The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-06-20

from the Washington correspondent O.. the
Bubble Ledger Of the 2lst inst, may prove IN
te~resting.
sThe National Exhibition Of American man
ufactures, American taste, ingenuity and talent
is Today the great centre Of attraction. The
opening Of the exhibition was announced at
IL o'clock precisely, by the ringing OF bells
and the discharge of cannon, and in twenty
minutes ahcreaGter the immense building was
filled with the beauty, fashion and intelligence
Of this great republic. The splendid bazaar
in which the fair is held, covers an area Of
10000 square feet, in Judiciary Square, between
"A and 9th streets, the principal fronts being
ON Louisiana Avenue. Its height is twenty
feet, length Of tables on which the various ar
ticles are displayed, fifteen and eighteen feet,
main passage through the centre OF che build
ing fourteen feet, aisles between the tables six
feet. The roof is covered with about six thou
sand Yards of cotton cloth, painted, and thus
made impervious TO water. The building is IN
the form of a T., the main portion, from LOUISE
ana Avenue, being two hundred and sixty feet
long and sixty wide, and the topof the ], run
mig from 9Th street toward Al street, OF the
SAME width, and two hundred and forty feet in
length. On each side IF the main building are
also sheds, about twenty feet wide, and ex-
tending the whole length, in which agricultu-
raj implements Of various descriptions and in
Vulnerable other articles are deposited.
sThe decorations of the interior are Of the
.. most tasteful character, the whole, being lined
throughout with about twenty-four thousand
yards of cambria, of pink, white and blue, the
pink and white being the most conspicuous, as
the sides are covered with alternate stripes of
, these colors Of the usual widthaf goods of
r this description. The centre passages through
a the main building, and the top Of the 7 are
very imposing. The centre Of the building,
{ on each side Of these passages, is supported by
! numerous pillars, extending to the roof, and
: these pillars are covered with pink cambria,
: uniting in the centre Of the arch in the form of
a cross, and here decorated with a rosette of the
same material, of pink, white and blue. From
the centre Of this arch are suspended numerous
gas fixtures, with which the passages will be
lighted in 1.-THE evening, throughout their whole
e extent, and you can easily imagine the effect
to be thus produced.
il 'Fhere are thirty-eight tables ia the mair
hall Of the building, and sixteen ia the cress q
the T, besides tables on each side Of the halls
-
10 extending the whole length In the centre O
II the cross, at the head of the main hall, an or
chcstra has been erected, and twelve musicians
stationed. Fronting the orchestra, in the hal
or Of the cross, are two splendid pyramids, abou
a twenty feet in height, ornamented, for exhibi
ton, with cut glass manufactures Of every des
is %cription Of color. Extending to the west 0
these pyramids are sixteen tables of the cross
y on which are displayed silver ware, broadcloths
st Kentucky jeans, cassimeres, s%atlinets, merinoe
l. tweeds, glassware, &c, &C., flom Philadelphia
Baltimore, New York, New England, &C.
of This hall, to the east Of the pyramids, is occu
a. pied with a great variety of machinery an
nd useful inventions. Hele are a spinning franc
Id a card machine, a furnace bellows, a carpt
mt loom, a saving machine, and various otber il
he y~entions, some Of which have been put in flu
en- operation by meaps of a twenty horse pow'
IT. upright tubular steam engine, manufactured b
au Poole g. Ferguson, Of Baltimore.'