Manufactures Of Massachusetts

I he annual valué of all the manufactures f Massachusetts exceeds $100,000,000. n 1837 the annual valúe of her woollen manufactures alone, was estimated by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, at $17,09,000; and in 1840 wasequai to aíl the ron, coal and wheat of?ennsylvania,and et she has less than one half the populaion, and only one sixih of her territoryn 1837 her cotton milis consumed $37,75,917 lbs. of cotlon, which at 10 Os. er Ib. was equal to $3,727,501, so Chai ic addiiional valué given to this ruw maïiial by the manfacturers was more than $13,000,000. The establishment of manfactures gives employment and oompeence to the industriou9 poor, and banishs poverty and vice. Ín Massachusetts )rty thousand females are employed in the ifferent branches of manufacturing indus ry - iifteen thousand, in the cotton manu acture - ten thousand in the woollen - and ifteen thousand in making straw bonnets, )a!m-leaf bats, stocks aud all the various rticles for which New England is noted. A late English writer states, that these felales receivean average compensation of $8 per month and board, which is $4,000,000 per annum. They are also moral and intelligent, and often leave the faetory fbr the Academy as soon as Jhey obtain, by thejr industry, the means of educalion. - There are in Massachusetfs between five and six hundred cotton and woollen factories, one of which consumes annually, between five and six thousand tons of Pennsylvania anthracite coal. N. Y. Evangelist. The National intelligencer, June lOth, contains two letters from two slaveholders, Botts and Stewart of Va. giving the reasons vvhy they voted against the gag-rule. Botts says among other things, that "if left to themselves the abolitionists are irrevocably dead." (News is'nt it?)- Stuart wishes to "show to the world their insignlficance in regard to numbers and clinracter. This can be done only by receiving their p.etitions, referring them, having a' report and a direct vote on the question of abolition or no nbolition unmingled with the rights of petition,or any other collaleral question." (Justwhnt we want.) "If this cour3e had been taken years ago Ibolieve that the abolilion fanaticism would have sharcd the fate of the Sunday mail excitment." (What n pity that was not