles South
West of Boston, on Mount Hope Bay, diagonally
across which stands the Mount Hope of the Indian
King Philip. The Bay is very beautiful, and com.
municates through the riconc, anavigable inletwith
Narragansett Bay from which it is not far distant.
The route from Boston 10 Newport, K. l. is through
this place, which (by means OF q branch has direct
Railroad communication twice a day with Boston,
via Taunton and the Providence Railroad. Fall
River takes lis name from stream which here pre-
cipi,ates itself more than hundred feet into Mount
Hope Bav, afiording an admirable water-power.
which is used to the utmost. Two of the largest
Print. Works in the Union are here; also extern
sive Rolling Mill and Nail Factory. The Rolling
Mil is propelled by steam generated by the furnaces
in which the pigs OF Iron are heated for the trip
hammer and rollers One of them is converted in
TO sheet at single heat; while Nail and Screw
Rods are turned out as shopman would measure
ribbons. Several hundred men now find employ
ment IN this concern; as many more in the Print
Works while greater number of Women are
probably employed in the various Cotton Mills.
The population OF the Village is now about 10 000-
at least onelhird added since the present Tariff went
into effect which Secretary Walker estimates has
added about forty thousand 10 the Manufacturing
population of the Country! Tie new Census of this
STATE, carefully scanned, will show that at least
One Hundred Thousand have been drawn from
Agricultural to Manufacturing and Mocha ncal
pursuits in this State alone. Note how the popua.
ton OF Cities and Manufacturing Villages has in
creased, while the Farming Districts have either
fallen off or remained statonary-generally the for
mer The actual abstraction of Population from
Agricultural 10 Manufacturing pursuits in conse-
ouence of the present Tariff must have already ex-
ceeded Half Million The recently burnt dis
trict of Fall River is entirely rebuilt greatly i'm
proving the appearance of the place. a Town
Hall of stone is nearly finished, costing s65, 900
the first story being occupied q market. The
Hall occupies the second story, and will seat nearly
or quite 800 persons. The business OF the place
has been immensely extended within the last three
years.
DRINKING.-There are no licensed or authorized
grog shops of any sort in Massachusetts, what there
are stand on the same legal footing with gambling
houses and brothes. Liquor is Of course sold in
some places steahy, jus, as pockets are picked by
means of sliding panels or otherwise. In conse
quence, you meet very few grog. drinkers in the
cars or elsewhere in travelling through tha, State
Old soakers still find liquor almost every where
! bn, there are few Freshmen entered in the drunk
ards colleges, while the public sentiment agains
/ Alcoholic Tipping grows daily stronger and more
settled The work of ierreting ont and breaking ~
secret crog. shops is Just beginning in earnest. i
! is bound TO so ahead.
PUBIC LEcruRgs-As drnking falls OFF, these
come on. The Mercantile Library Association il
Boston has some 2,2oC regular subscribers TO it.
| Course of Lectures, and has long since stopped the
sale of tickets becausei il seat more auditors
Tickets 10 hear particular lecture cannot now be
had Tor money The Boston Lyceum has nearly a:
many subscribers; RALrH WALDO EMERSON is de
ljverng glorious Course before it on Represents
tive Mcn'-Pla,o, Swedenborg, &c. The Lowell
Lectures are also crowded 10 the utmost capacity
ofthe spacious Qdeou Beside these, Prof. Mitch
I ell is lecturing on Astronomy to good houses, anc
there are occasional lectures almost every evening
In Fall River and in Beverly the price of tickets
for the Winter Lectures is fixed at .ftty cents to
the CourSe-and there are some fifteen hundred sub
scribers in Fall River and eight hundred in Bever
ly-in either case very large proportion OF ,ht
population between Childhood and Old Age L.
Newbuyport, there are some six hundred sub
I scribers 10 the Course In these places and many
Others throughout Massachusetts. the whole Peopl,
arc enabled to listen 10 Emerson Horace Mann
/ Giles Cushing, Fletcher Webster Wendell Phil
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