The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-28

Fran oar Special Correspondent.
NEW ORLEANS, Mar. -. 1855.

Mexican bands and music, everywhere
greet the eve or ear of the visitor, con
founding and surprising all with varic-
ty and excellence. one critic going So
far as 10 say that but for Mexico the
/ Exposition would have been tame af-
fair or have collapsed, possibly. And
/ but for Pat Donan, Dakota and Idaho,
with several back townships 10 hear
/ from, would have lacked oratory enough
/ TO have opened their exhibits. the Two
/ territories named making their formal
Gently, with bountitul supplies oi ot.
anges, bananas, cheese. crackers, and
the best uratory on record, stimulated
/ 10y lemonade Shades OF B0urboy sand
plastercd those innocent Dakotans and
lIahoans with taify enough to sWeeten
their lives for generations to come.
| But the grandeur of their exhibits war
, rant all thc good things said of and for
lh,'u. Wallace of Bismarck, fully be-
/ lirTts that Dakota is the original gar
den pf Eden, and he himself. is Adam
good t.'l'ow. and how
Since i.,v last letter the colored people
have held their opening day, formally
turning ovel their exhibit To the Expo
Sition and 10 tn inspection Of the world.
Your correspondent took occasion to
pass through the section devoted 10
their exhibits, one entire gallery of the
government building. and after Il care
ful inspection, left if. rs he trusts II
wiser and less nejudiced man. In all
that pertains to Womau's I.np needle
work, in school exhibits, ir punting
and drawing. i'm architecture, farm
crops. and in mechanical devices OF their
own invention or construction. the CN,-
dcnces OF progress and capability, ar
lmanswerabie arguments. At their for
mai opening were present about SIX
hundred pupils and students Of the va
ri0us COlOred schools of the city, many
learned and distinguished colOred ora
tors and teachers. with concourse Of
eminent men aud women from all parts
OF the country. \ number of address
cs We're made ly white and culOred
speakers, the speeches OF the latter
ciiciting unstintCd praise from all. not
alon" because OF their superior literary
+ excellence, hut also on account of their
noble sentiments and Of their sohricty
and good sense. II is somewhat re-
malhault that this is the first EXposi-
/ ton IN which the coiored People have
been invited 10 participate, and most
crcdtably have they responded,
/ The other galleries of the govern
ment building are occupied with wo-
mans work, in grand prolusion, and
Wit! various educational exhibits, from
different states aud private institu-
tions, from the United States govern
ment. and from the French Republic,
the latter being very extensive and com
pletc, and covering almost every de-
p<ment Of popular and professional
education. The work OF pupils in the
Cherokee Indian Orphan asylum is ex-
hlbited here also. and especially Kinder
garten pupils work. displaying great
excellence, considering that they are
but mere children OF six to eight years
Old, ana have only been under training
for five months.
Prof Ward, of Rochester. makes here
IN large section of one of the govern
ment building galleries, a proiigious
display of fossils. ores. minerals etc.
He also has large exhibit of casts of
celebrated models taken from the most
celebrated museums Of Europe and
America, incldng "A well mounted east
OF the great Siberian Mammoth, whose
remains were found in l70o. frozen in
the ice~haukS at tie mouth of the Lena
river. The skeleton Is rs feet high
ana ~ feet long, and is uow in the mu-
scum ii ST Petersburg Russia He
also exhibits the real skeleton of Il fin
/ back whale, which measures - feet in
length. There is enough IN this exhibit
alone To occupy the student for months.
! Standing at any point in these gale
ries the eye sweeps over one vast en-
pire, in miniature, having lis insttu-
tions and boundless resources and de-
yclopement all portrayed in tens of
thousands Of samples and forms. while
a multitude of flags and banners of all
IA ions 1vAta s,, t,,f fria,It,,
/ unity, impressing the lesson humanity
has been SO slew to learn or heed, that
! God has made OF one blood all the ma
! tions of the earth. and that in peace.
and not in war, the grandest victories
, are won.
That Interior department makes u
vast exhibit from the patent Office,
showing ~ Ddels of thousands of inyeu-
tiOns, from the most triilying up to the
great modern locomotive: the treasury
shows vast collections OF cngrayings.
, fac-smiles of currency and bonds, with
large plates Of public buildings, and
/ from the Agricultural Bureau are sam
/ pies OF every vegetable, grass, grain,
D
! sugar. seed, and insect. especially those
/ injurious 10 vegetation; the State de-
partment exhibits maps showing TIE To-
cations and extent Of our diplomatic
, service, and the whole is the most eX-
/ tcnsive ever made by any government.
The various states, circling round the
central head, make unlimited displays
of cotton, sugar, timbers, ores. grains,
grsses, and collections Of such variety
and number that forty large volGmes
would scarcely suffice IN which to fully
describe them, and all that We can hope
to do As We proceed, is to give general
bird s eye views, leaving the reader to
F. imagine much that cannot be set down,
or described in brief letters. For this