Cotton Manufactures

1 iic pipers state that a vessel lutely cleared j ut Boslon for London with four hundred balea of drillings on board, which are believed to be the first American cotton fabiïcs sent to Great liritnin. The Tribune says the qnamity of calicóes pnntcd in this coünlry is estimated at 100,000 pieces, or 3.300,000 yards per weck. One house in New Yoik deals in )1,S branch of cotton fubrics exclu-ively. They have about 1000 pattcins ond colorines. The Tribune addstbat 200,000 packages of cotton goods liave been sold within a few days for export to Clima, and a considerable qimntity had been shipped to Englnnd. When we conpider how recent is the origin of our eotton mamifacturee, this progresa i-ftnostgratiryintr. The Albany Argus'says that tvventy-five years ago all the goods used in this country wcre made in English milis. The same articlo at tbis day sells for 0 cents a yard which then sold for 20 cents. Lowe'J, a city not then in existcnce, now competes with Manchester.OT5 At the la'e inniversary of the American A. S. Society in New York, George Douglas, formcrlyn elave, nddrested the Jarge audiencfi mucli to Ibeir satisfaction. He afh'rmed that a knowledge of the doing-s of aboi litionists wasgenernüy known to the Slave I and that it was the great induccmcnt for them lo wait paticntly for deliverance. He said: Sir, the slave sees that God hns raised up a miglity work in his belialf, among the people of t'hoNor'h, whcn he observes íhe relnctnnce wifh wliich the slave owner now mnkes his tonra lo the Nortli. The slave is now not inkeii as a part of the retinue of his master I on the boot of the stage, as before. He eoon i finds his 'proporty' amoni? the missing, jf he i does: and then he comes back. and curses the i abolitionists of Wip Norili; and, in ansvver to the demand, where is Sam, or Dick, or Bill? sl.ives who have remair)od bhind hear him ; sny, the infernal aboIitionUts have cot liold of liirn, thcy begin to fee! tliat fhcy hite friends, and thnt Ihe timo wil como when the pxertions ! of sueli uill he used for their lilieraiion as vvell J as tlint of tlicir brethcren. This it is whiclj tcoches tlie poor plave where his liope is,_ that it is in tlie 'Anti Slnvery Sociely,' and in thegrowing feelmg of Ihe north, ín favor of the oppressed, and against oppression." [Vociferous applaiisc]Qr" Vaiions rnmórs iré aílont in the papers tendifig lo show lliat Daniel Webster intends to oro into the Presido, cy nn the Two Hundred Million schemc - that he has resigned his office for the express parpose oi'cornmeucinjr a clectioneerinnf carppajgn - tbat sevpral papers have already exproásed their preference for him - and that a demons tration in his favor wil! be made at ihe néxt Whig State Convención of Mássachdsetts. Every one will believe ihee thinjrs if he please. It 3 certain, hovvover, that serious apprehonsions are enUrtaincd in Mussichusetts tliat tlie Whigf Convention wil] back out olll.eir insane nomiiiaiinn of llenry Cliy last year. The New Bodford Mercury has a hibored article áffflinst t, declarinw ihnt if Mr. Clay be abíindoned ncu; he will be abandoned forevn; and not nly sn, hut "tho Wtig spirit hall be broken, ind the Whig counsela divided."05 The Su perjn. tendente of Common Schools of the severa! cpupties of New York lately met in Convent ion nt Albany. Corpor. ui punishnient in schools wns discnssed.- A large majority were for retaining ijie power (o puni .■!), but for using it as little ss possible, am! always in private, and accompaned wiib fricndly adnwnition tn the offendcr. The recitntion of mornl preerpts, and a dnily lesson n matters of social and moral obliirntion, were recommomled . A virrorons examination into tlie moral cliaractcr of teachers was advUed. Instances were adduced of teachers notoriously proföne. Sörrie wero in ihe habit of getl:j)g anmkoncc a week! Tiie suggestions of this Convention in regard to the government of schools are worthy of fitten! ion. Just in proportion as the nioial senliments of the Scholars ar.5 developed, personal chaslisement can be dispensed with. Chiidren are inoral is weli as iotalléctimi beings, and as much wins should be taken in teaching them their doties to (huir fcllow creaturen, as in making them acrjuuinted with their cnmlition and hisory, or imparting a knowledge of the globe they inhabit .Qá? Fifteen slave, uvorncn, t!j-eG ivomen, aíid (en chilclren, lately colonized from Wood Count)', Virginia. Some twenty-five patriarchs crossed the Ohio iu pnrsuit, "breathing1 out threatenings and Blaugfrter,1 and offering $1.200 reward. Il was all in vain! The feel- ings of humanity were more thnn a match for Ihe slave-breodcr's gold. The patriarchs returned tlisconsolate. We appreliend Ihat a change will soon come over tlie spirit of their dream. A pursuit in the free States, wo supposo, even if successful, mnst cost nearly as miicli as it will come to at tho present low pricoof slavrs. The slavehnlders on the borders, when they o wake in the moniing-, and find Jim, Sally or Ned gone, will have occasion to bless their stars that any of their human cattle remain!Ö5"3 Thè students of -Shurtleff College, IllJDOÏP, have been forbidden to disenss tho morits of slavery. unless lo speak 'm its praisc. Tio probibition originated from a disenssion between two students, one from Missouri, and the qther an Illinoian. It s a Baptist Ini titution.