New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-12
LEFrER FROM PARIS.
The ExpOsitiOn-What 4 Frenehman Saw
n the AHleriran Division and what
He Thought about II.

leans Republican.
,r Paris, August 2s, 1878.
On entering the section appropriated 70 |
the United States of America one fronts . |
facade of wood built on the model Of those |
used among the planters in the inland
portions Of Americs, and which are easily |
taken down and transported from one
place to another. This facade is Of ex-
treme simplicity; having no ornamenta-
ton except the escutcheons Of the differ |
emf States Of the Union, with bust of the
immortal Washington, and this historic \
dRte-1s76.
To the sympathy With which the great
republic should naturally inspire Us Is
joined the sentiments of consideration
which We owe To- nation with which our
own has enorEn GUS commercial relations,
Of which the following figures may give
| an idea. The commerce of the United
States With France is represented by
$54, 900, 600 expectations, and $3S, 500, 600
impOrtations. The American Register
in pointing out the increased business
relations between the two countries, states
that the expectations from France to the
United States since 1872 has surpassed
those Of. Germany. This constant in
crease is recorded, moreover, in an Of
hcial report which, among other curious
accounts shows that France receives an
nually from the United States $50, ,000, 600,
among which may be reckoned SIS, ,O00, 900
spent here by the innumerable American
citizens who for pleasure or business come
to pass some time in France. It appears,
then, the American republic is one Of
our best customers.
We can not pause in this vast Exposi-
ton, except before objects exceptionally
interesting by their nature or their i'm
portance. Thus, for example we notice
clock and watch making, which has be-
come one of the chief industries Of
America. The manufactures Of the Wal
than Watch Company attract deservedly
much attention. This company, the capi'
tai Of which has increased from 5000, 900
to 81, 500, 600, produces now two hundred
and fifty thousand watches yearly, and
those not by any means inferior watches.
Such production must necessarily soon
diminish the importation from Switzer.
land, if it has not done SO already.
American cotton and wooden goods are
represented in the glass cases Of this sec
ton by rather fine samples; but the sill
goods are somewhat questionable and of 6
quality not generally acceptable. 1 men
ton tne plastic arts only BY -4He1Mory
The specimens of pottery offered to ou
admiration are mediocre, the forms being
! distressingly hackneysd. In metallurgi,
] products, on the contrary, the American
excel; in machines, tools, nailwOrks anC
and hardware in general They have ex
! hausted all the forms that human indus
, try can give to the hammer. How man,
J hammers, and what beautiful and excel
: lent ones! It is the apotheosis Of ham
mers! The articles of furniture displays
are defective in point of form and finish
! but American ingenuity peeps out in then
5 here and there, as in certain transform
! able armchair which serves for thirt
8 different purposes. This fantastic arm
chair, which is at low price, is used in
I differently as sofa (at any desired ir
8 clination) horizontal bed with pillow
: an easy chair, cradle, a tete-d-tete, a
9 armchair with desk attachment, sim
! pie chair, rocking chair, etc. I do nc
9 know but it may have also q musical al
s tachment The whole folds up, can b
: put in small compass, and convenient
1 carried by rail.
/ It is time to call particular attention
I the mineralogical products of the Unite
9 States, as being among the most importaI
elements of national wealth. The preciou
metals extracted in 1872, from the weste1
portion of the American Continent, repr
sents in value $40, 900, 600. This produ,
i ton, which exceeds by $4,000, 900 that
n 1870, seems to have advanced in 1873 an
!, 1874. 1t is California and Nevada whiC
furnish the greater part of this sum. The
follow the Territories of Oregon, Idah
Montana, Utah and Colorado. The Teri
, TORY of Washington itself produces on {
4 average $200, 900 yearly. Coal, iron, gr
phite and copper are worked with increa
Is ing activity in the great Republic.
The India rubber business is one Of &
most prosperous and important in Il
l. United States, and judging from the O.
positions in that line, it may be class,
= on q par with the manufacture of shoe
=. the dressing of skins and saddlery. A
these industries owe to machinery an {
traordinGry perfection aud unheaEd
7 cheapness. There are in the division d
or voted to machinery some apparatusss We
n- curious in this respect. Thus, the Grim
- ing machine, for example, moved by
4 single workman, turns OF the uppers
four hundred pairs Of shoes daily. Bea
80 tiful specimens Of saddlery are offered
d. very low prices. Among these curio
Dis American machines, would point q