Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-05-10
miscellaneous.
CIRCULAR TO THE EXHIBITORS OF
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

Inc InISIAL rALAGEs
The undersigned joyfhlly announce to the
Exhibitors and the public that the formida-
BILE obstacles which threatened the complete
discontinue and destruction of the noble en-
terprise which they have chosen to serve, are
at length removed, in good part through the
lioerality ola portion Of our fellow citizens
who have pledged advances in aid Of the Ex-
hibition to the amount Of 100000. Thus
aided. we have been enabled to dissolve the
| injunction which was a source of embarrass-
ment to US. and alarm or apprehension to
many O. our Exhibi.ors--to pay off or ar
range all the debts pressing upon US, and pro
vide against the possible occurrence of such
annoyances in future. We therefore apprise
you that the Exhibition will be temporarily
closed this evening, in order to be completely
renovated aud reftted, preparatory to its
formal re opening, on Thursday the 4th day
of May next.
The directors need not, surely, dilate on
the value and Importance of this Exhibition
Imperfect as it has hitherto been. and as, in
view of tho total want of experience on our
side Of the Atlantic in the arrangement of ex-
hibitons of such magnitude and variety, it
could not fail to be, it has yet proved i'm
mensely beneficial to the Inventive views
Artistic developments, and Industrial prog
gress of this country. The opportunity there
in afforded for bringing valuable Inventions
or improvements to the immediate notice of
the capable and approaching, is but one
among the many benefits conferred on the
leaders of Industrial enterprises among US
foverweening conceit or inordnate self com
plaeency has been rebuked and chastened By
irresistible evidences of.European superiority
in elaborate and delicate workmanship, or
even in educated ripened taste, the Exhibi-
ton Of 1858 has fully demonstrated the
Indebtedness of Europe to America for
very important inventions and improvements,
stretching over the whole domain Of Agricul-
ture, Manufactures and the useful Arts In
farming implements, and machines for fitting
the rude staples of Agriculture. for the con-
venient and economic use Of the fabrication,
our country need fear no comparison; and a
young Nation of twenty five Millions which
while still arduously employed in the clear
ing away Of its primitive forests, has found
time in half a century to bestow on mankind
i such inventions as those of the Cotton Gin,
the Steamboat, the Reaper and the Flee trio
Telegraph, need surely neither reprcss nor
conceal her anxiety to profit by all in the
line Of discovery, Art or Invention, which
has been or may be exhibited by others. If
the New York Exhibition has shown our
people how to improve any implement or pro-
cess in the light Of European achievement,
that impulse is National benefit Of signal
aud even increasing value.
| If the past has witnessed mistakes in the
conduct of the great enterprise now confded
to our hands, that circumstance will render
our own task easier and our success more
probable If it has evolved many valuable
suggestions and illuminated for us the path
of duty by triumphs as well as defeats, we
shall be able to walk surely where our prede
cessors stepped doubtfully and auxiously.-
With your CO. operation, and that Of the com
ing Fultons, Whitneys and Morses. whose
/ triumphs are yet unacheivcd or unacknowl-
edged, we hope to render the Crystal Pal
ace the recognised centre Of attraction for
the votaries of Industry the devotees of Art
and the admirers of Genius, throughout the
! Western World.
To effect this. we need the hearty and i'm
mediate co operation of the present Exhibi-
tors, both through the continuance Of their
best contributions, and the introduction of
others, as new Inventions new patterns new
successes, shall render such further aid prac-
/ ticable. While we trust that the Exhibition
is honceforth permanently established, and
that before many years shall have elapsed.
specimens or models Of every valuable lnven-
! ton, eminent works Of Art improved Fab.