New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07
FROM LAWRENCE, MASS.
Corespondencs Of The N. Y. Tribune.

Couespondencs Of The N. T. Tribune
LAWRENCE, Mass, Tuesday, June ., 1856.
Our city is not in Kansas, but it has character
istc not 20 very unlike it's younger sister-it has
grown up almost in night. Eleven years since there
were not more than one hundred inhabitants all told
in the territory now embraced in the city. At the
present time the population probably seventeen
thousand, and still rapidly growing. The West -
the "great," mushroom West, can hardly beat that;
and it is in the very bosom of stsid DID, purtaniea
Massachusetts,, among her rocks AID literally in one
Of her barren sand heaps.
This extraordinary growth is owing to Che enter
prise Of the Aessrs Lswrence--after WHOM the city
was named-and other large capitalists, who, finding
On excellent water power here, resoved to improve it,
and build another Lowell. company was formed
who purchased the land, ard erected the dam and a
macbne-sbcp which has since passed into the hands VI
another company; another company erected the srg-
est mill then in the world, the Bay State prime pay
for the manufacture of the famous Bay State sha~ls,
and eleven acres of hoOr another company soon
put up cotton-ml, the Atlantic Of about the "a me
size and since that still another company have erected
the Pacific eotton-mi, which, when fully completed
will contain stxteea acres OF door and be tue largeS
mill in all the world. II s already mostly in operation
Connected with the Pacific Is prDtey, where perhaps
made the best prints produced IN the country is
under the superintendent OF M e. Chapin, an a6le
and eminendy successful business man aud gentle
and Christian OF the highest type. The agent of
the Atlantic is Gen. Henry h. Oliver, who in addition
Ia high business capacities, gentleman vi 'dfeu
and scholarly a,tainmens. The gentleman having
charge of tie companys land and of the water ptyi
eges is Charles s. Storow, who unltes in one OF the
most admirable Of characters high and refined culture,
preemnent business qualities and the most unsuled
integnty. The agent of the Bay State mill. Captain
Fox, is a new man, of whom as yet we personally
know very little, and therefore will not speak.
Beside these corporations aud mills, there are the
Pemberton and the Duck mills, doing good bus
Dess, and managed by men of rare capacities.
There are three Banks-tbe Bay State Of whi n the
cashier Nathaniel White, esq, Of the frst Of
nnanciers, the Pemberton, and the Essex Savings
bshk-al We have reason to believe, resting on a
hrm basis and ably managed.
mere are two Cor gregatonal churches one Baptist,
smethodist, one Freewll Baptist, Episcopal
twn Csst, one Christian Baptist one Cnivorsslist,
lists, dc. "' vi '"o V"hsIeSatohs oi AuVeht-
6,,tv a. corps of School Teachers numbers some
A. II WiIs,naet the supernte ndence of the Rev
III. u;,h $40 pastor of the Freewill Baptst Church
80, 4, psi,' Taught by Samuel j. pike eso. late
tuto, 10 Downom College, contain. nesri, ioo pannnI
ana Is model school. The same enca,S; rOV PuPI',
pronounced upon the Grammar SchoS vut u'ey ov ",
convened IN one building, under tha ~ wnlch Is an
George A. Walton, who has some .na'ee OF Mr.
associated with him. This school n, assistants
seven hundred pupils This somewhat an;oa about
collecting all the Grammar Shool punils pan Oh
one building, and under head, works ron., IN
yursbly, dong m0Ie seyt al les- cIpense than ~.