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PAISLEY: 
 
 A LOCAL SKETCH, 
 
 VALENTINE'S MANUAL 
 
 IHor 1863. 
 
 
 NEW-YORK : 
 
 GEORGE F. NESBITT & CO., PRINTERS, 
 
 Cor. Pearl and Pine Sts. 
 
 1863. 
 

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PAISLEY. 
 
 [Tlie Compiler is indebted to P. M. Wetmobe, Esq., for the following sketch.] 
 
 Every person at all familiar with the history of Scotch manu- 
 factures will readily call to mind a busy, prosperous town, bearing 
 the above name, in Renfrewshire, and chiefly known by its exten- 
 sive trade in cotton and woolen goods. 
 
 There is another Paisley, much less distinguished in history, of 
 which it is our purpose to speak at this time. 
 
 The mutations in trade, commerce and manufactures, which 
 have occurred in a space of time but little more than is allotted to 
 a generation, are remarkable for their importance, in the light of 
 social progress, and are not undeserving of notice in a work of this 
 nature. 
 
 Reference must be had to the uninviting tables of the statisti- 
 cian for full information on the topics to be considered. Bat it 
 may not be out of place to remind the reader that forty years ago, 
 the cotton sheetings, brown and white muslins, checks, stripes, 
 drills, and bed-ticks, the substantial materials essential to the 
 wants of the thrifty and well-ordered household, were mostly woven 
 in hand-looms, and not as now, the products of immense manufac- 
 turing establishments, around which have clustered populous cities 
 and villages in New- York and New England. 
 
 Inventive genius, inspired by the examples of Watt and Whit- 
 ney, and Arkwright, conceived and executed the complex ma- 
 chinery, by the aid of which American enterprise now supplies the 
 world with cotton goods, indispensable to most nations, but which 
 were comparatively unknown to the commerce of this continent 
 at the commencement of the present century. Before that time, 
 the^e necessary appliances of domestic life were principally of linen 
 
but the simple words remained to mark the spot where once the 
 busy weaver sat, humming his Scottish airs, while, swiftly as flew 
 the ebbing hours of life, the checkered webbing grew beneath his 
 plastic hands. 
 
 " Paisley Place" survives its fourth decade of years, but no 
 shuttle flies under its fast decaying roofs. The weaver's song is 
 hushed ; time and death have done their work, and the little primi- 
 tive fraternity has vanished before the advancing march of asso- 
 ciated enterprise. 
 
 Our artist, with true antiquarian spirit, has faithfully preserved 
 the features of this scene, as a memorial of an interesting incident 
 in our local history. 
 
 New-York, February 23, 1863. 
 
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