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A writer in Poulson's Daily Advertiser says, that Brussels carpet, costing two thousand dollars, and an oil cloth carpet costing the same sum-together $4,000, have been imported from England to cover certain of the floors of the Presidents house at Washington!

 The author of this proceeding deserves to be severely censured--for as good and as cheap, if not better and cheaper carpets. of either kind, might have been obtained of .4merican manufacture.

 The writer, indeed, says-"This con- tempt for our home industry, and abandon ment ofthose who are engaged in it, would be the less reprehensible; if the suitable kinds of carpeting could not be got at home. or even if there was any great disparity in the prices. But 1t has turned out that on a comparison of the Brussels carpet, on being landed at New York, where t arriy- ed, the American carpet was decided to be, by competent judges, at least ten per cent. superior in quality, whils! it cost sixty-two and a half cent per yard less in price IT, One dollar & eighty-seven cents and a half. being the cost of the American, which was fen per cent better in quality and two dol lars and fifty cents, the price of the En-