New Orleans Republican

The Vienna International Exposition.

We print below a correspondence which has taken place between Governor Kellogg and Mr. Edward Gottheil, United States commissioner to the Vienna Exposition, representing the interests of the cotton States.

It will be seen that the Governor is anxious that Louisiana shall be creditably represented at the great exposition which is now attracting the attention of the whole civilized world, and that the results of Mr. Gottheil's labors in our State are of the most satisfactory character.

It is to be hoped that means will at once be taken to have forwarded the twenty or more packages still remaining over in our city, awaiting shipment:

STATE OF LOUISIANA,)
Executive Department.
New Orleans, March 8, 1873.

To Edward Gottheil United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition:

Sir—The Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, having informed me officially that, by a joint resolution of Congress, provision has been made to give the people of the United States an opportunity of participating in the Vienna International Exposition of 1873, and being aware of the interest you have manifested in the South-Western States in your capacity of United States commissioner, I desire to know what success you have met with in this State, and what else may be necessary in order that Louisiana may be creditably represented at Vienna.

Very truly yours,
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG.

New Orleans, March 10, 1873.

To His Excellency William Pitt Kellogg, Governor of the State of Louisiana:

Sir—I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of the eighth instant, in which you desire to know what success I have met with in this State with regard to the Vienna Exposition, and what else may be necessary in order that Louisiana may be creditably represented at Vienna.

In reply I most respectfully state that from the time this commission issued an address to the people up to the present date, sixty-six applications for space have been forwarded from this office to the general office at New York. How many more may have been forwarded direct to that office I have no means of ascertaining at this hour. Among the produce forwarded to Vienna from this State, via Brooklyn, is the New Orleans classification of cotton, consisting of nine bales. Extra fine grades have also been sent by planters and factors. Sugar and sugar cane, molasses and syrups, rice, tobacco, salt, sulphur, moss, leather, cereals and a variety of other products of our State are among the sixty-six applications.

The tardy appropriation made by Congress, as well as prejudices concerning infringements on American patents, have deterred many applicants from preparing their articles in time for shipment by the United States steamers placed at the disposal of the commissioner general at New York for free transportation to Trieste.

In consequence of the insufficient time given to exhibitors, some twenty packages which have just been made ready for shipment at this point can not possibly reach Brooklyn before the departure of the last United States steamer. On this subject I am in correspondence with General Van Buren, and expect his disposition hourly.

The federal as well as the State governments consider it important to illustrate the American system of public education at the exposition, and I have the gratification in being able to inform your excellency that the subject has been attended to by the Superintendent of the Public Schools of Louisiana as well as by others interested in private schools.

I beg to be permitted to suggest to your excellency the propriety of appointing a commission to represent the State of Louisiana at the Vienna Exposition in all matters in which the interests of the State are concerned.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
EDWARD GOTTHEIL,
United States Commissioner, etc.