Southern Porcelain have numerous articles on exhibition at The Fair

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Publication: The Macon Daily Telegraph

Macon, GA, United States
no. 268, p. 2, col. 1


THE FAIR.

Although not completely arranged even yet, enough is to be seen to satisfy all that it is to be a fine exhibition, and the most doubtful Thomas can here satisfy himself that, without a single pro­duct of Yankee looms or workshops, we shall lack nothing to make our homes comfortable and elegant, and our persons as fine as good clothes can make them.

In the Foreign Department, the unpacking and arrangement of the goods was yet half un­finished when we saw it. These goods com­prise a great variety. Beautiful carpets, of heaviest texture and most brilliant colors. Every kind of linen goods for household use and apparel, calicoes, window shades, (beautiful specimens,) hats, caps, ready-made clothing, furniture, rugs, wines, [we tried a few and found them good —no mistake — no Newark ci­der inside those bottles. N. B. When we say "bottles,'' we would not be understood as intimating that we drank much. Oh no! there were several others personally interested in the experiment.] Paper hangings, pianos, glass­ware, porcelain, guns, mirrors, cloths, laces, and a vast variety of other matters and things too numerous to mention at this time. We will particularize hereafter.

Of other Foreign goods, we would call partic­ular attention to the beautiful display made by Robert Adger & Co., of Charleston. Here are silks, satins, laces, embroideries, &c., that will dazzle the eyes of the ladies, and perhaps de­plete the pockets of their husbands and fathers. Who knows! at all events, run the risk, and look in at the Adger display. Some patriotic young ladies of Macon have sent them a Pal­metto flag, embroidered on white satin with their fair fingers, and Dr. Duncan is very proud of that trophy.

In kindred departments of Southern domes­tic manufacture, the display is beyond all our anticipations.

Wethered Brothers, of Baltimore, show nu­merous samples of cassimers, which are equal to anything of the kind, foreign or domestic, we ever saw. They show the finest black cassimers, as beautiful as the looms of France and Germany produce, and others in great variety of color. Their jeans and woolens for negro wear should arrest the particular attention of planters and housekeepers. More substantial fabrics were never seen.

John H. Haskell & Co., of Baltimore, show a fine assortment of ready-made clothing, which does them credit, and we hope will do them good.

William Knabe & Co., of Baltimore, have a fine Piano on exhibition — a very elaborate in­strument of the finest finish and exquisite tone. These makers have so wide and well established a reputation, that it is unnecessary to say more.

Newman, Brother & Sons, also of Baltimore, have three splendid Piano on exhibition, with their patent double sounding board improvement — all fine instruments, and finished in the highest style of the art.

There is a fine display in the way of domes­tic productions — quilts, needle work, embroid­ery, &c.

Agricultural and mechanical implements make a large figure; N. Weed, Carhart & Curd, J. N. & C. D. Findlay, and many others are exhib­itors. We will make particular note of this department hereafter. It embraces almost ev­erything, and includes more than fifty varieties of plows. There are also improved horse pow­ers, gins, corn planters, cotton presses, &c., &c.

The Macon Daguerrean Artists, Wood, and Pugh & Brother make a display of which they may well be proud.

The Southern Porcelain Company of Augus­ta have numerous articles on exhibition.

A good deal of Southern furniture may be seen — Wood & Brothers, of Macon, being the principal exhibitors.

There is a fine display of carriages by Chas. T. Ward & Co., and very substantial wagons heavy and light, from Columbus and other places.

An ingenious model of an improved sleeping car is on exhibition by a South Carolina patentee. It is changed as readily from a sleeping to a setting car, as if by magic.

But we have no leisure to particularize now. Hereafter we shall take pleasure in making es­pecial annotations. There will probably be a large crowd in attendance on the exhibition to­day. The Governor and Legislature will be present, escorted by the Macon Battalion, and the Address will be delivered by Judge Stone, of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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Keywords:Southern Porcelain Manufacturing Company
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Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:March 5, 2023 by: Bob Stahr;