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We arc always much gratifed by reading
paragraphs like the following: they bear a
convincing proof Of the progress of American
genious and enterprise. We hope, and in
deed we have good reason tobclieve that the
day is not far off, when many articles, for
the foreign purchase Of which so much mo-
ney is now drained from the United States,
will be manufactured at home, with dura-
bility and splcndor equal to any in the world
The New England straw made in imitation
OF Icghorn, is already rivaling that article
in our markets. Cloth in many instances,
has been fabricated, equal in every respect
to any imported; and articles of hardware,
cutlery, &c. are manufactured this side of
the Atlantic, in quality not inferior to the
Birmingham and Sheffield goods


We learn from the N. York Statesman,
(says the B. Amcrican) that the annual fair
of the Mechanical and Scientific Institution
was holden in that city on Friday the 18th
inst. 1t was remarked, and by competent
Judges, that within the last year most of the
articles, and particularly the cloths, had
improved so per cent. Some gentlemen,
conversant with European workshops, re-
marked that some Of the cloths, for texture,
colour and finishing, would be as much ad-
,nired at London or Paris as at New York.
Specimens of American ingenuity were pre-
sented as far east as Massachusetts, and west
as Ohio The Statesman goes on to say,
that


"We were particularly gratihed with the
disply of female ingenuity, taste and indus
try. The exhibition of American Leghorns
was uncommonly fine. In the opinion of the
Committee, some Of them are unequalled in
elegance. The specimens Of needle work
and painting upon velvet were also much ad
mred


We cannot forbear to mention the elegant
assortment of handkerchiefs and silks, CO.
Toured and stamped with every variety of
pattern, by the Messrs. Bryans of this city
and the unusual brilliancy and beauty of the
specimens of glass from the mandatory at
brooklyn. The improved scales exhibited
Dy Mr. Dow of this city, also attracted at
tehtlon. He states that such is the accuracy
Oh this balance, as to be turned from an equi-
pose OF twenty eight pounds, by a bank
cote thrown into either SCALE