The daily union., 1846-09-29
Inc. I6O $50 Inc. I,O4O 100

loft this quantity about 100000 bushels received
prior to the new crop coming into market . ....
"The increase in -four and wheat in favor of this
year is equal to 620,l04 barrels Of -four"
"Freights remain firm at 2s Cd for -four and sId
for grain to Liverpool packet is said 10 hsv,
made engagements at Is but we know Of nothin.
done over 2s. 81. Most shipmasiers however ar,
asking 2s. I'd. There are considerable engagements
as there are also Of provisions, at As. Cotton IL
3-l6 Id, with Offering"
1t is worth while for the Tribune to consider how
many leading articles it must write in favor OF higl
tariff to do away the effect produced upon the peo
pie by such records Of trade as these The "Prices
Current" come stubborny up in refutation of the Til
bunes very best sophistries, both old Bnd new
The fact, too, that Mr. Clay should have chosen
just the present moment to state in his recent Ash
land letter, that the prospect of more unrestricted
commercial intercourse with England could proba-
bly, create additional demand for the staple pro-
ducts Of our agriculture, 10 somewhat amusing. Il
appears that the sage Of Ashland, even in all the
quiet Of his fetrement cannot exactly spell out the
commercial sgns of times Alright from the ''Ioop
holes Of his retreat" Would it not be better fo
the party restriction to avail itself Of tardywe
will not say death-bed repentance-to recant its
errors' Be this it may, however, the people will
the real state of the They will feel the wiz.
dom Of return to justice and to the requirements
of our constitution in the adoption of our new rev.
enue system. The statesmanshp of Sir Robert
Peel has opened the ports of England to our pro
ducts; our own democratic administration has adopt
ed measures which enable England to buy of U.
our surplus produce. The result is, higher prices
and augmented demand for our great staple.
The whig journals are constrained to record the
fact The people will see in j, the vindica,ion und
the praise of the new tariff. @@t.
Now, let us see, also, the state of the manufactur
ing interests and how idle, nay, how miseraby
deceptive all these panies about ruin which have
been attempted to be got up by the manufacturers
We beg the reader to estimate duly the following
statement of the prosperity of the Lowell manufac-
turers. n aaa#
#a From the last Brooklyn Eagle
PROOF OF THE TERRIBLE RUIN THAT is COMING
valued Brooklyn friend-one whose pen-rnarks
can be depended on-sends us the following letter
from the great New England manufacturing citv
where ne once resided, and where he is now on
visit In presenting the letter, 1--WE ask with Oliver
Twist, for 'more,") we cannot withhold the excla
nation, What proof Of the "manufncturinp inter
ests" being ruined by the new tariff
saas.e LOWELL, Sept. 81.
Mr., EDToR: Here am in the "American Man
CHESTER" in the midst Of the roar of spindles and
looms; and have thought word or so of what il
going on might be acceptable to your readers. In a
twelve years. residence in Lowell have neve seen
such indications of prosperity and progress as have
risen up within the last twelve months. The hum
OF business heard on every side the din of building;
the rattle OF nnumerable loaded wagons and draws;
The tide Of people rolling through the streets from
morning TO late evening (for most of the dry goods
trade is carried on after the mills are closely the
manifold noises which have no name all these ha we
surprised me as tokens Of increase in the business
and population unequalled at any former period
And am told by those who know, that Lowell
never was going forward with such rapid strides as
at present; that there was SO great an increase
of trade and traffic, of building and nhab,ants as
now. 1t seems like young New York, and shows
the same kind OF enterprise and activity, Already
there is population of 80 0OO and in a short
time, when the mills building go into operation.
there will be an addition Of two or three thousand
This leads me to say word on this point.
see bya recent statement, and from looking
round the city, that mills Of the largest class
are going up in every quarter. The carpet corpor-
alton laying the foundation Of new factory 272
tett long by 100 wide, two stories TO be filed with
200 power looms. These power looms are working
hnely, learn beyond even the expectation of the
most sengune. The loom is in itself wonder
The same company are erecting large machine
shop and picker house, and will soon commence n
siore-house only 700 feet longi q
The Merrimack company have nearly ready for
machinery mill i've stories high, $50 feet by 4s 10
contain 600 looms, and 90, ,OO0 spindles. The Ham.
lton company have rapidly preparing for operation
anew mill Of four stories, 3l7 feel long bv ia wide
to be occupied by 10000 spindles They ara sIso
building picker house ZIG feet long, asd waste.
house ITO feet. II is said they will use mn aho,,
5,000,0O0 bricks. The Prescott mills are nearly
reody, the largest Of which viii contain 20 600 sn;n
dies SO here are three mills just going into opera
ton with combined force Of $4,000 spindles This
does not look much like ruin and panic. and would
be bad material for the manufacture Of either. m
The Middlesex company, composed OF the broth
ers Lawrence, have just erected new woollen mill
sir stories high, $50 feet in length by 43 in width
There is steam engine for use in case Of failure
Of water. One Of the new Prescott mills is also run
by an engine OF $50 horse power Nearly all the
corporations have been making additions their Old
mills in some cases very extensive. The Lowell
Bleachery Is also moved by the same spirit Of i'm.
provemenL having under way large bleach
house, fnishing-house, and dry'hcuse; and having