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Show IN THIS EAST. Professor Itiggs Attends the KtliU'jitioual Congresses and Looks itt at the Centennial. McKKmpour, Pkjni., August 11th, 1870. Editors Herald: Wo left our beautiful Salt Lake city on the Gth of Juno, to attend the National Elucation&l association and j the International congress to be held in Baltimore, to visit some friends, and take in the Centennial exposition on the way. We arrived at Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, the exhibition city and great national contra of attraction, on tho 29th. In population and commercial importance Puilndelphia is tho first city in the state of Pennsylvania, and the second in the United States. In extent, variety aud value of manufacturers manu-facturers it is the first city in tho United States, and the second in the wortl. .Philadelphia was settled in 1682, uud has ainoe grown steadily in p 'pulation ami importance, until in 1S70 we find it a city with a population popula-tion of 817,418, living iu 151, IAS houaiw, supplied with itd illumiuating gas through GOo miles ol pipe, at a (xt of $2.15 per 1,000 cunio feet, and with iU Schuylkill water through 658 miles of pipe. It covers an area of 82,700 acres, and lias property valued at $5S5,40S,70o. Philadelphia is a city of homes. It has a larger number num-ber of housed, in ratio to its population, popula-tion, aud cover a grcat-jr number of acres of ground than any other important im-portant cily iu the world. The exhibition grounds are in immediate im-mediate connection with the entire I steam railway system of the country, for tho accommodation of which twoi commodious depots are located adjacent adja-cent to the exhibition ground. They , are abo m immediate connection j with the euliie street railroad system i uf the city of Philadelphia, which I centers in a grand concourse located adjacent to the main or Belmont avenue entrance. There aro seventeen seven-teen entrances to the exhibition grounds. The price of admission is fifty cents, payable in one note. Twe persons cannot be admitted for one 'dollar, nor one person for two twenty-five twenty-five cent pieces. The fifly-cent piece is the ticket of admission. This one charge admits the visitor to everything every-thing to be seen during the time he remains in the enclosure. A narrow-cauge, narrow-cauge, double-track steam railway, three miles iu lengt'i, has been furnished fur-nished with its equipment as a special exhibit, and is operated for the conveyance con-veyance of pisseogers within the enclosed grounds, at a fixed charge of five cents per passenger per trip. Rolling chairs aro kept on hand in the principal exhibition buildings for the conveyance of visitors when they yet tired. Two nun Ired and thirty-six thirty-six arres of the most beautiful portion of West Fairview p:trk, having an average elevation of over one hundred feet avove the adjacent river, Schuylkill, Schuyl-kill, have been enclosed for the purpose pur-pose of the main exhibition. Twenty-five Twenty-five acres of these grounds are under cover. The estimated total cost of the Centennial exhibition is $8,500,-000. $8,500,-000. I would not attempt to describe this great exhibition for I should certainly fail to do it justice. It is said to far exceed the expositions at Lon.lon, Paris and Vienna. It is the world iu epitome. The one hundredth hund-redth anniversary of the nation's independence could not be better celebrated than by the exhibition of the arts, manufactures, and the products pro-ducts of the soil and mine, for there is illustrated the unparalleled advancement ad-vancement in science and art, and all the various appliances of human ingenuity for the refinement aud comfort ol man, in contrast with the meager achievements of a century past. In the educational department the public and private school work, from that of the kindergarten pupil to the senior student of the university is on exhibition. In this exhibit can be learned not only the degree of proficiency pro-ficiency of tho pupil in drawing, spelling, spell-ing, arithmetic, geometry, etc., but the manuscripts indicate the number of pupils attending the country and city schools, and the manner in which they are conducted. At the three days session of the National educational association, iu the Academy of Music, Baltimore, twenty-six states and two territories, viz, Arizona and Utah, were represented. repre-sented. The papers read and the subjects discussed, made the association associa-tion one of the most iuteresting and instructive character to tho educator. At the close of tho association, the international congress assembled for a one day's Bession in the 'same place. Tne countries represented! there were: Of America The United j States, Canada, Brazil and the Ar- i gentine Republic; of Europe England, En-gland, Lapland, Norway and Sweden; of Asia China and Japan; the Sandwich Sand-wich Islands and Australia. The speeches made by all these representatives repre-sentatives could be understood, except ex-cept the Laplander's, which was interpreted in-terpreted by Dr. Meyerberg of Stockholm. Stock-holm. After the adjournment, the teachers teach-ers of the public schools of Baltimore tendered the convention an excuraiou to Fair Haven on the steamer Matilda. Fair Haven is about filty miles down the Chesapeake bay, and was reached about 0 o'clock, where two hours were spent and a collation of Maryland delicacied enjoyed. On the return pasa.ige a business meeting of the con-1 tion was held in the cabin of the steamer, at which the following niso-lution, niso-lution, with others, wns adapted : IlesUctd, That, next to liberty, education ed-ucation has been the great cause of the marvellous prosperity of the republic re-public in the first century of its history, his-tory, and it is the sure and only hope of its future. The highest concern and the grandest duty of the new century now opened is the right education edu-cation of every child born into American Amer-ican liberty. O. H. Riogs, Ter. Supt. Dis. Schools. |