The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-03

AN AcKNowLEDGMENT.-Georg P. Fox, the
celebrated New York tailor, has sent s.the City
Items" magnificent buff vest to wear on Inau-
guration day. Unfortunately our present ward.
robe, In other regards, coincide but poorly with
this specimen of Mr.. Fox's skill in the decorative
art We shall, however, do justice to the artist by
wearing this vest at the first ball or party we may
attend. MIR. Fox lie now in our city at the National
FAIR OF THE MEcHANIcs' IHsr1rurE.-Mr. Eli
tor: Among the many alluring places now open to
both the citizen and stranger in Washington, none,
we think, can afford more satisfactory entertain
ment than visit to the Metropolitan Mechanics
Institute We were present at it's opening-listened
to the eloquent and appropriate address of the Hon.
Joseph r. Chandler, and came away pleased, but
only half satisfied with the glimpses of beauty we
had caught. ALI night our dreams were of man.
moth cakes, of birds of paradise, and flowers, and
that man had found the key to unlock the long
closed gate of Eden!
We have just returned from another and more
eisurey survey of the articles on exhibition, and
with admiration only heightened by the evidences
of the superlative taste and skill of the artisan and
manufactured We had not dreamed that afar
from Yankee land there could be wrought such
endless proofs of ingenuity and industry; but
henceforward we think the inventive genius of
uc 1NoItu uluSk NC COnten 10 snare tne trOpny and
divide the spoil.
1t would be useless to attempt description of
the thousand things that claim encomium in the
Mechanics Fair. Every one should go and ex.
anime for themselves. Like US, they may catch
glimpse of features once known and loved amid
the pictured faces that light up the walls, and
bless the artist and the art that can restore the
smiles of the absent and the dead; perhaps thew
may pause in mute astonshment when told the
beautiful MARBLE specimens they see before them
were never cut from calcareous cavern but are
only dark gray iron, the commonest and cheape at
of all metals, transformed by human skill and Ia
Dor into the exact counterpart of the far-famed
product of the Italian quarry.
But there is one thing among the many tri-
umphs of mechanical science which, we must allow.
more particularly attracted our admiration, and.
we had almost added, QUIZ ENVY ALSO than anv |
thing else we observed-this was an elegant car
rage, bearing upon it the names of Haslup and
Weeden, Manu- lecturers, Warrington citu. Take
off your hats now, Yankees, there is no pett;ns. |
rid of it, and the palm should not be yielded un
gracefully. we are one Of you, and, as they sav |
at the North, sdon't like to own beat'' but mnst
acknowledge we have never seen SO great richness
and beauty combined with such perfect symmetry
Of proportion. Every thing is just it should be-
disposed for ease and comfort within. "a we'll a. |
for show and elegance without; and were wa the |
wealthiest or proudest lady of the land we conld
conceive no greater luxury than to be mistress Of
10 magnificent structure. It is impossible for /
any one who examines the carriage to be disap |
pointed in it, 1t challenges competition and H. Of
Itself. sufficient to repay any one for an hours
time at the Mechanics' Institute.
A SyaANess IN WAsHixaroH.