Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-06-10
The Great Exhibition, American Contributions.

date of London, April 18th, 1851, as follows
 Packages, just arrived at the docks and depots, are crowded with all speed to the doors of admiS- sion; empty caseS are taken from the avenues as fast they relieved of their goods; the board ings that have separated the Vafious compartments are tern away, thus bringing workinen of different languages. complexlons, and habits, side by side the crimson cooTed counters on each side Of the central avenue extending nearly one thiTd of a mile, are beginning to be covered with the choicest fabrics and the richest manu ufactures; the deep bays in the rear are filling with every model and variety of machinery; the walls are displaying maps, charts, diagrams, daguerreotypes, and paint lngs in countless profuson the working machinery is founded and sci up, geared, shafted, and belted in readiness for motion, and the whole building in every part and department, from the light galleries that span the tTansept to the distant termn on either side that bound the nave, IS hastening to- wards completeness, that but single week ago, seemed next to a thing impossible.
 In all this hurry and hustle of preparation, our United States department is not lying still. Of all foreign natlons last upon the ground, and not least in obstacles that beset every step of progress, l have the satisfaction to inform you that if we are not already foremost m the march towards com pletion, we have at least that order and precision in our work that will ensure us there within the time appointed.
 With but few exceptions, our contributors have enlisted with a characteristic national energy in
 
 appearances, have volunteered their services for any and every work that the day occasion has required.
 In many of our manufactures there is already much interest taken by members of the Royal Com mission, and others who have the entre of the building. In our carriages, for example, of which we have variety, there is much to excite constant curiosity. The marked difference they show 10 everything of English make; the grace of form, llghtness of material, elegance of finish, freedom from noise Tn their quickest movement, and taste m ornament of springs and lamps and axles, are manifest in nearly all the specimens that have been sent, and the combination they present of great strength with extreme lightneSSS, weighing in era instances less than one third of English ve- hice of the same description, are the subjects of wearying remark. We have fine specimens of the staple of our great West, Tn lard o adainan tine candies, barrels of salt pork, and thoroughly cured hams. The valley of the GenesSee has con tributed from it's best wheat and finest flour, in liberal profusion. The cities of the seaboard are represented in articles of beauty, elegance, rich ness, and fashion; while the workshops and manu- factories of New England have sent of their mach- nery and products, not enough, indeed, to give fair idea of their vaStneSS and importance, but still sufficient to show the representatives of other nations that, in all that pertains to the saving of labor, we are fully their equals.
 have proceeded, and am proceeding still, with out waiting for the presence of owners, agents or 
 moving their contents to the counters where they are to be displayed. This has been rendered nec- eSSary by the order of the Royal Commissioners, commanding all packing cases to be removed from the building on or before the evening of the 18th instant
 Groups of exquisite statuary occupy every vacant spot of the extended nave and arched tranSpet. These come, not alone from the home of the Fine Arts Tn Southern Europe, but from al- most every portion of the globe-from the nothern Continental communities, from historic Asia Minor from the vast colonial possessions of Great Britain well from the semi -barbarous nations of Northern Africa and the southern Seas As you pass from the great central entrance in either Girec ton, characteristics not of beautiful only, but of sturdy and masculine industry, everywhere meet the eye. Among fountains and pictures, t.ere are models of great public works, gigantic telescopes huge ra.lxay locomotives, Colebrook Dale cast ings, clocks, horologues, and panetaria in almost countless profusion In agriculture there is scarce ly diysion from that of ,he SpaniSh where blows are shown that attach to the horns of oxen, to the latest patented improvement which England exhibits, that does not tend to vie for supremacy
 Harrows clod-crnShers, seed sewers, carts, wa gons, wheels of the most approved construction for farm purposes, churns, cheese presses, models of barns, stalls, and stables, fails, hrks rakes scythes, winnowing machines grain reapers b, horse power, and every other conceivable iastru- ment for the field CT the ga,den arc piled up in
 
 Juries of Awards. In the department of the ma chinery, the observer finds objects, in number and inventive genus, sufficient for the study of life tiIae. Machines for every purpose, from breaking the cane stalks to making percussion caps; from the pump that throws its 1000 gallons of water a minute, to microscopic gravers that reduce ,irsw- Ing to the smallest possible compass are spread out over an immense surface And yet these are small in their show when compared with mach- nery in motion, to which the largest compartment os the Crystal Palace is devoted.
 From every country that has furnished maehinery to be moved is this division the vast recipient As one passes through the narrow spaces that are left un6lled--as one stops to look behind and be- fore at the wheels and cylinders and shafts and gearing and pistons that fill the immense distance --as one meets printing press lathe, hydrau- lie forcer, set of cards, spinning jenny, loom, pump, stone smoother, buzz saw, a tripham- mer, a groovef, gunStock Shaper. and sees in each such ponderouS power; and then one null hplies by tens almost every machine he meets only to fall short Of the numbers therethe aston ishuent one feels becomes amazement at what all this gigantic workshop will be when the steam power in the neighboring building shall have set 1t m motion.