The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-21
THE THREE AMERICAS EXPOSE
TON.
Especial to the DEMOCRAT.
New ORLEANS. Jan. 10. 1sS

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 10, 1886.
Utah has such an array Of valuable
mineral ores to elicit the close study
of the visitor that he completely for
gets her peculiar history and her So
cial, religious and political idiosyn.
cracies. The number of mines repre-
sented by most liberal contributions
of samples, l have not counted, but
they run up into the hundreds and
their products ase gold, silver, cop
per, lead, iron, anthony, quicksilver
and sulphur, valued at several mil
lions of dollars per annum. Besides,
there are abundant samples of granite,
marble, shale coal for gas, sandstone.
alum, fire clay, chalk, gypsum, miner
al wax, petroleum, glauber salts, etc.
Wheat. barley and oats in profusion
are side by side with a fine -four ex-
hibit and a pyramid of excellent wool
ell goods, as iannels, blankets,
shawls, plaids and cloths for men
and women's dress goods. A gigantic
pumpkin and a number of gigantic
Irish potatoes speak well for the Utah
vegetable world.
The Creole Historic Exhibit has
been opened. 1t occupies part of Art
Hall, and will doubtless prove to
Northern and Western visitors the
most interesting of the many. rare at
fractions the Exposition contains.
The articles shown are loaned by the
old Creole families /; and especially to
the manor born they speak an ances-
trail history which no lapse of time
can dim.
Among the original portraits are
those of Chas. Gayarre, the distin-
guished historian of Louisiana ; Louis
Philippe and his Queen ; Marceau, the
gallant young general of the French
revolution Lamartine; Lafayette ;
Benjamin Franklin Napoleon Bona
parte; Andrew Jackson; Audubon,
the Louisiana naturalist ; Gen. z. Tay-
lor; and many notabilities of the
French and Spanish REGIME, when
Louisiana was a foreign colony.
Among the family relics are !; the
commission of Capt. M. Fortier, sign
ed by the great Napoleon ; The pistols
used In a duel between Daniel Clark,
father of the late Mrs. Gaines, and Ju-
lien Poydras, French merchant and
philanthropist port, ait of Gen. Tru-
deau, Audobon's companion in his
hunting expeditions "a picture of La
arrange, the home of Lafayette. paint
ed by the celebrated AIRY Sheffer;-a
portrait of Jos. Coiron, the first to use
a steam engine in sugar making ;-jew-
els. laces, crockery, coats-of-arms,
manuscripts, land grants, books, nina
lures, music, all hundreds of years old
and belonging to various old French
and Spanish families "a lock of An
drew Jackson's hair, set round with
Jewels ;-dresses worn at the courts OF
Louis XIV. XIV and XVI ;-autog aph
letters of Gayoso, Casacalvo, Carontle-
let, Jefferson and Lafayette and q
number of articles used by General
Washington and Mrs. Washington.
Inc above autograph letters together
with many ancient colonial documents
are contributed by Hon. Chas. Gayare.
The venerable historian counts among
his ancestors the most distinguished
French and Spanish colonial officials.
Sem I Gaylre came from Spain with
Gen. Okeitly. as ole Of his civil staff,
when the French colony "a transfer
red, against its will, to the Spanish
King and Monsieur De Bore, the his
torian's maternal grandfather, was a
military officer of the court OF Louis
XVI. lie was thu first Mayor of New
Orleans under the American-rule
and on his plantation, located nexi
below where the Expo .ition now
stands, the first sugar crop was made
in Louisiana.
Mr.. Gayarre finished his legal edu-
cation in Philadelphia. He soon be-
came prominent in State politics,
serving as Secretary of State and U.
S. Senator; but his chief distinction
has been as a scholar, a historian, and
a writer of historic novels. He speaks
and writes English as easily and in
~ciseVely as French aud, al sigirty-one
years, is still vigorous and active in
body and clear, ready and penelra-
ting in intellect. One of the old school
of Louisiana gentlemen; who would
rather die than commit a mean or
dishonorable act.
This Creole Historic exhibit alone
is worth coming a thousand miles to
see.
B~ye-the-bye, it is we'll enough for
strangers coming here to know that
the Creoles of Louisiana are WHITES,
who descend in direct lineage from
the original French and Spanish col
onists. w. d. B.
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