The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-09-13
AMERICAN TRIUMPHS AT THE FRENCH Elk
HIBITION


| recent American triumph"
AMERICAN TRIUMPHS AT THE FRENCH EX-
HIBITION.
Correspondence Of the New York Tribune
PARIS august l6, 1855.
AS the jurors of the Exhibition approach the
end of their labors, the triumphs of American
genius become apparent. The great trial of
agricultural implements at La Trappes, day be-
fore yesterday, was sufficiently glorious in its
results to establish of itself high rank for
American genius at the Great Exhibition. No
event connected with the Exhibition has &C.
Cured, since the commencement, which has
attracted anything like the attention that this
did; it was in fact the great event of the Exhi-
bition, and no better evidence of this is wanted,
than the fact that the official journal, the Mon
iteur, Of this morning, devotes two columns to
description of the days proceedings and their
results.
The trial took place at La Trappes, on the
farm of NJ. Daily, Postmaster General of
France, thirty miles from Paris, on the line of
the railroad, which extends beyond Versailles
and st. Cyr. NJ. Daily is member of the
Jury on Agriculture, and placed his farm, much
to his own Inconvenience, at the disposal of the
Commission, for these experiments. The farm
is very extensive and very beautiful one, is
almost perfectly level over an open space of two
miles square, and offered superior advantages
for the trial, before a large concourse of the
various agricultural machines. Several trials
had already taken place before the Agricultural
Jury, and a concourse composed of agricultural
schools and the neighboring farmers, in which
the American machines, few as they were in
number, had carried off all the honors and had
thus created for themselves a reputation which
brought spectators to the last trial from a dis
lance of two to three hundred miles but the
Prince Napoleon, the President of the Imperial
Commission and President of the International
Juries, who is now devoting two hours daily to
personal inspection, in company with the
jurymen of each class of the various classes of
products in the Exhibition, had not yet seen
the agricultural implements of the Exhibition
in operation, and he therefore ordered the final
trial which has just taken place, and invited to
it all the urymen, commissioners, and other
officers of the Exhibition, and large number
of public dignitaries. The news soon gained
great publicity, and when the day of trial arrived,
the railroad company had not made prepare
tons for the transportation Of more than one
half the number of persons who presented them
selves. The list of names of distinguished men
who were present occupies half column of the
MOniteur among them are the following: The
Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Pub
lie Works; NJ. Drouyn de rHuys, late Minister
of Foreign Affairs; General MORN; NJ. Emile
de Girardin; M. Bixio, and others. Nine Arab
chiefs of distinction, all tall, fine looking men,
were present, and took much interest in the ex-
periments. Among the Americans, who were
present in considerable numbers, were Mr.. Fill
more, late President of the United States; Mr..
Corcoran, the banker, who accompanies Mr..
Fillmore in his travels; Mr.. Toombs, Senator
of Georgia; Mr.. Harrington, Assistant Secreta-
ry of the Treasury under Mr.. Corwn; several
members of Congress, and the following Jury
men and commissioners from the United States :
Mr.. Fleischmann, Juryman on the Eth class,
New York; Colonel Coke, juryman of the I'd
class, Alabama; Mr.. Valentine, commissioner
from Massachusetts; Mr.. Gilman, Connecticut
Mr.. lie Vert, Alabama; Hon. Mr. Elliott, South
| Carolina; DIR. Johnson, Ohio.
| The train which conveyed the Prince Napo-
leon and suite arrived on the ground at halt
past ten, and the experiments commenced at
once. A whole regiment of soldiers was re-
| CURED, to maintain the lines around the fields
| where the experiments were made and no one
was permitted to enter the field to follow close
ly the experiments but the Prince Napoleon
and the Jurymen and Commissioners. The
programme embraced what is in France the en-.
tire series OF agricultural operations Drain
age, tillage, diverse preparations of ground,
thrashing, sowing, wedding, reaping, moving,
and hay-scattering and gathering. A large
number OF implements were on the ground for
the minor operations, and in these the English
carried off at least twothirds of the honors.
against all the rest on the ground. But the
| great interest of the occasion attached to the
reapers, mowers, and threshers, and in these
contests the American machines were so far
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confined to themselves. There were in fact
but four machines of any kind on the ground
manufactured in the United States, and these
were the reapers and mowers of Mccormick
Manney, and Wright, and the thrashing ma
chine of Pitts, of Buffalo.
The thrashers were tried before the mowers
and reapers. Six men were set to thrashing
with fails, at the same moment that the differ
ent machines commenced operations, and the
| following were the results of half an hours
work:
Six thrashers with fails, 60 ltres of wheat.
Pitts's American thrasher, 74O litres of wheat
Clayton's English thrasher, 4l0 litres ofwheat
Dunoir's French thrasher, $50 litres of wheat
Pinet's Belgian thrasher, $50 ltres Of wheat
In regard to Pitts's machine, the Moniteu,
says:
"Pitts's machine has therefore gained the
| hOiioiS VI shC uoJ. his udCulue utcrally ue
YOURS the sheaves of wheat the eve cannot
follow the work which is effected between the
entrance of the sheaves and the end of the
operation. 1t is one of the greatest results
which it is possible to obtain. The impression
which this spectacle produced upon the Arat
chiefs was profound"
The Moniteur might have added, that the eff
feet was no less wonderful to the Prince Napo
leon, who returned twice to the machine and
declared that it was "frightful to look at !" al
it must have been to all those who never before
saw genuine, fast American thrasher.
The machine of Dunoir is used almost ex
clusively in France; but already the demand
for the Buffalo machine is so great, that with
out doubt is will supersede all others.
After partaking of bountifnl breakfast
which was offered to the Prince and the Jury
men BY the Project of the Department and M
Daily, the owner of the farm, all parties re
paired to the field of wheat, where the reaper
were already in place, awaiting the COMPANY