The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-02
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Sunday ResIricffOns-CaneS and ITmbrcI-
Ias-The Tone Of the COmInissiOn-
The PersOnnclIe Of the Commits
siOn-The SensatiOnaI-ViSi-
tors 10 the Centennial
Miscellany.
From Our Special Correspondent.

PHILADELPHIA, May 18TH, 1876.
SUNDAY RESTRICTIONS.
1t is the nature of man to err, hence, what
can be expected of corporations. The fierce
contest between the members of the commit
tee on the merits of the Sunday openings OF
the exhibition buildings ended, as has been
published, in a compromise. always evi-
dences of weakness.) The people can visit
the grounds on Sunday, but, they can't go in
the buildings. | as a truthful chrOnicler
must record this action of the committee as
a gross error. If the exhibition is an inter
national affair, concessions should be made
to, not compromises with, the bodies corpOr-
ate of the international system.
1t is an antagOnistic step placed against
foreign visitors and the foreign and Ameri-
can working men IN this great city of work
shops and factories. No one has a greater
veneration for the true acceptance of the
Sabbath, which is, " that the Sabbath was
made for man, and not man for the Sab
bath" than your correspondent, but, must
demur to the construction placed upon its
observances by the centennial committee.
Those, who are to be the greatest of benefi-
Charles, are the uninstructed, the toiling
masses, who have but one day in seven to
breathe the pure air of heaven without the
walls of labor and confinement, and it is but
just that the "pOwers that be" should assist
in furnishing the wOrking-man, the brains of
the nation with that latitude, that tends to
his elevation as an individual, his moral i'm
provement, and physical advancement.
CANES AND UMBRELLAS.
Demnatiana, / heard an irate Spaniard re-
mark, as he unlocked an article of vertu.
thought he spoke of the artist, but compre-
hended the expletive, when / saw the ferule
of an umbrella in the hands Of frisky viSi-
tor in close iuxtapOsitiOn to the nasal protu-
berance of said memorial of the Alhambra.
At the Paris exposition no canes or umbrel-
las were allowed to be worn in the buildings,
but were ticketed. at an expense to the wear
er of half-franc-ten cents. 1t should be
the rule of 1876.
THE TONE OF THE COMMISSION.
Fault-fndlng, is one of the happiest ex-
pressons of certain emotional individuals,
who only live in an atmosphere of complaint.
Nothing is good enough for these jaunGiced
specimens of the genus homo. The women,
God bless them, are more felicitous in theft
conceptions of effort, and "render unto Cae-
sar the things that are C9Ar's." The Phila-
delphia international exposition of the ma
tion's centennial of 1876 is the wonder ofthe
century, and yet some people are dissatis-
fed.
One gentleman did not receive that exten-
sion of courtesy, another this, or that; many
complain of the unfinished condition of the
grounds, their inability to obtain informa-
tion from the attaches of the different build
l0GS. My experience mas Dcen JnaJ the MS
tory of the world, cannot present a spectacle
so astounding in its creation, development
and progression, as the centennial exhibition.
The aesthetic principle of the work has no
prototype in the classic past. The moral
and physical schools of this field of effort
shade the monuments of past centuries.
THE SENSATIONAL.
Star-gazing has been a foible of our race
since the flood, for which many thanks are
due from the peripatetic telescOpians on the
corner; hence one is not surprised at any
shape mans curiosity may assume. In this
city of brotherly love, and sisterly, toe, the
latter, like the Italians cases of art, are in
some instances marked fragile, everybody is
gazing at everybody else; all seem as if some
body was expecting the other somebody.
The flying, gyrating trip of his Majesty Dom
Pedro has sensatiOnaiized the mass, and now
each stranger is surveyed critically from the
apex of his Uranium to the points of his pc
dalities, upon the supposition that beneath
the garment a German diaphragm beats in
unison with the gurgle of the current of
lager, or perhaps Gaul whose soul looks to
French successes on the Rhenish frontier, or
a bold Briton, who. with his nobility encased
in eXclusiveness, a threadbare garment in
this country, wonders at the easy manners of
the citizens of this" blarsted country" No
American should feel especially grieved at
the British for their mistakes in the 18th CEN
tury. l tind that of the troops engaged on
the British side, the Landgrave, of Hesse-
Cassel, furnished 12,1s4, Duke of Brunswick
4,OS4, Prince of Hesse sos, Prince of Wal
deck, go, in all, II $50, for which they re-
ceived four pounds seven shilings and four
pence each, and other stipends gross $780,
600. / admit little malice in this, Mr.. Jar
Wis, of New York, the gentlemauly manager
of the American Newspaper Union, of Phila-
delphia, escorted me to the British section
of the Art Building. Wishing to make an
inquiry, Mr.. Jarvis stepped within a door
dignifed individual who when interrogated
in modest gentlemanly manner, responded
in an address to n s;olid lacking satellite,
Jawge, shut that door. We lowered the
American flag and moved on. However, all