New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24
,uggICAN INVENTIVE GENIUS.

m nth Noah's-ArS assortment oi D"'i' "''
pH'" ...los-cabals and hcart-bumngS among
P0''N ',n,,vmen in London respecting the choice
Gun 0 Commissioner, &c.-British jealousy
isa,red Of American Manufactures boh''is o'o,
..oo,s and slurs from the great m"Joi''' VI
~ -. oblv written and INSCRIPTIONS Journai'
rone,a, modification and chagrn diHus'hs
,.oOo,;,g among the Americans VINO hao
ana o'' a,,dv the Exhibition. How wish
90 had sent nothing was very gcno'a' -
.,o,;on in view of the aching voia presence
- uuch that should have been seh' oen's ""-
..., while a good deal that need not nave oeeii
son, loomed up on that bleak Sahara IN gauht anu
unsightly proportions A.. +ho
So plain was our apparent iah'rc' '.'"'
It,, class of Englishmen regarded 1t WIN
COMMISSION. which was evnced even IN the Cou"'
oil; Philip Pusey, Esq, Member OF fafha-
mon, Chairman of the Jury on Implements
Of Agriculture and true and worthy so"'
~, 90 hresthes. there proposed that the
contributors of each Nation should be JuaSea
by themselves, and prizes AWARDED a''c'"
ding to their merits thus tested. mus n,''
pr;ze might be given to the best British fio"' INC
second 10 the second-best British Plow, &c, and
- lilo manner with those Of America France, BEL
r;pm. &c. This proposal was prompted by the
Kindness of his heart; he thought that, II teS.cu
by common or absolute standards, Great britain,
at least in his department, must receive nearly oil
the prizes, while America and most other nations
btaned none. We earnestly opposed this propo-
siton. urging that if other Nations had better
Plow for instance, than we had then our people
=. tha fact ~
of comparatively no consequence to them to be
told by our awards that this was the best Amer
lean, that the best English, another the best
French Plow, &c. What the Farmers universally
needed to know was which was the best flow Tor
a specified service, no matter where made' Mr'
Pusey's proposition did not prevail
MIR. fIobbss Lock picking achievements Though
they had not yet reached their climax) had made
some sensation, but none that reached the Coun-
Gil when on the 29th of July, at Mr. Mechi's an
nual Agricultural festival at his estate, Iip-tree
Hall, the Virginia Reaper of Mr.. {. IL. Nc
Cormick. achieved its decided and brilliant triumph,
TO the delight of all the Americans in England
and to the utter surprise OF their rivals. That
success was the pivot OF our fortunes. Thence
forth no American even the most aslnine, pro-
claimed himself ashamed of his Country, because
of her miserable figure in the Exhibition ; the
Council of Chairmcn of Juries at once, on the ur-
gent representation of Mr.. Pussy, though it had
met Ton the 30th) to complete its awards, granted
an exclusive and special dispensation for far
Their trial of Mccormick Reaper, in order to de-
termine, by another trial, on dry grain, THAT at
Mechi's having been made green, under pour
ing rain,) whether the Reaper was indeed worthy
the highest prize that would be given for any
article exhibited-namely, the Council Medal.
That second trial was had at Mr.. Pusey's
farm, on the 9th of August, and resulted in
another emphatic verdict in favor of the Vir-
ginia Reaper which therefore received the
Great Medal. At this trial the inventor was pres
emit, (having arrived in England two days before,)
though he took no part i'll the trial. side inter-
est was excited by a competition with Hussey's
Reaper, another American invention, which broke
down (cloggcd) at Mechi's, but which did very well
at Pusey's, though not so well as McCOrmck's
Some weeks afterward a third trial between these
two machines was made mot under the auspices of
the Exhibiton) at Clevcland-Mr. Mccormick
having left England. and MIR. Hussey having arrived
there-and judgment given in favor Of Husseys
machine. We have before MS pamphlet by MIR.
Mccormick, stating why and wherein this trial was
partial, unfair and nconclusive-but we do not
care to enter into that question. We only wished
to repel nm ntimaton that MIR. Hussey has in
CONSIDERABLY thrown out that he was unjusty
dealt with in the award of the Great Medal to
Mccormick. That award was made on the strength
of two several trials in the earlier of which Hus-
sey's machine utterly failed, while in the latter
it was fairly beaten. MIR. Hussey attributes
that defeat to the fact that his machine opera
ted at the two Exhibitions trials by an nexperi-
enced hand-which, il true, was his misfortune,
but not the fault of the Council, which afforded
extra opportunities for the trial of Reaping Ma
chimes, and rendered the only award which these
trials would justify.
We have said that the triumph of McCOrmick's
Reaper at Mechi's was the turning point OF Ameri-
can fortune at the Exhibition. Thcnceforward our
department of the Exhibition, meager and insight
ly as it was compared with what it might have
been, was regarded with an eager and respectful
interest, but especially our Agricultural imple-
ments. The triumph of the yacht America and
the elimination of Hobbs's Lock picking teats TO-
lowed soon after, and were proudly hailed but the
Reaper's was the success which broke the prestige
of European superiority in the Useful Arts and
transformed chagrin into exultation. 1t was this
(Which caused The [Londonl Times, on the Goth of
September, to say:
"One point that strikes forciby survey of the
last few months 10 the extraordinary contrast which the
attractive aud useful features Of the display present 1t
wl be remembered that the American department was
ut t regarded the poorest and the least interesting
OF all foreign countries OF late has justly assumed
position OF the first Importance having brought the
aid Of distressed agricutursts machine which, it
realizes the anticpaons OF competent judges, will
ply rcmunera,e England for all her outlay connected
with the Exhibition. The Resping Machine from the
United States Is the valuable contribution from