Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-21
THE EXPOSITION.
AnOther Great Day.
100 sunday-schoOl visitors from
Columbia
More schools Coming.
A Large Crowd. Bis Jam, snd
Pleasant Day.
Thousands stIn Pouring I'm from
Every section.
Our Hotels FILLED.
Business Brisk and Everybody
Cheerful.
Grand Display Of Cut Flowers, Roses
and BOquets.
New Features, Brilliant Attractions
and Delightful Music,
500 Persons Come on One Train.
Middle and West Tennessee we'll Rep
resented.
scenes and Incldents-COurtship aud
LOve-Dress and Dolly vardens.
Scenes and Incldents-COurtsh aud
LOve-Dress and Dolly vardens.

/ scenes ana lnCAOo0GS-COuEIadkAD AuO
LOve-Dress and Dolly Vardens.
Yesterday, the third week of the Expo
| sition, brought another grand attendance Of
people from various sections of the State.
Among the visitors yesterday was a dele
CATION of pupils and teachers from the
PRESBYTERIAN s. S. OF COLUMBIA.
The number was one hundred and fifty
three, accompanied by Rev. j. NJ. OTIS, pas
tor of the church, 81. b. Titcomb, Assistant
Superintendent, and Hugh Gordon, Mar
shall Of the school. The party came in on
the accommodation train, and after arriv-
| ing proceeded Immediately to the EXPOSE
ton. After spending several pleasant
hours in the buildings, the school went
up town and, according to previous arrange
ments,
DINED AT THE MAXWELL,
the elegant accommodations of which have
been severely enjoyed by the great number
Of visitors who have been to our city with
in the last two weeks. We had often heard
of the beauty which Columbia had,
but yesterday we were more than
delighted to see so many stately ladies, beau
tiful young girls, and polished gen lemen
| from this little city, the social character of
spread and most favorable as it is, but
well merited. The children and teachers
were very mucb pleased with their visit,
which could have been prolonged with
eminent satisfaction. In fact there are few
who attend this Exposition but express a
| desire to remain longer than their time or
duties permit. 1t is true, many and most
persons from this State are attracted here
! 70 a
| objects on exhibition. Yet many who come
for this purpose after once visiting the Ex-
| position, become so much interested in the
beauties, wonders and varieties of the ar
tlcles on exhibition, that they want
to learn everything, as though the
mind of any one person could
expect TO ascertain everything Of the ma
ture, value, purpose and history of that
which is seen and admired. If we but
more truly comprehended the expansive
grandeur, the penetrating power and the
| high and lofty activity of the human mind,
the varied display of Its wonderful produc-
| tions, grand creations and beautiful achieve
ments in industry art and science, would
| be not less astonishing than appreciated.
| The peasant of the valley, far removed from
the mechanical shops of the world, knows
but little Of the invention which social ne
cessity or pecuniary condition require and
| demand. The lofty mouptaln; verdant
vale, crystal brooklet and al the domestic
| endearments of a contented home alone
constitute his appetincia. Above and be-
| yond these there is not much to develop his
| faculties, enlist his feelings and
engage his attention. The "great world
which goes spinning down the ringing
groves Of change" has but little noise and
even less attractive employment for him.
| The smoke from his hut has the same
| graceful curl to him now, an old man, as
| when his thoughts followed it upwards in
its ascent; the silvery veil of mist resting on
| the brow Of the hills are as spOtless now as
when in his youthful fancy he looked on it
with a superstitious rapture; perhaps an
old, old tree Of the valley or some tutting
rock on the crag has fallen by the stroke Of
the lightning or been shiyered by the light
| ming bOlt-yet the clouds, the heavens and
he valleys still bloom, and nothing save
his heart and his feeling grow old or have
changed. But the man who lives in the bustl-
ing world, mingled with the seething tide of
life rolling ocean, sees some change 10 every
wave that dashes on the strand of time. The
beauty of art is seen glisteniDg on the
brow of every newly awakened day, and
science is adding much that is useful to the
accumulatiOns Of human energy. The
emerald bound realms of the ocean have
| been explored aud robbed Oft remorseless
conqUests; the earth has been pierced with
the shaft OF enterprise and rich minerals
are gathered for the use and the benefit of
man. The beaming car of intellectual life
moves grandly on, traversing rich valleys,
| piercing mountains, crossing streams, diff
fusing its rays of beautiful utility over the
barren wastes of life, rejuvenating and
reinvigorating the lonely fields till they
bloom and blossom like the rose, shut up
| within the precincts of a vale. We might
be unmindful of the progressive strides the
world is making, aud because our fertile
valleys and vine clad hills wear their usual
verdure, and the heaven smile with their
| golden beams and the streams sing ever
gladstone tributes to nature, we think our
| selves unneeding in the change attending
improvements and hence do not realize the
height already reached by other cities, states
aud people. An Industrial Exposition in
viting competition, skill, genius and enter
prise from every section of the country
serves as a great kaleidoscope in which is
seen the various inventions, improvements,
novelties, productions, the comparative
mechanical status and manufacturing en-
terprise, commercial position and
agricultural relations, mineral veal til
and productive capacity of many cities and
sections of the country. Thought, hither-
to embryOtiC aid useless, assumes a shape
that is practical and beneficial. Theory,
so long sleeping in the channel of the mind,
is aroused from its latency and despoiled Of
its gittering dreams, is rendered an active
principle in combined utility and elevated
beauty. Who is there to doubt the practi-
cal benefits resulting from an Exposition of
the industrial arts, sciences and trades?
From time to time have we offered these
suggestions; again shall they be presented,
and let them be not unheeded; nor will
they, save by the ear of untaught stupidity
or of selfish ignorance, the iron curbs to
the wheels of progress, more fatal in its
languishing blindness than the pestilential
malaria of warm, sunny climes.
Argument cannot be too often urged or too
prominently presented; the citizens of Nash
vile who daily witness the operations. of
the Exposition must not forget the import
ance of its character or the magnitude of its
interest which is appreciatingly felt in every
part of the State, as if already attested by
the large number of
SCHOOL VISITORS.
We have heard that all of the first class
female schools located Oh railroads and
having by river access to Nashville would
visit the city during the Exposition. Many
have already attended; from Lebanon,
Murfreesboro, Franklin and other places in
Middle Tennessee.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN
have in large numbers visited the EXPOSE
ton and more are yet to come. Parties
from Columbia were in the city yesterday
efectiDg railroad arrangements by which
THE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL
of that city will visit the Exposition to-day.
This school, we learn, is quite large and
the fact of so many coming at one time
from Columbia will attract large number
of our citizens to the Exposition. We
| think it a good idea to have
| A SUNDAY SCHOOL CONCERT
when members of distant schools visit the
Exposition. Three or four sacred pieces well
sung by Sunday School scholars would not
sound unpleasant, and doubtless constitute
a novel and interesting feature in the order
of the daily amusements of the Exposition.
| What have the managers and committee on