New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-16

Snindles ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 20j,0OU
Iooms .......- 6.lOO
=" Females employed --...-.-.---- Siiy
CORDS Of Wood per annum. 327O
Gallons Of OH :" .. sis43
/" lbs of Starch consumed. ....-...- 100000
" bbls of Flour used for Starch --. 4,OOo
bushels Of Charcoal .....--..--... 01oOV
lbs. OF Cotton --...--.--...--.---2 il2s Wv
u,.;,g NJ Ra cs f3;l lbs eacb) - Go s37
Number OF Yards, prints, shectings Carpets, -
BrOadclOth, &c. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 'oVV0VVV
There il a vast amount of other materials used
beside the principal ones enumerated above; and,
in addition 10 the Factories, there are extensive
Powder. Bleaching Flannel. Blanket. Batting aud
Paper Mllls-a Card and Whip Faotory-Planins
and Reed Machines-Grist and Saw Mlls-Sash'
Door Lock and Carriage Manuiaciories,-a other
Shops employing $50 hands, with capital OF
$o5oOoO The average wages of Females, clear OF
board per week is 81 IS; of Males, per day, cleaI
Of hoard 70 cen,s-a large portion of which surplus
is deposited in the Savings Bank, and not little
invested in shares of Stock IN the ESTABLISHMENTS
where the Operatives labor. From the ASSOCIATION
of SO large number of Girls aud Young w omen,
gathered from all quarters of the country and kept IA
contact bv such circumstances. much evil to morals
and manners might Justly be feared, especially a.
there are necessarily mixed up with them IN tnch
employmen,s and rccreations so many oil thc olhei
sex; but such are the Boarding House rcstrc'
tons the Inducements 10 intellectual and mora
the Lowell Offering the Lowell Institute and
other measures OF like tendency, that the mos
rigid moralist would say amen to the temporal ana
SPIRITUAL condition of the Lowell Operatives. b.,
dinii,ing Labor and offering fair chances TO lnde'
pendence as also by still recognizing IN the stout
sirews and true hearts OF the Toiilng men anc
women earning uobly as God has declared they
should. their tread by the sweat of their brows'
an ambition 10 maintain the true social position ma
been kindled Thank God those fresh spirits gath
erVd down from the Granite Hills, aud rom green,
peaceful valleys by their own will to the Carnival
Of Spndles and Looms. and iron arms hea'ing "nn
their Titan best, are none the less but more b'auu
ful. while pure. they stand up and vindicaie Inc
sacrcdness OF Toll They are not called by impe'
nous Wants. No Cotton Lord, as In Manchester
says Take the mean piitance OF an average OF
ten shnes sterling per week for the lives OF your
fxnished children. or siarvel' The intellectual
and moral condition of the Lowell Operatives
will compare with that of any class IN the mon as
numerous indeed, they have made themselves iiie
10 Pecan Of the age. and challenge the world with
their example. Al this season of the year there Is
an average Of one hundred leaving the Factories
daily TO visit for time their homes friends and old
affairs Light Of heart, and bright Of eye they IMP
out INTO the fields and commune with Nature ana
al dear cnloymenis. 10 return win rehewe"
strength to the pleasures of toll Toll in the past
has been rcpulsye "a few task-men bore the lash
tyrani is the dronc the ienoble; and Toll, like
rose-wreaihed Angel rises beautiful in her robin
sary strength. and rcverses the savish condition o.
the Past, Nothing can be attractive unless we are
dorm TO it to be forced. is to write rcpulsve
with the iron rod that drives 1t was not upon
Lowell, bat England. that SHELLhI looked, when
be saw "n,s,l
The doors 70 premature and woeni deeih
To plnng Famine and inl-ied Disease,
To AL that shares the Let OF haman hc,
Which 20 soued body and soul scarce drags Tie slAin
Thai lens ihcns as II goes, and eisnks behind
As regards physical condition from all that could
learn, two thirds of the Females have improved IN
health while employed in the Mills: and the same
nc, will apply to one hall OF the Males Inc ton Is
nore consan, than heavy sodcn,ary and Is limited
TO ten hours in the day All New England-indeed'
al the Nortb-bears on lis face a Tariff argument
oet al Lowell il is condensed TO conviction. Inc
hte State Of Massachusetts, is n better market ioI
The Onion than all England and her Colonies and
Lowell alone consumes more Flour than we export
to Britain Considering the condition OF the CAPITAL
Isl and Operative, who would strip those temples
CATERING with the trophies of happy Industry ana
invite To competition with easy. voluntary LABOR,
sne Psupcr and Convict Toll Of the miserable oid
" Ord Pat the Manufacturing Interests oil Tue
whole South in a lump. and add to il a large share
" Other enterprise, and. amid the rush OF the Nerl
mack and the Of 2o5. 900 Spindes rending Their
o'voo Cotton Bales per year asunder. that lump
would be los, and forgotten Boston may be proud
OF her Capital and Enterprise thus invested. And
what may we no, prophecy for Lowell In twenty
years 10 come. growing as she now does More
ocwildercd than l. will be the lakewood sman as
- ventures from the fastness Of the his and sees