The Hickman courier., 1876-08-25
CENTENNIAL CORRESPO on
DENCE.

DEN CE.
Aeraco--Mjnes, Engineering, 1Lodeis,
Maps. and Sections Chemicals
Up iR a BdUooH--Ijs-
ceIEanB.
From our Special Correspondent
MEXICO.
l said that Mexico had a better educa-
tionaf exhibit than any of our southern
neighbors of the gulf. The exhibition
has a representation from the twenty-six
preparatory schools, eighteen colleges of
Jurisprudence, twelve engineering, eleven
medicine, nine pharmacy, two nayaga-
ton, two agriculture, two mining, two
cOnservatories of art, three music, fifteen
ladies' colleges. This does not include
a large number of establishments con.
Quoted by the clergy, benevolent socie-
ties, or private teachers. This is 10 in
considerable showing of the educational
resources of the republic, and proves to
our people, that Mexico only requires to
be placed under the leadership of presi-
dent LerdO, who, as the trusted friend of
Juarez, has learned honesty, which added
to his natural intelligence gives him a
prestige that MeXicans are proud of. 1t
is the policy of the United states to con-
cilisltc our neighor, not to incite aggress
sion. From what l see of them, Plutarco
Ornelas, and his co-workers in the com
mission, they are men of nerve, brains
and energy. To see the riches of Mexico
at the exhibition in minerals and other
values, and the competent gentlemen
representing them is an assurance that
afiliation with Mexico will be more CON
ducive to the prosperity of each, than
the fostering OF a system of brigandism
on the border, that it Is not alone preju-
dicial to the tone of national morals,
but isa disturbing element totinternational
policy.
The Mexicans are not at all the igno-
rant citizens that too many writers speak
of. There are twenty-nihe states in
Mexico peOpled by 2,33l 600 Europeans,
!, 100000 Indians, and 1862 600 mixed
origin, total S,743. 600. This Will bear
favorable comparison with our own
when the difference in pOpula-
tion Is considered. ] am for cultivating
trade with Mexico, not for warning wit.
our genial neighbor. She makes fine
exhibit, and her commission deserves
inc article of silver and herother valuable
We import sulphur from Italy. We
rates from Mexico, and in such quicker
time. We use gums and resins from
A ustralia, while the same articles can be
secured from Mexico much cheaper, and
with greater facility. As to marble,
there Is no country on the earth that
furnishes such field for a trade opening
in marble, as Mexico. In connection
with the gentlemen of whom / have
spoken and to whom l am indebted for
practical information, who are doing
lll they can for their country, and who
are intelligent, pleasant gentlemen, ] am
pleased to mention NJ. NJ. Zamacona, N.
BeTcener.
MINES, ENGINEERING, MODELS, MAPS AND /
SECTIONS.
The classifications under this head
begins at class one hundred and twenty.
Surface and underground surveying and
plating; projection of underground }
work, location Of shafts, tunnel
'tc. Surveys for aqueducts and for d.
lge; boring and drilling SockS - -
md tunnels, etc. Sup~ys md 80
lucts, and for the .r'ftu In
IF mineral dep~AtSafts by ror;o,L5 "u.ion, ! !
sinking and lishsnd timberino, t,,u 'tUuS
Methods, dr'r[,.,Tal operations of omen p
ng ' stsppine a.si5 in 7ad breaking down ore 8
imbefing ,yeTine at iilq the i''s.f ss.nfrface rock,
1g miners Jumping and draining by q
gines, buckets, or by adits; ventila- l
IN and lighting subaqueOus mining,
asting, etc. Hydraulic mining and K
e various processes and methods of %
licing and washing aurilerous granular Z
perticial deposits; quarrying; models e
mines, of veins, etc. c
CHEMICAL.
Glass two hundred. Chemical, phar- I
aceutical preparhons; mineral acids f
ld the methods Of manufacturers; sui Y
luric, nitric and hydrochloric acids. q
he common commercial alkalies; pot 4
IN soda. and ammonia with their car I
mates. Salt and its productions; salt
ON deposits; native salts; salt by solar 9
YaporatiOn from sea water; salt by {
from water of saline springs {
wells; rock salt ground and table {
lit. Bleaching powders and chloride OF {
me, yeast powders, baking powders '
yo hundred and one.
UPIE A BALLOON BOYS.
Bv invitation of Col. Littleton Bang,
lief of one of the important bureaus OF
le exhibition, in company with Col. {
ixon of Tennessee, Maj. Bridgman OF '
Massachusetts,, and Col. w. :. Erwin,
,rmerly of the Cincinnati Press, had
ne pleasure of a magnificent view OF :
ne balloon ascension, which was one OF
le most brilliant ever witnessed ;
journalists are frequently in the clouds, ;
ut | never saw them show to such ad-
autape. The following distinguished :
,urnalists went up in balloon, and 5
ke the three wise men of Gotham :
-ho went to sea in a bowl" If the bowl
ad been stronger, etc.,-sO with our {
erial voyageurs. Had the WIND not ;
lifted. the newsmOnger may have /;
hronicled-may, | say-another descent
.om the clouds as poor GrimwO0d into {
lme mad stream. 1t did shit, now (
yer. and rude Boreas, rather than our
-iends, should be wafed by zephyrs from
he golden gates or breezes from Aurora's
fan became Eoliancolic-per-
ersely so; and a descent after a night IN
ther, far above the exhalations OF me
ropolitan carbOnic acid gas, robed IN
limbusian influences with starlight and
became necessity. The in
repid sailors of the air were ID. Austin,
1ondon Times Frank n. Taylor, New
York Graphic; Albert Jonas, The Item
frank H. Cotton, Press w. f. Ford.
Times Col. Frank Nicholson, Mobiles
stove Works; w H. Saunders, Mrs. 5.
3 Nelson, Prof Kings daughter, and
'rof King. The balloon weighed nearly
i've hundred pounds, named'the Buffalo,
whose immense horns are figured on the
ilk, and is a beautiful structure
MISCELLANY.
Anextensive display is made of Kerite,
new substitute for rubber from the
sland of Java. There is displayed one
oil one hundred and fifty feet OF seam
ess tubing. l examined this, and it
GEMS as good as rubber. If so, it will
i'd the general economy by antagoniz-
ng the rubber monopoly Among the
tartling exhibits in the agricultural
building is the socket of an eye of a
Mastodon. The socket is eighteen inches
n diameter. What must have been
he size of this animal can be
Another one of the ami
nal curiosities is the Glyfodon, or
Schisto, pleuram typus, Nodot) with a
hirty-six inch tail, ten feet from tip OF I
lose to tip of tail. Circular shell seven
.ighths ola circle, turtle-lIke shell, height |
i've feet Under agricultural hall Is a /