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Show A. T STEWART'S TEN THOUSAND THOUS-AND DOLLAR CARPET. Among the many treasures owned by the "merchant prince" is a magnificent mag-nificent carpet which was once intended in-tended to grace the halls of royalty, having been manufactured for the Emperor Napoleon. Its size is about forty feet square. The centre-piece, its most promising object, occupying nearly one-half of the whole area, represents a beautiful, oval-shapod picture set in a gold frame, and suitably suit-ably bung, would at a dintance be easily mistaken lor an elegant painting. paint-ing. The picture shows the harbor, castle and surrounding country of Marseilles, Mar-seilles, France. In the foreground one is charmed by tho blue water and the stately ships at anchor; further back the harbor and ancient castle, rising grandly in iU magnificent whiteness against the green foliage enveloping the base of the mountains which form the bark-ground, and lift their hoary heads into a blue sky. flaked with fleecy clouds. Napoleon's coat ot arms surmounts the picture, and a Latin motto, wrought in gold on blue ribbon-like ground, lies half unrolled at the base. Immediately surrounding this lovely love-ly picture, in a bed of rich brown, is a garland of beautiful flowers, much larger than natural size, but so brilliant bril-liant and so delicately and accurately represented, that it seeme as if ono might stoop and lift the petals ono from another. Outside of this garland, gar-land, and serving as a border to tho carpet, is a wreath formed of overlapping over-lapping oak leaves And acorns, alio in natural colors, their various shades of green and brown blending in ox-quimto ox-quimto beauty. It is quite impossible to givo an idea of tliis wonderful fabric, which was made with the needles of poor women, who wrought it in soctions, and sot together, after the manner of the camel's hair shawls. Its texture is as delicate as a silken robo, and no painter could portray por-tray color or detail with greater skill. It actually cost $10 0(0 to , make it. Mr. titewart saw it at tho Paris exposition, aud purehimed it aa a novelty to exhibit to friends who I |