The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-04-21
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
TIE GRAND STATE FAIR-THE GROUNDS
CROWDED DAILY - HANDSOME DIS
PLAY IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
New ORLEANS, APRIL Is, 1869.

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:, New ORLEANS, APRIL Is, 1869.
FRIEND DEMOCRAT
Taken in any point of view the Stat
f Fair now progressing in our cit,
which the Directors have wisely dec
+ dea to keep open until Sunday nigl
next, closing with grand display {
fireworks is one of the most deservin
enterprises that has even been inaugu
rated in our State. As a show, til
sights to be seen are worth the admis
sion fee a hundred times over, for sue
a collection of curiosities, rare and val
liable goods, and fine stock is seldom
seen inside OF one enclosure. But it
in its influence upon the trade an,
commerce, agricultural and manufac
turing interests of our section of til
country that this grand undertaking
most worthy of consideration. 1t bring
the people together, exhibits at on,
time and side by side the new and OLE
inventions, shows the varieties O
seeds that may be used, the improve
ments needed and possible in every
branch of business. Thus new idea.
are created, new energies awakened
life, vigor and activity are infused into
the people, and competition, the life
and soul of every enterprise, without
which no man will ever be as useful
and successful as he ought to be and
might be, will lead to the develope-
ment OF our resources and energies, I'M
til we stand "eqralled by few, excelled
by none"
aa1 MACHINERY, ETC.
This department has been in active
operation for the past week, and is fill
ed with an almost endless variety of
machines for all purposes, coffin gins
and hullers, corn, grist and saw mills,
corn shelters and feed cutters, potatoe
slicers, a machine in fact to do every
thing aboi,t the plantation, even to
milking the cows. We stand in won
der and admiration looking about this
room, feeling that to describe the nov
elites that we see, would require that
we should write book, a thing not to
be thought of now that the warm
weather is SO near at hand. An appar-
atus exhibited for drying fruit attract
ed considerable attention and is a use
full article, q valve on top lets off the
extra heat and keeps the fruit from
burning, while a gentle fire below en-.
sures the drying. Sweetpotatoes dried
in this mannsr keep for a long time and
are delicious article of food, making
cake or bread, and if soaked
and boiled Will closely resemble the.
fresh pototoe.
AND NATIVE pRoDUc-
TIONS.
These departments are very full, pre-
senting a splendid and complete as
sortment, only few leading articles of
which can now be mentioned. Messrs
Glynn e. Wintz, the justly popular
manufacturers of boots and shoes, No.
3 Camp street, exhibit three cases of
goods of their own make, which took
the blue ribbon over articles that we're
at the North expressly
for competition in this Fair. Bully for
that! Hurrah for home enterprise.
Every step that we take towards indie
pendence of Northern goods is move
ment forward on the road to influence.
power and wealth. Glynn g. Wintz
show new style of ladies' slippers,
very unique and pretty, made of white
satin and elegantly worked, they have.
been praised by thousands of the fair
ones during the past week. Their
mems boots, too, were equal to the oc-
'asion and would delight the heart of
loney Nap himself. Shall I tell it ?
4 friend of mine, ahem! who puts up
southern Shaker Preserves, took the
ilploma for the best preserves from any
state. A fine lot of salt from Avery's
STAND was exhibited, rock, fine,
round and table salt, all looking as
,ood as any imported article. The
louisiana Ice Company had a ''power-
I'll chunk" Of ice on exhibition. IT
hlnk it was about twelve feet square,
nd was manufactured at the Comma
US works, in Jefferson City-.anotller
tep towards freedom from Northern
influence. Our soap. men, useful ar
lcle is soap, were out strong and made
show worthy of their ancient fires.-
immense slabs of castile,. family and
oilet soaps looked as fine as any that
ever saw. Messrs. A. Thompson &
o., OF the Crescent Sugar Refinery,
ad fine case, like an armoir, in which
hey exhibited loaf sugar, crushed and
lalIfied sugals, syrups and molasses of
IL grades, looking temptingly sweet
nd good. Texas beef in cans of about
Ell pounds each, packed in Indianola,
ooked very fine, and when opened. H
'as found in as good order as when