The southern press., 1850-10-05
Industrial Exhibition

relish than she VINO had contributed so much to
the entertainment of the guests that night.
Industrial Exhibition
/ Alta meeting of the Central Committee of the
! United States on the Industrial Exhibition of
1851, held at the rooms of the National Institute
on Monday evening, September l6, 1850, the
President of the United States in the chair, II e
| following Circular to persons in the United
States interested in the Industrial Exhibition
was submitted by the Secretary, and, with other
papers communicated, referred to the Executive
committee for publication
! WASHINGTON, Sept I6, 1850.
The Central Committee of the United States
on the Industrial Exhibition to be held in Lon
don in May, 1851, beg leave to invite the atten-
ton of the Governors of the several States, OF
the local committees by them appointed, and of
their feilowcitizens generally, to the interesting
subjects involved in this great coucourse of the
industry of nations, and to the peculiar aspects
under which it addresses Itself to the skiful and
industrious of all classes in the United States
This committee cannot but view this great
exposition of human industry and productive
skill as one in which every nation on the globe
has direct and positive concern It's results
and its history will go down to future genera
tons, marking the actual state of arts and civili-
zatIon IN the middle OF the nineteenth century
1T Will stand ut once an evidence and index of
the progress which the humanzing arts of
petce have made and are now making in every
empire and republic, kingdom, principality, and
province of the world.
The productions of American industry which
will be entitled to plac 8 in the exhibition are
not limited to articles of manufacturing, mechan-
cal, or any other single department Of labor or
of skill. The farm, the garden, and the dairy,
the forest and the mine, the factory and the
workshop, the laboratory and the studio, will all
be entitled to their respective positions; and it is
earnestly hoped that no consideration will be al
lowed to prevent full and honorable represen-
tatlon Of every department of our natural re-
sources, ingenuity, and industry.
TO convey some impression OF the number and
variety of objects with America is capable of
furnishing to the exhibition, we may be permit
ted to enumerate few ofthe prominent classes.
Among animal substances, it is believed that
samples of beef, pork, hams butter and cheese,
wool and hair feathers, down and fur, lard and
lard oil, stearine candles, honey and wax, sper-
maceti, skins, hides and leather. with articles
manufactured fiom the same, may all be with
advantage sent from the United States. Many
of our dealers in the provisions can now demon
strate that they understand how to cater for the
most refined taste, rs well in the style of putting
up as in the intrinsic qualities of their articles.
Among vegetable productions we shall not
forget to send samples of wheat flour, Indian
corn, cotton, rice, tobacco, hemp, and cordnge
the starch of wheat, Of potatoes, and especially
of Indian corn sugars Of both cane and maple,
raw and refined timber, and articles manufac-
tured therefrom, especially when made n large
quantities and by machinery. BY taking long
titudnal 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 syca-
more and whitewood of Kentucky the cypress
Of Mississippi and Louisiana; the live oak o!
Florida; the pine of Carolina, Maine, Minneso-
to and Oregon; the oak hickory, cherry, and
black walnut of numerous States; the cedar and
locust, so famed for resisting decay the hickory,
so Tough and durabIe the ash, so light and vet
so elastic the bass wood adapted for coach and
car bodies; the brdseye maple, for ornamental
furniture, with multtudes of others, may by this
means be displayed, with surfaces smooth or
rough, vanished or unvarnished, and form
novel and striking feature of the exhibition
Will not some of our enterprsing lumbermen
take this great department in hand! In making
cross sections of trees the bark should be care
fully retained when practicable.
Among the mineral substances which ought
certainly to appear at the exhibition, are iron
ores in all their varieties, from that of the iron
mountain of Missouri to the rich veins Of Geor-
gia, Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and numerous
other Stutes. The cobalt and lead of Missouri,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, the chrome of Maryland,
the zinc oxides Of New Jersey and Missouri,
the pumbago of North Carolina and Pennsylva-
MIA, are few of the coloring materials which
ought to attract notice and win Appreciation
Stones used for building and other useful and
ornamental purposes should not be omitted,
particularly such MS excel in frmness, fincness
of texture, purity durability, and a susceptible
ity of high polish.
The gold and mercury of California, the sill
yer of North Carolina, the copper of Michigan,
the manufactured iron of many States, will
evince our abundance in both the useful and
precious metals; and among articles manufac-
tured from netals we may send numerous vari-
cites of cutlery, edge-t tools, surgical iustru-
ments, augurs, scytbes, axes drawing knives,
shovels, hoes, butt hinges, door springs, sash
aud shutter fasteners, locks and atcbes rifles
rovovers, bowie knives, gold pens, ovcr-point-
ed pencils, clocks, chronometers, astronomical
and other teIegraphs.
! We must have plougha and cutivators, reap
ing, corn shel!ing, threshing, and winnowing
machines. Nor must we forget to show how
we save labor and diminish toilsome drudgery,
by our card-msking machines, our screw ma
chimes, pin machines hook-and-eyc machines,
nail and spike machines and percussion cap
machines, as well as by our cotton gins, our
dredging machines, quadruple printing presses,
our brick machines, and our lcaden pipe and
leaden bullet machinery.
We need not fear to show samples OF iron
castings in hollow ware, of sheet, bar, or rail.
road iron, of stoves, furnaces for house beating,
or ranges for cooking with anthracite, bitumin-
Gus coal, or otherfuel. Even in gided, bronzed,
and ornamental work in metals, in chased and
Furnished silver ware we have workmen who
may satisfy the most fastidious European taste.
If not too urgently engaged in filing orders at
home, it is earnestly hoped that our manufac-
tnrers of mathematical, philosophical, and Opt
cal instruments, will put before the discrmnat-
log eyes at London few specimens Of their
handwork
In connexion with our metallurgic industry,
we must not forget the mineral fuel by the aid