as exemplified in the growing use of band and chorus on popular festivals and celebrations.

On this occasion President Grant delivered an address, perhaps the longest effort at public speaking which he has yet made, in response to the presentation speech of the President of the Commission, Mr. Joseph R. Hawley. One paragraph is so full of practical wisdom, exhibiting at once commendable modesty, the spirit of international sympathy, and patriotic fervor, that we quote it even at this late date:

"One hundred years ago our country was new and but partially settled. Our necessities have compelled us to chiefly expend our means and time in felling forests, subduing prairies, building dwellings, factories, ships, docks, warehouses, roads, canals, machinery, etc., etc. Most of our schools, churches, libraries, and asylums have been established within a hundred years. Burdened by these great primal works of necessity, which could not be delayed, we yet have done what this Exhibition will show in the direction of rivalling older and more advanced nations in law, medicine, and theology; in science, literature, philosophy, and the fine arts. While proud of what we have done, we regret that we have not done more. Our achievements have been great enough, however, to make it easy for our people to acknowledge superior merit wherever found.”

Mr. Hawley's address was a very happy one, well delivered, and to the point. We think that in selecting him to preside in their deliberations the Commissioners showed a sound discretion. He is a prompt, energetic gentleman. Considering him phrenologically, from the data furnished by the portrait, we would say that he has a strong body, excellent health, and amplitude of brain - development. His head is broad from side to side, indicating courage, earnestness, and severity, when it may be requisite. He is prudent, has a fair degree of policy, and a good share of the desire to acquire; hence he is able to conquer the difficulties, appreciate the business. phases of life, and to push his enterprises to successful completion; and

though he has large Benevolence, and is very ambitious, and sensitive with reference to the good opinion of his friends and the world, and therefore would be likely to use money pretty freely in the promotion of friendship and sociability, he knows what a dollar is worth, and, when engaged in the acquiring of property, evinces skill and talent.

He has mechanical ability, as indicated by the fullness of the temple. He has reasoning power, as evinced by the abundant development in the upper part of the forehead. The perceptive organs, situated across the brow, are well developed, enabling him to gather facts rapidly, and to appreciate their uses; but his power to comprehend their meaning and adaptation to promote results, is the strong part of his intellect. He is a real critic, detects errors and inconsistencies in what he hears or sees, appreciates fallacy in argument, and knows how to show it up to ridicule.

He is very fond of fun, must be sociable, companionable, and entertaining. He is agreeable, knows how to put the smooth side of a subject in front; can persuade, soothe, and conciliate people readily, and at the same time he has a squareness of statement and conduct which is not very compromising.

He has Hope enough to look on the bright side of life, and we judge that he has reverence for sacred subjects, and decided ambition to be known and approved. He is firm and determined, but his Firmness will work more strongly and steadily in conjunction with his executiveness than it will when he is in a passive condition. It is not so natural for him to "stand still, and see the salvation of God" as it is to buckle on "the sword of the Lord and Gideon," and strike and push to achieve results. There is a good intellect for literature, for public affairs, for science, and for general scholarship, and the use of scholarship in the departments of literature, science, or business.

Mr. Hawley was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, October 31, 1826. His parents removed to Connecticut when he was about eleven years of age. After graduating at Hamilton

College, New York, in 1847, he studied law, and entered upon the practice of that profession in Hartford. After a practice of six years, becoming very deeply interested in the slavery question, he was made editor of the Hartford Evening Press (an organ of the new Republican Party) in 1857, and took a very active part as a speaker in the political campaigns.

On the breaking out of the war and the publication of Mr. Lincoln's first call, he drew up an enlistment paper, and headed the list as the first volunteer from Connecticut.

He served throughout the war in different capacities and at different points, winning honors and preferment until he was appointed a general in 1864.

Returning home in the fall of 1865 he became again interested in the political movements of his State, and was nominated and elected Governor in the campaign of 1866, which proved one of the fiercest ever known in Connecticut.

His administration was characterized with much vigor.

At the meeting of the Centennial Commissioners, which was held on the 18th of May, Mr. Hawley was elected to the Presidency of the Commission for a second term.

It may not be out of place here to give entire Mr. Hawley's speech at the opening of the Exhibition, comprising as it does in brief a history of the events relating to the origin and progress of the Centennial movement. It is as follows:

"MR. PRESIDENT: Five years ago the President of the United States declared it fitting that the completion of the first century of our national existence should be commemorated by an exhibition of the natural resources of the country and their development, and of its progress in those arts which benfit mankind,' and ordered that an exhibition of American and foreign arts, products and manufactures should be held under the auspices of the GovernSnent, of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. To put into effect the several laws relating to the Exhibition, the United States Centennial Commission was constituted, com

posed of two commissioners from each State and Territory, nominated by their respective Governors, and appointed by the President. The Congress also created our auxiliary and associate corporation, the Centennial Board of Finance, whose unexpectedly heavy burdens have been nobly borne. A remarkable and prolonged disturbance of the finances and industries of the country has greatly magnified the task; but we hope for a favorable judgment of the degree of success attained. July 4th, 1873, this ground was dedicated to its present uses. Twenty-one months this Memorial Hall was begun. All the other one hundred and eighty buildings within the inclosure have been erected within twelve months. All the buildings embraced in the plans of the Commission itself are finished. The demands of the applicants exceed the space, and strenuous and continued efforts have been made to get every exhibit ready in time.

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"By general consent the Exhibition is appropriately held in the City of Brotherly Love. Yonder, almost within your view, stands the venerated edifice wherein occurred the event this work is designed to commemorate, and the hall in which the first Continental Congress assembled. Within the present limits of this great park were the homes of eminent patriots of that era, where Washington and his associates. received generous hospitality and able counsel. You have observed the surpassing beauty of the situation placed at our disposal. In harmony with all this fitness is the liberal support given the enterprise by the State, the city, and the people, individually.

"In the name of the United States, you extended a respectful and cordial invitation to the governments of other nations to be represented and to participate in this Exhibition. You know the very acceptable terms in which they responded, from even the most distant regions. Their commissioners are here, and you will soon see with what energy and brilliancy they have entered upon this friendly competition in the arts of peace.

"It has been the fervent hope of the Commission that during this festival