The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-12

DusrRIAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CIRCULAR.
[Rron the National Istslhssnoer, October ~
AT a meeting OF the Central Committee OF the
United States on the Industrial Exhibition of 1851,
held II the of the National Institute on Mon
day evening" September Is, 1850, the President OF
the United States in The chair the following circu-
lar to persons in the United States IN the
Industrial Exhibition was submitted by the Secre-
tary, and, with other papers communicated, re-
ferIed to the Executive COMMITTEE Tor publication;
WASHINGTON, September 10, 1850.
The Central Committee Of the United States on
the Industrial Exhibition to be held IN London IN
May, 1861 beg leave to invite the attention OF the
Cove Inos of the several States, OF the local COM
Btiees by them appointed, and OF the their Fellow
citizens generally, to the interesting subjects in
volved in this great concourse OF the industry OF
ns,ions and TO the peculiar aspects under which II
sddrs sses itse II 10 the sklful and industrious Of all
classes in. the United States
This committee cannot but view this great ex-
position of human industry and productive skill as
in which every nation on the globe has direct
and positive concern. Its results and its history
will go down TO future generations, marking the
actual Of arts and civilization in the middle of
the nineteenth century. IL will stand at once an
evidence and index of the progress which the
hun anizing arts of peace have m ide and are now
making in every empire and republic, kingdom,
principally, and province of the world.
The productions of American industry which will
be entitled to places in the exhibition not limit
ed to articles OF manufacturing mechanical, or any
other single department of labor or of skill. The
farm the garden, and the dairy, the forest and the
and the studio, will all be entitled to their respec
tive positions; and 1t is earnestly hoped that con-
sideraton will be allowed to prevent a full and
honorable representation of every department of our
natural resources, ingenuity, and industry.
To convey some impression OF the number and
variety of objects which America is capable of
furnishing to the exhibition, we may be permitted
10 eaumerate few OF the prominent classes.
A nong snimal substances, it Is believed that
samples of beef, pork, hams, butter and cheese,
weoi and hair, feathers, down and fur, lard and
lard oil, stearne candles, honey and wax, sDerma-
ceii, SKINS hides and leather, with articles manu-
fac tured from the same, may ali be with advantage
seut from the United States. Many of our dealers
in provisions can now demonstrate thatthey under
stand how to cater for the most refined taste,
well in the style Of putting up as in the intrinsic
qualities Of their articles
Among vegetable productions we shall not for
get 10 send samples of wheat, flour, Indian corn,
cotton, rice, tobacco, hemp and cordage; the
starch of wheat, of potatoes, and especially of
Indsn corn; sugars OF both cane aud maple, raw
and re lined; timber and articles manufactured
therefrom, especially when made in large quanti-
ties, and by machinery. BY taking longitudinal
and transverse slices or sections, one or two inches
in thickness, from the trunks OF trees, we may at
little expense send the most striking proofs of our
forest riches. The sycamore and wildwood OF
Kentucky; the cypress o Mississippi and Louisiana;
the live oak OF Florida; the pine of Carolina,
Maine, Minnesota, and Oregon; the oak, hickory,
cherry, apd black walnut of numerous States; the
dar and locust, famed for resisting decay; the
hickory, so tough and durable; the ash, so light
coach and car bodies; the birdseye maple, for
ornamental furniture, with mutudes of others,
may by this means be displayed with surfaces
smooth or rough, vanished or unvarnished, aud
form novel and striking feature of the exhibition.
Will not some of our enterprisng lumbermen take
this great department in hand In making cross
sections of trees the bark. should be carefully re-
famed when practicable.
Among mineral substances which ought GER
tsnlv TO appear al the exhibition, iron ores in
all their varieties, from that OF the iron mountain
of Missouri TO the rich veins OF Georgia, Carolina,
Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Maine, and numerous other States.
The cobalt and lead of Missouri, Iowa, and Wis
cons sin, the chrome of Maryland, the zinc oxides
of New Jersey and Missouri, the plumbago of
North Carolina and Pennsylvania, are a few Of
the coloring materials which ought to attract
notice and win appreciation; Stones used for build
ing and other useful and ornamental purposes
should not be omitted, particularly such as excel
in firmness, hDeness OF texture, purity, durability,
and a susceptibility of high polish.
The gold and mercury of California, the silver
of North Carolina, the copper of Michigan, the
maj ufactured iron Of many States, will evnce our
abundance in both the useful and the precious
metals; and among articles manufactured from
metals, we may send numerous varieties Of cut
lery, edge tools, surgical instruments, augers,
Soy thes axes drawing knives, hoes, shovels, butt
locks and laches, rifles, reviewers, bowie knives,
gold pens, everpointed pencils, clocks, chronome-
ters. astronomical and other telegrapbs.
We must have ploughs and cultiyators, reapng,
.
Nor must forget To show how we save labor
and diminish toiisome druggery, by cur card
MAX ing machines, our screw Machines, pun mn
chimes, hook-and-cye machines, nail and spike
nlachines, and percussion cap machines, as well
ss by our cotton sas, our dredging machines, our
quaduple printing presses, our BRICK macnlnes'
and our leaden pipe and lcvden bullet machinery.
We need not fear TO show samples OF iron cast
pes in hollow ware, of sheet, bar, or railroad iron,
OF stoves funsces for house heating, or ranges for
cookin with anthracite, bituminous coal or other
nal Ever in Olld
mental work IN metals, in chased and Furnished
silver ware, we have workmen who may satisfy
the most fsstidicus European taste. IL not too ur-
gently engaged in filling orders at home, II Is
Earnestly hoped that our manufacturers OF maihe,
,nstcal, philosophical, and optical instruments viii
put before the discriminating eyes at London q lew
spt ciunens OF their handiwofk.
In come xion with our metallurgic industry, We
must not forget the mineral fuel by the aid o.
which II 10 prosecuted Our numerous anthracite
De mi bituminous highly bitumnous, and came
| Goals must be made 10 prove how far the market.
| OF the world, well ~ our own manufactures
| navigation, and locomotion, can be supplied from
| the coal mines of the United States.
Machinery for working in wood, as shoe-lsst and
gun. stock machines, bucket machines, sash and
bind machines, boz and match machines, with
Dumerous forms OF saving, planning, matching. sno
sta chimes, would evince the fertility
of invention among our workers in this class
eubstances.
Among textile fibrous manufactures we shall b'
able TO offer cotton goods, plain and figured, ~
great variety, together with cordage and canvass
81 the same material, an well as American hemp
Al ong the woollen and mixed goods, wover
wholly by power looms Of American invention, W,
thsl be expected to send Brussels carpets, ingram
aud tapestry carpets, of various patterns.
In reference TO our maritime architecture anC
naut,cal kill in general, with all the details o
rquipsnent perhaps better evidence cosla be OF
| tered than would be gwen by freghtng some suit
nhle public weasel with American contributions Il
the exhbiuon, for the purpose OF conveying then
10 England, and this is perhaps the only way II
~ hich the government, as such, could give ehec
hive aid TO the objects Of our present undertaking.
To the foregoing very brief sketch Of few OBJ
6ects TO which attention may be benehcialy direct
"a we NAV add that a due discrimination will M
doubt be exercised in respect 10 the classes OF OBJ
| ects ar well as the individual specimens which
puqht 10 be cent TO the exhibition. IL IL for thu