The New York herald., 1867-04-19
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF TINE HERALD.

Rainy Weather, Thin Attendance and Gen.
oral Observation-Disclosures Rising from
Con onfusion-iManagement of the American
Departmenf-What is to be Seen Inside and
Outside the BuildinG-Survey Of the Grand
Park-Eastern SOenes-Contributiony from
h'e PARIS, April s. 1867
II seems as though. the swindows Of heaven" had
been closed expressly for the occasion OF the opening
the doors of the grand Exhbton-but IL 1t bo So they
certainly not been permitted to shut long,
for It has been pouring since Monday last with all
tho usual cheeruness and vvacity which characterize
. Paris rain
II is undoubtedly partly duo to this fact, partly
70 the price OF five francs charged during this
week for admission, and partly from tho knowledge
which has gone abroad that the Exhibition is In an
entirely incomplete ard unsatisfactory state, that
strangers do arrive in anything like the numbers
in which they expected. Thus far there Is no
doubt that the Parisians who have been for year pa
fatterng themselves with the prospect OF squeezing
small fortunes OF their eager visitors during the
hibltion tine have been sadly disappointed and they
begin to feel now that they have been counting too
largely in ADVANCE and that there may possibly be
such unusual rush they have bcen anticipating They
had fondly imagined that tho 1s Of April all thci
apartments would have been rented at the extrava-
CANT prices which they had been advanced that their
shops would be thronged with buyers eager
TO make investments, and that their hotels
would bo nlled with guests. Thus far however,
such ia certainly not tho case Tho yellow
placards indicating furnished, and the white placards
indicating unfurnshed apartments TO let plcnt-
full ever and in the face from nearly every
house in Paris The shopkeepss complain that trade Ia
exceedingly dull and tue hotels not unusually full,
and visitors will not probably DO attracted in any creator
numbers at least to the Grand Hotel ami Hotel du
xvl,oua djvoctorc havo
from today the prices OF rooms win bo augmented at
one fell swoop nifty per cent
Thus far undoubtedly, everybody is disappointed An
old resident Of Paris returning hero after few months
Absence and not being that anything unusual
In progress. would never imagine that there was,
BY the an1uence OF people in tho streets or
any othor signs Tho Parisians expected that
tho various routes leading the Champ de Mars would
after the opening day, be swarmed like the streets
ant-hill city with tho representatives Of all the
nations Of the world in huge massess all marching
way. But the approaches to the Exhibition ground
taniy at present do not offer any unusual scone Of
excitement Americans, these dear, good customers,
who, the Parsan trades people say, moro easily
suited and pay moro money and pay II moro promptly
than any other class do not rush over hero In such
swarms as were expseted The steamship Vile do Paris
just arrived from New York with hundred passengers
brought two hundred on her trip this tins last year.
APATHY or THE CITY
The ht'le notice thus far taken Of the Exposition by
snc fas newspapers - surprising Unless the cable or
tne messenger tailed In Its duty the NEW YoRK HERALD
has published already longer fuller ana more accurate
report OF the opening ceremonies, compiled and for.
Warded By the HERArDs stan Of correspondence than
did any OF the Partisan papers Of the same sov and
vince then scarcely word has been said REGARDING Tho
exhibition.
The ssena
CHAOTIC ooSDfroS
which prevailed Monday last 10 great exon, s,u
continues in the exhibition grounds and building ana =
win certainly bc fully month before much order can
DO brought out Of II
In the American department particularly there seems
20 have been nothing done, the American exhibitors
Navtug is eaId become utterly disgusled with the
SLOW unsyssematc unenersetic mode OF procedure Of
our Commissioner General, Mr. Bcckwith, who, what.
ever other valuable qualifications he may possess was
certainly intended by nature or art as tho repro
sentative aud exponent Of n fast people like ours.
TEE AmRrcAN DEPARTMENT.
The progross made In the American department since
khe opening Of The Exhibition Is not 70 apparent
could wsh Indeed, affairs like a crab seem TO 20
backwards An increase OF packages In the courts Of
ths American portion pf the building is about NE only
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