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will have the most cordial concurrence of the Executive. An institution has recently been established in Gardiner, upon a plan original in its design, but promising much solid public utility. The encouragement of those arts by which the labor of man can be aided and rendered more productive is worthy of the patronage of any government. It is more particularly so in a country abounding in large tracts of rich, uncultivated soil, on which surplus labor may be advantageously employed. As the benefits to be derived from this institution will be realized by the agriculturalist, and the mechanic it may properly be considered in connexion with these employments as considered in connexion with these employments as promotive of the public interest and consequently entitled to the public patronage. The success of manufacturing establishments must eventually be as interesting to this, as to either of the States in the Union. The products of these establishments have already excluded from importation a great proportion of foreign cotton and woolen goods of the coarser kind. The manufacture of the latter article in all its varieties and qualities would seem to be equally as important to this State, as to either of its neighbors. Our climate requires as great a supply of Woolen goods of every description; and our farms will yield the raw material in as great perfection, and with as little expense. By attention to this branch of industry, the agricultural interest is promoted and a substantial benefit results to the whole State by retaining within itself, the capital with which articles of the first necessity have heretofore been purchased in Europe, and furnishing to its citizens like articles of equal and perhaps superior quality from their own farms and workshops at home. Whatever, therefor, may be done with propriety