Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

In furtherance of the purpose expressed in my biennial message, I transmit, for such
disposition as you may deem wise, the following communications in regard to the Centennial
Exhibition, viz. : A letter from Hon. Robert Lowry, Commissioner, signed also by Hon.
C. F. Clarkson, Alternate Commissioner, in ^e^pect to the character and objects of the
Exhibition; also a letter from General A. T. Goshorn, Director-General United States Cen-
tennial Commission, calling attention to the steps each State will be required to take to
secure a creditable representation therein. I have also inclosed circulars numbers 19, 39,
and 50 of the Board of Commissioners, the last being entitled *< Information for Exhibitors
in the United States."

These official papers will give the General Assembly, or any Conunittee to which they
may be referred, full and reliable information upon the salient points to be considered in
regard to this great National Exhibition. It is, therefore, unnecessary for me to elaborate
what has been said by gentlemen whose sources of information could not fail to give them
correct knowledge of what will be required from our State in order that we may compare
favorably with others. There is one recommendation, however, which, in view of my
interpretation of the truth that " the laborer is worthy of his hire," I cannot forbear to
make ; and I desire it to be understood that I do this from my own sense of fairness, as
neither of the Commissioners has suggested the desire for a recommendation of this
character.
Our Commissioners are eminently Btted, by aptitude and attainments, for their positions.
