Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-10
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Correspondence of the New York Tribune. .lroil
Z inThe American commissioner in Paris is
q patriotic gentleman, without executive
ability and with little knowledge of the
tdiosyncraeiesi of his ecountrymefl. r. Our
goods are scattered. one-half of them stand
Ing in q shed sOradanene, out of the way,
while the total Of them could be made, TO
NIL the sector Of the main building appro-
/ prtated to. u.s., This main sector is orna-
mented with the shields and seals OF, the
States a French epgipe,, of the size that
we see grinding chocolate, runs our. MAJ
cnlnery; but we are now putting up a fair
Corliss, engine, one, out OF five that we
show ia the American anpere. where you
can see the French committees Of award at
work every day. looking 1earnedly, the
most eharacteriatico of ofourinventions stand.
Conspicuous ia the midst is the beautiful
Srant locomotice, !" America" the largest
Paterson, New Jersey, standing high and
colossal, its engine house made Of the oiled
woods OF our country-ash. maple, walnut
and oak-splendid In its brazen moIintihgs
and appointments, and its tender painted
with the arms of the republic. Or Ri 81 p
! GThis engine cost $35, 900. and great inter-
estfs manifested to see it fixed up and run.
that we ahavess Beside it is remarkable
street railway car built in New York for
Calcutta. upon a new principleof, carrying
passengers, and bearing on its side inEcrip-
tions inothe native Hindoostanee. With
these is. the great iDaboll longLtrumpet.
blown by steamf and stated by scientific
men to be. audible from horizon toihofizom
In the densest ;vaporsa 1t was sounded the
other day, and when the Arabs, Japanese
and Ma1ays heard it, they fell upon their
faces. thinking Allah had come in the shape
OF ar0aring lion. 1t reused the Faubourgs
Like the bell of Marat. Curled up i'm its huge
case, as if for a snore. its Ericsson engine,
like a:dapper stomach, just throbbing; the
whistle of the caliopeiis. no more than
plra song to It, p e1s5ihasa sss IANHHJH "
1ssThe American reapers and mowers, al
though the most ornate and extraordinary
in Che fair, are largely represented from al
most every mandatory. The specimens on
show, are often in carved and inlaid woods,
and In. engraved steel, -
/ !, IN the heart of the American triangle
the pianos are arranged. one of the largest
and best collections, that the country has
ever exported or exhibited. Artists of en-
inence make perpetual music here, and the
quarter is always densely crowded. The
superiority of our instruments is not ques-.
toned, eyen-by; the rival manufactures of
Paris, Vienna and Leipsic. Pleyel, Krard
and Herr have far inferior displays, and
find it difficult to attract the LittholfssJaels
and LISTS of the continent to the palmer
cabinet wares and feebler Instruments. All
our great firms are represented and the
contending keys, in the passage which all
the world MARBLES, mingle their winds as if
the birds of the West. in choirs, had assem-,
bled here to sing The spectators divide
their enjoyment, now listening to some
composer try his own latest music upon a
Schomacker, a Chickering, or a Knabe but
the seven superb instruments of the Stein
ways s'allure the professional people, and
here the best musical talent of Europe may,
be seen from morning till dark-Stephen
Keller Eugene Ketterer, w. Kruger, All
fred Jean-grou ped about the bird cages,
The 'overstrung' harp, as it is called. Fin the
Steinway piano, has attracted the greatest
interest here from its novelty and the sweet
ness and power which its superior vibra-
tion gives. The best pfano-Inakers in Eu-
rope have sought the privilege of sending
their workmen to examine it; and profess
slonal artists compete TO- play upon it 60 1t is
very odd to note how, by our mechanical'
genius, we have so carried away the honors
of the arts, and opr department has the best
music in the whole exhibition The grand
Steinway was said by Rossini to resem-
pie a nightingale cooling in a thunder
storm.nI 0IV9gI :, .,1ss,r q, o,,,,r1r,- .s-r,f
The letter concludes as; follows: lo,.pss
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London Ia 1862, and looked fairly attwhat
the glisht now praise so indiYidiously,
and believe thetFreneh Exposition to be
three times vaster, more cheerful, and more
wonderful than that. France shows now,
In Paris more than England showed on her
own soil with equal yigor and quantity in
manufactures. France far exceeds her
heighbor III art, and the grand Exposition
issnot surrounded by a filthy city, whose
atmosphere Is fog and bitiiInen. nor by a
people whose false social system recalls to
youtn every man you meet, q fiunkeV or a
snob. All who0 had itItended 10 come here
willnot be disappointed. The face of the
world never before concentrated so many
attFactiOnsso Come out ina an American
ship If youswonld have good time, and
with your. Wn0countrymen. r Thee Fulton.
the, sArago,l and their subsidiary vessels
ought 10 have the firstsupportloft the peo-3
pie who would not see our steam9marine of
the North Atlantic utterly decline. They
are eleven day vessels, but the best models
opthe sea, safe and hospitable beyond any
conceptions and they carry twice all, who
try them once. "A gentleman and wife can,
hive, like their acquaintances in, Paris for
$12 a day, / have paid here, for myself
only, So 50a, day, in gold, and any single
man who wants to see Paris rather than
take Paris opinion of himself, can live here
for 50 day. This summer there will be
li1ttnerdffe or excursion tickets issued hence
for all Europe eu Will be able to see
the whole Of Holland. Belgium, the 'castel-.
lated part of the Rhine, and much of
France, for $50, first class, Switzerland
you can visit and explore for $f3. The
Exhibition ought to be equal to three
years schooling to, any boy with eyes in
his head. Send your boys over. in good
restraining company, and subtract the ex7
penditure from your will. There are five
American bankers here, all Of whom re-
ceive and deliver letters. Three months of
Europe is enough for sightseeing. Put a
thousand dollars in your pocket and come