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TM1 BncnMnsa oR WooGEElss.-Tho Low ell Courier contains letter from, Mr. Lotus Norton, of Goshen, Connecticut, to Mr. sam. uel Lawrence of Boston, which gives his tory of one of the first, # not quite the first, systematic effort to manufacture woollens upon an extended scale. The scene is laIf in l6l3-l4, ard looks strangely in com parison with things in le4S. Three men, of whom Mir. Norton was one, put together a capital of six thousand dollars. and establish. ed factory in Goshen, which cost over three thousand dollars. Wool cost a dollar and a half a pound, and badly made broad cloths brought from $a 40 to $l2 per yard, One invoice of 176 l.2 yards brought total of @l,769 B. Another invoice of 20S yards brought $2.55l l5; OF more than $1O a yard. Such cloths, if they would sell at all now, would bring about one dollar yard. But as it was, the war came to an end,a del

 uge of English cloths overwhelmed the little Yankee factory and the partners settled up with the loss of the capital and three times as much more. Such is an outline ot the first essay, or one of the first, at making

 broadcloths in this country. and the losses were hardly an apology for the hundreds ot thousands which have heen lost since, though however the Yankees have gone on undaunted. until in many articles they are able now to defy the skill of the old nations. In those days, merino sheep were the most beautiful animals which walked the earth, and their price was from one hundred to ht- teen hundred dollars. He was a great man who owned sheep, and not small man who could say that he owned a quarter of one.