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of the goods manufactured here annually, is $160,000; 350 persons are employed, whose wages range from $2 to $9 weekly. If I desired to exhibit the contrast between an English and American factory village, I would point to New York Mills. There is but one tavern in the village, and on this sign stands in bold letters "New York Mills Total Abstinence Tavern." There is not a drinking shop near the factory. The hands are healthy, well dressed, and intelligent, and their wages are above the average wages of the country in other employments. The manager, who is also one of the proprietors, not only makes the business very profitable, but by his judicious measures and liberal charities, consults the real welfare and happiness of his people.

Communication from Noah Webster.

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books, is the discrepancies in the orthography of words.— The principal objection ever made to my philological The objection is well founded, and the reasons of it may be easily understood.

fidence in British authorities, that I adopted the orthography When I began to write books for schools, I had such conof such authors as I had. These were very few, for the British troops had possession of New York; we had no direct intercourse with England, and scarce half a dozen books which I wanted could be obtained. I had then no idea of investigating the principles of orthography, and of reducing duced into my first book a spelling of many words which I classes of words to uniformity. The result was that I introafterwards found to be wrong.

The Oriskany factory for the manufacture of woollen goods, stands on the Oriskany creek, a short distance from its mouth, and immediately on the Erie canal. There has been expended here since the first directions $200,000. The had formed the plan of reform.ing the common spelling of When I prepared my large dictionary for publication, I principal building is 120 by 10 feet, the other 60 by 35, certain words and classes of words, in which errors had ob both of brick, three stories high besides basement and attic. scured the original and perverted the sense; but some other There are several other buildings occupied in the business. classes were overlooked. No discerning man can be sur180,000 pounds of wool are used annually, and are worked prised at this fact, when he considers that I was deeply enup into broadcloths and cassimeres. One hundred and fif-gaged in the etymology and definition of seventy thousand teen hands are employed of both sexes, whose wages range words, the affinities of some of which were to be traced from $150 to $9 per week. cation or uses of all were to be collected and explained. This through six, eight, ten or fifteen languages, and the signifivast labor demanded all the resources of my mind; a labor of which the book-makers who are now using my work for their own benefit, and have nothing to do but to hunt for differences of spelling in my books, have not the least con. ception.

The Dexter factory, about a mile farther up on the same stream, is also for the manufacture of woollen goods and carpets. There are two main buildings, both of brick, 80 feet by 36; 105 hands employed who earn from $2 to $6 per week.

In the village of Whitesboro' there is a pail factory, which does an extensive business, and in other parts of the town there are several other establishments of a similar character. The last valuation of real and personal estate for the town of Whitestown, is $782,980. The number of acres of land assessed, is 15,630; the valuation per acre is upwards of $40. The Syracuse and Utica railroal and Erie Canal, traverse this town running directly through the village of Whitesboro'; there are likewise excellent roads in all directions. The main road through Whitesboro' is a great thoroughfare; 900 conveyances of different kinds, were counted on an ordinary day last winter. Whitestown, September, 1841.

Northern Light.

Important Decision.

An important decision was made last week in the Superior Court of Jefferson County, Virginia, which is thus noticed in the Charleston Press: on Tuesday the long pending case of John Strider vs. Hefflebower & Co. was decided, in which the plaintiff claimed several thousand dollars damages for the destruction by fire, of his Flour mill on the Shenandoah River, in 1837, whilst in the occupancy of the defendants as tenants. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff.

An important principle has been established by this deci sion, namely, that the occupiers of mills, as tenants, must not only use due vigilance and care in the protection of the mill from fire, by friction of the machinery, but if they cannot prove conclusively the exercise of such vigilance and care, they will be held responsible for the property destroyed.

Cotton Bills.

The Southern Patriot says that an important change is about to be made in the method of drawing bills upon property shipped to foreign consignees, and expresses an opinion that the banks of Charleston will adopt the method in their transaction with bill drawers. The method proposed is, that in every instance, banks discounting bills should require an assignment of the bill of lading for each shipment of produce against which bills are drawn, as security that the proceeds will be applied to the payment of the bill.

It is stated in the Old Colony Memorial that 575 bushels of whortleberries have been purchased in Mansfield the past summer by the dealers in that fruit. They paid for them $745; and allowing their profits to be 75 cents per bushel, they sold them in Boston for $1176. The berries were picked by women and children, and all was done in the short space of one month.

ing something every year; and as new errors have been disDuring the whole period of my studies, I have been learncovered, I have set myself to correct them. This process is necessary to the ultimate result. In the last edition of the American Dictionary, I have completed my corrections; and directions have been given for correcting my other books, to render them conformable to the large work. As more than twenty sets of stereotype plates of the Elementary Spelling Book are to be corrected, it must be a work of time.

The abridgment of the octavo was not executed by myself, nor am I at present the owner of the work; but the proprietors are engaged in rendering it in all material points, conformable to the American Dictionary. Northern Light. N. WEBSTER.

Statue of Washington. statue of Washington to the Rotunda of the Capitol, withCaptain Easby, has succeeded in removing the colossal out the slightest injury either to the statue or to any one engaged in the difficult work of its removal.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 1841. Gentlemen-I have the pleasure to inform you that the statue of Washington, by Greenough, has been safely removed and placed in the Rotunda of the Capitol, and that it has not received the slightest damage. It now awaits the erection of the pedestal on which it is to rest when finished.

The statue weighs about fourteen tons, and was raised from the ground to the level of the floor on the Rotunda-a height of twenty-six feet-in twenty-five minutes, and placed on the way which had been prepared for it. I take this opportunity publicly to tender my thanks to Mr. Wm. Waters, the experienced boatswain attached to the Navy Yard at this place, for the aid he voluntarily rendered me in the elevation of the statue to its required height. The preparation of the shears and the necessary tackle were under his immediate direction. The manner in which he performed the task shows that he is an excellent rigger, and fully deserving of the esteem in which he is held by the officers under whom he has served. He has been in the naval service of the United States nineteen years-seventeen years of that time in active service. It is to be regretted that Congress has made no adequate provision for rewarding meritorious warrant officers for long, arduous, and faithful services. Very respectfully, yours, &c.

WM. EASBY. [National Intelligencer.