Show m = M AT THE WORLDS FAIR of the A Utah tadys Impressions Great Exhibition SpecfalCorrespondence of the DEMOCRAT NEW ORLEANS May 23 1885 EDITOR DEMOCRAT For once I experienced ex-perienced a sense of relief in leaving our saintly city with its turmoil of juries sainty cty subterfuges of quibblinga of lawyers to pertaining witnesses et id omne genus the paraphernalia of courts I was are a-re l enjoyment to whirl away through the purer atmosphere of the hills and behold be-hold the glorious scenery from the D R Ggrand majestic and harmonious contrasting strong and agreeable relief with the bickerings of puny man One wonder A little gazes in speechless Hte engine a whirling train of cars and towering tow-ering above and around us the most sublime aWeinspiring and grandest emblems em-blems of Gods handiwork A FEW DAYS TRAVEL Brought us to scenes very different but no less enjoyable in their way An undulating country covered with luxuriant ant vegetation tropical trees and shrubbery shrub-bery and any number of our darker brothers and sisters peering out from among the vines and foliage or staning in groups at the railway stations or lounging in lazy contentment in front of their tumbledown cabins Approaching the Crescent City everything takes on a busier aspect and the trains are crowded with strangers and passengers going to the Worlds Fair at New Orleans From I the numerous articles I had read and from all I had heard of the Exposition I thought I knew what I ought to expect But one can form no idea of its immensity until he has spent several days in one or two of the buildings and is then overwhelmed over-whelmed with the thought that with justice jus-tice to himself and the exhibition he should give his attention a week or two longer to the minuter details of at least a few of the exhibits MEXICO HAS REASON TO BE PROUD Of her contributions I every building and department her exhibits rank among the best that are displayed and give evidence evi-dence of the fact that in progress and development in the arts and sciences in industries and manufactures of all kinds the land of the Montezumas is following swiftly in the wake of the United States Apart from the main building but in itself forming one of the chief attractions of the place is the panorama of TIlE BATTLE OF SEDAN I I The first and irresistible impression upon reaching the circular platform from which the panorama unrolls itself in living perspective per-spective is the sense of immensity So realistic is it that it is difficult to tell where nature ends and art begins The canvas is 420 feet in circumference 50 feet in height and is the result of three years steady labor of two artists who witnessed wit-nessed the battle and made their sketches as the scene presented itself to them In giving an idea of this painting I can do no better than to express it in the words of one of the leading art critics of this city whose criticisms are accepted as the most careful and correct and thorough thor-ough on all works of art One imagines being on the summit of some lofty hill from which all the surrounding surround-ing scenery can be distinguished and the illusion lusion i made complete by the parfect naturalness of tints in the perspective from tho real grasscoveied slope under the feet as it wondrously blends further on with tho painting to the distant blue and gray of the horizon The next impression is that of action Everything is alive i that immense landscape land-scape the lifesize artillery horses with their Hanoverian drivers the artillerymen artleren at their pieces the bursting shells and fall ing riders the charge of cuiraseurs in the distance the skirmishers stealthily moving under cover of the trees and even the mo tionless reserves waiting at a rest behind the protecting walls of the village houses Al Al this is remarkably true to nature and the idea of motion everywhere strikingly strCly apparent a parent ap Many of the numberless details of this painting deserve mention and praise but I it would be an almost endless task Of its kind it is a splendid piece of work I showing not only ingenuity but talent and well adapted to give a clear correct and even eloquent idea of the battle which coat Louis Napoleon a throne and France two provinces S U E I |