Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-24
List of Judges SeIe cted.
The Monster snnday-schOOI COnceri
Tonight.

YESTERDAY MORNING
| being eloudless and pleasant was not without its
effect in bringing to our city very large number
! of Exposition visitors. BY the time the doors
were Opene d the people commenced
POURING IN THE BUILDINGS
quite rapidly, filling it almost entirely within an
hour. While there is so much to interest and in
struct, to dazzle and charm the admiring eye
when looking upon the various display and col
lections, we must not think that
THE DECORATIONS
claim no place or share no attention. No build
ing the size of this was ever more magnihcently
decorated. Banners of every conceivable color
and design, agricultural, neurological and ma
tural products and towns of Tennessee, all the
State Capitals and most important cities in the
United States greet you wheresoeyer you look.
Silver and gold Communications, arranged so as
to present the strongest imaginable contrast, yet
presenting harmony and grace, give these ban
ners brilliant beauty, which can hardly be de-
scribed with satisfaction.
Among the many visitors was
MOUNT OLIvET SUNDAY SCHOOL,
embracing about one hundred and twenty pupils,
who were accompanied by their teachers. This
school came down on the morning train of the
Tennessee and Pacific Railroad. I'd.
Seventy-four scholars of
RUTLAND's SUNDAY SCHOOL,
together with large number of excursionists,
also arrived on the same train. The schools
seemed delighted with their visit, which was dl-
yided between the Exposition and
THE CAPITOL,
where already there were hundreds OF persons
viewing the various departments, library and
museum Of this splendid building. Mr.. King,
the Assistant Superintendent, found it was all
he could do to show the visitors through the
grand building, as many as one hundred persons
at one time going up in
THE TOWER,
which was, consequently, packed as full as it
could hold. The noise and excitement Of this
place. so far above the busy city and its busting
throng, made it seem quite strange to many who
never had been cup so high" before.
THE VIEW
from the capitol dome surpasses in the richness
OF its vision and the variety of its landscape that
OF any other in the State. Winding along the
green blooming valleys till lost in the grand hills
that rise proudly to the golden clouds and azure
heavens, is seen the beautiful Cumberland
whose waters mild ruffied by the breeze, CLEAN
as molten silver, each wavelet sparkling with
silver cOronals of fretted foam work. The city,
with its streets filed with people hurrying to and
fro, the trains rushing along the trestllng, the
upward floating smoke of factories and mills
the hamlets clustered mid green yards and
groves dOtting the landscape here and there like
snOw-hakes on the emerald swaTd, the beautiful
little city of Edgefeld, with its roses and bowers
its graveled walks and magnitcently shaded av-
enues, all greet the eye as it wanders over the
great eXpanse of nature here. Persons attend
ing the Exposition should not 90 away without
visiting the capitol and enjoying the delightful
view TO be had from the tower, overlooking the
country for miles around.
THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION -..
has become feature of magnificent importance
to the people of the State, every section of which
has visitors in daily attendance. While its i'm
pOrtance is thus acknowledged, the necessity in
a comparative sense, for making it
A PERMANENT INSTITUTION,
is not 50 Patent TO many who should have evinc-
ed interest enough in the project to have begun
some action tending towards its c0nsummation.
We would it were ours both as to ability and OPP
pOrtunity to impress the citizens OF Nashville
and of Tennessee with the important fact that
such an institution would bring more to our
into in
a better and easier manner than can be feasibly
entertained of any other. The encouragement
given the arts and sciences by an annual display
of skill in works is almost incredulOus. There
are mechanics and manufacturers who travel
thousands of miles to see what is new and best IN
invention. These men from distant cities and
the East, the very home of skilled science and
the shrine of mechanical ingenuity, have visited
our exposition and contributed, many of them,
articles for exhibition. Nor does this
seem so strange or without good results,
for the deathless aspirations OF the soul have
often buoyed humanity to heights that are dir
zy as they are sublime the gifted entertainments
of genius have cirGled wreath of mystic fatali-
ty round the moral nature of giant intellects,
bringing fruits of Curseless disappOintments,
leaving their works as proud mementOes to pos
terity which admres its greatness but knows not
the bitter conflict of its authors The daring mind
has assayed its strength against the lightning
ribbed cloud and its majesty before the starry
magnihcence of the heavens for the love of sci
ence and for that of truth, just ends for which
they tOiled, however ill-advised the means EN-
plOyed. The cold and arctic shores, with their
spOtless shrouds of eternal snow and their
glittering iceberg tombs have rested for death
the forms of those whose adventurous nature so
defied in their search for scientific truth, the
moved grandeur Of natures barriers The I'M
rayed gloom of the earth's mines, and the cease
less sea wave do constantly seize their victims
from among the jealous laborers Of science. The
UnreaSOned walls of the asylum claim inmates
from among the deyotees of learning, and too
often the vexed disciple of wisdom and the mock
ing man Of experience move as piteOus phantoms
of their wild dreams among the mindless thrOng
collected there. That which has commanded
for its production years Of toll inces-
SAINT and OF thought indOmitable, may
be viewed lightly and caIelessly passed by
The grand achievements and developed theories
in mechanics and science may be- as they doubt
less are, regarded as stupendOus movements of
mans own folly. Yet, where learning and
knowledge, industry and art, science and inven-
ton have congregated in one grand and dazzling
display the result of ceaseless efforts and un-
swerving TOLL we should not be prone to condemn
nor slow to examine. By having an annual in
dustrial Exposition we can have an exhibition
of these productions and clearly measure the re-
suits of human investigation into much that has
been of long study and attended with oft re-
peated failures. We can measure our prosperity
with the world and see what prominence we have
assumed. We can behold our scientific, COM
mercial and agricultural, and even the social,
political and professional, if not religious glory
of our country, and in its radiance see what
shadow we cast along the earth. 1t is but neces-
sary to realize what men have attempted as
stated in the preceding part of this article, to
present the value and the treasured worth of
knowledge in Everything.
.....H.... ATTRACTIONS.
TO attempt a description or even a synopsis of
what is attractive in the Exposition is task
endless as it would be but inadequate. Every
thing is attractive, and there is over two thou
sand things to be seen and admired here. 1t
matters not what taste one may have, he can
find something to command it, and something
which will he eniOVel. Among the most nOpnlar
attractions is
BERGMANN's AUTOMATIC WONDER
the construction of which occupied seventeen
years, the inventor having lost his mind, and is
now confined in an insane asylum. This piece
of mechanical ingenuity has over forty figures,
each representing some one or more of the indus
trial vacations of life 1t is located inside of the
enclosure on Spruce street, and is to be seen by
going through the first door at the right hand
after coming in the Broad street entrance.
TENNESSEE LEAD WORKS.
Among the new specimens of Lead Pine, Pig
and Bar lead, manufactured by Phil. J, Mallon
q Co., Projectors of the Memphis Lead Works
The senior member of the firm has been in
the Plumbing business in Memphis
for the last 10 years; and has but recently
added to that business the manufacture of lead
pipe, an article that enters so largely into the
every day economies of life. The specimens now
on exhibition are the first ever made in any part
of the South, and-we are glad to learn atprices
to compete successfully with that from any other
part of the world. We not only applaud the en-
tsrprise of Messrs. Mallon & Co, but hail If as
the harbinger of increased prosperity totheirbusi-
ness, and to manufacturing interests of the State
THE AFTERNOONS ATTENDANCE
was well nigh so large as that of the forenoon.
the visitors being chiefly from the country. The
were well filed, many remaining until |
the shades OF evening suggested the time for
their departure.
THE HORTICULTURAL GARDEN,
with its rare plants and sweet perfumes, rustic 1
seats and music breathing fountain, is resorted |
F~lNrsffrT osnl1.
Of enchanting romance for the young and the |
loving. Among the splcnlid flowers adjoining /
the garden is
AN EPIPHYLLUM CRENATUS,
presented by Mr.. French the well known amateur /
aouriculturist of South Vine street. This cactus
has fun expanded white flower; two others will /
bloom to-day, making three perfect flowers which |
are admired by every visitor to the garden. The /
or rare and valuable plants in the hor-
licultural garden is equal to, if not ahead of /
any floral exhibition ever made in this latitude.