The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-04-08

NATURAL BEAUTT.-What inconceiv.
able wealth Of beauty must reside in the
mind which, without copy, first called
forth the numberless hues and shades
that relieve each other and melt into each
other in the vast whole Of na,ure-which
devised these countless forms Of vegetable
life, from The wayside flower that blossoms
to-day and wthers TO. morrow, TO the for
est giant which ouIasts the rise and fall
OF nations and Of mpires-which meied
out the heavens, measured the courses,
and arranged the harmonies of the stars,
spread the ocean, poured the river, tor
rent and water fall |! What an infnity Of
resources do we behold in the alternate
phases Of the outward universe, each ol
which seems too beautiful to be replaced
by oae Of equal loveiness, and yet yields
at once its fancied pre-eminence 10 its sue
cessor Thus, who can say which is the
more replete with beauly-day, with all
its revealing light, or nighl,w its count
less centers Of fainter radiance Spring,
with its outgushing from every fountain OF
life, its promise half hidden, hall disclos-
ed, its fresh, thin field and forest drape.
ry 4; Summer, with its richer, deeper YER
dure. its gayer forms and more festive
aspect; Autumn, with its parl-colored
foliage. and its piles of gold and crimson
in the western sky /; or hoary Winter, in
its simpler, purer robe, with its delicate
ost.work, and its icy s.sla ties Il? Go
where you will, you escape not the reign
of beauty. During the long polar night,
the northern fires battle heaven and earth
in splendor more gorgeous than day. The
torrid sand waste still lies beneath glo.
rious sky, and is studded with oases rich
in all the tokens OF creative love. Wreath.
es and tilets Of azure melt the bare
mountain crags, while about their sum
mits the
Signs md wonders of the element
Utter forth God, and ill the hills with praise.
MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS An examina.
tion of ordinary velvet carpets shows that
tho back, instead of presenting :be saiac
pattern as the front--which tho ingram
does--is apparently web of nothing but
homp. The process of making velvet car
pots in this way is of comparatively new in-
vcntion, and has contributed moro than any
tDIDS cIse, 10 tne great reQuctiOn IN the
price of such fabrics. In these carpets, the
wool is all worked upon the front. and th,
hempen threads all thrown upon the back
honce they can be manufactured at great
or economy than Kldderminstcr carpets, il
which, though they also have velvet sur
face, tho thread is carried from back to front
and from front to back. The latter de-
scription OF fine carpets are necessarily made
of fine wool, and consequently are much
the softest, wear longer, and do not whiten
in the seams. But on tho other hand, they
cost considerable more, nor can they be- made
with so many c0lors, being woven on Jac
quared loom. The finest European carpets
are made at the Gnbelins, Paris, to which
the famous mandatory of tho Savounneire
has been transported. The royal Wilton
carpets are also very beautiful. In these,
tho pile is raised higher than in the ordna,
ry Wilton. All Wilton, Kidderminstcr and
velvet carpets have the pile cut. In the
imperial Brussels the pile is raised above
the ground, and the pilo of the figure cut
but tho ground is uncut. In the ordinary
Brussels, the pile is loft uncut, both in figure
and ground. The costly rugs. exhibited Al
carpet stores, on which the figures are de-
lineated almost as deicately as in paint
ing, are not woven; but the threads are laiC
horizontally, ono by one. as straw in an Ost
ler's cutting box. so that their ends form thC
pattern, and they are then pressda tight,
and tho surface shaven even.