Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PROVIDENCE, August 4.

We beg leave to lay before our readers the following extract of a letter from North-Carolina, of July 10,-- the contents of which, we presume, are far more interesting to the inhabitants of this country, than the account lately published of the superb dresses exhibited in London on the birth day of the Queen of England :--

"A paper currency has generally taken place of gold and silver here, and it circulates on equal footing therewith; it has already had the good effect of ridding the country of those foreign adventurers who flocked here with their goods at the conclusion of the late war, and with these people the state has got rid of great quantities of foreign commodities, which we can do very well without: this circumstance has turned the attention of the inhabitants to domestick manufactures; and it is now common to see our ladies of the first character habited in pretty cottons, with handsome muslin aprons, knitting handkerchiefs, and thread laces, all of their own country manufacture; many of our gentlemen of rank have also appeared in Jeans and cotton stripes of an excellent quality, manufactured among us from cotton of our own growth."

In addition to the above we are informed, that bedspreads, or counterpanes, are made in Virginia and North-Carolina, from cotton the growth of these States, not inferior in beauty to those imported from abroad.

Are not our southern fellow citizens highly deserving of imitation, in such instances of publick spirit, industry and oeconomy? We would particularly recommend the patriotism and ingenuity of their ladies, as examples, which our fair countrywomen would derive honour and praise from copying. An American woman, attired in apparel the production and fabrick of her own country, (if not the work of her own hands) must appear infinitely more amiable in the eyes of her gallant countrymen, than when flaunting in all the gaudy trappings and tinsel finery of foreign nations.