Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1867-08-09
The Great Exposition Complete.

Doctor Prime under the noame de plume
of" lrenaus," has written to tle New York
OJserrer some Of the best Letters from Paris
descriptive Of the Exposition, fiat have been
published. We make the following extracts
from his last letter:
AT last it mar be fairly and ruthfully said
said the Exposition is compe;e. Every de-
partment is open and full. The sound Of
the hammer has ceased in the Palace Of Ia
dustry and Art. No more doh the work,
man in his blouse, with his ladders and
brushes, his car and his bars, ostle among
the silks and the laces Of the gay aud the
fair who throng the walks and riches os the
grand bazaar. 1t is done. Ihe world is
here TO see it. The kings Of the earth, with
their queens the great men of tie East with
their wives and their concubinss princes,
princesses, generals and captains, and am
bassadors and commissioners, end men Of
high and low and no degree deputa,ions of
the laboring classes from various countries :;
schools of young men and young women on
excursions of pleasure regiments Of soldiers
on holiday, in picturesque uniform, from
the mountains Of the Tyrol; students from
the German universities, wild roliebing SCI
o! fellows who play as harl when they are
abroad as some OF them study when they are
at home Chinese aud Japanese and Turks
and Greeks, and Russians, in great mum
bers, aud Fins and Poles, and Swedes aud
Danes, and coal black Africans and keen.
sharp.set Yankees and Braziians, and gay
Italians and solemn Spaniards and Portu.
guese, and how many more | do not this
moment remember but assuredly all the
civilized the semi-civilized and some of the
uncivilized peoples Of the earth have their
representatives at this moment in the capi,
tai, the metropolis Of art the most beautiful,
attra 'tive, seductive, dangerous, destructive,
delightful city in the world.
Around the central garden stands tie
great Exposition building itself, and over its
several doors are the names Of the streets
that divide it into sections, aud of the coun>
tries to which they lead. Standing in the
garden we read the names of all the nations
and select the one we wish first TO explore.
Now that have taken you with me through
the most Of them separately, it is well to 20
through the walks, making successive vova-
ges or travels around the world, passing con-
stantly out of one land into another and ma.
king comparisons among them. It is thus
that we get one grand impression of the
whole. Ii at any time in the slow and i'm,
perfect Development of the display. we have
been tempted to regard it as a failure, now
that all its proportions are revealed ana the
completed idea made g fixed and tangible
fact. no one can call it failure unless he
had made such exaggerated previous cou>
ceptions that city of pearls and gold would
fail to satisfy his expectations. The outer
circle is alive with the movements of useful
art-the machinery by which the work, the
hard work of the world is done. The inmost
circle is the repository of the fine art-,he
paintings and statuary-ef the several ma
lions. Between these are many concentric
circles, divided and subdivided, into con
venient compartments, in which all the re-
suits of human ingenuity and labor. what.
ever the wants, real or imaginary, of man.
kind demand, are assembled Ii is not too
much to say that SO great collection was
probably never made before. Forty thou.
sand persons are enrolled as exhibitors
Each OF these has sent something, and ma
ny of them many things, which the judges
deemed Of sufficient interes; to be placed in
competition with the rest. Altogether. the
number of objects exceed one million
Whatever, therefore, is admirable tor it,
power to benefit or CRAFTY the human race.
whatever tends to exalt, improve, please and
bless, distinguishing the human from the
merely animal races, is therefore here, in its
most elaborately finished form. We know
somewhat of the games and fairs that brought
kings and people into contact and competi>
ton in Greece and Italy, and Asia Minor in
the days of old we know that Damascus
and Babylon, Bagaad and Cairo have had
their streets and squares and bazaars throng.
cd with millions Of people to see and buy
and sell but never until railroads and steam.
ers could be used to transport the produc,
tons of the earth from its most distant points
to common center, has it been possible to
gather ia one enclosure such million OF
various fabrics as are now visible in one day.
within this Park in Paris. The one cham,
Der of diamonds exceeds description a
room full of precious stones, in every form
of art, to adorn the women whose hishes,
tvpe Of beauty is to need no other Jewell
Yet ii is not so much the hrilliancy and ex
cellence of one or aaother of these depart.
ments of art that gives the character 10 the
Exhibition. True, YOU viii not find in any
shop or street such specimens Of silks in
piece and in dresses, such patterns o. gold
and silver ware, such porcelain in all the
shapes that luxury and taste can devise or
want require, such glass and crystal il every
range ot ornament and use, such wealth ot
wool and cotton wrought BY hard aud mas
chinery into all the purposes of life. such in
struments of music peculiar to certain lands
and others common to all, but yieing with
each other in splenior of Enish aud perfec-
iicn Of tone such manifold productions of
the earth, vegetable and mineral; such en-
ginery to move the works that produced these
various articles for mans use, and make
man the master of the land, the air and lie
sea- the clements themselves being made
suhservient to his will. But you must take
them all in at once in combining the results
and effec, of this Exhibition, and reflect that
sample of the best of everything is here
under one roof, and may be seen for twenty
cents Such an Exposition was never made