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Friday. AUGUST 3, Is55. .
Greeley In Europe.

ris, and is writing home notes of the Greal
Exhibition at that city. We make the fol-
lowing extracts -
A New York mechanic named Reade, whom
have seen at work somewhere in Centre-st.
building steam engines of a very pact and
simple fashion, whereof | believe he is the
inventor, arrived here not many days since,
and has just finished putting up three of his
engines, of various sizes, in Annexe, and he
informs me that he has already French orders
for more engines than he can make in months.
So Yankee machine (from Boston, believer
for cutting boiler plate, whereof Mr.. Rich
mond is the exhibitor if not the inventor, is
widely spoken of as of great utility, and like
ly to make to make the fortune of the paten-
tee. Thus all the Yankee sewing machines
(and believe none but a Yankee has ever
yet invented a sewing machine that satisfied
even himself ere here busily at work, under
the auspices, no doubt, OF men who are not
prompted solely by patriotism And herein
is the answer to those who peevishly say, :. 1
wish the States had sent aothieq here, since
they appear so miserably." Why, gentlemen,
the States hare sent nothing, except Commits
sioners) but certain individual Yankees have
seen tit to exhibit here, and some of these
will make good thing OF it, while the rest
will pocket their loss and seek no sympathy.
think many more Americans nights have
exhibited their inventions or their products
here without loss, some of them with profit,
and l wish all these had done so.
Mr.. Elliott, of South Carolina, (yvho I be-
leve is Commissioner from that State and al
so from Georgia. informs me that Algeria has
sent here samples Of sea island cotton equal
to any in the world. 1t has been supposed
that this long staple would grow nowhere else
than on our Southern coast, and vigorous at
tempts to naturalize it in India have proved
failures; yet it grows luxuriantly on certain
slopes of Mount Atlas, where the existence of
salt springs is supposed to favor its perfection
the underlying mountain being composed
in good part of salt. Algeria seems to be
steadily increasing in commercial Importance,
and the French determined to prove therein
their ability to colonize as we'll as conquer
They could not easily have chosen a region
more in need of industrial, social, and politi-
cal renovation.
France, or rather Paris, is pre-eminent in
all the arts which minister to luxury and sem
sual delight. | need not speak of all that
pertains to costume, wherein this is notorious
ly the worlds metropolis, the Vanity Fair of
Christendom; but the display in the Palace
of gems, jewelry, gold and silver ware.
bronzes. tapestry, porcelain. cut glass, stained
windows, paper hangings, &c., is beyond
trans Atlantic conception. The brain reels
and the eye is dilnmed by the sheer fatigue
and bewilderment induced by wandering and
gazing tor hours from case to case, from court
to court, OF such dazzling objects as Aladdin
never dreamed off. Many Of these are mar
Vicious in elegance and beauty, but | do not
know that they suggest anything Ito mel
that would interest or profit the distant
Messrg Howard, l,esiroTd; assss sasssss.,, -
nounced the most effective. | understood MIR:
James Howard, one of the makers, to state
that, as carefully tested by the dryonmet ron
clover sod, being drawn BY two snartly walk.
ing horses, it turned fuirow len incEes wide
and six and half deep, with a medium draft
of only 1872 pounds, or little more than halt
its own weght-over 800 pounds. There are
good many men who could draw this pillow
at that gait, and almost any two men could
easily do it, The director at Guignen, how
ever, informed me yesterday, that he was not
satisfied with its performance, the burrows not
being deep enough land that after the trial was
over he tested one of their own (Guigen)
plows and it actually did better than the vim
her from the Exhibition. There was no pillow
entered from our country-we have none in
the palace but one from Canada was tried
aud did good work. Most of the plowa enter
ed from the continent proved beneath con-
tempt, as was to be expected. Some of them
required over quad.uple the power to propel
them that was exacted by the winner, and
one from Austria that was confidently Dragged
on before the trial, actually twisted around,
broke off and gave up the ghost, IL light Glow
er soil, free from root or stone, and with but
q single span CT horses before it.
l visited Guignen yesterday and was album
dainty grati6ed. The estate-formerly that Of
the Counts Brissac) comprises eleven hundred
acres Of as beautii land as could be desired,
soping gently towards the centre, where fine
old chateau and its appendages afford the re-
quisite shelter tor all. believe it has not been
found necessary to erect single new building
for the accommodation Of the College. Here
six Professors give daily instruction in their
several DEPARTMENT. to about seventy pupils
France should make tseyen thousand-while
a score or so of laberers assist in the cultiva-
ton Of the domain. The horned cattle em-
brace the Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Breton,
and ordinary French breeds, with some cross
es, and are not equal in appearance to the
stock Of some Western breeders. But very
careful accounts are kept ofthe cost and yield Of
each COW, whence useful conclusions are deduc-
| The small Breton breed, very neat looking and
| highly priced in the region of their origin, are
| found to require as much food as larger cattle,
| while yielding far less milk and beef. was
| shown one large COW which had given thirty
| quarts in one day and which had for d time
| given pound Of milk for every pound of hay
she consumed, having no other food. There
are some good sheep here, but the working
| oxen, horses, and swine, though good did not
| seem remarkable. All are kept in the. stall
| throughout the year, and the stabling arranQe-
ments are better than any had seen in Eu-
rope
| We all went out in the afternoon to large
clover field, where quite cluster Of the farm
ers of the vicinage had assembled TO witness
the operation Of Mr.. McCormicks Mower
one Of the very few q regret to say] Yankee
farming implements ON exhibition. There was
competition at this time, but the machine
worked admirably, cutting very smoothly.
closely and clearly, swath 1--WE feet wide a.
fast as the span of horses drawing itcould walk.
and evidently making very moderate demands
on their muscles. The ground was quite un-
oven, and at one place the grass was Vigorous
ly stamped down by the spectators, in order
to test the machine under the most adverse
circumstances. In this way some stalks were
made to escape cutting, but the machine was
nowise choked nor impeded The most salts
factory feature of the performance was tho en-
tire absence of Mr. McCormich's agent after
the first round, leaving the machine 70 be on
Grated by Brench laborers who never saw Ii
before that day. There was very general
and hearty manifestation Of delight from the
assembled farmers, and 1 trust that not this
only but other American machines also viii
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