The Saco Factorics.

As some curiosity is manifested by people in other parts of the State respecting the extent of the business of the York Manufacturing Company in this town, we have obtained for publication the following particulars, which may be relied upon :

The capital stock of the company is one million of dollars. They have in operation three mills, one of which is 210 feet in length, 45 in width, and five stories in height, including the basement and attic. The other two are 115 feet in length, and the same width and height as the first mentioned-containing in the whole 17,800 spindles and 570 looms.

The number of females employed during the last

year was, on an average..

The number of males..
Yards of cloth made per week.

Cords of wood per year.

Tons Potato Starch, per year...

or more than 1200 lb. per week.

Gallons Oil used per week....

800

200 102,200 100 900 300 30

100

The usual amount of the pay roll for wages is $3,000 per week, or about $150,000 per year. The cost of Cotton per year at the present prices is $250,000. The boards used in making boxes for packing the goods amount to more than 1000 feet per day.

The various articles of dye stuffs, make a large item. The quantity of copperas used the last six months was more than 1400 pounds per week, and the cost of indigo was $3000 per month for the last year. The amount of freight received or shipped is equal to 100 tons per week.

No hands, male or female, are employed under 14 years of age, and very few under 16. None are admitted until they have been properly instructed in reading and writing, and in order to show their proficiency, they are in all cases required to write their names before going into the Mills.Writing Schools are generally kept in the evening for the improvement of those who desire it.

It is a general regulation of the Company that those in their employment, or living in their houses, who have not had the kine pox, should be vaccinated, and a physician is employed for that purpose. An arrangement is also made with the physicians of the place, at the expense of the Company, to attend, in case of sickness, upon all females in their employment, without charge to them for medical advice or attendance.-Bost. Advertiser.

Bank Certificates.

A very interesting case was decided by Alderman Mitchell yesterday afternoon, touching the liabilities of the banks to pay in specie the certificates of deposit lately issued by them. The facts of the case are, that a certificate of deposit issued by the Moyamensing Bank having expressed in its face the following contract:

"The Moyamensing Bank will receive this certificate on deposit, or in payment of debts due to the Institution as five dollars,"

and signed and dated in the regular manner, was offered on deposit by Mr. A. Miller, and said deposit was entered in a book, in which was written another contract to the following effect;

"All deposits made on and after this date, March 8, 1841, will be paid in current funds in sums not less than five dollars."

Seeing which the plaintiff refused to accept of this new condition, and demanded payment of the certificate in gold or silver, this also was refused, and the action was brought to recover damages from the Bank for debt arising out of a breach of contract.

Mr. Raybold, the solicitor of the Bank, denied that the Bank was liable to pay the certificate in gold and silver, inasmuch as there was nothing on its face which expressed

any such intention by the Bank. That this was a private contract, and that the Bank could only pay in the same kind that she received.

Mr. Miller urged that it was a liability, as the notes had been given for a fair consideration, and moreover as the certificate expressed on its face that it would be received by the Bank as five dollars, and that they had refused to receive the certificate on deposit according to its provisions, but had sought to trammel its reception with a new contract which the plaintiff would not agree to; that the Bank having thus refused to receive the certificate on deposit, was bound to redeem it in legal money.

Alderman Mitchell remarked in his decision, that the refusal of the bank to receive the certificates unless accompanied by a new provision, which it was perfectly optional with the depositor to accept or refuse, was a breach of contract, and that the bank having failed to comply with the stipulation of the certificate, was bound to redeem them in legal currency, and therefore he gave a verdict against the bank of $5 and costs of suit.

It may be remarked that the certificates of all the banks, with the exception of the Girard Bank, are printed from the same plate, and the names of the different banks printed into a blank space with common type. The Girard Bank has a plate of its own.-Philadelphia Gazette.

State Bank of Illinois.

The Legislature of Illinois has repealed that section of the act incorporating this institution, which declared its charter forfeited by a suspension of specie payments for more than sixty days at a time, and authorized it to issue, for the period of two years, one, two, and three dollar notes. By the same act of the Legislature, the Bank is allowed to charge seven per cent. interest upon all accommodations for shorter periods than six months, and nine per cent. upon accommodations for a period longer than this. In consideration of these favors to the Bank, she is required to take within two years $200,000 of State Bonds at par, the proceeds of which are to be applied to the payment of interest on the State Debt.

Destructive Freshct.

Apprehensions have been entertained of great injury from the heavy fall of water which has taken place within the last two or three days. These fears have been realized in their fullest extent.

A conductor attached to the Augusta and Hamburg railroad, arrived this morning from Hamburg, having walked from Branchville. He left Hamburg on Thursday, at 15 minutes after seven in the morning, and Branchville yester day at 11 A. M. When he left Hamburg the abutments of the bridge and all the embankments for 20 or 30 feet on each side at Horse Creek were carried away. At Hamburgh the water was within eight feet of being as high as the late freshet, and was then rising 18 inches the hour. A portion of the town was under water.

At the foot of the Inclined Plane the banks were all falling in, covering the track of the road. There was no further injury until reaching the Edisto bridge-the water was there one foot high on the side of the bridge, and within six inches of the sills of the bridge, for one mile and a half. The road had given way at Four Holes for three quarters of a mile, and at Cattle Creek. The water at Four Holes is up to the rails and has carried away the embankment.

The Locomotive Ravenel had started on Thursday to give assistance to passengers coming down, and at the second culvert, Four Hole Swamp, the road gave way and threw her on the embankment, where she now lies. She had a freight car attached which floated off with the rail-road hands, who were all, however, safe, the water at that point being ten feet deep.

Great apprehensions are entertained for Hamburg, as it will be seen at the time our informant left, the water was rising and heavy rains had occurred since.

The accounts from Orangeburg are nearly as bad-the State road is said to be covered with water, and the whole country is inundated.-Charleston Patriot.

The following resolutions in relation to the North-Eastern Boundary have been adopted in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by an unanimous vote.

Resolved, That the rights of the United States, and of the State of Maine, to require of Great Britain the literal and immediate execution of the terms of the second article of the treaty of 1783, so far as they relate to the boundary from the source of the St. Croix river to the North-Westernmost head of Connecticut river, remains, after the lapse of more than half a century, unimpaired by the passage of time or by the interposition of multiplied objections.

Resolved, That although there is no cause to apprehend any immediate collision between the two nations on account of the controversy respecting the said boundary, it is nevertheless most earnestly to be desired that a speedy and effectual termination be put to a difference, which might even, by a remote possibility, produce consequences that humanity would deplore.

having yet received the sanction of that government, is calculated to produce in every part of the United States where it is examined, a state of the public mind highly unfavorable to that conciliatory temper, and to that mutual confidence in the good intentions of each other, without which it is hopeless to expect a satisfactory result to controversies between nations.

Resolved, That the interest and the honor of Massachusetts alike demand a perseverance, not the less determined because it is temperate, in maintaining the rights of Maine. And that we now cheerfully repeat our often recorded response to her demand, that the justice which has been so long withheld should be speedily done to her-and that, whilst we extend to her our sympathy for her past wrongs, we again assure her of our unshaken resolution to sustain the territorial rights of the Union.