The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-01
AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINIONS OF AMERICAN
RAILWAYS.

At banquet given in Cincinnati to the Railroad
Convention by the Adams Express Company, Mr..
Evans, one of the English Directors of the Erie
Road, made the following remarks:
Mr.. Evans said he desired to offer the toast,
Success to American Railways" He was pleased
to meet around this board so many intelligent prac-
tical managers OF the railroads of the country He
had been much pleased with what he had seen since
his arrival in this country, of the manner in which
the roads were managed, and believed the day was
not far distant when they would amply repay their
projectors. 1t was true they had too many roads
The roads had been built too soon and too quick
but he thought that with Judicious manag ement
and proper economy they would still prove remu-
nerative. He spoke of the spirit of competition as
being one great reason why so many roads had been
built, and thought that they would soon find a
check.
He referred to the difficulties and troubles that
the railroads OF this country were undergoing,
and said that the railroads of England had passed
through the same troubles. They were now out of
darkness, and he had doubt but that our roads
would soon emerge from the gloom that now over
shadows them. The tribulations that the roads in
England had gone through had resulted to their
advantage He spoke of the Importance of promo
ting good feeling and harmony between the officers
OF the Cterent roads, and thought that such social
meetings as this did much to secure better feeling.
He must say that he was pleased with what he had
seen of our railroads. There was much in the man.
agement of the roads of this country that might be
copied and followed by the roads in England with
that our roads might perhaps copy from them with
equal advantage, and one of them was the Railroad
Clearance System.
MANUFACTURES IN LAWRENCE, MAss-THE New
PBMBERToN MML.-The reporter of the Boston Post
has visited Lawrence and obtained some interesting
statistics of the manufacturing interest in that
tiourishing city. The New Penberton Mill, which
commenced last March, is now rooted in and
will be in full operation in January next, giving
employment to one thousand hands, male and fe.
tnal in mo inn fnEin oh efr;
hannes, cotton pantaloon cloths cottonades, cot
ton vestings and ginghams. The mill has been re-
built in the most thorough manner. 1t is 81 feet
wide 2S4 feet deep, 60 feet high to the cornce and
with double attic 81 feet high to its highest point
| 1t has $50 windows, feet wade and . feet high,
| feet inches apart. The number of brick used
is set down at 2, 900. One contractor has sup
piled AIT barrels of lime and 52l barrels of cement
| The cost of the whole MILL when completed, will
| exceed 5000
| At the Pacific Mills, where are manufactured ca
llcos and de LANES, there now over 2, 900 en-
Ployees. Last spring there were 500 males and
| 1000 females
The Atlantic Cotton Mills employ about l 100
| hands, $50 being females.
In the Washington Cotton and WoolIeu Mills are
employed about 1000 hands at the present time
The statistics of June last showed there were then
| employed 2,0l2 hands, 999 of whom were females
| The Everett Cotton Mills, which will go into
operation about the first of next January contem-
| plate giving employment to 900 hands, in the
manufacture of fancy cotton goods.
| At the "Lawrence Duck Mill" there are at rre-
sent employed $50 hands, two-thirds of whom are
| females.
At the two paper mills of Messrs. Russell G. Son
| there employed % men and "a women. These
mills turn out about ten tons of paper per day, the
| gross value of which is s., 900.
TIE MAELsrRoM.-The following passage from a
letter from Norway, published in the Boston Trans
script is interesting to those whose ideas have here
tofore vacillated between belief in its teri ors as
depicted by representations of large vessels Just
disappearing beneath the raging waters, and the
frequently circulated modern statement of its fabu-
| lousness.
''The far-famed Maelstrom is found between two
of the southern islands of the Lofoden group; and
from one of these islands it is named the 'Mosken-
stream, or, in Norwegian, the Mosken. strommen.'
Its violence greatly depends on the direction and
strength of the wind, as well on the tides, and
the moons influence thereupon. 1t is said to be
most violent with gales of westerly winds, and on
the full and change of the moon. Sometimes small
boat can pass right across it without danger; at
other times it would be dangerous for even large
swallowed up and whired down to the mermaids
her steering, and be dashed against the surround
| ing rocks.
| MIGRATION FROM THE CHLDREN's AID SOCIETY,"
MIR. U. Z. Tracy left the city Yesterday afternoon
| with company of children for the West. This is
| his thirty-second expedition Many hundreds have
| been already placed in good homes on the broad
prairles and fertile plains of the Western States,
| by the Society, at great expense. With the ap-
| aoh &c. Al