habitants, one hundred frame caps, are arranged along a fine cadwelling houses, ten large blocks nal, 30 feet wide and from 6 to 7 of brick buildings, three churches, feet deep, extending from the dam stores, &c. There are four at the north of the village to the cotton mills, and one woollen. southern extremity of it. The cotton mills contain, it is The woollen mill is a six story said, more spindles than are run brick building, 220 feet in length, by any other establishment in the containing all the machinery neUnited States, viz. thirty one thou- cessary for the manufacture of sand! with preparations sufficient from 120 to 130,000 yards of fine to supply nine hundred looms, broadcloth yearly. This is also which produce six millions of said to be the largest woollen manyards of cotton cloth per annum. ufactory in America. Upwards of These mills consume annually 200,000 pounds of wool, 5,000 galabove 3,000 bales of cotton, weigh- lons of oil, 150 tons anthracite ing 1,250,000 lbs. The largest coal, are consumed, besides indimill is 400 feet long and six sto- go, madder, copperas, together ries high, and contains 22,000 with numerous kinds of drugs nespindles and 650 looms. The cotton mills alone give employment to 90 men, over 100 boys and 600 females. They use from 7 to 8,000 gallons of oil, 200 tons of anthracite coal, 500 barrels of flour for sizing, and 300 sides of leather. The mills, which are of brick, handsomely ornamented with hammered granite sills and window cessary in the manufacture of woollen cloth, annually giving em. ployment within the establishment to 300 individuals. Connected with the woollen, is a carpet manufactory, where the best description of ingrain carpeting is made. The factory is capable of producing 150,000 yards annually. MASSACHUSETTS. MILITIA CLAIMS.-An act was passed at the 1st session of the 21st Congress, authorizing the adjustment of this claim upon certain principles. The Secretary of War, however, was not disposed to facilitate the settlement, and the Governor of Massachusetts published the correspondence between himself and the War Department, with the view of bringing the subject under the notice of the public. The claim was finally adjusted, and the Governor, in a message to the House of Representatives, acknowedged the receipt of $419,748 26 from the Secretary of the Treasury, under the act of Congress which provided for the settlement of the Massachusetts claims. In Middlesex, Edward Everett; 66 Hampden, Isaac C. Bates; "Barnstable, John Reed; Debts due, and considered doubtful 398,763 74 901,823 53 462,045 06 Franklin, Geo. Grennell, jr.; Rate of dividend on amount of capital o "Berkshire, Geo. N. Briggs; 66 Norfolk, H. A. S. Dearborn; "Plymouth, John Q. Adams. In Essex North and in Bristol districts there was no choice. The determination of the late President of the United States, to yield to the wishes of his neighbors and to represent them in Con. gress, excited much surprise among those who were unac quainted with the plain, unassuming republican principles, which had always characterised Mr. Adams's conduct, both in public and private. Great efforts were made to divert him from his purpose; but, sustained by a consciousness of rectitude, he resolved to accept of the station offered to him, and to illustrate, in his own person, one of the fundamental principles of our political institutions. Some efforts were made to excite an opposition, but he was elected by the almost unanimous suffrages of his district. all the banks, as existing when dividend was made 2 52-100 pr. cent. Average of 61 banks, making dividends 2 46-100 pr. cent. Several banks, whose capital has been reduced, return the rate and amount of dividend on their former capitals. NORTH EAST BOUNDARY.-The Governor, in his speech to the Legislature, expressed an opinion against the validity of the award, and observed, that the King of the Netherlands palpably departed from the plain terms of the submission, and substituted a proposition to a compromise of diffi culties, for an award of the matter directly in issue between the parties. As an arbiter, his office strictly was to apply a descriptive line of boundary,, to corresponding appearances on the face of nature.' Rejecting these, he has attempted to establish a new course of division, denoted by monuments totally dissimilar, and, through a tract of country distant and widely different. By no rule of municipal or international law can such a decision be made of binding obligation. There is no occasion to inquire into the extraordinary influences, which may be supposed to have produced it. A preference by any portion of the subjects of his Majesty's province to a popular government, would have been as valid a reason for transferring Nova Scotia to the United States, as the convenience to the British Government of a road through the State of Maine to Canada; for assigning the lands between the waters of the St. John's and the Highlands, intended by the treaty of 1783, to the British province. Confidently believing that the award, as an adjudication, is altogether void, I can see no constitutional power in the nation, to require an acquiescence in it, on the part of the States, which would be prejudiced by its adoption. This must be left to their own volition. Massachusetts, it is true, can suffer directly, only in the loss of property; but her sympathies are not the less due to the State of Maine, in the greater stake of physical and political strength which is there at hazard. Were it not for the Act of separation, her condition had been our own. The consent of the parent • State to the erection of territory to which she claimed an absolute title, of which, from time immemorial, she had been in the actual and exclusive possession, and over which she exercised undisputed jurisdiction, into an independent government, was, at least, an implied warranty against its subsequent liability to foreign dismemberment. The inefficiency and inequality of the present system of militia laws, are then pointed out; and it is strongly recommended that the several States concur in Jaying the subject before the Congress of the United States. The fiscal concerns of the commonwealth, are not, it appears, in a thriving condition. The expenditures exceeded the receipts from the ordinary sources of revenue; the disbursements for the past year having been $681,481 68; while the receipts amounted only to $625,059 23, leaving a deficiency of $56,422 45. FEDERAL JUDICIARY.-The determination expressed by the government of Georgia, to disregard the mandates of the Supreme Court of the United States, had now become so prominent a subject in the general politics of the country, and so directly aimed at a dissolution of the bonds of the Union, as to command universal attention; and a Committee was created in the Massachusetts legislature, to take the subject into consideration. The following resolutions were reported by that Committee, and passed by the legislature. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, that the Federal Constitution, the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, are the supreme law of the land; and that the Judges in every State are bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. Resolved, That the Judicial power of the United States extends to all cases in law and equity, arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and the treaties made under their authority; and that no State can rightly enjoin upon its executive officers to disregard or resist by force, any process or mandate which may be served upon them, in such cases, in due form of law, by authority of the Courts of the United States. Resolved, That it is the duty of the President of the United States, to take care that the constitution, the laws of the United States, and the treaties made under the authority, are faithfully executed, anything in the constitution, laws or acts of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives of the State of Massachusetts, in the present and next Congress, be, and they here by are requested and instructed to use all the means in their power, to preserve inviolate the public faith of the country, and to sustain the rightful authority of the Government of the United States, in all its departments. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he hereby is, requested, to transmit a copy of these resolutions, and of the report proceeding them, to the Governors of all the other States; to the end, that they may be submitted to the Legislatures of the same, for their consideration; and also to the Senators and Representatives of the State, in this, and the next Congress. All which is respectfully submitted. A. H. EVERETT, Chairman of the Committee. The House of Representatives determined at the June Session, 1831, by a vote of 291 to 108, in favor of an amendment of the constitution, reducing the number of representatives in the State legislature. BERKSHIRE COUNTY.-But a few years since, says a correspondent of a Salem paper, this was a famous dairying county; but the diminished price of butter and cheese, from the immense quantities produced in the Western States, and the greatly enhanced value of wool, have caused an almost entire change of herds for flocks. In many towns, there are now more than twenty sheep for each inhabitant. In one little town, of about 800 inhabitants only, there are more than 15,000 sheep, mostly of fine fleeces, affording an income to the town of 20 or 25,000 dollars. The neighboring towns consume most of the wool raised upon the Mountains, as this region is very descriptively called. Lee has several paper mills; Lanesborough, Pittsfield, Adams, and Lenox, and particularly West Stockbridge, quarry immense quantities of white and gray marble; and make a great deal of lime for the Southern market. In Adams, there is a statuary marble of a good quality; and in Lenox, very profitable bog iron ore, which is made into various castings. TROY, OF FALL RIVER, is situated on Taunton River, not far from the head of Mount Hope bay, and is accessible to vessels drawing four feet of water, at any stage of the tide. The population exceeds 4,000. The fall is about 128 feet in height, and extends 2,500 feet; it is divided by nine dams, which give to each an average fall of 14 feet. Here are eight cotton factories, which employ 1,276 hands, three fourths of whom are females; run 31,458 spindles, and 1,041 looms, and consume annually 6,108 bales, or 2,289,000 pounds of cotton. There are also here, a satinet factory, employing 160 hands, and producing 5,000 yards a week, which is equal to about $195,000 per year; bleaching and printing works, where 260 hands are employed, and 16,800 yards are bleached and printed daily; at this establishment, 100 pounds of bleaching salts, and 100 pounds of oil of vitriol, are used daily; and 120 tons of madder, 1,000 tons of anthracite, and 400 tons of bitumous coal, are consumed annually. There are are also iron works, where a thousand tons of iron are manufactured yearly, and about 25 hands are employed. NEW BEDFORD, situated on Buzzard's Bay, contains about 8,000 inhabitants, and probably employs more shipping, than any town of its size in the United States, if not in the world. It is estimated, that there are 40,000 tons, employed in the whale fishery, 10,000 in other foreign fisheries, 1200 in cod and mackerel fishing, and 8,000 in the coastwise trade. The ship Maria,of this town, which was in port in August 1831, and ready for another whal. ing voyage, was bought on the stocks, by William Roach, in 1792. She was the first ship that ever hoisted the American flag in London, has been almost in constant employ, and was then able to perform three or four more voyages without repair. There are There are in New Bedford, three banks, three insurance offices, ten places of public worship, and seven large manufactories of sperm candles. The tenth sale of the New England Society (says the Boston Patriot,) was well attended, and the goods went off at high prices, and with great spirit. The sales will amount to upwards of $400,000. We observed many southern purchasers present, more than at any previous sale. We understand that a very large lot of prints was offered for sale, amounting to nearly 220,000 dollars. Speaking of the town of LOWELL, the Salem Mercury says-Speculations in land, in this flourishing town, have been carried within a few weeks, beyond all, former example.-Numbers who but recently, were in moderate pecuniary circumstances, have amassed independent fortunes by this means. Real estate has risen within the last eighteen months, nearly one hundred per cent. Some lots of land well situated for business, which were sold within six months for two shillings per foot, have been sold within a few weeks for 75 cents a foot! Last Wednesday, a lot of land was purchased by two gentlemen for twenty-five thousand dollars, and on the same day they sold one half of it at an advance of forty thousand dollars. Buildings, it is said, rent for a greater profit in Lowell, than in any other town in New England, averaging fifteen or twenty per cent. per annum, on the capital in There are upwards of two hundred ships employed in the whaling business from that port, and the number is rapidly increasing. The benefits derived by that town, from this productive business, are immense. The tonnage of the port is considerably greater than that of Salem; and next in New England, to Boston. Its population has nearly doubled, in the last ten years; and it bids fair in a short time to outstrip the other New England commercial towns, in population, as it has already done in commerce. Its present population is 8,000. A great many new buildings are annually erected, and numerous other improvements are actively and constantly going forward. This prosperity is the result vested. alone of the successful pursuit of the whale fishery. RHODE ISLAND. ELECTION.-April, 1831. At THE HOME MARKET.--The conthe gubernatorial election, the votes stood for Samuel H. Arnold (opposition,) sumption of cotton at Providence, R. I. and its vicinity, for the year ending 30th Sept. 1830, was 43,James Fenner (Jackson,) 2877 000 bales, worth $1,700,000. 3778 |