The Davenport Gazette

The following is the latest illustration we find in our more reliable exchanges of that economy which was to characterize the Administration of Gen. Pierce. It has been but a few weeks since the Democratic journals of our country teemed with fulsome praise of the President for tearing up the carpets and removing the furniture left in the White House by Millard Fillmore, because he designed replacing it all with articles of American manufacture. Franklin Pierce was to be the first President of the U. States who furnished the White House with articles of domestic manufacture, that was the phrase, and the illustrious example given was to lead to the encouragement of home industry by causing others to do likewise. The carpets were torn up, but how are they to be replaced! Read and learn:

The Edinburgh News describes a magnificent carpet just completed by Templeton & Co., Miland. Glasgow, to order for the White House. This carpet is of the patented Axminster fabric and is the largest ever made by Messrs. Templeton, being eighty feet in length by forty wide. The portion woven in the loom without seam is seventy-two feet by thirty-one, and the remainder consists of a handsome border sewed on. The "filling-in" is a ruby and crimson damask, with three tasteful medallions in the centre, and rich corner pieces to correspond; the medallions are filled with bouquets of flowers designed and executed with exquisite taste. The entire piece weighs upwards of a ton, and its value is between 450 to £500 sterling-$2,400.