Kentucky Gazette

A weekly paper called "the Bee," has been commenced at Paterson, New-Jersey, by Peren Conover. From the vast increase of population and of business in that section of the state, we hope it may meet with liberal and efficient patronage. The following interesting and gratifying paragraph is from the first number:--True American.

A brief account of the Manufactories which are now in operation in this town.

From a calculation made by one of the most extensive manufacturers, it appears that there are 13 cotton spinning establishments, with about 17,000 spindles, employing between 60 and 70 men, 50 or 60 women, and 600 children in the spinning departments alone--also a large number employed in weaving--There are about 5 tons of yarn spun weekly, and a capital supposed to amount to 1,000,000 dollars engaged in the same.

The above with the addition of two or three other establishments, give employment and support to about two thousand inhabitants, a great number of them is poor, and dependant on the prosperity of the establishments for support--many families are entirely supported through the medium of their children's wages. How long they will be the support of numberless poor, depends on the government to decide.

From the recent statement of the Cotton manufacture in the vicinity of Providence, R. I. it appears that it is 50 per cent. greater than that of all Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1786. It also appears to be equal to one third of the whole exports of the U. States, in the first reported year of the present constitution, from September 1789 to September 1790.

Dem. Press.

The manufactory of flour and meal, as Merchant Mills, was formerly almost the exclusive business of the water mills within eight or ten miles of the city of Philadelphia. They are now very generally diverted from that employment to the more considerable business of manufacturing wool, cotton, iron, gunpowder, paper, wire, rolling, slitting, nail making, boring, grinding, polishing, stamping, &c. &c.

The counties of Philadelphia, Delaware and Gloucester are acquiring a congregation of villages and hamlets by these means, which upon the whole imports from the other counties and states, a balance of flour and meal to feed their swarming hives of industrious manufacturers and mechanics. All the metropolitan towns in our counties and the lesser towns and villages, exhibit the same evidences of the progress of manufacturing industry and skill. It is the interest of the United States, to bring the manufacturing purchasers to the doors of the farmers. This is happily exhibited in the distilleries, tanneries, flaxseed oil mills, flour mills, saw mills, smith shops, wool hatters, shoemakers, makers of ploughs, harrows and carriages, weavers, fullers, and other manufacturers who are scattered over the face of every county and almost every township.

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