New-York tribune., 1867-09-13

m and refined as TO require no further scoration
peopd p%S TsSd as dGy e @ IN the evening whom
must have been fully 700 present. the scene wac oeea
Imposing. On every tldo we're to be seen
oigslscc'' ara ne sia3i ai'lcs
Harves.iooI and hasbsndrr
LocB and wheel and cngnIy,
steel and gold and corn and ~re
sunny tosens of The IlDe
o .Gs, so%Se %sI'S,s osi az cfa ws. S1s and Ea.,
Al ofbeauiy, al ofu,e,
Tia, one fair planet can produce
Brought hon under evep star
A.p Tse snSp rSpss = Of % peace NIB ~oTss Of war
The Art Department-that occupying the wall OF the
lesser Ioom-bds far to be telling feature in the Exh
bitoD. great picture, representing tne Genlus OF
WTeatf and sword withheld and with the conquerirg
and egons at her feet placed on the north
ton like a star Numerous other oil and watercoored
paintings grouped around t, and the other walls are
appropriated To ambrGtyyes, daerreotypes, minla
porcelain. and other processes OF petufine al OF
them interesting and charming ~ day or l%o now Nt
Il is more than probable that space viii have TO be
The center OF the floor this hall mostly occupied
with musical instrlments-pianos, organs meodeons'
etcbut most of these have not been uncovered for
hbon The lower end Of the center tthe sOulheTn) Is
up by the display Oi the waielnakeTs sk some
OF he chronomoters Oh exhibition benS OF exquisite
The grand hall is already nearly full. The pneumatic
railway will probably be IN working order In ltss than e
hours The mOnstrOus tute has been hOsted "a It's
si,ion on the east side the galleries an
only few hours work will put the cars IN working order
of the most Interesting features OF the display IN
;hs hall Is the steam cariage The machinery is placed
directly behind the TOP Of the yehec ana the carnage
said be able 20 mako ten miles ab hour over any road
and to .1m number Oi hoaa "',ao % we enihe heeui
u varied state Of foIwardness. Matthew soda water
apparatus is In operation 10 Tie general Icshlnoni ~
tie ihlssty multitude and new style OF drawing an
botulg Saratoga water without rcchalGng t With
lawrence a Co Though the Exhibition ls ncoIn-
pcte, almost every conceivable article ot skilled
chilly Epyes shlais and Tazos eiit bnttons biI~hcs
nerschaGm pipes &c &c. The articles are 50 varied
and numerous that It would Jo Impossible 10 mention
any number Of machines of various huds-priniiug ma
chimes, mi'k making, cardihg, planning ana other ma
chimes, bat the steam power Of tie Far not hcing IN
working order last evening they were not displayed TO
The chief event OF last evening, rs advertised. was
oonug address by Horace Greeley. The PRESIDENT II
the Institute. large multitude was drawn Ia the ~.
ated IN the southern part OF the grand hall Having been
introduced Mr. Greeley said.
MR.. GREELEY's ADDRESS.
LADIES AND GENTrHuEN: In this metropolis of the
commerce Of tie New World the American Institute MP
hts The baunor ~ labor and Of creative art We are
here Gstlnot,oly the champions and representatives
of labor employed and excmplfcd agriculture ia
manufacture, and in mechanics We are here not to
place labor ia antagonism TO trade not TO affirm its
ability to dispense with the vyifying agencies of com.
merce here only to assert and maintain that pro
ductlon Is primary 10 and more important than distbu-
tionthat 70 produce is more necessary vital than
to exchange aud should have the first consideration in
all generous and benchccn public policies The Ameri
can Institute maintains the essential harmony Of all use
fu interests the necessary and natural relation OF sym
paty, cordially and mutual support between all these
benchcent creative interests We affirm that Commerce
should be he servant or ally, not the master,
of Industry and that the policies Of Govern
ments and the efforts OF statesmen, philauthro-
pists, rulers, and all wise men should be
Ne w0nd have trade flourish but only fast and far
as shall minister to the trlt ana wellbeng OF labor
This exhibition teshes that industry has another and
nobler function than the mere satisfaction OF animal
appoes material wants We hold That labor is funda-
elpmdifon of aiviIjlatlon and enghten,nont a nation
might he abe do not say It would be- believe IL would
not bebut II we were to admit that people might move
satisfy their wants by following only branch Of
dustry. say timbc-cuttng of cornplanting and be
changing Is products everything else they required
II would stln he a mistaken, unprOhtable and unwise
policy because nation which does but one thing learns
but one thing because nation which has but single
pursuit has limited intellectual, as well as industrial
development. II would be essentially barbarous, that
is an frightened nation, although II might by such
policy easily satisfy al It's material wants II is
through the development OF thousand industries, OF
labor that the progress of the mass Of mankind
the factory. the furnace the foundery together eon
tufe the Peoples University Applause What one
sympathes TO all the rest aud people that follows 90 or
500 different pursuits wiser, individually and coec
single pursuit A diversified industry Is the basis OF
national strength in In peace. The strength OF
the New Euganders their many sdednesses as has
80 often been exenpihed when AZ tle very commence
Of our late civi war the ship Constitution our good
old vessel, aground III Annapolis harbOr, ana the
commander Of Maine regiment asked, What man in
@ m ence eq IS seepea forward each @
take good old ship out OF the harbor or TO fight her n
IT, AS exigeDces OF the case might require lAppase
II was this adaptiveness this great multiplicity OF the
capacities OF our people that more than anything
else, carried the nation through that great struggle
Our felowcitizens on the other side were able,
brave, thorough. were determined but they
lacked the capacity that nyents every thing from gun
up TO monitor under the pressure OF sudden and unOr
seen emergencies. National, industrial, mechanical
ability to-day great source OF safety and security In
enunpb but that people which knows most Is best
pared for any great exgency OF stro and CONFUSION
Had we been still wiser at the commencement OF
struggle, had we then had men IA our ordnance and
the superiority OF the over the
rife musket. our war would have been
two years shorter. and our Natonal deot s6ooocoeo
lees than II to-day. Applausel There are many now
standing before whose hearts papated on
fu Sunday when the morning brought us news Of the
devastation Of the Merrimac In Hampton Roads and
henson the evening brought MS dlngs that her
had been checked by the sudden appearance OF the little
Monor-a cheese-box on "a raft-whlch had been fitted
niouse1 II was the critical moment. Three days
later might have Washington devastated or burned,
and All the stores or war material there col
little vessel had not been ready for seryeeun two days
later our showed great national resource, not
one side only. but on both. At the beginning we were
teuued 10 dervau the mechanical sku ana resources
~ onr adversaries We believed that all mechanical
LnoleJe was in the North, and only the need " 10 In
fhc eoufb lt necessity IL the mother OF Invention
and before te contest had continued long We were com
poiiou 10 IosN,t al. 20 .ei,o ~.iD.''on assitt I
m m, invcntion of torpcdoes aud even Of arDored