Year: 1872

From time to time, we purpose to present our readers with something bearing upon this important occasion. Herewith we give an extract from re- marks made at the March meeting, by Hon. Orestes Cleveland, Commis- sioner from New Jersey. They are at once eloquent and give the reader an idea of the grandeur and comprehen- siveness of the Exhibition:

 Here will be spread out before us the manufactures of Great Britain, the source of all her power. From France will come articles of taste and utility, exquisite in design and perfect in execution. From Russia, iron and leather no other nation has yet learned to produce. From Berlin and Munich, artistic productions in iron and bronze. From Switzerland, her unequslled wood-carvings and delicate watch work. From Bohemia shall come the perfection of glass blowing, and musical instruments from the Black Forest.

 From the people of poor old Spain, to whose daring and public spirit nearly four centuries back we owe the possibilities of this hour, shall come the evidences of aforetime greatness, now unhappily faded away for want of education amongst the mass of her people. From Nineveh and Pompeii, the evidences of & buried past.

 The progress of the applied arts will be shown from all Europe. From China, her curious workman ship, the result of accumulated in genuity reaching back beyond the time when history began. Matchless woodwork from Japan, and from far India her treasures rare and won derful

 Turkey and Persia shall bring their gorgeous ia abrics to diversity and stim- ulate our taste.

 The Queen of the East, passing the Suez Canal, shall cross the great deep and bow her. turbaned head to this young giant of the West, and he shall point her people to the source of his vast powers, the education of ALL the people.

 One of our noted orators laid before us the other night such evidence as he could gather of the lost arts of the Ancients, and he demands to know what we have to compensate us for the loss.

 Iclaim that we have produced some things, even in this new country, worthy of that orators notice.

 Instead of tearing open the bosom of Mother Earth with the root of tree, that we may feed upon the bounties of nature, as the ancients did, the green covering rolls away with the perfec- ton and grace of art itself from the polished moulding-board of @ Pitts burgh Steel Flow. Machinery casts abroad the seed, and McCormick's Reaper gathers the harvest. Whit ney's Cotton Gin prepares the fibre; LyalIs Positive Motion Loom takes the place of the old wheel; and Howe's Sewing Machine fits the fabric for the use of man. What had the ancients, I demand to know, that could compensate them for the want of these American inventions?

 I do not speak of the American tele- graph or of the steam power, that we have done more than all other nations put together in reaching its possibil- ities. The Magi of the East never dreamed, in the widest frenzy of their fruitful imaginations, of the wonders of these! Let us now go to our sev- eral States and Territories and enlist every interest of our people in this undertaking, for whatever the reunited people of the United States undertake, on behalf of the whole country, WILL NOT FAIL.