Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-28

Crowds Arriving by Every Train.
The whole Country COming-The Last
Chance and Closing Days.
YESTERDAY MORNING
again brought large crowd of visitors to the
Exposition. They were principally from the
country and spent the greater part of the day in
valuable articles on exhibition. Now that the
Exposition viii close in a few days we may ex-
pect to have a crowd of at least
THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE
in the city during the present week. Ample ar
engagements have been made by the hotels for the
accommodation of any number of guests though
II is wei for persons who intend visiting Nash
vile before the close of the Exposition to secure
rooms before coming For whatever arrange
ments hotels are willing to make for the accom-
modatiun OF visitors il is not likely there
will be a surplus of sleeping room. More
people will visit our city during the present
week than have ever been here at any previous
time. Bedford, Coffee, Rutherford, Summer,
Maury, Giles and Williamson counties will send
thousands OF visitors to our city on Wednesday
and Thursday. The special train to run from
Bowling Green, Ky, will afford an opportunity
on Thursday for hundreds to visit our great in
dustrial display, this being the only chance as it
closes on FRIDAY night. Among yesterday morn
ing's visitors were
THREE SCHOOLS.
In this respect the Exposition has been largely
patrOniZed from every section of Middle Ten
nessee. Wherever a trst-class school is located
so as to have convenient access to Nashville, it
has attended the Exposition. Yesterday morn
ing
PROF. @. W. JfRoMR's ACADEMY
for young men, at Shelbyville, under charge of
their able principal, visited the Exposition and
spent hours of pleasure in the examination of the
various department of interest there. The school
numbered one hundred and thirteen young men,
who seemed to enjoy themselves as much as any
persons We have ever seen at the Exposition.
BELL BUCKLE ACADEMY
nFC a1a
and female, TO the Exposition. The pupils were
accompanied by their teachers who eXerted
themselves in explaining whatever was novel and
interesting to the young ladies and gentlemen,
whose visit has been productive of ttiuch desira-
BILE information respecting the mechanical
achievements and artwonders of the Exposition.
LEBANON UNION sUNDAY-sCHooL
of Fosteryille, Bedford county, sent ffty-eight
scholars TO view the attractive beauties and novel
utilities of the Exposition. This is a very large
Sunday-School, not more than half of its MEM
beers being present. They were Under charge of
their Superintendent Chas n. Harris, whose
efforts to interest and instruct the scholars in re-
gard to the various collections and brilliant dis
PLAYS were most cOmuiendable Schools visiting
the Exposition should have some competent per-
son TO explain what is on exhibition, since in
this respect our citizens and the Board of Manag-
ers have splayed great overnight, which now
is not susceptible Of cure with any degree of adj
vantage, the term for the great show being al
most at close By Saturday morning the grand
and dazzling collection of nearly everything use
luly beautiful and novel IN the industrial trades
mechanical vacations, and the more polished arts
of life will be dispersed and hidden from sight.
THE PLEASANT EVENINGS
so often enjoyed by the visitors will not soon be
forgotten, though the brilliant throng have gone
and the glittering scene vanished, which, hike
the bRseless fabric of . vision leaves not wreck
behind" Those who have come from distant cit
les OF the East and the West, the North and the
South, and looked with feelings OF cOmmendable
praise upon the great and varied inventions in
machinery agricultural implements and other use
full articles in our Exposition will remember their
visit, and when witnessing the industrial enter
prise Of maybe, their own and of other cities, re-
call the splendid display made at Nashville. The
young will certainly have no cause to feel glad
that the Exposition has closed; from personal OBJ
servatiOn and individual inquiry, we have ascer-
tanned that there have been eighteen
MATRIei0NIAL ENGAGEMENTS
commenced most favOrably which will be pleas
antly carried out. The happy contamination of
some whispered vOw-the realization of some soft
cleaning wish OF affection, or brighter, yet more
timid hope of the heart, will be among the gold
en- mementOes treasured in the wealth of the
Nashville Industrial Exposition of 1872. Again,
the dark despair Of al endlessly embittered heart
and the ceaseless regret of spurned and uIirecip
rOcated affection, will, we wager be among the
few sad and melancholy "reminiscences that some
unfortunate young gentlemen and blushing dam
sells must unwIllingly yet unavOdably retain of
the Exposition. Amid all these reflections which
now crowd as suggestive thoughts OF a farewell
to our great enterprise, let us believe the
pleasures and the visits to this grand
temple have been delightful instructive
and interesting. Above all let us hope, for We,
do believe the visit of every intelligent person
has been productive of much that will be prof.
table in future. Let us trust as we think there
is cause to hope, that the
NASHVILLE INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
of 1873 will surpass in its magnitude and excel in
its character those OF former years and also those
Of other and larger cities. This can be accom-
plished if our citizens fuse that lively sympathy,
active intelligence and undaunted energy into
the movement. This, 10 be sure, has been done
for the present Exposition, yet the aid secured
thereby has been confined to very small ratio
of our business men. The idle capital, grown
luxUriantly useless by its long repOse in the
Golfers of the retired merchant and the
indepenent capitalist, must be aroused
from its indolent siesta to again
seek an investment in an enterprise which has so
many glorious results that benefit community,
elevate our material worth and enrich our peO-
pie, fact deserving attention. because its in
wiling enquiry, demanding co operation from ALL |
because it defies contradiction from any, how
ever much of experience, practical knowledge or
of historic lore they may haye-truth like this
needs no champion and asks but fair and i'm
partial ear. By one Of Americas most brilliant |
writer's whose young life was breathed away on
the fiowery beds of poetic Italy, the shrine OF
every classic recollection and delight, has II been
said "that in political subjects man has yet to |
learn the lessons of his utter impotency, and till
then he will never know the secret of his bound
less his magnificent capacity to control" So can
we say concerning our material resources and |
exert the power Of a people, develop the re-
sources of a land, nor csn we promote the pros |
perity OF country until we have learned |
our needs and necessities, by which /
knowledge we may be induced to \
adopt such measures as are indispensable, aud |
to invent and call to our aid such machinery as |
is useful in attaining these ends. To this fact is
due the origin of the grand mastery which human |
intelligence has acquired in physics. 1t is claim
ed that it was Bacon, "the inspired of intellect, |
the poet and the prophet of the truth of things |
sensible ~ who aSaprtai0p0 that fhn pNtput of |
mans power is to change the relative distances, |
in space, of all material bodies and to so COM /
bine the mechanical modes of utility as to render
them subservient to the purposes of man. An /
exposition, by its display, teaches 3 /
great deal that is useful; and this revelation by
leading science to investigate the laws, the ma
ture, the objects and purposes of nature herself,
and of art too, shows how and why these act in /
to man. In this respect |
scientific developments exalt us to
q higher class of beings, and implantenerges of
might and triumph. In this respt ct we may not /
lightly regard the moral and social benefits de-
rived from the result and advantages of industri-
are more directly advantageous. The incentive |
for further effort given honest labor and SKILL
the enlargement of cur agricBl Hral and mechan-
cal resources, the opening OF new commercial
avenues, the expansion of trade, the induction of
visitors, the stimulu added to immigration and
lhe inducements for the outlay of capital by
display of our mineral wealth and an exhibition |
IF our manufacturing faculties, the former the |
and the latter the inducement, are some |
features of beneficial character resulting from
expOsitions of this kind when judiciously man
aged. II is to manufacturing enterprise we must
chiefly look for greatness and progress. Us
power is almost miraculous and the golden wesitl
t produces is well nigh fabulous save to those
who observed its silent course and enjoyed its
results. Above all does it benefit the
abOring classes and does not in its character |
eek to injure, as the injured self-impOrtance and
mortified "ego" of pseudo editor has in man
her that would be cruel were it not lsnghably |
and SnrjO-rnmipol1v Dif a 1
anting actor or some stupid BOBBY. A glance at
he
POWER HALL
where there is so much of mechanical skill and
scientific ingenuity have collected their tributes
o human industry and thought-when we have
he nature Of this machinery explained to u.s. \
earn its purposes an realize its grand utilities as
hereswe can better appreciate the worth of la
lOr and the efforts of industry; seeing too, how
lpt are the lines of the 'Yiilage Blacksmith"
''Tbus at the flaming forge Of life