An act to amend an act, entitled "An act relative to incor. porations for manufacturing purposes." Passed April 16, 1822. Chap. 213, p. 217. WHERAS, Doubts exist whether the trustees of manufacturing companies, incorporated under and pursuant to the act hereby amended, having the power to secure the payment of debts contracted by them, by mortgaging their real estate: Therefore, in order to remove such doubts, 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the trustees of any such company to secure the payment of any debt contracted by them in the business for which they were incorporated, by mortgaging all or any part of the real estate of such company; and every mortgage of such trustees shall be as valid to all intents and purposes, as if executed by an individual owning the real estate: Provided, That the written assent of the stockholders owning more than two thirds of the stock of the company shall first be given. Desultory Sketches of Manufacturing Villages, &c., in the several counties. The following sketches of manufacturing villages and manufactories in different parts of the state, have been received from various correspondents, and will be found interesting. Numerous statements of other villages are omitted for want of room, and the reader is referred to former volumes of the Register for further particulars. CHAUTAUQUE COUNTY. The village of Jamestown, Situated on Chautauque lake, contains one woollen factory-an extensive factory of window sashes, which supplies the county, and sends large quantities down the Allegany and Ohio rivers a large factory of pails, tubs, and other coopers' ware, large quantities of which are sent by water to the south. There is a factory built and just going into operation, similar to the Messrs Crosby's at Fredonia. There are two furnaces, one propelled by water, the other by a steam engine, with which there is connected a lathe for the turning of iron, &c. &c.: four tanneries, where the bark is ground, and the sole leather rolled by water power. The outlet has a fall of about 70 feet in three miles; it never freezes, and affords as good water power as can be found in the western country. DUTCHESS COUNTY. Amenia.-Leedsville woollen factory; L. Smith, owner. Lester Reed's Chamberlain's iron furnace. do. small. Deep Hollow iron works-pig iron-about 900 tons per annum. In all about 100 persons employed in ore, coal, &c. Beekman.-Beekman iron works-pig iron-from 600 to 1000 tons per an. Clinton.-3 fulling mills, 5 flouring and 6 saw mills. Dover.-6 mills for sawing marble, of which there is an extensive quarry of superior quality in this town; it is of different colours, principally white, and some blue and variegated; 30,000 feet are sawed annually at these mills; and there are several mills in the towns adjoining. A small forge, Smith & Stevenson owners. Fishkill.-Matteawan-3 cotton mills; 6000 spindles; about 400 operatives; Beverteens, Kerseys, Flannels, Moleskins-about 9000 yards per week. Matteawan foundry, 15 hands employed, casting mill-gearing machinery; castings for cotton and woollen factories about 1 ton per day. Agents in New-York, Peter H. Schenck, & Co., No. 37 Pine-street. Matteawan machine shop, employing about 130 hands. Glenham woollen factory; 130 persons employed, manufacturing 400 lbs. fleeee wool into broadcloth per day. Fishkill woollen factory; particulars not ascertained. Franklinville print works, at Franklinville village, James Ingraham & Co., proprietors; went into operation in 1830; 4,500,000 yards printed per annum; worth about $63,000, employing 110 hands, and paying annnually $35,000. Phoenix factory, (same place,) erected in 1827, burnt in 1832, rebuilt in 1833. The first and third stories occupied by Emory Low in comb making, to amount of about $13,000. The second story by Houghton, Bunnell & Co., sawing mahogany into veneering, 350,000 feet per annum, worth $42,000. The 4th, 5th, and 6th stories, by James Ingraham & Co., for calendering, glazing, linings, furniture, prints, &c. A flouring mill, (same place,) 5 run of stones, grinding, 30,000 bushels of wheat annually. Fishkill iron works; about 1,200 tons pig iron annually; 15 hands in the furnace; including those employed in the ore and coal, about 200. La Grange.-Titus & Son's woollen factory. Milan.-Dutchess Tannery, manufacture $5,000 worth of leather. Lafayette Tannery, $3,000 worth annually. North East.-Dean & Shelden's satinet manufactory, near Centre village, just commenced. Pine Plains.-Turner & Birch, 2 woollen factories, mostly country custom, Silas Harris' sithe factory at Hammertown; about 600 doz. per annum, These sithes are considered among the best in the United States. Imitations of them are said to have been imported from England, and offered for sale as Harris' sithes. Pleasant Valley.-Pleasant Valley cotton factory, 338,000 yards shirting, 3,000 spindles, 72 power looms. Pine Grove woollen factory; amount not ascertained; superior cloth and satinets, by John Buckley. Poughkeepsie. -Ednam cotton factory; about 500,000 yards brown shirting per annum, worth $35,00; 2,400 spindles, 90 power looms, 20 operatives, and pays wages $9,00. Dutchess cotton factory at Manchester; 350,000 yards 4-4 cloth per annum, 2,036 spindles, 66 power looms, 100 hands. Swift, Taylor & Forbus' factory of satinet warps; 500,000 yards per annum, 840 spindles, about 35 hands. Thomas Williams & Son's woollen factory; 500 yards broad cloth per week, 50 hands, works 70,000 lbs. wool per annum. Brewster & Grant's Cotton factory; 1,100 spindles, and looms in proportion. In the machine shop connected with the factory, are made Brewster's celebrated Eclipse speeders, 100 or upwards annually, the machinery in the shop is moved by steam power. Buckley, Ainley & Co's factory of Crape Camblets from imported white worsted; about 15 hands employed, situated near Swift, Taylor & Forbus' satinet factory. M, Vassar & Co's. Brewery; 1,2000 barrels per annum. Charles Vassar's extensive celebrated brick factory; and Andrew Underhill's brick factory, occupying the southernmost wharf at Poughkeepsie village. C. W. Thompson & Co's. stone ware factory. do. Thompson's patent sash factory; plank dressing machine. Tracy & Armstrong, turners, spool and bobbin makers. Dutchess Whaling Company; on their new, extensive wharf, the northernmost at Poughkeepsie, is Tooker & Hait's ship yard, and a sperm candle manufactory. Stephen Armstrong, machinist, builds all kinds of cotton and woollen machinery. Barnegat lime kilns, where large quantities of lime are made. Red Hook. Three woollen factories; by Palmer Cook, Sanuel Pindar, and Mr. Waters; not much done besides country work. Rhinebeck.-Peter R. Livingston's paper mili; a dozen hands employed. Morgan Lewis' woollen factory; principally or wholly country custom. Stanford.--Stanfordville factory; woollen, 6,000 yards per annum. ward Hull's paper mill; 2,000 reams yearly. Ed Union-Vale. - Verbank cotton factory; 538 spindles, 25,000 yards per year, 22 hands employed. There is a rich iron ore bed in this town, in the Clove, supposed inexhaustible, of an excellent quality, from which the Fishkill, Beekman, and Kent furnaces are supplied. Washington.-Ilartsville cotton factory; 200 lbs, cotton daily manufactured into cotton warps. R. S. N. & E. Titus' woollen factory; about 70 pounds wool made daily into broadcloth. HERKIMER COUNTY, This beautiful village is situated upon both sides of the Mohawk river72 miles west from Albany, and 22 miles east of Utica. The Erie canal passes through it on the south bank of the river, (over the latter there is an aqueduct, forming a navigable feeder,) and the great western turnpike, and the Utica rail road on the north bank. The population is now about 2,000, and is rapidly increasing. This place, remarkable for the healthiness of its location, is singularly fortunate in possessing a great water power, which is estimated by engineers to be equivalent to 750,000 spindles power. Arrangements are now completed to dispose of this power at cheap prices, as fast as it may be needed by individual enterprise. The improvements already made of it are considerable, viz. three furnaces, one turning shop, three paper mills, one machine shop, two saw mills, one flouring mill, one grist mill, one plaster mill, three tanneries, and one carriage maker's shop. A woollen factory, and a flouring mill, with four runs of stone, are to be erected the present season. This place being the centre of a rich agricultural country, carries on a considerable trade with Albany and New York. The item of cheese alone shipped by its merchants on the canal, during the last season, amounted to upwards of $350,000. The largest portion of the real estate has been purchased by Richard R. Ward, Esq., of New-York, and the lots brought into market, so that the rapid improvement of the village may now be expected. LIVINGSTON COUNTY, Mount Morris Village. The village of Mount Morris is situated at the head of boat navigation of the Genesee river, 36 miles south of Rochester, and about the same distance west of Canandaigua. The site is particularly beautiful, (being on a moderate elevation above the fertile flats which border the river,) not only for its scenery; but the soil, being a light sand, is commonly dry, the hardest rains being absorbed, and disappearing in a few hours. Mud is seldom seen in the streets. The place was formerly the site of an Indian village, and by the first white settlers was called Allen's Hill, from its being the property of a white man of that name, who resided for many years among the natives. He married an Indian woman, and has descendants among the Indians of Canada. There were white families here more than forty years ago, and about that time a number of enterprising people came to the place, in anticipation of a sale of the land, which did not take place, however, till a number of years afterwards. The village was then chiefly settled, (upwards of 20 years ago,) by families mostly from Connecticut. Since the first few years after the sale of the land, the increase has been slow, till the last five or six years. The water power, procured by means of a canal three miles in length, connecting the Genesee river with the Canaseraga creek, has given an impulse to the village, which has appeared in the erection of several neat and respectable buildings. It now contains 2 meeting-houses, 3 taverns, 9 dry goods stores, 3 groceries, 2 hat stores and manufactories, 1 tannery and 2 shoe stores, 3 cabinet shops, 1 chair factory, 1 bakery, 1 iron foundry, 1 plough factory, 1 wagon factory, 2 blacksmith shops, 1 hardware store and tin factory, 2 saddle and harness shops, 3 tailor shops, 2 drug shops, 1 carding and cloth dressing establishment, I printing office, 1 flouring mill, and 3 saw mills in the immediate vicinity, &c., &e. The present number of inhabitants is probably about 600, and is rapidly increasing; and it may with truth be said, that there are few places whose inhabitants are more industrious, temperate, and of course healthful. Dansville Village. Dansville village, in the town of Sparta, is situated at the head of the Genesee Valley, at the distance of about 45 miles from Rochester. The valley is continued from Mount Morris, where it diverges from the Genesee river, by Canaseraga creek, a stream abounding with mill sites, and nearly as large as the river above the point of junction. At the village, two other streams, called Great and Little Mill Creeks, having each a number of valuable mill sites, unite with the Canaseraga. The village is the most populous in the county, containing about 1,200 inhabitants, and nearly 200 persons qualified to vote at the state elections. It contains 4 establishments for the manufacture of paper, each having a double engine, and using in all about a ton of rags per day. It has also 5 grain mills, 3 of which are costly ones; 1 clover mill, which has prepared in one season for market about 1,500 bushels of clover seed; 1 blast furnace, 2 trip-hammers, 5 tanneries, and a proportionate number of manufacturing and mechanic establishments, in the various other departments. In the village are 4 religious societies, a Presbyterian, a Lutheran, a Methodist, and an Episcopalian; the three former of which have commodious, well finished, convenient edifices for public worship. The soil, in the immediate vicinity of the village, is partly alluvial flats, and partly superior bottom timbered land, and the principal part of the valley, as well as the highlands which enclose it, is first quality wheat land. South of the village, the country is thickly covered with pine timber, of a quality not inferior to any in the country. Within the circle of a few miles, there are 60 saw mills, which make immense quantities of pine lumber, the principal part of which finds a ready market at the north. Sparta is the largest town in the county: by the census of 1835, the population was 4,507. It contains 6 postoffices. The uplands, with very little exception, are a superior soil for wheat; the flats are of the best quality for grazing and summer grain. The Canaseraga swamp, situated in this and the adjoining town, (Groveland,) is about to be thoroughly drained, and when the work is completed, (which is now in progress,) it will compare in richness with any town in western New-York, MONROE COUNTY. WATER POWER OF ROCHESTER. The water power of the two great Falls at Rochester, is estimated as equal to 1,920 steam engines of 20 horse power. The total value of this water power, calculated according to the cost of steam-power in England, is almost incredible to those unacquainted with such subjects-amounting as it would to nearly ten millions of dollars ($9, 718,272) for its annual use! When in connexion with this vast water-power, we consider the great faculties which Rochester enjoys, (by lake, canal and river,) for receiving wheat and other raw materials from, and shipping flour and other manufactures for, all desirable points either in the United States or the Canadas, we may more fully appreciate the importance of the present milling and manufacturing establishments, and confidently anticipate the continued prosperity and prospective greatness of the city. The amout of capital invested in the twenty-one flouring mills exceeds half a million of dollars, ($540,000,) as was ascertained on a late accurate examination, by Thomas H. Rochester, Esq., one of a committee appointed by the common council to collect the statistics of the city. Annual value of flour manufactured three millions of dollars. Among the other manufactures of Rochester, are woollen, cotton, leather, jewelry, iron, brass, machinery, edge tools, fire engines, carriages, lumber, boat building, coopering, cabinet making, soap and candles, breweries, hats and caps, marble works, boots and shoes, tobacco, snuff and segars, whips, npholstery, &c, |