Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23

| Drlng tnelr prOOuctS and manufactures nete ioi
exhibition. They have motive Immediately
selfish. They come to make the Crystal Pal
ace an advertising shop for their wares
They come to find ont new and profitable mar
kets. All these nations have to 60 away from
home to find market. America, on the con-
trary, is her own market nation. and best mar
ket, besides, that all the other nations have
Who comes here to make market for his
wares in England or any part of Europe =
Does Br. Dunn for his scythes, Does friend
Lang for his Cassimeres, or friend Pope for
his hay forks !-all of whom are kennebec
men, and by the way, Kennebec is the only
part of Maine that has anything tere. No.
So of almost all other American contributions.
They come only for honorable, not selfish or
mercenary competition.
| There is not, therefore, that motive that
should induce Americans to bring their articles
for advertisement in the Fair. For instance
there are carriages here from Massachusetts
and New York, that the proprietors are very
willing any body in England should make and
sell ad leJatmm. But an unexpected fact has
transpred. Nobody in England can make
such carriages, and the consequence is, high
rs the American price must be, the American
makers are called upon BY the gentry here to
send them over at any cost. So perhaps of
Cars, India Rubber goods and some other ar
ticles Their superiority is so decided, that
they will force themselves into the market of
the world-but this was not expected, nor did
it constitute the motive which brought them
here.
Now, though at first, our Department was
not full, and there were not many fine articles
in it-a fact which gave an opportunity to the
London editors TO sneer at brother Jonathan,
and express their surprise that we should not
have been as ample in supplying as the Eng
lish Government was in providing the room,
and the best room-yet | am happy to say that
within a fortnight over seventy packages have
arrived from America which with what We had
before, amount to sir hundred and fifty con-
triJuions from the United States Mark
there is that number of different contributions
The articles are much more numerous. Our
department now, large as il is, is entirely full
as full as we could desire.
There is another fact in connection with this
matter, that is highly encouraging. The Unit
ed States riH take more premiums than any
other nation, according to the number of arti-
cles exhibited And the reason is, we have
sent out those articles which come within the
design of the Exhibitiun-viz new inventions
and Improvements. 1t is the useful that takes
the premiums, and therefore it is that Ameri-
ca will lead all the others. Is not this enough
for our national pridel But this is not all
The great medal on agricultural implements
goes to our country for the reaping machine,
and The great one on cloth fabrics to US for In
dia rubber vulcanized goods. Prouty & Mears
are TO have the premium on their Plough No.
40, and our good keunebec friend Dunn, of
North Wayne is to receive the great medal
against the world for his Scythes. These
facts are not publicly known here yet, and will
not be announced till October; but l suppose
am safe in publishing them in the Banner in
September, as it will not get across the Allan
tic to affect the fact here till after the official
announcement.
In point of Inventions, Palmer's Artificial
Leg is pronounced the first thing in the exhi-
biiion. lie will make his fortune by it. 1t
has been taken to English colleges and exam
ined by the medical faculties, who have re-
turned it with astonishment and admiration for
brother Johathan's inventive genius. Here
after it will hardly be necessary for man to
have that composition of legs that suffer from
cold and wet feet. And thus l might go on.
| am not ashamed of my country in the Great
Exhibition. | am satisfied-I am proud for
her sake. We shall lose nothing by the great
occasion which has brought all nations here. y