The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-04
From New OrIoans--The Southwestern
Exposition.
NEW ORIEANs. March, 90


From New OrIoans--The Southwestern
- Exposition.
New ORLEANS, March 90.
Mr. Editor: The evidences Of the awaken.
ing ola new spirit Of enterprise in our midst
are becoming every day more cheering and
practically distinct. A strong tide Of immi.
grafton Is setting in which bids fair to dou.
Bile the population and increase the industrial
resources of the Southwest ten-fold within
the short space Of another decade. The class
OF immigrants now coming are mostly Euro.
pean of the very best stock. The numerous
damaging stories that have been circulated
in Europe by interested parties in regard to
the state of society in the South having been
successfully refuted are beginning to recoi
upon their mendacious propagators, and the
steady, persevering German, the hardy Scan.
dinavian, and the frugal peasant of sunny
France are beginning to turn their back,
upon the cherries winters of the North, and
the South. One of the new features arising
out Of this new life, and made necessary by
it, is the Southwestern Exposition Company
who have chosen an suspicious time for the
inauguration Of their great enterprise the
dustrial Exposition being announced for May
lst)-the pleasantest time Of the year, and
when no epidemic may be feared. The carry
ing out Of this movement, which promises
to play such prominent part in the speedy
development of the almost illifnita
BILE resources Of the Southwest, has luckily
fallen into the right hands. The Directory
is composed Of our most energetic, intelli
gent, and public-spirited business men, and
the president, Richard Lloyd, ESQ.,. and the
are of that indefatigable, pushing-ahead style
which, when combined with business capa'
city and clear-sightedness. as is happily the
case this time, are safe guarantee of success
The immense building of the company is
when finished will be one Of the largest anC
most imposing buildings in the country
The fronts on st. Charles and Carondelet
streets measure eighty-fve feet, and the depth
between the two streets Is three hundred
and forty-one feet. The edifice will be three
stories high, the front elevations measuring
eighty feet. The entire ground floor will
constitute grand power hall, with com
plcte arrangements for furnishing steam
power to machinery of all kinds. The secont
story will contain a concert and ballroom
eighty by one hundred and seventy feet, anC
thirty-eight feet from floor to ceiling-tht
largest in the South. On the same floor il
situated the tne-arts hall, of the same dimen
sions as the concert hall, while in the thirt
story will he found q supper-room capable o
seating one thousand guests, ladies' par
lor, etc.
The Directory are determined to make
their initial proceedings the great feature 0
the year, and will spare no labor or expense
to attain that end. They intend that thu
future of the Exposition shall rest upon ;
solid basis, formed exclusively of merit ant
enterprise. The Company fully understands
the fact that ,judicious liberality ia the true
road to success, and their programme prove:
that parsimoniouSness has no place in thell
plans. Their idea is to deserve success. ant
we have no doubt that it will be meted ou
| to them in the fullest sense. They lnaugu
| rate new err in the history Of the CONNER
| cial capital of the Southwest, and the boldneS
| with which they have struck out, in the face
| of old-fasli med notions, is Of itself a cheer
| full augur Of victory.
The building will be open for the reception
Of goods for exhibition OH the 18th Of April
and will be open to the public for twent,
days, on the first of May, after which it will
be closed for ten days, when it will be opened
as perpetual bazar for the exhibition ant
sale of machinery, manufactures, works o
art, and all kinds of goods. The applic'
tons for space flow in rapidly, and it be
hooves inventors, manufacturers agents
and others, to secure places before it is to-
late. w. L.. NJ.
SENATOR MCCLURE on THE CINCINNATI Con
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