Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-11-15
industrial Exhibition OF 1851.

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industrial Exhibition OF 1851.
Our readers are all, no donbt, aware
that there is to be an exhibition of the
industry Of all nations, in London, in
June 1851. Preparations for this ex
hibiiion are being made on the most gi-
gantic scale. London, tits said, will
resemble great holiday watering place.
The workshops of England, France,
Belgium and Germany are vieing with
each other, in the production of most
splendid works of art and industry, 10
be sent to the exhibition. The building
intended for the reception of the articles,
has been erected in Hyde Park, and is
said TO be Of unusual extent; 1890 iron
columns will be used in its construction.
These columns are hollow, and are in
tended TO be used in conveying the water
from the roof Of the building. Not less
than thirty-four miles of iron gutter pipe
will be required to convey the water to
the heads of The different columns. The
total area Of the ground floor and gale
ries of the building will be $4,000
square feet.
Exhibitors from the United States will
have $4,000 square feet Of room allotted
to them. Chinese productions will oc-
cupy 5000 feet; those of Great Britain
and her colonies I07, $50 feet. Belgium
has 2S,S00 feet, and has furnished a list
of $50 exhibitors. Austria will have
go exhibitors. France has furnished
list of 1909 exhibitors.
This exhibition will call together in
London, such an assemblage of the in
dustry and productions of all the nations
of the world, as has never before been
seen. The royal Commissioners are
doing all they can to protect yisiters, par
ticularly those of the humber classes,
from extortion, by opening registry for
lodgings, by which settled charges and
fixed accommodations will be secured to
visitors. Railway companies are ar
ranging with the Commissioners for re-
duced rates and regular trips.
Active preparations have been made to
have the United States fully represented
at London on this occasion, and the COM
mitiee of the National Institute, at Wash
ington, announce that President. Fill
more has given assurance that national
vessel will be commissioned to convey
to London all articles designed for the
exhibiiion.-Hdwk Eye.
GEv. TAYLoR's last will is said, by
the Washington correspondent of The
New York Herald, to have been made
before The battle of Moniery, in 1916.
He made ample provision for his wife,
giving her three large storehouses and
LOT, and more than hundred shares of
bank stock, and six or eight slaves, in
Louisville, Kentucky. TO his son,
Richard, he gave his plantations in Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, and tw enty thou
sand dollars. 10 Mrs. Bliss and Mrs.
Wood. his daughters, he gave ten thous-
and dollars each, and to the former, then
unmarried, several negro women. 1t
was his wish that The plantation should
not DE divided for ten years, and from the
proceeds of the crops he directed that
Lis daughters should receive twenty
thousand dollars each, in addition to the
sum before mentioned. Judge McGree
of Mississippi. was made his executor.
He made provision for the payment OF a
security debt of $1,000: he owed moth
ing on his own account. He desired
that lis servants should be moderately
worked and kindly ireated-the old ones
10 be taken care Of, and made comforta-
bic.