The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-04-27
To the Directors Of the Crystal
Palace Association.
GENTLEMEN:


1t gives me pleasure to inform you
that, in regard to the sum proposed to be
raised by the sale of Tickets in advance,
the results are fattering. Some of our
fellow citizens have come forward, in
this crisis, with public spirit beyond
mere eulogium. Others have still the
matter under adyisement, but will no
doubt add a generous quota, in the end,
to the contribution. Under these cir
cumstances l may congratulate the As
sociation upon the early realization OF this
initial movement towards the grand re-
organization of the Crystal Palace as
permanent institution.
l have directed, therefore, that the Ex-
hibition, in view of its new character, be
temporarily closed on Saturday evening
the 18th inst, to reopen with a Popular
Re-inauguration and appropriate cere-
monies on the 4th of May next, the de-
tails of which will be furnished by the
Committee of Arrangements, Messrs.
Horace Greeley, Charles Butler, John II,
White, Edward Haight and p. L. Bar
nun.
The interval mentioned will afford 4
much needed opportunity for the recep-
ton and arrangement of a world of rare
and beautiful articles that have recently
come consigned to US from Europe, as
we'll as some exceedingly interesting A.
merican and Foreign specimens in Ma
chinery, Manufacture and General Art,
that have awaited our determination to
place the Crystal Palace among the i'm
perishable enterprises of the Age and the
| Nation.
The Dutch Government has just con-
tributed large and choice variety of
singularly unique articles of luxury and
use from JAPAN. They number about
one thousand and cannot but prove won
| derfully attractive, as tending to throw
much light upon the peculiar habits of a
reserved and extraordinary people.
Our Foreign Agent, Mr.. Charles Bus
chek advises US that, in consequence of
the unsettled state of the Europern CONT
nent, the number of costly paintings and
valuable chefs d'OeurreS in sculpture ready
to be placed at our disposal, is unusually
great, and will be forwarded without dc
lay, now that every apprehension that the
| Exhibition will be transitory specula-
ton, has been disposed of. His report
in relation to the more novel and elegant
manufactures of Europe is equally graft
flying; and may add that arrangements
are being perfected for the purchase of
collection of admirable copies of all the
celebrated statues of the Antique COL
lection that, in itself, will present the
highest claim to the popular taste and at
! tention.
A perfectly correct and handsome
model of Venic, covering about one thous.
and square feet and exhibiting ever min
ute detail of that beautiful city, in carved
wood, from the reality itself, will also be
added
Several eminent Horticulturists have
manifested desire to embellish the Crys-
tai Palace with profuse variety of un-
common Plants and Flowers. \ number
of Musical Societies and Bands have also
intimated a wish to add, in turn, their at
fractions TO the popularity of the Exhi-
btion. With all these suitable arrange
ments will be affected
! The Committee, Consisting Of Messrs.
Mortimer Livingston. Watts Sherman,
William Whetten, William B. Dinsmore,
and Charles II. Haswell,) appointed to
solicit our own citizens for Fine Art con-
| tributons, find that but one feeling per-
vades all classes ofthe people in reference
to our undertaking. All seem to mani
! fest the most earnest in its success, and
all are anxious for an opportunity to aid
US in its popularization. We may conf
IDENTIFY depend, therefore, upon a very ex-
tensive selection of gems of Art from pri-
vate and domestic sources, worth in the
aggregate several hundred thousand dol
lars, and in point of intransic merit ap-
preached by no similar exhibition upon
this continent.
The amplest facilities will be extended
to Exhibitors, among which will be the
important right to afhx the price to any
article of which they may wish to dispose,
to direct Visitors where duplicates may
be obtained, and remove their contribu-
tiOns, at any time, by giving only one
weeks notice in advance.
The Machinery Department will bo
much fuller and more effective than hith-
erto. There will be operating specimens
of nearly every great invention, and in
some instances the entire process of man
ufacturing various fabrics will be cxhib-
tied
AS Steam Power and space will be
gratuitously y furnished for the most inter
esting processes in Art and Industry ,and
as Inventors and Exhibitors will be per-
mitted, under certain judicious rcgula-
tions, to run the machinery for their own
benefit, this branch of the Exhibition is
expected to become especially interesting.
Allow me to Recommend, in this con-
neetion, that the Board of Directors an
nounce, at an early day, its determina-
ton to award Medals and other marks of
merit to those who may be, by competent