The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-07-16
LETTER FROM LOWELL.
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Lowru, Mass, June Is,, rs7o.

This is called the "City of Spindlcs," and most busly do they turn. Although the City of Lowell has been associated with heartless capital, squalid poverty, dirt, grease and degradation, it is far from being an unat- tractye and unloyely place. In fact, the pleasantest season to visit New England cit ies towns and country, is spring time. The large corporations, or factories, are what have made this 'smart city of forty thousand population, with its constantly increasing wealth, and numbers.
 Most of the proprietors of these large "cor- porations," as they are here called, are non residents and city nabobs. Yet there are many wealthy men residing here; and there are buildings and grounds of princely style and magnifcence. The corporation buildings. consisting of mills, boarding houses, dorni. tories, and store-houses, are substantial and elegant buildings, and are kept clean and in healthy condition. The class of operatives. however, are very different in these mills from what they were fifteen or more years ago. Then they were mostly rosy-cheekcd girls from the country homes, intelligent, and educated in all the branches taught in com mon schools. At one time, the factory girls conducted paper, called the LoreR Offering, which for literary ability stood in the front rank Now the operatives are mostly for eigners, Irish and Canadian French, and. as class, are vastly inferior in every respect to those previously occupying the same places. The schools arc very good, and efforts arc being made to educate and elevate the rising generation of the laboring class, which are mostly foreigners. The fact is apparent every where in New England except in the rural sections remote from the cities and towns that foreigners are doing the work of the country.
 There are not many celebrities belonging to this city. Dr. J. c. Aver, the patent med 'eine man, has some prominence because of his success in accommodating large fortune. But sinsuiarly enough, nobody takes his medicines here; and he is known as a hum bug. He has some political aspirations now. but the people believe neither in his ,nedi. cines nor his political compounds.
 This is also the residence of the notorious x. r. Butler-which is not an extravagant establishment. But he is seldom here. Occa- sionally, just before an election, he retrrns and makes speech to the dear people, tell ing them how he loves them, and what sacri- fees he has made for the country. The people who know him bestsbave not the leas, confidence in his honesty, and but for their unfaltering belief that he was .sthe ripht man in the right place." in New Orleans, during the war, he could not get bakers dozen ofvotes in this city. All say that he is smart--a man of great rascally ability.
 Aside from cotton manufacturing, Lowell is doing much. woolen, carpet, bunting and other varieties of manufacturing are carried on quite extensively. It has the credit of having the first, and, believe, the only bun
 ting manuiactory in the United States. John
 Buii used to manufacture our bunting, and We unfurled it many times to bis sorrow. These New England towns are all flourish
 ing, while the eountry is diminishing in its
 population. And I see nothing to prevent the continuance of this order for years to come. The wealth of the east is drawn from the west, in exchange and profit for the mer-
 chandise which is here manufactured and
 shipped to supply the rapidly growing west on the whole, like New Eogland, not so much for what it is here among the hills, and rocks, and streams, and wheels, and shops, but for its expansive qualities; flor it has spread out all over the Western States, and when genuine Yankee is transplanted to western soil, pretty early in life, he makes
 the grandest sort of man. Chicago is but the growth from New England scions. So I shall respect the land of the Pilgrims, if for nothing else, for the children she has sent to the prairies, and even to the Pacific Coast. Il Vac.