The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-07


ployed up to the present time. Among the
first places we visited, of course, was the In
dustrial Exposition. This huge building was
erected solely for the occasion, and is grand
affair. The main body of the building is about
$50 feet by 200 feet, with wings measuring l5O
feet square, extending from each side. In this
space they have contrived to exhibit every ar
ticle that human ingenuity, in this age OF pro-
gress and patents, has been able 70 invent.
From Maine to Omaha every State OF the North
and West has sent its representive, and we pass
from the nasal whine Of Massachusetts, cry
ing forth the advantages of patent clothes
washers and wringers to the hardy Westerner
with his short method Of curing hides. Moth
ing is wanting. We locked and unlocked,
with Lilliputian key, a Herrlng's patent safe
of wonderful beauty and mechanism, shooting
dozen enormous bolts from all four sides of
the door. We examined the huge steam plough,
bigger than locomotive, going backward and
forward, and tearing up imaginary acres Of
land. We played the piano that took the
prize at the Worlds Exposition and costs FIVE
thousand dollars. We looked at wonderful
machinery, all running, and doing wonderful
things that we did not see the use of, and we
came out at last, our minds filed with
wonder and our. pockets with cards and cir
culars.
Having ''done" the Exposition, we went, all
riding in numberless carriages, to the suburbs,
to visit The paIatlal residences Of some Of our
wealthy entertainers. At tho home of the
Hon. G. H. Pendleton we spent some time, ad-
mirlng his magnificent buildings and wonder
fully laid-out grounds, improved, If ossible,
by being seen through inverted glasses OF
sparkling Catawba, grown upon the very hills
we were surveying. What with wealth and
nature, the outskirts of Cincinnati are among
the most beautiful in the world. SO said we
all when we came driving home, delighted
with our visit, and to prepare for the magnih-
cent banquet that evening at Pixies Opera
House.
That splendid hall was arrayed in the most
beautiful and tasteful style. Upon the stage
stood table for the speakers and officers OF
the delegations and their hosts, and down the
whole length of the hall ran long tables with
wonderful ornaments OF confectionery, glasses,
&c. AS the guests came crowding in and
seated themselves, the sight was gorgeous in
the extreme. The banquet was opened By O
prayer, and the battle that followed would re-
quire the pen of Napier to describe. For an
hour it ragged with terrific violence, the
sharp clash OF steel keeping up an Anvil
Chorus to the eXhilarating popping OF
champagne corks. Gradually the din waxed
faint, and at last the voice OF the
speakers became audible. A programme
of the speeches was furnished all, and the ora
tors being we'll prepared, delivered themselves
In their happiest styles, inspired by their con-
vivial feelings and the smiles Of the native
beauty OF Cincinnati seated In the gallery. The
excitement reached Its height, however, as
Mr.. Pendleton rose to speak, and the enthu.
slastic cheering told how highly appreciated
was the glowing welcome he extended to the
excursionists.
At aeate hour we left, and wnding our way
to our apartments at the Burnet House, threat
ened the waiter with dire penalties should our
Congress water be not forthcoming at an early
hour next morning.
Next morning, being in rather contempla-
tive mood, we went to see the Suspension
Bridge over the Ohio, aud standing upon the
middle OF The suspension, took view. Away
down, more than hundred feet below, the
Ohio rolled peacefully along. dotted with boats
and bearing upon its bosom those magnificent
floating palaces that we can only read about
in South Carolina. On the northern bank
stood the "Queen City of the West" rising
from the waLer's edge and stretching away
back up gently sloping declivity to the hills
upon her outskirts, a vast canopy of smoke
overhaneing her numberless manufactures and
machine shops. We saw huge blocks of build
ines rising 10 the sixth and seventh story, and
last we could hardly sufficiently admire
the bridge itself, hanging 1000 feet from pier
to pier over the great river, with strcot cars
running across it and everybody taking it as
q m tier Of COURSE.
I have not time now to tell you how we have
set Cincinnati and Louisville by the ears over
our party and OF the jolly quarrel over us that is
gong on; nor can l tell you OF tho Buckeye
races we wcro taken to see BY special train ;
what splendid heats we witnessed, and how the
horse that everybody bet five to ono on got
badly beaten. These things must defor for
another letter. WV.