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Gas-burners in great variety of form, beauty, and perfection ol 

 workmanship, lamps of silver, plated ware, and white metal, in 

 almost endless variety, graced the exhibition. 



It is gratilying to be able to announce that such has been the 

 recent progress in the perfection of the domestic products in this 

 department, that foreign importations have nearly ceased. The 

 glass drops and brilliants with wliich they are ornamented, are 

 still imported from Germany, and constitute almost the only ar- 

 ticle of foreign production now found in our markets. A.C. 



MANUFACTURE OF SHOVELS, SPADES, SCOOPS, &c. 



Our domestic productions in the department of manufactures 

 above stated, has rapidly increased within a few years, and has 

 now nearly shut out the foreign articles. This has been accom- 

 plished by superiority of workmanship. Those imported will 

 not compare with our own. In new England the manufacture 

 is extensive, also in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New- York. In our 

 neighboring city of Brooklyn, Messrs. Duryea, Rhodes & Co., now 

 turn out eighteen dozen per day. We notice this more especial- 

 ly for the purpose of adding one more to the list of our domestic 

 manufactures, which the enterprise, skill and perseverance of our 

 countrymen places beyond the reach of tariff regulations. 



A. C. 



AVOOLLEN GOODS. 



The display of woollen goods at our 23d exhibition, although 

 presenting many very excellent specimens, highly creditable to 

 the manufacturers and the country, was nevertheless, and we 

 regret to say it, not equal to the exhibitions of former years. The 

 reason, it is presumed, are too well understood to require recapitu- 

 lation, and we refrain from comment on the present occasion. 



Broad Cloths. 

 Three pieces of black, from Messrs. James Roy & Co., Water- 

 vliet, N. Y., took the first premium; wool exceedingly fine and 



