Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-12-17

% hearing it has on the welfare and domestic
fort of the poorer classes of Ireland and Scotland
Previous to the past century the Embroidered Pock
IT handkerchief, the RuHle and the Robe formed 6
the exclusive wardrobe luxury of Royal nobility
Then the closters of Spain, France and Italy were
the only producers; now every farmers wife and
mllionaires daughter have their embroidered COL
lars and pocket handkerchiefs- making the s
distinction by COST France the pioneer of taste
full manufacturers, the first producer of embrold-
cries. and it has formed extensive branch OF her
exports. Some twenty-five years ago, Scotland en-
tered the field an humble competitor of her more
accomplished rival, employing for her assistants the
daughters of few fishermen around the coast OF
Ireland The progress of the trade was limited I'M
til the of British legislation that marked The
career of the immortal Peel. In 1887 the British
House of Commons sat in committee and reported
that all her Tariff laws could not keep out the Silks
the De Lanes and Embroderies of France, owing to
their great beauty and artistic excellence At once
the intellect of Britain ut work. and her people
realized the fact of their idoatry of worship for the
blind accuracy of the engine, to The positive neg
iect of the power and the wealth Of the artists pen
Gil The poor and struggling fIuguenot who had
piled the loom from home, and got in requal penu-
ry and want, asked by the good old English
gentleman" who sat in lordly inquiry why he could
not makehis Ribbons and his Silks good in inner
RE England :" as in Lyons? Because We lack ar
tistc talent in this country all that We have of art
4nanufac turing begged, borrowed and stolen from
across the channel-we are copysts and initiative
art-manufacturers, and will never command mar
ket or price" Such the reply of the artizan:
At once the Golfers of the nation opened and
half million of dollars voted by her legislature as
her first instament for art-education and schools
of design sprung up in Dublin Belfast, Glasgow,
Manchester and London. The progress made IN
some fifteen years revealed at the Coastal Pal
and no branch showed TO more advantage than
the needlework department The specimens of En-
brOidered HandkerchiefS and Ladies' Robes from the
house of VIM. Weir Co, were unequaled by any
from the continent-and Broderies dang leterre be-
the rage in Regent street, the Boulevards, and
Broadway. This trade with the humble beginnings Of
few enterpnsing Scochmen and the daughters of
Irish fishermen, has in quarter of ceniuary rival
lei all other trades IN IFS progress the annual imports
into The United States close on five millions
OF dolIars-no trifng amount. Glasgow now
boast OF its sewed Muslin Merchants such D. & J
Mcdonald, with warerooms containing quarter OF a
million $3.50, 0O0) worth OF Embroideries.
Although Ireland is the field of the labor and pro-
duclion of this trade. Scotland has produced the
chants of lis traffic and Glasgow the depot of lis u
change, from the superior advantage and the facility
offered by It's bank and bankers. a better day dawns
for Ireland, and Belfast is contesting the palm
with Glasgow-her banks charging and exten.
ding their iberallty-lt supports IFS bleach
houses and merchants such Major Brothers, distri
bung countless thousands of pounds through their
native land Previous to the dispersion of this trade
through Ireland, the proved the glarng fact oil
and half million Of unemployed female labor
there. Now every hamlet has lis industrious little
artisans, every convent and national school has its
groups of willing workers, and the monoong of the
prison and the poor house is relieved by the needle
When we think that three quarters OF this produce
Irish labor comes TO the Staes 10 supply the created
wants of the women of America we may felictate our
selves on the of our county, and the exrav
agance OF the wardTobes Of our famies-when il crea
ties for the homes of the orphan. the poor and tn
needy in other lands the blessing of peace and plenty
Our citizens 10 be cosmopoles, and suc
are ever the pioneers of progress ana missionaries o
the creed namel utiltariaEsm, usefulness, indusir
and social improvement
for Cancer.
A Mr.. Benson, of Franklin Co., has been cured O
cancer by the following means He procured pee
of cleaned oak bark by first cutting off the roug
outside and put it into vessel containing about tw
gallons of water which he boiled slow fire IN
til the ooze became quite strong. when he straine
it through cloth remove all the particles of tn
bark; then he again put it into clean vessel. an
simmered it a slow fire. till it to the cor
sistency of molasses. when it is fit for 1t
then spread upon piece of silk, or other rag an
applied to the diseased part. He used about tw
plasters each week, until the remove
and the wound healed. He says it is not painful
but believes it infallible remedy. At all event
he feels such lively gratitude for his deliveranc
from so fatal disease, that he desires to let q
know the means by which he believes he has bee
rescued from the hands of death.-Fdrme1 S Journa
JAPANESE WoRKMAssHIP--Generally Japane
workmanship has more strength, solidty and re-
finish than that of Chinese They seem to lave
contempt for everything that is dimsy. Their con
mon packing-cases nearly always strong and fiji
ished specimens of materials and work manship.-
There may be said to be about the Different
between Chinese and Japanese work that there is b
tween French and English but, if the French
most things, can claim over superiority in tas
of design, such superiority can be claimed by ii
Chinese over the workmen of Japan.
In the art of making and tempering steel, the
must possess valuable secret or most extraorC
nary skill. The finest blade we ever handled WI
undsputable cid blade of Japanese make. 1t be
all the Damascus blades and Andrea Ferraras
1t is mentioned notorious fact, tn
sword of this sort would at blow. cut man
body in two.
with respect to steel manufacturers:' says G,
OWN, the Japanese sabres and daggers surpass
others in the world those of Damascus, perhaps e
cepted. They bear extraordinary trials. The ed
of the sabre is kept as sharp that of q T
Japanese are extremely skillful in polishing sic
and all other metals. They make metal miro
which for their object, scarcely inferior to @
looking glasses. We often carpenters and cs
met makers tools, made in Japan, which may
compared with the English. Their saws are so goo
that the thinest board may be sawed out of t
hardest wood.
In cotton fabrics they apper to have little skill
They use course, thick, spongy paper, made fir
a tree, for pocket handkerchefS, for napkins and
other purposes in which we employ calico, silk
muslin.
WASHINGTON IRVING CREATING A R1oT IN BOMB
The Boston Journal extracts from a Bombay neN
paper the particulars OF extensive and alarm
riot, which took place in November of last year. !
rot was caused by the publication in Bombay ne,
paper, of an editorial translation OF portions of
life of Mohammed by distinguished countrym
Washington Irving. The most aggravatng featu
hnw in he finn IN thnM lDoo