New England Factories

The tariíTof '46, as Isaid last winter, inslend of destroying monopoly, has established it nNew England; it haschecked investments every else, broke down the weak, and stopped the new beginners in thb Middle, Southern and Western States, where they must have proection to help them forward. Bul in !iew England, where they have unbounded weakh, skill, capital invesled and machinery in operation, they cun and will go on ; and perhaps there never was a lime when more capital was being invested in manufactures than there is at this moment in New England - they are erecting them not by the foot but by the mile. I saw a whole city building up in the midit of a snow siorm - not a hand stopping or descending from the house tops. Three or four incorporated companies, with three or four millions of cnpital, all at work erecting factories by the dozen and houses by ihe hundred - one machine shop 1,000 feet long, and a single factory the floors of which would cover seven acres of ground - another which will consume the wool of 800,000 sheep annually, and ono for colton which will employ 1,800 girls - and countless oïhers going up or commencing in this new city, on the Merrimack, half way between Boston and JLowell, not yet nanied. In Lowell they are opening a ne'v race or canal at a cost of half a million, to drive a ncw set oí fnctoKes built and building, perhaps equal in power and extent to those already in operation there. l savv in one factory 1300 beautiful girls, with cheerfulnes?, happiness, intelligence and conten:ment legibly written on every