Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-17

As they come;
For in every humble cot.
Some workers bitter lot
This angel OF the toiler has touched-and it
was not!
Nearer yet their peans swelling
They are saying, they are telling,
How this power they honor well
Hath upon it holy spell,
How it lightens human needs.
How it clothes and how it feeds.
How il shineth at the door
OF the sorrOwing and poor,
And blessing leaves behind it
Wheresoever Toilers find it?
Now sweet as bugles, grand as throb of
drums,
AS from strong throa ted men an anthem
comes
Rolling in rich harmonious amplitudes
Along the lands, across the oceans floods.
Strains that will echo from the golden pages
OF shining gospels of the coming ages. - "a
Hark! It's the chant of noble exaltatiOn
Which bursts from nations gathered as one
nation;
The hosts who come as children of one father
Beneath the standards of our land to gather;
The Voice of multitudes who hither turn
To this great school where all may teach, all
learn;
The torrid, temperate and frigid zone,
Earth's noble trinity, here three in one,
Within this tabernacle of the free.
Stand mid the marvels of their century.
Here are the precious splendors of the mine,
The Arctic trophy and the tropic vine;
The car that rushes at the maddest speed
Across continent, without steed,
The sOunder by which one can hear to-day
The clock that ticks a thousand miles away;
The lightning, harnessed to the alphabet,
Or to The most herculean labors set;
The wire on which ones words can walk the
seas;
The telegraph, the vast discoveries,
Which make illustrious the Book of Time
And write the nineteenth century sublime!
Invention, science, agriculture, art
And genius in these triumphs all take part.
OF these are they
Who throttle ignorance to-day;
And where she dies
The darkness flies.
From off the shadowed features of the sphere
As clouds before the sunlight disappear.
Not he who Is to loftiest plan inclined,
The man alone who benefits mankind;
VINO In the point the needles eye did place,
Became the benefactor of his race,
No less than he whose magnet needle turns
Steadfast to where the northern planet burns;
The microscope which finds the dire microbe
Is more to millions dwelling on the globe
Than IS the telescope which in Its might
D1scerns the unknown comet sail in sight.
The lifeboat battling with the boiling wave,
Inc shlpWrecked sailor in the shrOuds to save,
More precious is to scores of anxious hearts
Than Yon Great Eastern with her mighty
parts
Stretched on the billows bending DER the sea.
Amazing men by mere immensely!
And hark We yet, for still another voice
Speaks unto ali, and bids the world rejoice
The ponderous engine whose prOdigious
power
Holds up thousand triumphs to this hour.
Bids men remember from how slight thing
The most exultant victories NAV spring
And from its great heart earnestly it cries,
"BehOld this day is full OF prophecies,
OF splendid promises for all who aim
The shaft of Effort. to bring down A Name. :"
Among the representatives of foreign gov
ernments present on the platform were vi
comte d. Abaza, Consul of France; j. f. De-
zamacOna, Consul of Mexico; A. de Grenier
de Fonblanque, Great Britain; j. Krutt-
schmltt, Germany; Baron Won Meysenberg,
Austro- Hungary ;Arturo Baldazano Y Topete,
Spain; Pedro Soils, Portugal.
A BRILLIANT SCENE BY NIGHT.
Tonight the city is brilliantly illuminated,
the most notable buildings being those of the
Times -DemOcrat which has erected triumph
al arch in the street, and the PicGYIa1e, which
has superb multi cOlOred rows of lights and
lanterns covering its entire front. The streets
are brilliant with fireworks and the air re-
sounds with explosions of gunpowder. The
universal expression is that the day has been
q complete success, and is an honor to the
management of the great Worlds Exposition
Possibly $4,000 persons found their way to the
exposition grounds. The only cause of
regret is that the delay of some
exhibitors has prevented the first
day from presenting the displays at their
best. Among the more active exhibitors who
presented complete array of exhibits are
the States of Oregon, Colorado, California
and Nebraska, and the Territory of Dakota
The Nebraska exhibit attracted universal at
tention being magnificent in conception, as
well as convincing in its array of cereals and
statistics
AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURING,
Some of the Western railroads have also
made fine displays, and scores of manufac-
lures from the Eastern and Middle States have
given proof of their ingenuity and interest
in the success of the exposition by sending
large supplies from their factories and
workshops. The South shows up
with wonderful completeness her
mineral, agricultural and manufacturing
resources, and is evidently taking the greatest
pride in the success of the exposition, and in
the results which il Is hoped will follow it,
Mexico and the southern half of the western
hemisphere are well represented. 1t seems
probable that inside of a fortnight the SCOPE
Of the exhibits will te greatly enlarged, and
that even the present mammoth buildings
will hardly accommodate all the displays
To-day brought in not only thousands of
slght-seers, but numerous carloads Of goods
from near and distant States, and the reports
received by the management indicate that
steady streams Of visitors and new articles
for the exposition may be expected from dav
to day.
Most of the machinery is in place, half the
exhibits in the main building are ready but
not one in the Government building. Not a
ll.
was fair but cloudy. Tee United States
steamship Tennessee, the flag ship of the
North Atlantic squadron, with Rear Admiral
j. e. Jewell on board, arrived in the river in
front of the city tonight and fired the
Admiral's salute.
THE EXERCISES AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l6.-The invitations sent
out by the Secretary of State in the name of
President Arthur, for the ceremonies in
Washington connected with the opening Of
the Worlds Exposition at New Orleans,
when the formal exercises at the
Executive Mansion would begin. Before that
hour this afternoon 200 invited guests, COM
prising some of the best known people of
Washington, and including large number of
ladies. assembled in the spacious East
Room" of the Presidential residence where
the ceremonies were to take place. No at
tempt had been made to decorate the room.
and it appeared precisely as usual, except
that on the eastern side near one of the cen
trail windows stood a small mahogany table
bearing telegraph instrument, and that be-
hind it on an easel was large picture of the
New Orleans exposition buildings and
grounds, beautifully framed in fresh rose
buds and carnations, interviewer
with smilaX and maiden hair ferns. The frame
was surmOunted by floral scroll composed
mainly of white carnations on which the
words ''To the President" appeared in red
presented by the board Of management of the
exposition.
SOME OF THOSE PRESENT.
Among the distinguished persons who stroll
ed back and forth through the room talking or
listening to the music of the Marine Band and
were most Of the members Of the diplomatic
corps and of President Arthur's Cabinet,
with their wives, the President Of the
Senate, the Speaker of the House,
w. W. CorcOran, George Bancroft, the emf
nent historian; Lawrence Barrett, Gen. Van
Vliet, Minister Foster, with Mrs. Foster and
their daughter; Mayor Smith, of Philadel-
phia; Marshal McMichael, Mrs. Chief Justice
Waite, Mrs. Justice Field, and many others.
There were also present the special commit
tees from the House and Senate representing
the States and Territories of the Union, and
several States were represented by Commits
siOners. At the telegraph instrument table
sat Mr.. Marean, manager Of the Western
Union Office, who had arranged the wires for
the occasion, and who was to manage the
1t was expected that the signal from New
Orleans announcing that all was in readiness
would be given promptly at / O'Clock WASH
ington time, or noon by the central meridian
time used in New Orleans, and few moments
before that hour nearly all those present
grouped themselves around the little table
leaving an open passageway by which Presi-
dent Arthur could approach it from the main
corridor.
ALL IN EXPECTANCY.
Everybody stood thus in an attitude of ex-
pectancy for fully a half hour. while the
Marine Band played national airs and the
operator at the instrument table ques-
toned the New Orleans operator as to the
situation. at 80, Marshal McMichael. who
acted as master of ceremonies. announced
that the steamboat with the managers of the
exposition on board had not yet reached the
exposition grounds in New Orleans, and even
after its arrival there would necessarily be a
further delay Of 10 or Is minutes. The invited
guests who had been standing so long in un-
comfortable attitudes, thereupon sought seats
around the sides of the room, and there was a
renewed buzz Of conversation About Is
minutes before 2. the operator at the exposi-