The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-04-25

'S wiz mVhb b0TlOusly on bhes
OF season tickets Up to the last i
was believed that NJ. Play would yiold
and allow foreign countries and Franc,
itselfS little grace in point Of time tc
get themselves into tOlerable shape
Not until Friday last was it fer an in
staht believed that the buiding war
really meant to open to. day, and when
the nat was gwen out on Saturday il
produced only the sort of indifference
induced by the absolute despair Of be.
ing ready. With the exception OF Rus
sia, England, Sweden, ana perhaps
also Denmark, absolutely none were
prepared. BY far the greater part 81
the French side was not only unfurn-
ished, but even unfinished. Austria
and Prussia wero quite as bad Italy
had only just got her packing cases in,
while Sbain, Portugal, Turkey, and a
mass Of smaller States, have
scarcely yet got n case into the whole
building at all With such awful gaps
in the display, it was considered up to
the very last that postponemsnt of at
least afortnightwotld 6eallowed bnt tho
Imperial commissioners woro firm, and
on Saturday it WAS known that the
building, finished or unfinished, would
be opened to the public to-day. Open
cd thersforS, it has boon, though, to do
the public justice, they have by.no
means sought to avail the msolyes of
the privilege 80 unexpectedly offered
to them for 1t is perfectly well known
IN Paris that what will really bo in
time one Of the best and most varied
collections ever brOughtltogethor can
not possibly be arranged so as to bO
worth inspection for nearly month to
come. The positive Announcement,
therefore, that the opening to the pub
liO would really be made this day was
received with not little gloom by all
but the Russian, English and some few
French courts, though of the latter
only a very few were even tolerably
ready, BY far the great majority of
the foreign Com missions simply con-
tented. themselves with closing their en-
frances and afixing the notice "Entre
intesdite." For not only were the Courts
themselves unfinished but even the
small number of the goods which had
yet arrived were not un2Acked.. With
snch a state Of things, of course any
thing like ceremonial was out Of the
question. Even for the Emperor and
Empress themselves it would have
boon impossible to clear q far passage
through the mass Of bales which in
heavy stacks, like piles of rough deals,
oumber the spaces reserved for most
foreign nations. Sunday was the last
day allowed for work-in fact, it was
most decisively announced at first tn at
no work would be allowed on that day
at all, as it WIS to gwen up entirely to
cleaning the interior. OF course how
ever, this rule was relaxed, and such a
scene Of confusion as the'building pre-.
sented yesterday was probably never
witnessed even by those most CONVEX
SAINT with tho horrible uproar and hur-
ry Of the last days work in these huge
chops. To make matters worse, not
less than from $4,000 to 10000 people
had received tickets of admission, so
that in some parts the radial avenues
were literally blocked up with dense
crowds of lOungers, who only eongre-
gated whore the work was busiest, and
whore, therefore, as a matter of course
their presence was least desired and
most obstructive. It was not till to-
wards evening that tn ese throngs
gradually abated, and the sweepers and
laborers got fair chance to make things
look, ifnot in disorder, at least in less
disarray than usual Scaffoldings wore
pulled down, screens broken away
with hammers or beams, benches drag
ged out en- mdsse, and the last efforts
only ceased when darkness Dame on.
All, however, was in vain, and half the
foreign countries and more than half of
France was still blocked with ladders,
poles, and framework of every shape
and kind.