New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-03

OFFICIAL JOURNAL or THE UNITED STATES.
UFFICIsl JOURNAL OF THE CITY Of NEW ORLEANS

WfICiAL JUUkNAlU f me I'LL VI NCV ohlCnsS
KEPORT OF ED WARD GOTTHEIL
Commissisner to the Hamburg and
AltOna Exhibitions of 1853, to His
Excellepcy. Governor WarmOth, Of
Louisiana, N CIV Orleans, Mar en-, $40
To His Exceency, Governor II. c. Warmoth, State
OF Louisiana
SIR-Scarcely has a year past since / had
the honor to lay before Your Excellency a
brief report on the Paris Universe! EXPOSE
ton of 1867, and of the important part our
State took therein. and OF the successes
which the efforts Of our exhibitors bad at
tanned at that exposition; when j. krutt'
schnit, ESQ.,, Consul of North German Con-
federation, made known on the first DAY OF
July last to our citizens that an invitation
had been extended to the producers OF our
State to participate in international eXhlol-
TONS simultaneously to be held by the free
CITY of Hamburg and the city of Altoona,
in Schleswig-H oIstein, the latter under the
honorary presidency of Count Won Bismarck,
and the cooperation OF Louisiana was ear
nestly solicited.
Your Excellency had but short time pre-
vious to this invitation, recommended to
both branches of our State Legislature the
great importance of encouraging immi-
grafton to our State, and thereby increasing
our commerce, wealth and general prosper
ity. You conceived that by exhibiting the
products of our soil wherever nations meet
for international benefits, and more especial
" in countries from whence useful emlgra-
ton would come TO our shores, and make
Louisiana their future home, that would be
sthe best and most effective medium OF ad-
vertising, and while recommending to emf
grants our advantages, offering them at the
same time the facility of examining for
themselves our valuable and manifold pro-
auctions.
Your Excellency encouraged the PROPOSE
ton of Consul kruttschnit, and by your
appointment of State Commissioner to
represent the interests of Louisiana at those
expositions, you brought the enterprise
under the sanction of our State.
The Commissioners of immigration, too,
being convinced of the usefulness OF such en-.
terprise, and the benefits to flow from al In
crease of immigration to the Western hemis-
phere, offered to defray the unavoidable ex-
pendIures, and an amount of some three
hundred and fifty dollars was appropriated
for printing, advertising, correspondence,
packing, shipping, etc. Q.
immigration, who visited these expositions,
has favorably dwelt on this subject in his
report to the last General Assembly.
The opening of the industrial and agri.
cultural exposition of Altoona was fixed for
the twenty-eighth of August, and the hor-
tlcultural exposition OF Hamburg for the
twelfth of September. The interval between
the first invitation to participate and the
opening Of the exposition was only seven
weeks. period entirely too short to gather
from the remotest parts of our State objects
for creditable contribution and transpor-
ing the same across the ocean; but the ex-
hiDitors from this State at the Paris Exhi-
bition of 1867 had not forgotten with what
encomiums their products were received at
that great worlds fair, and became willing
parties to participate in the new contest, to
which they were invited, and so great was
the interest felt by our producers that your
commissioner was enabled to make, on the
seventeenth of July, the first shipment of
articles contributed. of which the following
is a list. Via New York per steamship
Crescent City:
From A. Delpit & Co., snuff and perique
tobacco.
From Dunbar & Co., preserved fruit.
From A. Thomson, refined sugar.
From G.. ALICE, cigars.
From s. Blossman, pecans.
From s. N. Moody, shirts.
From Lehman, Newgass Il Co., cotton.
: From Roberts & Co., manufactured
cypress.
From A. A. Peychaud, aromatic bitter.
From II. I. Bartlett Il Rayne, iron ties.
From Price, Hine & Upper, salt.
From 3. L. Mann L. Co., wool.
From j. P. Sarrazin, periQue tobacco.
From j. B. knight, broom and broom
corn.
From A. Socola, creole rice.
The second and last shipment was made
on the twenty fourth Of July, via New York
per steamship New York:
From Myron H. Church, cotton.
From John T. Butler, iron ties.
From Hugh McColl, cotton.
From John Davidson, sugar.
From Roberts & Co., manufactured
cypress and gum.
From G. Sabatier, sugar.
From James E. McBeth, breech-loading
gun.
From j. Hildebrandt, moss.
From J. Aldige, cotton seed oil and cake.
From J. B. knight. whisks.
From d. O. d. Sullivan, cotton yarn, etc.
From Emile Lefranc, ramie.
From E. Bourgeois, perique tobacco.
From Stern & Brothers, boneblack.
From Barnett d Lion, Gray Jacket bitters.
From Schmidt & Ziegler, brown sugar.
The first shipment arrived in due time at
Altoona. Not SO, however, the second one,
and it lie with much regret that your Com
missioner must mention the total loss of
this interesting collection on beard the I'M
fortune steamship Germania, which was
wrecked about the first Of August, near st.
Johns Newfoundland; and, although this
dishe8rtening loss was sufficient to discour.
age and almost destroy the enterprise, yet
your Commissioner persisted in taking those
articles to the Exposition which had pre-.
viously arrived, and determined to exhibit
them, however incomplete the collection
might appear.
A transcript from an official letter adj
dressed to your commissioner from the
president and secretary of the Altoona EXPOSE
ton will explain with what appreciation our
efforts and cooperation were received, and
the sympathy felt by them at our losses.
"ALToNA EXPOSITION, 1869,
Altoona. September IL, 1863. !
"DEAR SIR-It has afforded US high de-
gree of satisfaction to greet you as the gen.
tieman nominated and appointed by the
State OF Louisiana to represent the interests
OF that country 'at our exposition.
I'VE offer you hearty welcome, and ten
der you our cooperation to give you the in
formation required in order to acquaint you
with our arrangements, and on your return
home we solicit your expressing to your
countrymen our high sense of appreciation
for the sympathy displayed in favor OF our
exhibition.
1--WE sincerely regret the loss of the
valuable goods intended for this exhibit
ton, shipped by the steamer Germania,
and unfortunately lost in that vessel, but
your personal visit here will have the result
OF bringing louisiana and Schleswig-H ol-
stein In more intimate relation for the flu.
ture, and to foster the mutual sympathy and
friendly feeling which high minded men, in
the persuit of forwarding the interests of
industry and intellect. know so well how to
aDpreciate