Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-24
The Exposition.
From Our Special Correspondent
NASHVILLE, May %. 1871.
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From Our Special Correspondent
NASHVILLE. May %. 1871.
To the Editor of the Ledger:
This is the fourteenth day and third
and final week of the Exposition, and
there has been no perceptible diminu-
ton either in the number of visitors,
articles intended for exhibition, or OF
the general interest. The articles coming
in daily are of every character and va
riety and represent every department OF
industrial pursuits. Steam engines from
four to forty-horse power, spring power,
cotton planters, combination cultiva-
tors, choppers and scrapers, clover seed
gatherers, cotton presses, portable sugar
mills and evaporators, portable hay
presses, reaping machines, portable
fences, stove wood-cutting machines,
an ak helve machine Ga most unique
and ingenious continuance, making
thirty per hour, well borers, automatic
gates, and an endless variety of agricul-
tural implements, labor-saving machines
and inventions displayed Oh every side,
evidencing the fact that Tennessee is
making rapid strides in the advance
ment of her material industries and the
development of her boundless resources
The question is asked on every hand,
Why is not Memphis, the commercial
capital and literary and intellectual
center of the State, more intimately
identified with the Exposition?
The managers have put forward super
human energies, and labored with unre-
hitting assiduity by day and night, and
they now have the privilege of felicitat-
ing themselves on its triumphant sue
cess. 1t is certainly one of the most
important enterprises ever conducted in
this State, and will doubtless not only
effect most favorably the commercial
destinies Of her citizens, but exert a
potent influence in Fastening the indus
trial independence of the Southern
people. By advertising to the world the
prolific elements of her resources, indus
trial capacity and future strength, it is
no mere speculation to predict that cap
ital to an enormous extent from the
overorowded cities of the North will seek
investment among us.
Col. Ed. B. Pickett is here in the dual
capacity of delegate from the Memphis
Mechanics Society and accredited rep
resentative of the Shelby County Agri-
cultural Association. Sam Tate and
lady, B. F. Ball and lady, W. l. Sykes,
w. C. Dunn, W. B. Greenlaw, j. B. Wat
ton, Mrs. Lou Duke and the accom-
plished Miss Emma Cummings, of Mem
phis, are here attending the exposition
and enjoying the multifarious attrac-
tons Astounding throughout the city.
Among the merchants taking a deep
interest in the Exposition is Mr.. Frank
M. Paul, an ex-Memphian, now of the
firm of Paul & Tavel. Their specimens
of the "art preservatiya of all arts and
book-binding on exhibition, are artistic
in the highest degree. Mr.. Paul was at
various times connected with most of
the Memphis papers, before and since
the war, AID was also the founder of the
Chattanooga Rebel during the war, of
which Col. Leon Trousdale was editor.
The trotting races begin this week,
and will doubtless excite considerable
interest and increase the already i'm
mense throng in attendance at the Ex-
position. r. M. M.