Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-25
A New Ars.-m.rblefzrng slate stone.


The art of Marketing Slate Stone is
comparatively new discovery in this country.
An establishment for the prosecution of the
art has heen in existence i'm New York some
eight or nine years. 1t is owned by the
Hydeville Marble Company, and was organ
lied for the purpose of converting certain
superior quality of Slate Stone found at the
base of the Green Mountains of Vermont,
above and below Rutland, into various kinds
OF ornamental Marble, by means of a series of
chemical agencies, by which the material is
caused to absorb mineral colors. which be-
come so incorporated as to form an ineradi-
cal part of it; while the powerful heat. which
aids this operation. at the same time hardens
the stone. 1t is claimed that the process of
Marketing stone is one of the most ingen-
ious and beautiful inventions of modern
chemical science, and it enables the material
marbleized to resist the action of oils and
acids, which usually soil and otherwise in
jure ordinary marbles; and imparts to it
a superior power to resist the effects of heat
The Slate Stone is marbleized into remarka-
bly true limitations of the choicest marbles
known in the history of sculpture and archi-
lecture, and which include durable and beau
tiful limitations of Egyptian, Sienna, Broca-
telle, Verd Antique, Red Antique Jasper.
Agate POrphyry. Mosaic. Pyrenees, French
Spar, Lisbon, White italian Marbles. &c The
principal uses to which the marbleized stone
! is applied ornamental nantes. tabIe-tops
columns, pedestals. tiles. &c
Until lately nothing of the kind has been
offered the public in this section of the West.
but yesterday our attention was called by ad-
vertisements to No. 40 Main street. and we
took occasion to call in and CRAFTY our cur
iosity. We examined great variety of hand
some Slate-Stone Nantes. which had been
marbleiZed, and compared them with speci-
mems of the original marbles they We're desi-
gned to initiate, and were interested in the
results.-AmOng the samples were limitations
of Egyptian--which is black; interspersed
with gold and white veins; Sienna-which is
of a light yellow ground, with salmon color
and black veins; BrOcatelleo-which consists
of combinations of broken masses of min
erals, equally mingled. and presenting adj
mixtures OF bright yellow, lilac, pink red,
brown, crystal white, and amber coors. Verd
Antique-which has a dark velvet green
ground of an alternately wavy and strealed
appearance, of an infinite variety of green
shades, aud intermingled with varying pro-
portions of red. white and black veins: Red
Ahg,e-whch has a dark red ground. wi h
white and black veins. the general appearance
much resembling the darker kinds, of mahog-
any; Jaspr-of Scriptural renown. and EN-
bracing varying tints, from the lightest vel
low to the darkest brown-the latter color
forming the groundwork of the whole, of
which the lighter hues are the figures, collec-
ted in groups or Spots; Agate-which is com
bination of almost all colors, and has wavy
appearance; Porphwy-which has deep.
dark, rich red, plentifully fleckcd with black,
running in fine and almost imperceptible
veins through all the soone. and with album
dant sprinkling of minute crystal spots,
which, when lit up by the sun, sparkle like
diamonds; (this marble is the hardest and
most expensive in the worldly Woxaic-which
is fusion of broken masses of stone-the
largest perhaps an inch or more in diameter
varying in size and form, and of every ina
gined hue and shade, presenting many pictu-
rescue and impressive contrasts of color. and
the whole being gorgeous and imposing in
the extreme; Pyenees which is drab and
carmine, equally associated; of subdued
shades and of a wavy look; French Spar
which is a notified drab, thinly relieved and
diversified by white and gray veins; Lisbon
which is a coarser style of stone, blending
dull hues of red, white, gray and orange
GIN Cam.