Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-27

| One girl for reading in the mill.
One girl for profanity and other misdemeanors.
The greatest possible appears be taken in the APP
pontment of and second they all
men Of character and intelligence Another strong preven
tive check the moral control which the girls possess
another and among virtuous and hgh-minded young
men, who feel that they have the keeping of their
Characters and that any stain upon their associates brings
repoach upon themselves the power of opinion becomes
'ever-present and ever active restraint"
The following statements give Of application
to the superintendent of each corporation and develop
very important items of what Mr. MILES very appro
priaely calls emil statistics"
Of the $3.50 female operatives in Lowell, Massachusetts,
furnishes oneeghh, Maine oneourh, New Hampshire
third Vermont fh Ireland one-fourteenh, all other
places principally Canada, oneseventeenth More than
threesevenths of the WHOLE connected with
Sunday either teachers pupils About three
eighth 2276 church members have been teach
| ers in schools
large majority of them report their health being either
better than good it before entering the mill
There twentyseven operatives under fifteen years Of
age employed in the cottonms somewhat larger proper
ton OF children employed in the prnworks and carpet
mills By the law Of Massachusetts all operatives under M
Of age required attend school three months
every year, this is rigdly enforced.
With respect to wages it may be briefly stated that the
young woman from the country, employed first pu-
Pill to the business receives 55 per week. besides her
board In few months she will from seventy five
cents to dollar and half per week. according to her skill
and diligence The average pay Of all female operatives
present is little below dollars per week. beside board
Instances not uncommon however, of their earning
and four dollars per week. On payroll of fifty girls the
author counted in June last twenyfour who received four
dollars and sevenyfve cents per week. beside board and
6 vrustk o,t.o -
ever given unusual case As evidence of their
great earnings may be stated that is estimated the factory
girls of Lowell have, in round numbers 100000 in the
Savings Institution Of that CITY,
The pay Of male operatives cear of boar varies
from eighty to lightweight cents per day.
Operatives who do not board the corporation in almost
every live with their parents brothers, sisters or
other connexions.
The of religious and moral instruction and ntelec
tual cultivation appear have been amply provided Lowell
There fewer than twenty regularly constituted
religious societies. nineteen churches have been erected and
two new have been commenced There G. l23 Sun
pupils and teachers Missionary societies have
been well supported and parocha and pastors Libraries est
bished Lowell contains one high school, eight grammar
schools and thirty primary schools In these schools there
700 pupils city library established last year.
at an expenditure Of $500. An association of gentleman
has formed what it called the Lowell Institute where
Of lectures is delivered every winter The audience
generally consists Of about twelve hundred persons With
the proceeds Of the tickets seveny five cents for the
band Of music is hired and the distinguished lecturers
engaged at the rate Of fifteen dollars per lecture Many
Of the female operatives attend and to properly estimate
the advantages 10 be derived from doing The origin and
success of the Lowell Offering well known. 1t was
commenced in October s40 consists entirely of the
positions prose and Of female operatives two of whom
its editors and publishers This publication has received
most complimentary notices both from home and foreign Jour
nails Mr. Miles says the Offering about discontinued
We know not the Its short life, however, has not
in vain, for il has removed and corrected many msap
prehensons, and individually shown that there may be
mind among the spindles" Lowell is not deficient in its
benevolent and charitable institutions
We have thus endeavored to CLEAN from Mr. Miless book
such view of Lowe it is' may be gratifying to our
readers and spread abroad knowledge of the important fact
that under wise and prudent regulations and when conduct
ed in proper spirit manufactures do necessarily corrupt
and degradze the working community who engage them
that there is nothing in manufacturing empoymens ncompa
tble with physical health, mental purity intellectual improve
ment worldly happiness and advantage but that on the
contrary if rightly pursued, all these great objects may be Sc
cured and advanced
Although rather Of place. must be allowed TO mem
ton two facts the effect of the growth Of Lowell upon
the surrounding country The improvements in the neigh
boring district within the last fifteen years have been mani
testify great and real estate said have increased in value
million Of dollars. Lowell furnishes one Of the best markes
in the world to agricultural district within circuit Of t
~ miles in diameter Thsis fact which the political econo
mist will not lose sight Of
appears that the waterpower Lowell as at present
used exhausted Ninety-one mpow have been sold
Of seventy horsepower each This all the power Of the
river al the lowest flow of But il would be upwise To
limit the growth Of Lowell the extent of its
The introduction OF steam motive power and Of improv
ed machinery, will all limits from that growth except
those which will necessarily arise when the ship of the Anne
merchant has reached every market which can be adan
tageously supplied with the products Of her looms
Inc opponents OF manufactures draw the conclu
SION that the profits and the advantages which Lowell and
similar places dispense limited to the proprietos Of the
or even to the prosperous operatives who labor therein
Let them remember the immense quantities of raw materials
therein communicate the cotton, WOOL iron COAL dive
ana OIL used thee and of the vast number persons employ
60 as producers conveyes and agents let him add to this
the agricultural produce and the other food consumed and he
will be enabled form estimate of the hundreds az bon
sands Of persons to whom place like Lowell gives profitable
employment and whose happiness and worldly prosperity
VIII Dc promoted by its continued successful operation.
i DEATH OF VENERABLE JERsErmAS.--The Susser Re-
ger reports the death of JosEpn sHAmr which occurred at
h residence in Vernon that county, on Sunday morning.
the l4h. He was an actor in the stirring Of the Re
youuon and about fifty years ago elected member Of
the Legislature from Sussex counya position which he held
10y repeated elections, for fifteen sessions