Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-07

of any other nation Our clocks had indeed been known
in England before the Exhibition But pals, which,
with cost Of transportation and duties added could be
sold at quarter the price of English pals were new
thing under the sun All these articles found ready pur
chasers and had the number sent been increased hun
dred fold they would have found market.
Upon the whole doubt whether could have been
correctly represented More fully represented had
time and inclination warranted, certainly could have
been but then the opinion formed by the world Of
the character and condition Of industry would have
been nowise different from what it is. The dstinc-
tive characteristic of the industry of the United States
that which stamps it with popularity and gives it life
and form entirely its own, e Of thought oh labor
The busy hand is guided by the thinking head htei-
gence takes the place of imitation There article
of domestic manufactured in our country which,
placed by the side OF similar article manufactured in
other countries does not show this
There is not fabric wrought not crop raised not
machine put ia motion this side Of the water that does
not exemplfy this noble distinction Of labor Take
two examples, Bgeows BRUSSELS carpets and the Dacca
musns, which, though extreme cases. show only what
may be observed in less degree between and
all foreign productions The Brussels carpets called
owing to the number and arrangement of the coors in
troduced into them have suffered less change in their
process of manufacture than any other woolen fabric
rial caange in the methods of weaving them Towards
the close of the Exhibition, Mr.. E. b. Bgeow of Bos-
ton brought into the American department certain Brus-
sells carpets, equal in every respect those exhibited
elsewhere in the building which he claimed to have made
by process and at cost materially less than they
were now manufactured in any part Of Europe / think
may safely say, that within week after these carpets
were visited, examined the right to manufacture them
was negotiated for by the agent of every large Brusse
carpet mandatory in Great Britain In fact the nyen-
ton complete and its improvement SO ndubabe
that among manufacturers it pronounced be most
decidedly the greatest achievement of mechanism yet
known and had not the entry been ate would have
received from the Council of Charmen great medal
The Dacca musins, for neness, beauty, and transpa
rency of texture unapproached by any other fabric
With the rudes Implements consisting of iron spindle
ball of clay attached to it to give it sufficient weight
in turning and piece of hard shell embedded in little
clay which the point of the spindle revolves during
the process of spinning the Hndoo almost rival
Arachnes tabled skill The finest thread is spun early in
the morning. before the rising disspates the dew
the grass lest the enuy of its fibre should break
the attempt made manufacture it during the drer
parts Of the day The Mumul Khas as the finest variety
of the Dacca muslin is called manufactured exclusively
for members of royal family is in pieces of ten
yards in length and yard in BREADTH having nineteen
hundred threads in the warp and weighing three and
three-quarter avoirdupos to the piece The
length of time required to manufacture single piece of
the Mumu Khas is about three years. and its cost three
hundred rupees. The natives designate it by term
meaning air. Its manufacture is confined to a
single family to whose delicate organization and the
sbility with which its members endowed by nature
through many generations is their inimitabe skill to be
ascribed 1t than four hundred years since
The Dacca muslin has been famous in india and the most
ancient specimens of it which have been preserved are
July equal to that which is manufactured at this day.
Of the persons who visited the Exhibition ten thousand
admired the Dacca muslin where one admir-
ID the Bgeow carpets and yet who does not that
while the is the result of abect toll which ages
would not raise from its degradation, the other the
oonent of that nobility of labor, instructive with nte
yence which part of the great moral machinery of
human progress?
The Tunisian gun, the Damascus sabre the blade
Toledo have all three been famous centuries The
rst deliberately and gracefully covered with beautiful
designs the second rich beyond estimate with its gold
guards and hilt sparkling with jewels and the third tenn
pered to the EXTREMIST elasticity and brilliantly polished
objects of ceaseess attraction the crowds at the
Crystal Palace But in shape and character they were
precisely the thing that they have beer for ages
and had exhibition for the worlds industry been held
hundred years ago, guns and sabres and blades
wise inferior might have been procured to adorn it from
the very same places
In contrast with these take Maynards Primer an in
venton from the United States which exhibited
the Commission office during the last few weeks of the
fair This invention, shown upon musket and fowng
piece of very Indifferent appearance gained repu-
taon for the country from which it came than did all
the Jewery elaborate carving, quick temper, pearl inlay
ing, and gold and silver work. which contained in
division of the Exhibition the countries which
furnished them. By the simplest possible contrivance
instead of the usual percussion cap coil Of fifty pym
ngs inserted within the body of the lock- so at
the gun surely and safely primes itself for fifty discharges
and that too with mathematical precision unattanabe
by hand The primer cannot be fred with the hammer
down at halcock ii cannot be accidentally separated
from the gum it cannot be damaged by being ted and
requires tools APPENDICES to be applied 1t
about oneenth much the percussion caps occupies
less than oneourth their space and proof against the
effect Of all climate. OF course, under the most fayora-
BILE circumstances of light and weather. its superiority
the ordinary percussion cap must be great but under adj
circumstances where darkness and rain and cold
impede the operations Of the soldier and render
the act Of printing the difficult Of his manpulatons
it invention increasing in ncalculable degree the
efficiency Of firearms Colonel (now Sir Willam) Reid
first it and called it the attention of Mr. Macdon
add who after examining it with great care wrote notice
of it in the Times. This sufficient awaken public
attention Inquiries for the Maynard Primer became
frequent that necessary to detail person attend
TO its exhibition Military men and sportsmen from all
parts Of the kingdom TO it, inquirng il
it could be purchased in England The young Princes
the Prince Of Wales and Prince Alfred sent in
pany with their tutors to its operation. His Royal
Hghness Prince Albert became interested in IL MS one
Of the great inventions ut the Exhibition And last the
!" Committee Small Arms composed of the most scen-
t6c officers Of the army, of whom Major General Fox
sent for it to be brought to the ordnance de-