The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-18
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
correspondence of lie Ncv York Times ]

PSRIS April 30. 1SGT.--Thc great exhibition
grows upan yon like Niagara. When you have !S
been over and around and across ii, there arc stll
4 million OF things worth seeing. and which you
have no had time to see. The sturdy Scotch boy
| SAW Soin., through tho London Exhibition OF
1862 i'll course aud carefully by catalogue would
lind his lifes work before him here. oven II he
failed to cat and drink through the great outer
circle Of hutfets and restaurants. .Apr0poS, have
taken close look at those English barmalds
while washing down tho national pl I'M pudding
with glass of Bass bitter ale. could ind hity
prrttier ones in the Strand. 1t was necessity
that they should speak French, and clever misses
arc not always pretty. There is only ono who can
be called beautiful and she docs not compare Will
the fair Hollandcrs.
English landscape photographs are claimed as
superior to the French, but the English concedc
tr l:ch superiority in portraiture And they arG
wonderful. There are probably more beautiful
but the French people know how to pose: They
make the best of themselves. In dress, in attl-
tudc, in expression, they give the photographer
every advantage Every one has remarked the
lifc-likc photographs of actresses, who can look
their prettiest and sweetest whenever they WISH,
d as a niopep tst tnotces $Wel. every French woman
IS an actrcss-evcn little children are full OF CO
quctry, and have the instinct of winning ways;
.ihe English portraits are different in style and
expression and the few American portraits, thougii
doubtless # beautiful women, look dull and heavy
beside the French. Next to the latter are the
Ausrians, the Poles, and there are also bright and
|
of poetic lovelness !; and there is collection OF
| German children which for treatment could
scarcely be matched anywhere, though the chill
dren themselves are scarcely so tine as the
English.
| rot only sending collections of their peasantry
photographed in their quaint costumes, but in pre-
preparing sr ,ups Of life size figures. The Kus-
with excellent effect. There ore little figures eight
or tenlnchcs high and a. fewof life size also,
which represent the men and Women:of every ae-
partmcnt OF that immense Empire. dd not
| coant tAerl but there must be O hundred differ
ent figures and stumes, belonging to several dis
tinct races. The French have also most attrac-
tive collection of lle-ike, fusized figures dress,
ed in the holiday costumes OF all Their remote ana
romantic Department. Had one circle of the
Exhibition been entirely made up of the figures
and costumes Of all nations, and the various perl
ods of civilized nations, it would have been OK.
cccdingly curious and interesting: But as most
| existing peoples ole Soon will be represented
here ii. person, there is less need OF tho figures
1 Russia astonishcs people by other things 'than
tho extent of ll.r Empire and the variety OF her
populations. She ha, sent works OF wonderfu.
richness and bcauty-grand mosaics, pctures, Goldi
| and silver work. furniture # ebony and maachlto.
errcrusted with ornaments anu stems, leaves and
flowers in natural eolors all carved from precious
| stones. The English arc aston'shcd to see snch
| things coming from What they Imagine to be
| sea.barbarous country. Then the glass pf Poland
| is not far behind that Of Bohemia, and its porcc-
1aii rivals that of Dresden, and IS not far inferior
to- that of Sevrcs. There s fireplace OF RUSSIAN
/ workmanship--thc finest in tho Exhibition
made of two kinds Of marble, with large figures,
Wonderfully bold and elegant The efloct ofthe Pn;e;
Wlilc marble figures and sculptures over the body
of blush tint is very curious. In works OF
art and elegance, of richness and splendor, Russia
is well represented, while of all those things
America has sent nothing at all, or nothing above
mcdiocrity. except the piano-fortcs, wmcn are
solid and good There Is neat cabinet m, organ nj
| also There are a few good landscapes. Then to
et,nGleemnon, ugly wooden clocks! Why, there
| .is one room of aIred wood clocks OF every size
and variety from 'Carlsruhe and Baden, which
| make a-Yankoc long to pitch his countrys colec-
lion into the Seine anu the collection of clo'As
and watches in the French department. is astonisls
ing in It's variety, elegance, and wonderful coMb-
nations of machinery. You can.buy neat and cX-
ceent, and even pretty clpck fortwcnty-fye cents.
In Ger1a;,ry and SMitZcrla ID, Of course they arc
oven cheaper. clock for the price OF peck OF
potatoes! What is the import duty Oh such clocks,
IS BasI assk NOT td8ed my dear English ethihS
| TORS Tho Government makes u good show by
itself. Tnev have transported hther a. large por-
ton of the treasures Of tie Kensngton Museum.
Their whole square is filled. The arrangement i5,
of c,ursc, awkward and heltcr-skelter, but the
until llo wamdcrs OF 10 the AUSTRIAN, Bavarian
Prussan. the French, and then, and especially
i'll this latter case, le comes back thoushttll anu ~
crest-falcn. and needs few glasses OF palu aln 10
Sd ieapE s scr ns prsdaets s sda sGess s
plavs her wonderful fabrics. Malta her laccs and
sculptures, Mauritias her sugar and fruits; even
Nova Scotia has whole cargo OF picked anu salt
| fish. b scuit cOrn wheat, and other natural and
| prepared products. She hos done her best, and
| has no reason to be ashamed of it.
l. Prussia has tho largest cannon III the Exlbtlon,
and has impudently placed it in tho prinNp4 bpnd-
ing pointed at the ccntro IN way to smash every
thing if it should chance to go off, Prussia is very
strong IN iron and machinery; but 1t B hard to tell
| which ahas precedence in these works. France,
Prussia or Belgium The latter has wonderful
boat shafts to needles. There is the prctticst Bel
| cic case of machine-madc nails ever saw, from
the largest size down 10 those 30 small that you
want microscope to see them. These are no,
roughly cut brads or tacks, but perfectly formed
nails made from wire.
lhe wonderful effect of .ss genius for organiza-.
ton, md the influence of an elegant and symmet,
ricsl arrangement sseen, and ought to be studied
everywhere, in the French Department. The
roughest products, the woods OF the for
est coal and turf, minerals, wool, grain, butter,
even soap and candles, when. properly displayed
become attractive In tho English Department
| much has been left TO tho fancy OF Individual cX-
| hibitors. handsome show case stands next ali
uely one.. An orderly collection is succeeded by
llsorderly one, and tho general effect u married
In the entire French Department the hanH oi
power and the genius OF order arc visible. The
result is display so immense III its quantity and
variety, SO rich in it's materials, 80 tasteful and
'chgaiit in design; 80 perefct IN manufacture, 80
splendid and magnificent in it's whole effect as to
| excite universal admiration. 1t is worth more to
France than hundred victories on tho battle
| field.
| In fact, France has simply invited all the na-
tions of the world to and witness the trinmphs
of her own art and industry Trne, she has invited
|. them to bring their own. Many nations have hap
siSm, Austria, Prussia, Russia, sc have done
well, admirably soma Of them. America, an,
ashamed to say, has done 80 badly that he had
much better have done nothing, for the time, but
come to this great world ard learn DnI all
| other collections here set OFT the French. They
are like foil to the jewel, tl,ey give the means oi
comparing In 1862 the French beat the English
at London; here in Paris they beat tho world,
and all the other collections arranged Ill oncFthG
works of all other nations ,llld not neary equal
tho magnificent display Of tho Frepch Depart
! incnt.
PARIS ON SUNDAY.
| Now. allow me to rest littlo, and give you a
glimpse of Paris on Sunday. The English cores
pondents tell us that the Parisians do not 80 to
church-that tie Paris churchesy;are almost
empty-that the few that do go are women. This
seems to be Il tradition with tho English, which
has come down from the revolutionary era, and
which is not true now ii it over was, as they might
easily find out by TAXI ,g little trouble. The
| truth is that though the churches ofParis are. OF
great size, and SEEM numerous, there are not
nearly enough for the clurGh-golng population
At the large Church OF ST. Phillipc, which has two
large chapcls besides the great body OF the edltice.
and where three services arc often going Oh to us
many crowded congregations at the same time, YOU
may find crowds Of apparently earnest worsbippers
ut Z o'clock, and at every hour until the ast-the
lazy peoples mass, at o'clock. There is high mass
and sermon and O'Clock, and again ut H. Hero tcli,
every Sunday, in q church which will accommo-
date US InalyS as Six common sized Amcrlcali
churches, you have series OF six or ssVen ds-
tinct services, with Us iLeny successive congrcga-
olls: WhyGanpot acknowledgements space.
and accommodate people i'll similar manner?
Last Sunday morning, going out little alter 7, l
saw people entering n porte cocAere near my hotel
Following them, found on old church, entirely
incloscd and not visible from the street. II was
lI-ll,E n1ldn snatnl in llIn Nul.