Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-08

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| closed in frame, one lower corner of which
contains the dial, and the opposite corner
is made to represent church or cathedral.
In the upper part of the frame are two au-
tomato, a priest holding in his hand the
crucifx, and a sister kneeling in COMES
sion, before him. The sister, who is
| dressed in black garb, with hood Of same
color partially lined with white, looks very
meek and penitent. Her eyes are resting
on the floor, while cross is held in both
of her hands. The priest is arrayed in a
black gown with saffron robe, bordered
with gold fringe; on the Oack of his gar
ment is embroidered a gold cross. The
priest occasionally raises the crucifx and
the penitent is seen to press the cross to
her lips. The clock is located on the left
gallery, in front of the first angular nave.
IN MEMoRIAM.
While every branch of trade and works
of art have received a careful exhibition,
the memory of the great and the good is
also preserved and presented to the admira-
ton Of the thousands attending the Expo
sition. In the early part Of 1866, Miss
Laura L. Davis, daughter Of Capt. Owen
Davis, of Edgefeld and commander of the
steamer John Lumsden, conceived the idea
CT weaving wreath of hair from the va
rious Confederate Generals, and for this
purpose addressed notes to many Of them.
| Several complied with her request, and she
| has accordingly worked a wreath from the
| locks of hair thus obtained. On the col
umn in the east end of the new building the
wreath, which is in a glass case, may be
seen. In the center of the wreath is the
following note received from Gen. Lee:
LEXINGTON, VA, April, 1866.-Miss
Laura L. Davis: In compliance with your
| request, l send You lock of my hair;
though 1 deem it unworthy of place in
| your wreath with that of the great hero of
| Tennessee, Andrew Jackson.
Thanking you for your sympathies and
kind wishes, and trusting that the prayer of
your innocent heart may be heard an d
answered, L am, very truly, yours,
R. E. LE1I.
The hair of Gen. Lee and of Andrew
Jackson form the middle leaves of the
wreath, which also contains that of the fol-
! lowing: Gems. B. f. Chatham, B. r.
johnson, n. B. Forrest, Longstreet, Jos, E.
Johnston, E. Kirby Smith, d. II. Hill, and
Admiral Raphael Semmes. Though the
old hero is sleeping, yet the hand of beauty
has woven his name in a little mementO,
which, with more enduring monuments,
attest his greatness and show how great is
the admiration with the people of This
| land.
OUR MINERAL RESOURCES.
One among the not only instructive but
| also highly important entries are the ores
| from which household and other articles
are made in juXtaposition with the manufac-
tured articles themselves, and thus the two
| things exist for teaching children the differ
ence in the appearance of metals in their
crude state and when refined and utilized
for our comfort and benefit. And not only
the minds of children are improved, but
the evidence exists that there is an iron
strength in The bosom of Tennessee that
the adult can ponder upon.
An immense pile of yellowish brown ore
! is the central attraction from that part of
| the State which is denominated the 'sEast-
ern iron REGION" embracing the COMMITTEES of
| johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Washington,
Greene, Cook, Sewer, Blount, Monroe,
Polk and a part of McMinn. The great
pile of broWish yellow are exhibited con-
tains 90 per cent of iron. Another variety
from this region, red, contains 20 per cent,
and still another, black, Y per cent. To
every one hundred pounds of the brownish
yellow there are 1892 pounds of the pure
metal. The more important hills and
ridges containing the iron in this region
range from fly to two hundred feet in
length. Some of the ridges are several
miles long.
The next interesting collection is from
the region called "Dyestone," because the |
metal is used in dyeing, and that embraces
all or some of the counties of Hancock, !
Claiborne, Granger, Campbell, Anderson, !
Roane, Rhea, sMeigs and Hamilton. A belt |
that runs directly through the State, fifty |
miles wide, constitutes the western region. |
The proprietors of the Roane Iron Works, |
Central Foundry aud G.. I. Lewis, of Ham |
ilton county, are among the exhibitors.
1t is said of this State that 'the variety |
and the aggregate of its iron ore place |
it among the best as an iron producing |
region"
COPPER.
The most beautiful display of copper is
from the Ducktown region which is part of |
a basin. The surface Of the country about |
the mines is rolling and cut into ridges by
rather deep valIies and ravines. The gem
eral elevation is about one thousand feet
above the valley of Fart Tennessee, and
not far from two thousand above the sea.
The history of these mines is interest
ing. 1t informs US that, in 1S49, a
ME-. Caldwell, visitor, addressing the
people, said they would become pros
porous if they did what they could to de-
yelop the wealth about them; was told that
the popnlation had run away from civiliza-
ton. and if it followed them up they would
run again. At another time, the copper
was mistaken for gold. The upper zone Of
the Ducktown deposit is gossan or sandy,
porous ore, mixed with reddish brown
slate. A very fine specimen is on exhibit
ton from the Union mines, j. E. Raht, SUI
perintendent. The second zone is black,
VARYING from two to eight feet in depth.
The third iron, and the fourth copper py-
rites. The center of the latter contains 80
per cent of copper.
The entries consist of copper ore, bars
and plates and refined copper.
ALONGSIDE the copper are specimens of
ZINC
ore. which is found in East aud Middle
Tennessee. The specimens from Messy
Creek are very fine. -
Then turning from all this display of
ores the visitor sees the iron in stoves, ETC.,
manufactured in Nashville and elsewhere
in Tennessee, and the copper and zinc in
articles appertaining to various domestic
and other uses, and thus it is the lesson can
be taught of the interesting processes in
Transforming the crude material from its
original state to the state in which il is
when manufactured into stoves, kettles aud
the like; and the imagination Of the adult