Editorial Department [pp. 459-464]

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
WHY WEARS THY BROW A SHADE?
BY EDWARD J. PORTER.
Why wears thy brow a shadow,
When all around is bright,
And only Pleasure's breathings
Float through the halls to-night;
When Beauty's stars are gleaming,
In all their light arrayed,
And Joy her lute hath shaken Why wears thy brow a shade?
When the South wind's breathings bear us
Soft perfumes on its wings,
And the fresh green leaves are trembling
To their spirit-murmurings;
When the fountain's song of gladness
Is swelling through the glade,
And all is joy around thee -
Why wears thy brow a shade?
When the bright and joyous mingle,
Like flowerets in a wreath,
And light and song are blended,
As the odors that they breathe,
While the moments that are gliding
On Pleasure's shrine are laid
By those, like thee, the lovely Why wears thy brow a shade?
Kingstree, S. C.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
1. GREAT INDUSTRIAL FAIRS IN EUROPE
AND THE UNITED STATES.
THE power above the throne, and which is
ruling the world, can be discerned in nothing
more clearly than the Industrial Conventions and
Fairs which are annually taking place in every
quarter.
1. EXHIBITION OF TIIHE WORKS OF INDUSTRY
OF ALL NATIONS IN LONDON, MAY, 1851.-A Central Committee for the United States has been established at Washington, through whom only can
any articles be sent for exhibition to the great
Fair. Peter Force, Esq., President of the National Institute, is chairman of the committee.
There will be a committee in each of the states,
appointed by the governor, who shall pronounce
upon the fltness of articles for exhibition, and
communicate with the Central Committee. No
other articles than those properly endorsed by the
Central Committee will be received at the Fair.
Products will be received from the first of January
to the first of March. A building covering sixteen to twenty acres will be provided. A prize
fund of ~20,000 will be distributed in premiums.
The objects for exhibition are thus classified, and
will be received into England without payment
of duties as warehouse or re-export goods. Pamphlets containing full particulars will be supplied
by the Central Committee, located at Washington.
Classified Lists of Products.
I. Raw Materials and Produce-illustrative of
the natural products on which human industry is
employed.
II. Machinery for Agricultural, Manufacturing,
Engineering and other purposes, and Mechanical
Inventions-illustrative of the agents which human ingenuity brings to bear upon the products
of nature.
III. Manufactures-illustrative of the result produced by the operations of human industry upon
natural produce.
IV. Sculpture, Models, and the Plastic Art generally-illustrative of the taste and skill displayed
in such applications of human industry.
2. INTERNATIONAL FAIR IN NEw-YoRE.-There
are two propositions in regard to this. By the
first it is suggested that an arrangement be made
by means of which all the articles exhibited at
the London Fair in May shall be transported to
the United States, and held on exhibition here
early in the summer. The plan appears to meet
with great favor, and could no doubt be carried
out. Another proposition, if indeed the two may
not be combined together, is that suggested by the
Hon. Zadoc Pratt, of New-York, who has now a
reputation wide as the Republic for being the
friend of industry and the working man, the liberal benefactor of every enterprise tending to elevate the laboring classes and pursuits of the nation. The matter is now in the hands of the Mechanics' Institute, New-York, who have issued a
circular to all disposed to co-operate, signed Zadoc
Pratt, of Prattsville, C. S. Woodhull, Mayor of
New-York, and Wm. Kemble, of the West Point
Foundry.
3. THE GREAT FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, NEw-YoRK.-The month of October is as
usual set aside, and preparations are already in
progress in Castle Garden. These are the most
magnificent exhibitions of industrial products
ever made in America, and are attended by hundreds of thousands of visitors. We have ourselves been present on one occasion, and hope to
be so again the coming month.
4. SOUTHERN MECHANICS' AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON.-The second annual fair will be held in Charleston on the 18th of
November, 1850, and continue one week. Productions are invited from all the Southern and
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