The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-16
terms used by our manufacturers are borrowed from

terms used by our manufacturers are borrowed from
the French and English.
However, there Is good deal doing by our man
ufacturers that is not indicated by the Patent Office
There is an establishment in this city that employs
about one hundred persons, half of them women, in
ornamenting porcelain. The white China is inn
ported from France and England, and the rich
gliding and delicate painting are added here by
which very great saving is made; as it is the
painting Of such ware that constitutes its high
est value. This branch Of art man ufactures has
not been long established, but it has been emf
nently successful. II affords a kind Of pro-
htable employ ment for women, and, if properly
encouraged, would tend to develope the artistic
genius of the country more than any other kind Of
manufacturing business. The talent thus far
ployed has been merely mechanical, nearly all
the designs have been copied from foreign exam
Piles; but the degree of skill displayed by the
and women employed in the establishment which
visited gives the most encouraging evidence of
what might be accomplished. was shown din
ner-set that had just been finished for gentleman
at the South, the cost of which was four hundred
dollars.
Apropos to this subject. Mr.. William w Story,
only son of the late Judge Story, gentleman Of
rare accomplishments, abandoned the profession Of
the law some three or four years SINCE and went to
Italy to perfect himself i'll the art Of sculpture, for
which he evinced uncommon talents. short time
before the death of his father he executed bust of
that distinguished jurist, in marble, copy of
which has been ordered for the Inner Temple Lon
don. MIR. Story has recently returned from Rome,
and has brought with him some remarkably fine mo-
dcls which he made while there; of them, girl
writing with her finger in the sand the word lope,
is work Of great beauty and tenderness Of express
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friends in Boston, but will return to Rome with his
family, in the spring, to join his countrymen, Pow
ers, Grecnough, Crawford, Mosier, and others of
less note, who find it congenial to their tastes,
as well as more profitable in pecuniary view, to
prosecute their art in a city which has nothing but
remnants of antiquity to boast of than to reside in
their native country, where the only objects of art
are those that they create themselves.
All that art. science, and literature require in
this country, to place them on level with the old
world Is an international copyright law to protect
Us from the unpaid competition of Europe. If the
time should ever arrive when Congress will be free
from the exciting questions which, at best,
have no practical good, but threaten the practical
evil ola dissolution fthe States it is to be hoped that
some attention will be paid towards developing and
protecting the higher branches of national indus
try, well as the lower. Until some law shall
be passed recognising the right of property in
tho productions of the brain as well as in the
fruits of manual labor, must continue to be
dependent upon Europe for nearly every thing
that administers to the higher faculties of
ture. The artistic richness of which we can boast
is rather reproach than credit TO US, for it is
nearly all initiated from foreign models. In
very short time a national vessel will leave this
port to carry to the Worlds Exhibition, in Lon
don the evidences nf on claim ~ nh
other civilized nations of the world. Many ad-
mirable contrvances for saving human labor, ma
ny ingenious machines, and many samples of the
fatness Of our SOIL will be sent, no doubt but
fear that our contributions to the great exhibition
will make but a sorry show in the line of
mented goods, or art manufactures, by the side of
the contributions from the Oriental and European
nations. Our publishers this year have announced
some works of great beauty and high cost for the
| holiday season but the greater part of them
illustrated with engravings that not only OK
ecuted but printed in England and France. The
publishers Of Longfcllow's poems in Boston have
just issued an illustrated edition Of Evangeline,
and another Of his poems, the whole of which
| printing, designing, engraving, and binding
were done in London. Half century ago, when
Joel Barlow published the superb Quarto edition of
his Columbiad he had to print il in similar way
in London, although il bore the imprint Of Phia
dclpbia and now, after this lapse of time, when
We have set up in business for ourselves, we are
still dependents upon the old world. Fifty years
hence we shall be no better off, but will remain at
the same relative distance from fatherland in
literature and art, unless awaken from the de-
fusion into which We have fallen Of believing that
il is cheaper 10 live by the lAbors Of other people
than by We a nation Of freebooters
in the productions Of the intellect and occupy pre-
cisely the position TO the rest of the world in
that respect that the Algerines did in affairs of
merchandise We plumber Europe Of her litera-
ture and art, just the Algerines used TO plunder
European ships Of their csrgoes. 1t is time VIC re-
formed ourselves Of evil practices, and got up
! a new declaration Of independence, unless VIC wish
to remain subject in intellect to the old world.
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