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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 29, 1881.
AT THE EXPOSITION.
FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE DAY
NOTED.
ncdueed Hates Along the Stale Boad-The College
Ulrla at the Exposition???A Brilliant Gathering
of Young People???Borne to Come to At
lanta-Attraction! of the Potcre,
The largest attendance on <t single day since
the opening of the exposition occurred yester
day. Prom the lime the gates were opened
until far into tno afternoon there was a rush
at the turnstiles on the arrival of every train.
The buildings were in a crush from
the crowds that filled them, and the
grounds were alive with the moving
masse*. The special object of the day was
folly accomplished in the presence upon the
grounds of a vast throng of mechanics and
industrials, as well as by the attendance of
large bodies of pupils from a number of the
most prominent educational institutions of
the state.
Everybody seemed happy. Exclamations
of surprise and delight were heard on
all sidas. and the greatest curiosity
manifested in nearly all the manipulations
and machiue wonders visible at the exposi
tion. There is nothing more certain than
that a score of such crowds as yesterday, fill
ing out the remaining days of the fair, would
produce impressions of the most stimulating
cliaracter and lead to many and valuable ef
forts in the direction of progress in the south
We trust that such a result may be reached.
The press of the country is teeming with
eulogies of this great enterprise, and its splen
did success as an exhibition of wealth and
resources is being told by the thousands who
have already visited it. From now until the
last day of December the pooplo should bo
Heat forward to tlio show from all sections of
tho south. A day in the buildings will bo a
liberal oducation to thousands of them.
Oar Hirtlnml t.arsts.
iNCintarm op their welcome EKcnmox at the ex-
rosiTios <i ROUNDS.
yesterday was raw, minty and disagreeable In
most respects, but among tho fraternal Georgians
and Marylanders who made congratulatory use of
the exposition hours, on tho grounds, it was one
of warmth, geniality and hospitality. Thedelega
tlon of guests was composed of business men of Bal
Uniore, accompanied by a number of ladies. The
gentlemen arc all of them representatives of largo
commercial and manufacturing interests, while
Ore ladies arc welcome delegates from tho
highest social circles of the Maryland metropolis.
They are typos.too.of tire beauty and fashion of that
delightful city.
Tho party includes ex-Mnyor Ferdinand C. Lat-
rolie.B. W. L. ltasin,president, and A. dcGtacquier,
Hecretary of the chemical and fertilizer exchange
Robert C. Kasiu, Miss Mamio ltasin, William J
Davison, of William Davison & Co.; Robert Obcr,
president of G. Obcr & Sons Co.; Charies
JJ. SMngluff, of Messrs. SHngluff
Co.; J. A. Holloway and wife,
It. 3. Hollingsworth, of K. J. Baker ,t Co., all of the
fertilizer trade, of Baltimore; \V. B. Hazelton, man
aging editor of tho Baltimore American, and wife
W. G. Atkinson, of Sc horn acker & Co., importers,
pnd shippers, and wlfo; Richard Cromwell, presi
dent of the Mt. Vernon cotton mills; John M. Deni
son, capitalist; John A. Hainhleton, banker; Major
V. W. Coleman, manager of the Carrollton hotel
J. Frank Supplec, of Daniel, Miller <?? Co., whole
sale dry goods and notions; Loyd Jackson, of Hurst,
Fnrncll & Co., wholesale drygoodsand notions; A
It. Faulkner, of IlniflT, Faulkner Si Co., wholesale
dry goods and notions; F. Ilartel, of William Devries
St Co., whnlcsalo dry goods and notions; George
Gator, of A rmstrong, Cator A Co.,millinery and white
goods; Hdward Landslrect, of Townes, Landstrcct
it Co., rubber goods; A. G. Alford, of A. & A. G.
Alford, 'iigont for Remington???s; Clinton P. Paine,
or Allon, Paine & Son, carriage goods; F. C. Sling-
luff, of tho Baltimore bar; K. II. Conway, of the
How York life insurance company; John K. Bland
secretary of the merchant!-' and manufacturers' as
sociation; C. I.. Jackson, of Jaekson & Tylor, ma
cliinists' and railroad supplies; John 8. Citric, of
William T. Dixon & Bro., boots and shoe
After making a full tour of the various exposition
buildings and grounds, and by no means omitting
tho handsome building and exhibit of tho Haiti
wore fertiliser oxchango, of which their chaperone,
Mr. A. do Ghoquleri is secretary, tho party, at 3
p.m., assembled in Judges???s hall to hear the wel
coming addresses and responses. There were also
present delegations from Augusta and New Or
leans.
Uovernor Colquitt; as governor of Georgia and
president of the exposition, was first introduced by
Mr. J. C. Peck, the director general pro tern.
Governor Colquitt said:
Gentlemen of tho Maryland delegation, of Hew
Or)oaoh and ot xugusta: It becomes my duty, ns
president of the exposition, to say a word in the
discover these boundless riches, pent-up in no little
room, but destined develop half a continent.
We of Baltimore, gentlemen, offer you the beet of
all markets for these products, just us we have al
to the grain-glutted west. Baltimore Is at
illy opened to the south and to you. Through
the Richmond and Danville railroad system, with
its two thousand miles of tributary tracks, we can
bring you to the sea by an airline. Employ us;
we will give you the raoet expeditious and cheapest
terminal facilities on the continent. At Baltimore
you will find ships np for every mercantile part of
the globe???steam to Liverpool, Bremen, the Nether
lands, the Humber nnd the Tyne???safe and chea
storage, compressing futilities, commercial facil
tie-s In general: growing with our growth an
strengthening with our strength. Like your own
ours is a ???gate city,??? gentlemen. The restless At
lantic has chased the coast line two hundred miles
inland ami given us the Chesapeake. We sit in the
gateway of the Blue Ridge, while the ocean laves
our fops.
\tiq in return for your products, gentlemen, we
offer you trade of the most inviting sort. If wo take
Your???prodiicts, we intend to give you in return full
measure of such of our products as you need.
These are many and various. We offer you your
pick of SKM.tiOO.OOO annual manufactures, and
promise you to duplicate any order, eveu if you
should want to buy $200,000.000 a year of us.
wish t
bpctila&of these ceremonies,
very brief c
ardii
That word will be -
one. It is this: that it is with heart-felt
iality wo welcome you to an exposition of those
material resources and industries in which the
Boutli b practically interested. tVo were assured
Unit you gentlemen of Baltimore and of
Maryland would bo here to rejoice with
u.s in this enterprise. We had never
a doubt that tho patriotic people
yon represent would' bo absent on any occasion
which premised Ritch great and extensive benefits
as tho undertaking in which wo are engaged to
day. (Applause.) Wherever intelligent enterprise
is appreciated the patriotism of your citizens 1
well known. I might go further and say, not onl;
tho patriotism of her men and their recognize
gallantry, but we all know in this section of the
country, men and women, that abovo all other
places, Baltimore is proverbial fortho beauty of her
women. (Applause.]
We know you all, citizens of Baltimore, of An
gusta amt of New Orleans, its parts of our house
hold. Enter and bo free to share with
us all we can do for your entertainment.
You may feel Assured of tho warmth of our host I-
talily ami the oordiall y of our hand-grasp. They
cannot bo surpassed in sincerity anywhere in this
union; and we trust, as we have your friendship to
day, we may have also your approval and co-opom-
tiou in ??11 other like enterprises in the future. (Ap
plause ]
BEx-Mayor lAitrobe, of Baltimore, responded
befitting terras to the cordiality of this welcome.
Tie had aot trusted to the resources of the moment
for a reply, but prepared tho following text, which
was most happily received by tho audience and
frequently applauded:
When I accepted the invitation to accompany m,
fellow citiisM on their peaceful march throug]
Georgia it was with the expectation, I must confess,
of finding ln??your exhibition^ magnificent display
of your resources and your industries, the products
at once of your generous soil and genial climate,
your loving labor and subtle skill; put the reality
so far surpasses ray conception that I am now at a
loss to describe the impression it has made. Your
exposition is so comprehensive, so well propor
tioned. that just as one fancies he has discovered
its most attractive feature, he finds himself con
fronted with something
cteuctive And yet, 1
saying that what most impresses us In the fact that
this is a great cotton exposition, the
as, I hope, tho last. And no wonder that you call
it groat, when ten states exhibit here their great
staple In model bales as samples of the product *
15,292,096 acres: pitched to this royal crop of 5.S71,
Opt) balm of last year's crop sent forward, 2,645,100,
000 pounds of a fabric worth 10V* cents per pound.
$278.000,000gathered from your fieecyfleldsln a sin
gle sea-on! No wonder, too. that you call- it great
when the factors of the world send hither their
most ingenious inventions???gins of every pattern,
from Hi Whitney's down; cleaners, hullers, pick
ers, seed-presses, spinning machinery and looms???
and when here are to be seen factories at work, cot
ton from tho boll made under our own eyes into
finest cambric! No wonder, I repeat, ihat you call
it great when wo see gathered here the court and
staff of the sovereign plant???planters, mechanics,
merchants, manufacturers and shippers!
Nor Ls this all. Your husbandry is hundred-hand
ed. Your soil teems with the factors of wealth.
Your native woods atnnxo us by their beauty and
We
i to import for yourselves, reg-
offer you, if you
ular lines to Euroi
We offer you $4,000,000 boots and shoes, of our own
make, of "Baltimore black-oak tanned leather, the
best in the world, besides a still larger stock of
goods which we buy at wholesale elsewhere, and
can sell to you cheaper than you can order them
from the manufacturers by rail. We offer you the
best building material in tho world???the
Baltimore pressed brick, which the dwel
lers in marble halls always contem-
ilate with envy. We offer you 810,000,000 worth of
inltimore home-made clothing, which is so good
that some of tho New York houses buy It there, ship
it hack and sell it to nil admirari eitizensof ourown
town as genuine New York manufacture. We offer
vou a coffee market which New York envies and
New Orleans tries to imitate, but-cannot; for the
Brazilians know us of old, and our Baltimore
houses in Rio arc as old or the Bmganzus. They
were established before Comniunipaw had ceased
to be New York???s commercial rival. Wo offer you
the best fertilizers in the United States. We first
manufactured them. Baltimore was tho flint port
to wtiich Peruvian guano ever came in the United
Suites, and though l kumv nothing about
tho tricks of the guano trade, and am not a
farmer liko our worthy Governor, I have more
than once had farmers from Maryland and
other states whisper to me that two tons of Balti
more fertilizers went as far as three tons of
other manufacture???quality and measure both
reliable. It is my opinion that tho South ought
to produce its own breadstufi's and its own pro
visions; to raise its own mules and cattle, ami
grow feed enough to keep them tho year round. I
think that ran ought to raise your own pigsand
cure your own bacon; but, if you cannot or will not
ordo not care to do this, why, just send to Balti
more, and we will supply you on such favorable
terms that you will never dream of sending else
where in the future. If you want canned fruits
and vegetables, we make $5,000,000 a year; if you
want oysters???but I need not speak of them???we
can send you $12,000,000 of these Chesapeake bival
ves; if you want butter, ourdniriescan supply you,
while, if you only wish oleomargarine, I may
whisper to } on that we have an oleomargarine fac
tory, too???one that is said to turn out a far better
article than that which tho Thurbers produce. A
growing, bustling, pushing town liko yours must
always be in need of new machinery???wo make
72,500,000 a year. Do you want musical instru
ments? Wo sell those of Baltimore make from Bos
ton to Florida, from Chicago to New Orleans. We
send*our instruments to Cincinnati nnd then send
out our musical scholars to teach them how to play,
and This In spile of their big music hnll and their
annual musical festivvals, which, by the way, our
Oratorio society is prci>ared to rival and surpass, as
you will find if you can s]>are tlmo to come on nnd
attend its festivals. Indeed, we can sell you every
thing from a jewsharp to a steam engine???from a
calieogown to the costliest silk.
There arc very many things, gentlemen, in which
we nave a common interest, ami can be helpful to
each other You are at the beginning of a great
career tour career is assured.and we goon in an estab-
lisltod way, knowing the course we should pursue.
Atlanta is a great railroad center; Baltimore a great
rail mad terminus and focal point. Baltimore
wishes to reach the great son???nern market, and
recognizes Atlanta as the gateway to it???the arch
through which gleams nlllliu wealth of that glitter
ing marl. Atlanta wishes to get to tho ocean, und
Baltimore, brings it nearly half way inland to you.
What ti busy place you are! Here is all the bustle,
the activity, the eagerness, the spirit of progress of a
locomotive that hugs the rails and lays down to its
business of getting over ground at the rate of over
forty miles an hour! We do not wonder, seeing
you. that you are proud of what Atlanta lias done,
and have faith in your city's future. You have
reason for your pride and confidence. Vou nre
growing as if you wanted to beat die census-taker,
as if you were determined he should find 100,000
ople iu 1890 where he ouly found 40,000 in 1880.
by not? You are building up your "
if it had that many people now. You are get
ting rich. You are worth five times as much in
money, and a hundred times as much in energy
and public spirit as you were in 1860.
You have the best railroad connection of any citv
In the south, and that in itself is a guarantee o'f
wealth und consequence. Baltimore desires the ac
quaintance of such a city, for Baltimore can serve
you. Baltimore wants to ship your cotton, and she
can do it, in spite of Charleston, Savannah, Now
Orleans, Cincinnati. New York and Norfolk. You
do not believe it? We can demonstrate it, gentlen-
men. In 1879 Baltimore shipped more grain re
ceived by the Pennsylvania road than went to Phil
adelphia. Where did this grain come from ? From
Canada, from St. Paul, from Duluth, from Bismarck
in Dakota. It came to Baltimore from Buffalo and
Rochester, sent to our city by rail, across the New
York Central, the Erie, the Pennsylvania; across
the Erie canal also???because our port was cheapest.
Docs not this total of 26,000,000 bushels of wheat
sent to us by these routes prove to you what are
our facilities? You are connected with us bv the
best of all southern air-line roads, and we have
such an advantage in it that cotton sent by rail to
Norfolk often breaks bulk there, comes to Balti
more to be shipped, and reaches Liverpool in bet
ter condition and paying tho planter butter than
if shipped direct from Norfolk. Your planters and
factors are beginning to understand this, and appre
ciate the advantages of Baltimore as a cotton port.
We will give you the best compressing facilities,
superior advantages for chuap storage, ano steam
c.s coming and going in r gul.tr lines. Our crop
receipts are nlio??tly rapidlj increasing???our ex-
from 1,474,000 to 2,832,000 bales, or 22.1 per cent
That taken by southern mills from 120.000 to 230,000
bales, or 91.6 per cent. In effect the southern
mills have Increased their product more rapidly than
either of their rivals. Already Georgia man
ufactures 71,4-17 bales of cotton everv vear, hav
ing 41 mills, employing $6,363,657 capital. with
200,000 spindles and 4,390 looms. This beats
us Marylanders, who have but 20 factories, with
$1,600,000 capital, 125,706 spindles and 2,425 looms,
which consume 51,537 bales annuallv. But we will
do better, fer we mean to have a cotton factory or
two in Baltimore, just to familiarize our ears with
the sound of spindles, and to remind us of what we
ought to have done long ago. Your cotton mills
here in Georgia will soon almost revolutionize your
community. Already your 41 mills emplov 6.372 op
eratives, who receive $1,119,306 in wages and pro
duce cotton fabrics worth $6,216,701. That
is to say, each hand produces a value of
$1,000 per annum???a net value, over wages and
material (and not counting capital) of about $400
a year. In the cotton field, on the other hand, the
hands do not average more than ten bales apiece
In other words, the cotton spinner pavs his employ
er net as much as the cotton picker 'pars his em
plovor gross, a business which is thus??? profitable
must and will divert labor, must attract hands from
the field to the spindle until tho profits of tho two
industries arc more nearly equalized.
But. gentlemen, to take advantage of your help
lessness to pelt you with statistics is but a poor way
of expressing our sensibility of your cheering hos
pitality and gracious attention. We have come,
seen, and been conquered 1 Henceforth, we are
your allies; will you not be ours?
Mayor English responded to tho address of Ex-
Mayor Latrobe in a few remarks, as cordial and im
pressive as they were timely and courteous. He
hoped during the stay of the visitors they would
find much to make them glad that they had come.
If wo are not better acquainted with Baltimore i.i
the future it will be your fault and hot ours. He
deslrod to see the best of relations exist between
the people of tho Two cities???the commercial empo
riums of Maryland and Georgia.
Mr. B. F. Coles, of tho Maryland exhibitors??? asso
ciation, then formallftnnd iu cordial terms wel
comed tho visitors to
variety, while your ores compass tho wholo range P?????
of precious and useful metals. You suggest a sheep , out . , - , . . -- ---- ???
husbandry capable of supplying all our mills with |P???? ^R*t from field to mill. I find that In ten years
. tins
were 221,364. and exports 122,073 bales, and for the
last crop year. 1880-81, receipts were 253,325, and ex
ports 157,901; thus in ten years our receipts have
Increased two aud-a-half times and our exporis six
times. This is growth, but it is only a beginning of
what we mean to do in the future. I do not mean
in "cotton futures,??? gentlemen, but in the future
of Baltimore's cotton trade, so important to us, and
so important, likewise, to Atlanta.
Do yon know why we feel Biicb confident assu
rance that our cotton trade is bound to grow? For
the same reasou that we know that our grain trade
is bound to grow- because Baltimore is the cheapest
and best port on the Atlantic. 1 do not like to bur
den you with flgu res, but we wish to sell our goods
to you, and therefore we wish to make it pluin why
you should sell vour goods to us. One reason is
that the price of cotton is always higher in our
market than in Norf- lk, the difference ranging
from $1.25 to $2.50 per bale. On last year's cotton
receipts at Baltimore, taking the average difference
tn pnee for the last few weeks, the southern plant
ers would receive $170,000 mure on that quantity
than if they had sold it in Norfolk. This is equiva-
liim to a premium of $740,000 in every 500,000 bales,
which Baltimore offers to you if you smi vour cot
ton there for sale. Baltimore can deliver your cot
ton lu Liverpool or Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam,
Antwerp or Havre at New York freight rates, and
cheaper than you can get it delivered from Savan
nah or Charleston or Norfolk. Me have regular
lines, insurance is less, freight is less, and the use
of press and terminal handling comes cheaper in
consequence of our superior facilities. We seek a
wholesale trade, and we are prepared to do business
by wholesale methods.
The Uniied .-states consume about 450,000 tons of
chemical fertilizers annually. Gf this. Baltimore
produces more than half???280.000 tons in 1880-81.
requiring 27factories, and giving employment to
2.500 persons who receive annual wages amounting
to $1,500,1)00. This is Baltimore's contribution
to the restoration of the waste places of tho south.
Every pound of these 560,00u,000 pounds of fer
tilizers which Baltimore mokes each year ought
to add from one half to one pound to your cotton
crops: every pound of these fertilizers which cost
you 2 cents ought to return yon net from 4 to 8
cents a pound, and that, surely, is the poet's idea
of benenconce???making two blades of
where only one is now growing. Gentlemen, we
mean to manufacture a million tons of fertilizers
every year, and we expect in return for this to re
ceive 2,000.000 bales of the augmented cotton crop;
for your crop will increase very rapidly???not faster,
however, than the world can consume it. Your
crop has increased from 4,317,000 to 6,606.000 bales
in ten years. There are multiplied reasons why It
should doable again before the next census is com
pleted. Your area in cotton is increasing every
year; your labor and vour modes of husbandry are
improving with the utmost rapidity. No planter
will bo content to raise a third of a bale per acre
when this Atlanta fair has taught him how to make
sure of an average of two-thirds of a bale, and. with
care, a whole bale regularly to the acre. What a
magnificent possibility this extends to the south???
doubling its crops, decreasing the cost of their pro
duction. manufacturing the product at home, turn
iug its millions into tens of millions and its ten:
into hundreds of millions, while railroads over
spread all the country, and labor and immigrants
and capital come in. aud the mineral resources un
der your feet are transmuted into wealth by the
magic touch of toll.
The southern manufacture of cotton is more im
portant than some statisticians seem to think. With-
??? taking any account of un aled cotton which
husbandry capable
wool at the minim
cotton taken by northern mills has increased
cent,
re-ex-
???,???,i n, iu, uuummUiii of cost; and your fruits and , . , ???_ , .
Wines are such as tho Mediterranean well might 35P I! l??Z???? w J >a JJ52 > 1 . 1,7 S5?t or W pe/
mitt Yaur cereals, too, and your jute, hemp, silk. That taken by British mills (less theamolint D ... r ???, ???.
tobacc*???it needs no Aladdin???s lamp, gentlemen, to ported to the continent of Europe) has increased interest in the success of the exposition, both now worthy amount of space and no article
e exposition.
Mr. It. W. L.'Raisin, of Baltimore, responded,
eulogizing in the highest terms both the importance
and success of the exposition.
General Cyrus Bussey being called upon to re
spond fortho New Orleans delegation, headed by
him, did so in a happy and effective manner, nis
remarks were pleasantly blended with wit and
reason, and heartily applauded.
The ceremonios of the reception then concluded
and mutual congratulations over the affair in
dulged in.
An Interesting Machine.
BEAUTIFUL SILK HANDKERCHIEFS MANUFACTURED IN
THE MAIN BUILDING,
Decidedly tho most unique and interesting piece
of machinery on the grounds fs a Jacquard silk
loom, exhibited by tlio Wortendyke silk manufac
turing company of Now Jersey. This loom is locat
ed in tho cast wing of the main building near the
rotunda, and is kept in constant operation In'the
manufacture of handsome silk handkerchiefs that
are much sought after and highly prized as souve
nirs of the exposition. Tho complicated piece of
machinery works into thecenterof the handkerchief
a picture of tho buildings and grounds nnd weaves
above and below tho words ???International Cotton
Exposiion, Atlanta, Ga., 1881.??? Aside from the
beauty of these handkerchiefs the fact that they
are made upon the grounds renders them very ap
propriate souvenirs of the Exposition. Mr. Robert
T. Brooks, who has charge of the exhibit, has so far
been wholly unable to manufacture enough hnnd
kerchiefs to supply the demand, but he has been
exceedingly affable and attentivo In showing the
intricacies of the machine to the great throng of
people who constantly press about the exhibit, and
has thus in a great measure made amends for the
inability to supply tho handk. rchiefs. The dullest
uinn on the grounds could spend hour after hour
iu watching with the greatest interest tho manu
facturo of these beautiful handkerchiefs as the
various colors of silk are deftly woven to
gether and the perfect handkerchief with its rich
hues comes rapidly from the loom. JJie ladies will
finp with this exhibit a specially fine line of sam
pies of dress goods, satin brocade, millinery and tie
silks.
A Chicken Foundry,
WHERE THE OBNIAN CHICKS ABE MANUFACTURED.
That most novel of all novelties, the glass hen
continues to draw well. The fact is the occupation
of tho regular old setter is ,gon^ .I^fpter when
she grows too lazy or too old to lay eggs and cackle,
she will have to figure wholly and entirely on the
boarding house tables, well-baked and
dressed with onion stuffing. The glass hen
not only does tho work of several hun
dred feather hens, but actually makes the trip more
safely, does tho work more satisfactorily and comes
in on the home stretch one day ahead of the fastest
hen on record. She is not the goose that laid the
golden egg, but she can come as near hatching
golden egg as tho next one. Tho proprietor says he
is going to let her tackle a china nest egg, in a few
days, and the result will bo watched with
great interest. It is exceedingly interesting to
watch the chicks as they crawl from the newly
broken shells and begin life. Everybody should
co tho wonderful glass hen.
The Dairy Men.
A MEETING OF TIIF. NATIONAL DAIRY FAIR ASSOCIA
TION TO BE HELD HERE.
The members of the National Dairy Fair associa
tion havo concluded to visit the exposition in a
body at the timo appointed for holding the conven
tion of the planters and manufacturers of the
United States, which will be December 6. Francis
H. Moulton, president of the association, has been
specially invited to be on hand and to deliver an
address, and it Is probable that ho will ac
cept. It is the design of the executivemanagt ment
to combine all the agricultural interests of the
south at that time, ana consequently every man
who raises corn, cotton, dniryproducts, orany other
farm products, will find tho week beginning De
cember 5th, one of exceptional interest in connec
tion with tne exposition.
Oa to Atlanta.
OMB 07 THE VISITING STATESMEN EXITCTED HERE IN
DECEMBER.
The exposition has already attracted to Atlanta
many gentlemen whose names are well-known and
honored in the several sections of the union. By
these visits they were enabled to learn much anti
amend often their opinions of onr couutrv, onr
people and their sentiments. The month *f Decem
ber promises to be marked by the coming of a num
ber of distinguished people of all professions
and parties, who are curious to see the
exposition, to consider the possibilities of it nnd be
come acquainted with the people who hare made
it famous.
Among tho first will be Postmaster-General
Jam-s, who, with his family and several friends
and officials, is now in the south, and who purpose
returning soon to Washington, via the Atlanta ex
position.
General Hancock, while not able to accept the
formal invitation to the opening ceremonies, ex
preesesin subsequent letters a most decided and
S atriotic interest in the affair. He has, as presi-
ent of the National rifle association, condidonallv
promised to be here during the rifle tournament,
beginning December 13. It is sincerely hoped that
no exigency of the public business may require
him to remain away.
Hen. Samuel J. Tilden has expressed a decided
wish to visit the exposition and partially gotten his
own consent to undertake the journey. There is
no man whom our people would more delight to
welcome as their guest, and we hope soon to be
able to announce fils favorable determination and
to annonnee the day of his arrival in our midst.
Mr. Edward Atkinson writes that he had an in
terview with President Arthur and that he feels
quite encouraged to believe that the presidential
party will visit the exposition as soon after the
organization of congress as possible. The coming
of President Arthur to the south and Atlanta would
be an Important event and it is hoped that he will
find it possible to accept the invitation. Should
he come he will doubtless be accompanied by seve
ral members of the cabinet and possibly other dis
tinguished personages.
More than one pressing invitation has been for
warded long ago to ex-President Jefferson Davis to
adept the hospitalities of onr city and of the expo
sition. The uncertainty of the date of his return
from Europe has prevented his giving any definite
reply. Should he return to America before the
close of the exposition he will, there is hardly a
doubt, visit Atlanta and the exposition. In such
event his visit will be made memorable, and no
mark of regard will be omitted that coaid make
his sojourn here pleasant
General G. 8. Grant, in a letter received Yester
day say* he desires very much to visit the exposi
tion, and hopes to so arrange his business affairs os
to make it possible for him to do so some time in
December, it is thought highly probable that
should President Arthur come General Grant will
so timo bis own visit as to be one of the presidential
party.
Secretary Blaine has given assurance of his deep
and in its future effects, and promises to make it a
visit. He will probably come daring the third
week in December, so as to enable him to return
home for the holidays. He will be pleasantly sur
prised at the warmth of the welcome he will re
ceive.
Should these gentlemen meet the above indica
tions, we shall witness a month of mammoth at
tendance upon the exposition from all sections of
tho country.
The Old North State.
WHAT NORTH CAROLINA HAS AT THE EXrOSITtON.
The old north state should be proud of hex ex
hibit at the exposition. The legislature of that
state appropriated twenty thousand dollars lor the
commissioner of agriculture to make a thorough
displuy of the state???s resources. Mr. McGehee.
the commissioner of agriculture, wnile not
exhausting the appropriation, has made a
highly creditable display which is in the west wing
of the railroad building. Yesterday a representa
tive of The Constitution made a careful examina
tion of the exhibit. The first thing which attracted
his attention was a glass case filled with silk in all
its stages from the cocoon to the hank. A beautAul
.display of woolen goods is itade. These goods are
from the factory of F. & H. Freis, of Salem. Along
with this display is a beautiful exhibit of blankets
and yams from the Elkin Valley woolen mills.
These goods are particularly attractive and should
be seen by every one who feels an interest in the
resources and manufactures of North Carolina.
One of the most attractive features of the displav
isa set of hand painted china, the work of Miss
Isabel Williams, of Fayetteville. N. w. Tho paint
ing is done in a most artistic manner and does great
credit to the talent of the lady. Four paintings by
the same young lady are shown.
The display of marls, guanos, etc., is very fine
nd complete.
The display of wheat, com and other grains is
especially fine. The samples shown arc equal to
those grown anywhere. Grass seed, peanuts, rice,
and all kinds of grain iu the sheaf nre shown.
There arc several fine specimens of jute from which
cotton bagging is made. The display of sugar cane
and sorgho is highly creditable.
Of tho woods shown there are U2 specimens.
In this conneciian it would be interesting to give
the reader the benefit of the following table, which,
giviug the number of varieties of each kind of val
uable tree in the United States, east of the Rocky
mountans, makes such a fine showing for North
Carolina.
ecicsin
Oak
Piues
Elms...
Walnut
Birch.
???net
united
States.
23
In
North
Carolina.
19
8
4
3
3
5
6
7
omitted from the boisterous ground pea that is the
delight of the theater gallery-god Jo the baled hay
of orchard and herds' grasses for stock
They are shown up lnastyle to make this collection
satisfactory and famous.
In the matter ot fruits ot all discriptious, from
the hardest up: les to the orange and banana, we
have here a choice and varied collection. The pro
duce of the orchards, vineyards aud groves of our
state never had on exhibition better aud more repre
sentative steelmens, r.vcu this at late season
there arc shown strawberries grown in the open ??ir
aud grapes gathered from laden vines, growiug
on our gravelly hillsides.
The housewives of Georgia are not absent in this
disp lay. The jars that represent their home indus
tries in the preserving, pickling and
jelly making arts are rich with tempting
contents. They represent resources of great value
in the domestic economy of our people and prove
how easily one can avoid starving if one but takes
the precaution of marrying a thrifty wife and
using his muscle ou a few acres of good Georgia old
field lauds.
The pavilions containing all these unique and
valuable indicia of the annual products
of the state are prominent and in
teresting features. They add greatly
to the general completeness of the show and are
most tastefully arranged. The bouquets and ban
ners, composed of these same products, are curious
compositions and Unexcelled for pretty effects by
any similar combinations iuany of the departments
of the exposition.
Commissioner Henderson also shows, in a foun
tain of running water, living types
of the carp family of fish, now
being so extensively aud successfully culti
vated iu this state for food.
Maple 5
Hickory 8
Magnolia 7
The display of minerals and stones has been col
lected with especial care, and embraces ISO varie
ties, including iron, gold, silver, lead, zine, copper,
emeralds, the recently discovered gem hiddenite
berl. marble, tale, kaolin, from which crockery is
made, nnd a great many other interesting and val
uable things. Some of the finest cotton ever grown
in this country is shown.
The display of tobacco is very attractive, and em
braces chewing and smoking tobacco and cigarettes.
The display of granite is very attractive. It in
cludes some fine Scotch granite and specimens of
leopardile found only in North Carolina.
A fine display of fine wines is made, and attracts
much attention.
The display of mica is elaborate and attracts much
attention.,
Some fine specimens of writing and wrapping
papers are shown.
With the exhibit is a display of graphite from
which lead pencils are made.
A splendid display of plaids and sheetings is made
by the mills of the stale aud shows that the old
north state is not slow in manufacturing, Alto
gather the exhibit is highly creditable and worthy
of an inspection from every visitor.
It is during Mr. McGehee???s absence under the
charge of Mr. Thomas Love. Mr. McGehee will be
here probably to-day and will iu all likelihood re
main several days
THE GEORGIA EXHIBIT.
A Lneky Tamp Maker.
A recent number of the Washington, D. $?.,
Post gives an interesting sketch of how one
Augustus de Grununund, driven out of the
pump manufacturing business at ihe national
capital owing to the general introduction of
Potomac river water, was in his financial dos
peration led to venture sending a dollar to M.
A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., and in return
obtained $15,000, having received in return
half of ticket No. 7,240 in the 137th monthly
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery on
October 11. This good luck of a wort Ity Wash-
ngtonian will tempt many to correspond
with the beneficent XL A. Dauphin, New Or
leans, prior tb the Grand Semi-Annual Distri
bution of over half a million of dollars on De
cember 13th, under the sole coutrol of Gener
als G. T. Beauregard of Louisiana, and Jubal
A. Early, of Virginia, and some one else will
be put in history in like manner.
novlG???d&wlt*
A Display that Does Honor to the Stnt
\Ye have, from time to time since its inaugura
tion,-referred in complimentary terms and more or
less at length, to the splendid display of Geor
gia products exhibited under the auspices of
the state agricultural department. These exhibits
arc the contributions to the display made by indi
vidual citizens of Georgia, who were proud enough
of her resources and patriotic enough to desire to
have them properly displayed before the throngs
that daily gather in this exposition. The display fills
to repletion all the available space of three sides of
tho great gallery in the center of the main
building of the exposition, It has been specially
handled und arranged under the direction of State
Commissioner Henderson and Colouel Newman,
his ablo assistant, with their force of trained em
ployes. There is not an article of the
many hundreds here combined to
illustrate the agricultural, pomologieal and
horticultural capabilities of our eorgia
-oil that has not been given its due prominence iu
tho display. To execute such an arrangement
skilfully and Intelligently has been a great labor,
but the success with which the task has beeu ef
fected constitutes the triumph of the effort. It
should be a mmterforgeneraleongratuiaiionumong
Georgians that,despite all untoward circumstances,
so complete and illustrative au exhibit has been
brought together here.
That Judge Henderson, our fnithful and accom
plished commissioner of agriculture, was deter
mined not to encounter the mortifica
tion of seeing his slate???s varied and
superb products unrepresented to the
world in the only ???world???s fair??? ever witnessed in
Ihe south is ouly too well evidenced by his patient
labors in collecting and curing for this exhibit. In
this patriotic work he has beeu most ably seconded
by associate officers, by the exposi ion managers
and a few of our enterprising citi
zens. In fact, when one undemands
how herculean has been the work and sees for him
self how faithfully it has been perlurmed. ho hesi
tates whether to give the lion's share of the praise
to ?????? fidelity of the collectors or the fertility of our
fit dt.
Y ..^collection embraces so great a var.ety of farm,
field, garden and household products
that a mere enumeration of them
would fill a many-paged catalogue, and anything
liken description ot them would fill a hat-d-booi.
The full display, just as it now stands, must be
seen, investigated and understood to give one a fun
aud intelligent idea of what onr soil, under goad
and patient culture, will produce. '1 be
showing here made for the good old ernpi..
state of the south will bear the test of most rtg&
comparisons with the products of any other state in
the union. It will convince the most skcpliealou-
server that the croaker???s complaints over 'our
wasted lands??? and "barren oid red hills??? ate
delusions,'born wholly of laziness and used as a..
apology for slovenly fanning.
In the
e matter of cereal products this exhibit is
that speaks volumes. In it are contained splendid
speeim* us of all the cereal crops that can be
grown anywhere in America. There is hardly a
seed that is employed for culture, either for food
or other purposes, that does not find somewhc.e in
Georgia a generous birthplace, with climate
and seasons tQ bring it to its fullest development.
There are shown as fine s;peciraeus of wheat, of
nil varieties, as are produced upon the most fertile
fields of the great valley,or that go to make the bread
of the world. There are shown ears of tine corn,equal
ly as long and full and heavily seeded ns any tha.
constitute the special phenomena of exhibits from
Other boasted fields 6f America. There s re
found outs, rye and barley equally as good, relia ble
and prolific as any specimens possible to be gather
ed in any section of the Country, lhese, too, are
shown in such quantities, from regular crops and
with such guaranteed statistics hs to demonstrate
the ability oi any good farmer to raise them in
Georgia in great abundance and with great profit.
The special feature in this connection is a pyra
mid of seeds, iu cases, showing at once and collec
tively the wide diffusion of such products iu onr
state'and the success which has uttended the cuL
ture of the plants they represent.
The cotton exhibit, which is an essen
tial and exceptional part of this show, is
one to surprise even onr best informed
farmers and factors. Georgia is the second largest
; state iu the union and peculiarly
mproved prolific varieties that are
now so much sought for to enhance the value of our
annual southern crop In aminiature mock cotton
field, wherein plants fully fruited and as actually
taken: from the ground are shown as
though really grow iug, may be seen the character
istics of many of the most approved varieties now-
being popularly cultivated. These plants are not
only natural curiosi-ies to many who sec them, but
deserve much more istrticularmention than we can
afford for them in the limits of this article. No in
telligent and progressive farmer should neglect to
give them a careful and willing Investigation.
The rice crop of our southern fields is given its
full measure of; prominence, and indicates grently
our ability to furnish our laboring classes with a
cheap and popular article of food. The upland
rice, even that grown und. r the very shadows of the
mountains, is a marvelous exhibit of its kind, and
deserving even more experimentation by our hil
farmers.
The products of our cane fields, both in sor
gho and ribbon canes, are fully displayed for the
information of the carious and the practical.
The exhibit of garden and farm products, in
vegetables of every variety, is one of remarkable
proportions and highly indicative of the ability of
our people to provide their tables from
their own lands. Whether it be in yams
in ppumkins, in cabbages or in cucumbers
in melons or in mangoes, or in any other of the
like products, this exhibit is pronounced unrivalled
by any ever before attempted in Georgia.
Our varied field and forage crops occupy their
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