Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-11
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.

will remark thar il founded in 1928 by number OF
public gentlemen Of New York, with the design Of
sncou aging American improvement in the useful arts, and
in all things elsekey conduce the advancement Of
national and individual industrial prosperity Annually from
that year this his Institute has held Fair at first
town. but Of late years Castle Garden, the most magnf
cen, showroom ntAmerics. have audience OF
thousand persons comfortably locsied in it. It's in
fac, gqrdex but the inside of what was huge
circular fort battery ssndng in the water at the xene
point Of New York island where the North and East rivers
may said to come together. 1t devoted TO pleasure,
dancing music fairs. &C. At the last Fair OF the Ame
rcan Institute held there than three hundred thousand
persons visited iu the of the whole three weeks it
was 10 BLAST" Thus the reader will Percieve that this
hbion annually matter Of great interest and importance
with tending not only 10 the qualification Of good taste,
curiosity the arts and very commendabe national P1
but materially the advancement Of country The Le-
gssure Of this State with the view encourage the Rs
tues capital Efforts improve agriculture, makes
nua doaa of about 81 000 be distributed n premiums
for improved implements, stock farming, gardening, &C.
and attached TO it is farmers club which holds semmonthy
meetings. which many Of the scientific agcultursts OF this
vicinity attend discuss agricultural questions Their re-
marks carefully reported published the daily and ag
cultural journals and again the end Of the year in the an
nual report the Institute transactions which printed
With these few preliminary remarks proceed to my task
Of describing the articles OF immediate utility which
have fallen to-day under my notice. There is much of
the beautiful rich useful ingenious and wonderful to be
seen in the Garden ,hstI find little time
the crowds Of people AocDg thher Many Of the visiters
from distance, and appear be business people-pe
who learn something be at turned to
profitable sccount home. They ndu,Iousy criticize
every thing worthy notice. and judge from the eagerness
they display and The practical character of the remarks
ssnty made 10 my hearing am led to conclude that hardly
Of the eight thousand persons who daily
the gates will go away without gaining less in
formation destined be Of service to himself not to society
q, large through him. may not however, elaborate gene
raj remarks and will my notice Of tie most striking
improvements, wilhou, stopping to classify them.
OF the YANKEE CLocKs, which have come to be
article great commercial importance the United States
particularly struck with the beauty and finish of the de-
sign Of h ~e exhibited by F. e. ANDREWS, No. Court
lard street, New York city, who is the agent Of the houses
Of Clark, Gilbert & Co., J. c. Brown. Brewster Ingra-
hams Terry g. Andrews, Chauncey Jerome, Elisha Man
ross, Smith Goodrich, and Birge Peck Il Co., who toge
iher manufacture, in and around Bristol R I quite
million of tmepeces annually, worth six millions Of
dollars. Is not Yankee cockmakng, then, business of
prime importance to the United States Mr. Andrews makes
depot from whence their 60 only every county
Of every State Of the Union, but in large quantities Britain
TO every European country, China, Egypt South Ame-
ra, the lndie aud indeed wherever there may be per-
who want good timepieces year since ap-
piled Washington city matchmaker Of deserved high
pute in his business to make good clock could be
made In this country for 500 He advised me buy
Connecticut brass clock costing Ss saying that for keeping
time they admitted in Europe well here be
The best in the world have learned that the success
Of the Bristol (R manufacturers has, within the last FIVE
years. entirely broken up the manufacture Of any other de-
scrpon of clocks in the United Staes except Of single
mepeces to order and that e introduction Of the Con-
nectcu clock the continent of Europe fast doing the
work there.
The specimens shown by Mr. Andrews are many Of them
ornamented after the style Of paper mache, ron of
which material the formed The inayinss Of
real pearl. The ornamentng Of the business
here, and is fast coming afford work for large number
bands These beautiful things retail from Sc toSlO.
Next in the way Of striking improvement my attention
attracted by specimens Of reo6ng slate exhibited by REED
Co, SO White street, New York, from their quarries
Hydevie Vermont which opened for the first time
about three years They wholly free from iron
Pyres &c. which nure slate liable to long exposure to the
action of the air and water The grain remarkably close
ad uniform ln the opinion Of Professors Chiffon and Rem
wch and Of the architects Of the city, nothing the way
slate has been imported into the United States superior
to IT, have specimens equal to those exhibited
this occasion by Messrs Reed & Co., who sell them
literally low shingles sold in this market This fact
alone eues 10 prove that in this branch Of the
fast going ahead Reed & Co., understand, already
sending them oRy all this country. but into the
West Indies, Mexico and South America. Thus they
opening abroad branch Of American
BAIDwrs MARcr dealers in builders hardware of all
descriptions 40 John street, New York, exhibit porcelain
door knobs plates, buttons, or doors shield pster,
plates, oces for speakingtube &C. most elaboraey and
beautifully onsmenteS their works in this city, They import
the stock from France and then have ornamented here is
business which has sprung among within the last year
two, and has already succeeded drive the import
ed ornamensd articles wel-nigh entirely Of 10 this
market may truhfuy say you that Paris does fur
nh beautifully knobs handles, plates
than made the establishment of this house. The color
ing aud gliding is all laid by the hands Of their artists
all Of whom esrned the business abroad also with the
moun,ings, which done here, and peculiar manner
ba, there bail be strain the porcelain Their system
OF mounting protects it from strain any other similar
injury Their decorations burnt in TO last through
: out all time unmPaned. predict, from the specimens
which describe above, that this enterpsBg house viii
be hve years IN driving Paris out Of all the markets Of the
United States they have already driven that city Of the
New York Market wherein the builders have the opportunity
to choose rom the furnished by every country Eu-
rope well Their success in this new Ameri-
can manufacture Cor rather embeshmen greatly lower
ed The Prces Of such wares in New York, happy be
able TO add .esE #at Is
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