Evening star., 1869-12-31

Inc committee on Correspondence continue
10 receive encouraging letters from the Gov
ernors OF the States, and from other influential
sources.
Governor Harvey, Of Kansas, writes az
have the honor to acknowledge the recent of
yours of the 14th instant, covering a circular of
committee on Home Correspondence for the
proposed International Exhibition to be held i'm
tne Dlstrict Oh Columbia during the year 1871.
III repiy, peg 10 assure you Of my hearty ap-
Iroyal OF the project, and of nv intention IN
cooperate to the extent of my ability and on-
portunities to make the Exhibition a success. +
have no doubt that Kansas will be wortbilv
represented; and, to this end, L shall invoke the
advice and assistance OF the legislature
Governor VIM. III. Smith, of Alabama, writes:
am IN receipt Of your favor Of the 18th
instant, transmitting circular respecting an
international Exhibition which it is proposed to
hold in the District of Columbia in 1871. II will
AFFORD me pleasure to invite the attention of the
people Of Alabama to this enterprise, and to
contribute my best exertions in its behalf.~
J.W Hoyt, Esq, Secretary of the Wisconsin
Stae Agricultural Society, and late State and
L. D. commissioner to the Paris Exhibition,
says:-"l am IN no sense, and could never
peeome, person OF local prejudices and par
tiaiities, and hence do not share in those seati-
versions by several prominent representatives of
the Western press upon your plan of holding the
contemplated International Exhibition at w ash
lngton city. On the contrary, am ready to
concede that, other things being equal, or nearly
50, the seat Of government Is the fittest place.
After enanerating the objections that have
been urged, he adds 4" 1t is reasonable to CON-
efude that these same difficulties have presented
themselves to your own mind, and that YOU
have solution for them that will be satisfac
tory to Congress and TO the people of the conn
n.y." = = 'As you will learn from n glance
at my reports on former Expositions, am a
hrm believer in their utility, and If one is To be
held in the United States before 1876, 1.-THE date
L had fixed in my own mind,) or at any other
cate, L shall be most happy to contribute my
1rite to its success.'
HE objections urged by Mr. Hoyt are the
want of railroad communication with this city,
and the insufficiency OF the accommodations
here for the numbers that would wish to visit
the Exhibition.
BY the year 1872, the communications to III
Isolated spot viii be by five railroads, to saw
nothing of the Chesapeake and Chic canaI and
The Potomac river.
As to accommodations, we have in this city a
much greater capacity for accommodating visi-
tors than any city Of the same size in the
country. We are accustomed to great and sud-
den changes IN the bulk of our population, and
are prepared to meet them. 1t is not probable
that at any one time there would be in this city
larger crowd than is usually present during
the Inauguration week, and even that great in
hux has not taxed beyond its capacity our power
to receive and provide for visitors. But the
Exhibition visitors will be expected and pre-
Pared for in advance, here as they have been in
other places, and we have no doubt that all
classes Of visitors win find here ample and CON-
Portable accommodations.
IL the Exhibition bin fails i'm Congress, or is 50
mutilated as 70 make il worthless to the corpor-
ators, the real reason will not be either or those
above referred to. 1t viii be because local jeal
ousies, backed by votes, are more powerful than
the obligations Of justice or the promptings of
generosity to the disfranchiscd people OF this
unfortunate District