The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-05-06
NUMBER "a.

a million of dollars, has opened to our choice.
should it ever be expedient to avail ourselves
OF it, the most unlimited field of public useful
ness 1t has given our philanthropic ambition
room to work as events may dictate, for the
best interests reproduction both at home and
dence in the manifold resources of our gigantic
enterprise. 1t has taught us to believe that,
when the Crystal Palace shall have been re.
opened on the 4th May with grand corona.
tion OF labor and art and as a stable and homo
geneous institution for the people, it will pre-
sent itself in form that must command the
sympathy ofskill and industry throughout the
world and deserve. as we'll as receive, a sue
cess at once gratifying to our patriotism, and
consoiing to our perseverance.
have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Very respectfully yours. &C.,
P. T. BARNUM, !.
President Of the Association for the "Exhibl!
ton of the Industry of all Nations"
Circular to ths EIhioi.ea5 Of tn. cry..., Palace.
New YORK, April Is, 1854.
The undersigned joyfully announce to the
exhibitors and the public, that the formidable
obstacles which threatened the complete dis
cOmfiture and destruction of the noble enter
prise which they have chosen to serve, are al
length removed, in good part through the Ii!
berality OF portion Of our fellow-citizens who
have pledged advances in aid of the Exhibition
to the amount of 100000. Thus aided, We
have been enabled to dissolve the Injunction
which was source of embarrassment to us;
and alarm or apprehension to many of our ex.
hibitors-to pay off or arrange all the debts
pressing hpon US, and provide against the pos
slble occurrence of such annoyances in future.
We therefore apprise you that the exhibition
will be temporarily closed this evening, in or
der to be completely renovated and refitted,
preparatory to its formal re-opening, on Thurs
day, the 4th day of May next.
The directors need not, surely dilate On the
value and Importance of this Exhibition. I'm
perfect as it has hitherto been. and as, in view
OF the total want Of experience on our side Of
the Atlantic, in the arrangement of Exhibi-
tions Of such magnitude and variety, it could
not fail to be, it has yet proved Immensely ben
ficial to the inventive views, artistic develop
ments, and industrial progress of the country.
The opportunity therein afforded for bringing
valuable inventions or improvements to the i'm
mediate notice Of the capable and appreciating
is but one among many benefits conferred on
the leaders of Industrial enterprise among US.
Ii overweening cOnceit or inordinate self COM
placency has been rebuked and chastened by
irresistible evidences of European superiority
in elaborate and delicate workmanship, or even
in educated, ripened taste, the Exhibition of
100 lully Vic iuuCOscuuCoo
of Europe to America for very important in
ventions and improvements stretching over the
whole domain of agriculture, manufactures, and
the useful arts. In farming implements, and
machines for fitting the rude staples Of agrisut-
ture, for the convenient and economic use of the
fabrication, our country need fear no COMPARE
son and young nation Oftwenty-five millions
which while still arduously employed in the
clearing away of its primitive forests, has found
fimp in half a cpnfurv fo hpstnw on mankind
such inventions as those of the Cotton Gin, the
Steamboat, the Reaper, and the Electric Tele-
graph, need surely neither repress nor conceal
her anxiety to profit by all In the line of disco
very, art, or invention, which has been or may
be exhibited by others. If the New York Exc
hibition has shown our people how to improve
any implement or process in the light of Euro
pean achievement, that impulse is a national
benefit of signal and even increasing value.
If the past has witnessed mistakes in the con-
duct ofthe great enterprise now conided to our
hands. that circumstance will render our own
task easier and our success more probable. X
it has evolved many valuable suggestions and
illuminated for us the path of duty by triumphs
as we'll as defeats, We shall be able to walk
surely where our predecessors stepped doubt
fully and anxiously.. With your cooperation,
and that of the coming Fultons, Whitneys, and
Morses, whose triumphs are yet unachieved or
unacknowledged, we hope to render the Crys-
tai Palace the recognized 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 immc-
diate cooperation of the present exhibitors;
both through the continuance Of their best con-
tributions, and the Introduction of others, as
new inventions, new patterns, new successes,
shall render such further aid practicable. While
we trust that the Exhibition is bencefOrth per-
manently established, and that before many
more years shall have elapsed, specimens or
models of every valuable invention, eminent
works of art, improved fabrics, or other indus
trial achievements will be exhibited in the Pa
lace, as a matter of course, we shall yet remem-
Der with special gratitude, those friends Of the
who did not wait for its triumph,
stood by it in the days of experiment, and no
bly, aided to achieve the conquest which so ma
ny are destined to enjoy. We shall be able, and
we rejoice in the fact, to accord more desirable
positions and ample space to new articles whlch
shall be sent in between this and the LIST ofMay
than it is probable that we shall have at our
disposal thereafter. The earliest possible trans
mission of all articles intended for exhibition,
at and after the re-opening, is urgently 60
licited.
Trusting that you will agree with us, that
the interest Of inventors artists, manufacturers,
and artisans, are all involved in the thorough
and undeniable triumph Of the first American
Exhibition Of the trophies Of the Worlds Art
and Industry, we remain,
Yours,
President of the Association for the Exhibition
Of the Industry Of all Nations.
DfnEcroKs:
Phineas T: Barnum, Thomas B; stillmat,
Wu, O,Rrieu Edward HaiRht,