The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-18
LOwELr-PROGREss OF THE MANu
FACTURrNG INTERESTS.

LOWELr-PROGRESS OF THE MANU-.
FEATURING INTERESTS.
The progress OF this manufacturing town,
Justly called the Manchester Of America, hrs
been most wonderful. A Lowell fAfass.| pa
per states that the town was incorporated in
1926, and then had population Of about eco
souls, and the valuation Of its property did
not exceed 100000. AT present the popu-
lation Is nearly forty thousand, and the pro-
perty valuation SCI OFT ,072.
The Merrimack Company, it is said. pays
$4,000 taxes the Massachusetts $4,000; the
Lowell % 900; the Lawrence $4,000, and the
''Mills," ~ they are called, pay altogether
about $4,000. Lowell has, in twenty yeai s.
become the second city in Massachusetts in
population, and the third in valuation.
For this unprecedented prosperity, Lowell
is indebted to the products of slave labor and
her own enterprise. Without the former
the latter would be of no more avail tnan the
motive power of the waters, were there go
mills upon which to act. Is it not most as
founding, then, that Lowell in America, and
Manchester in England, two towns when
owe all their extraordinary prosperity to the
great Southern staple, should be the chief
botbeds of abolition in the world, and should
leave no effort untried to abolish that LABOR
without which it is impossible to cultivate
cotton? Could they succeed in their insane
efforts, there would be at least this consoia-
ton to the South, that they had involved
themselves in as irreparable calamity as
they could possibly infiict upon Southern IN
terests.
The astonishing prosperity of Lowell should
encourage Richmond to avail herself OF her
own extraordinary facilities for becoming a
great manufacturing city. The advantages
of water power in Richmond are immeasu-
rably superior to those of Lowell. In CHI
mate and in cheapness of labor, there is no
comparison between the two cities. Rich
mond," said Mr.. Brooks of the n. York Elk
press, when on visit some years ago to this
city, fought to be the Lowell-the Manches-
ter of the South. From the southern porch
of this Capitol, where now stand, ought
to see 100000 people Why is it not so =
The power is in the hands of our own cltl-
zens. Manufactures present highway TO
prosperity, of which no rival influences can
deprive them Here, in the South, should be
the great point for the manufacture OF South
ern productions. If this result is not accom-
plished, if we do not make Richmond the
rival of Lowell as manufacturing town, II
we do not thus disappoint the Vaccinations
of those who seek our ruin, the fault will lie
in our own want of energy and enterprise,
and we shall deserve to be distanced IN the
race for greatness.
CONCESSION OF TURKISH COAL MINES TO
THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.
A Constantiuople correspondent OF the
London Times states that Lord Stratford mas
induced the Sultan to permit the coal mines
in the valleys of Kozlow and Zangeldek,
near Heroclea, to be worked by English cap
ital, directed by English skill. The Turkish
government will receive high rent for the
coal, and the French government be permit
ted to share in the benefits of the concession.
The correspondent adds that the Turkish 60
vernment still retain the greater portion of
the coal field in their hands, but the district
conceded will, it is stated, supply, under effi-
Gent direction, during the first II months
about 60, 900 tons of Goals; after that period
a greatly increased quantity. These 10000
tons of Goals (says the correspondent will
amply supply the necessities of the two fleets,
and including the rent paid to the Turkish
government, can be supplied at the rate of
FL per ton; whereas, at least f3 10s or GA is
paid for every ton consumed by the feet