Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-10-31

nWoug dniuldl SUBSTANCES, u l8 Oelleye0 tndt
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 from the same, may all be with
advantage sent from the United States. Many
Of our dealers in provisions can now demon
strate that they understand 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 to send samples of wheat, -four, Indian corn,
cotton, rice, tobacco, hemp and cordage. the
starch Of wheat of potatoes, and especially of
Indian corn; sugars of both cane and maple,
raw and refined timber, and articles manuiac-
tured therefrom, especially when made in large
quantities and by machinery. BY taking longi-
tudinal 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 cypren of Misss-
sippi and Louisiana. the live oak of Florida, the
pine of Carolina, Maine, Minnesota, and Ore
gon, the oak, hickory, cherry, and black walnut
of numerous States the cedar and locust SD
famed for re- isting decay, the hickory 60 tough
and durable, the ash so light and yet so elastic,
the bass wood, adapted for coach and car bodies
the bIrds-cye maple for ornamental furniture
witt multnudes of othets, may by this means be
displayed with surfaces smooth or rough, var
Dished or unvarnished, and 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-
tanned when practicable.
Among mineral substances which ought GER
taiEy TO appear at the exhibition. are iron ores
in all Their varieties, from that of the iron noun
tain Of Missouri TO the rich veins of Georgia,
Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and numer-
Gus other States. The cobalt and lead of Mis-
souri,, Iowa, and Wisconsin, the chrome of Ma
ryland, the link oxides of New Jersey and MIS-
souri,, the plumbago of North Carolina and of
Pennsylvania, are few of the colorng mater-
ais which ought To attract notice and win appro
baton. Stones used for building and other use
full and ornamental purposes, should not be o.
mIt'ed, particularly such as excel ia frmness,
fneness Of texture, purity, durability, and sus-
ceptbll,y 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 e.
vince our abundance in both the useful and the
precious metals; and amoag articles manufac-
tured from metals, we may send numerous vari-
elies Of cutlery, edge tools, surgical instruments,
augers, scythes, axes, drawing knives, hoes,
shovels butt hinges, door springs sish and shut
ter las:e ners. locks md latches, rifles, revolvers
bowie knives, gold PENS, ever pointed pencils,
clocks, chrononetors, astronomical and ether tel
egraphs
We mus, have plows and cultivators, reaping,
cornsheirg, ihrashiug and winnowing ma
chimes. Nor must we forget to chow how we
save labor and dmrish tollsome drudgery. by
nt,r I'd kt ach,n
pin machines, hook and eye machines, nail and
spike machines, as well as by our cotton gins
our dredging machines, our quadruple printing
presses. our BRICK machines, and Cur leaden pipe
and leaden bullet machinery.
We need not fear to show samples of iron
castings IN hollow ware, OF sheet, bar or railroad
iron, uf stoves, furnaces for housekeeping, OF
ranges for cooking with anthracite, bituminous
coal, or other fuel. Even in gilded, bronzed, and
other ornamental work In metals, In chased and
FURNISHED silver ware, we have workmen VINO
NAV satisfy the most fastdous European taste
If not loo urgently engaged in filing orders al
home, it IS earnestly hoped that our manutactu-
rers of mathematical, philosophical and optical
instruments will put before the discriminating
eyes al London, few specimens Of their handi
work.
In connection with our metalurgic industry
we must not forget the mineral iue by the aid
of which it is prosecuted. Our numerous varie
ties of anthracite, semi-bituminous highly btu.
minous and camel Goals, must be made to prove
how far the markets Of the world as well as oul
own mannfac ures, navigation, and locomotion
can be supplied from the coal mines of The Uni
ted States.
Machinery for working in wood, as slioe-las
and gun-stock machines, bucket machines. snst
aud blind machines, box and match machines
tha Cor ,f
our workers in this class Of substances.
Among textile fibrous manufactures we shat
be able to offer CO ton goods, plain and fgurel
| in great variety, together with cordsge and can
vas OF the same material, as ell as Of American
| hemp. Among the WOODEN and mixed goods
woven wholly Nv power looms OF American in
vention, we shall expect to send Brussels car
pets, ingram and tapestry carpets, Of variou.
| patterns
In reference to our maratime architecture an(
nautical sill, IN general, with all the details o
equip nent, perhaps no better evidence could b.
offered than would be given by freigbtins somt
suitable public vessel, with American conlribu
tions to the Exhibitions, for the purpose of con
veying them to England, and this is perhaps tn.
only way in which the Government, such
| could give effective aid TO the objects of on
| present undertaking.
To the foregoing very brief sketch of few
objects to which attention may be bene6cialll
directed, we may add, that due discrimination
will no doubt be exercised, IN respect to tn,
classes OF objects well as the individual spe
cinens. which ought to be sent 10 the exhibition
Ii Is for TINS reason ibat this Central Comaiitie,
has invoked, through the Governors Of the seve
raj States the aid OF local Committees having di
rect cognizance If the merit of the articles pro
4 posed to be exhibited.
It. earnestly requested that all committee
| designated in The several States should ente
vita az little Delay as possible on IN discharg,
OF their duties, that they should give to exhibit
ors all needed advice and Infurluation, as to III,
suuableness or uusutab enes3 If the articles. thu
i proper quaniiy to he forwarded, the n,eans O
j conveyance and the agencies, either In TIN
couutly or England, by which the proper car,
i will he taken of their packages.
Where IL is probsble that ali four divisions o
articles, VIZ: Rnr Materials and Produce, Ma
chinery, Manufactures, Sculpture and the Piasts
Arts, viii be brought forward for approval, lh'
local committees would doubtless find It advan
tageous TO divide themselves into sub commit
tees with view to assign a sub committee to ont
OF these great departments, not precluding Join
Consultation on points Of difficulty or Of specia