Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-29
NASHVILLE.
More Of the ExpOsitiOn-What it is, and
What it has Effected Of Good.
The Mineral Wealth Of Tennessee
Visitors from the East-What
they Think.


EDITORS APPEAL wrote you on
the twenty-ifth a rambling letter.
was so much pleased and taken with the
grand Exposition here, that my mind
was confused, and I could not give you
a good description oft. Friday Knight
have had quite a banquet, but feeling
unwell did not attend. The managers
spoken of in my previous letter are ex-
erting themselves to make our visit
pleasant, and so far we have enjoyed
ourselves hugely. Up to last night there
had been at least one hundred thousand
visitors here, and nothing has been done
to mar their pleasure. A better board of
managers could not be selected, and
1 hope T. A. Nelson will be another
Parsons in managing our Exposition.
The income has been sufficient to pay
for the building, so that much will be
made clear. Arrangements have been
made to run excursion trains on all the
railroads this week, and they anticipate
u 1dIEt AuulDCl VI NAollOiC- OCICkdllOlAo
from New York, Baltimore, New Or
leans, Boston, Philadelphia, st. Louis,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Richmond and
Memphis have attended, and all ex-
pressed themselves charmed with what
they saw. These kind of exhibitions are
calculated to benefit us ali, to bring
about better feeling between the North
and South. Their delegates and citi-
zens visit our section of country, and
are surprised at its wonderful resources;
are charmed with the way we dispense
hospitality. They return home, and,
instead of pronouncing US barbarOus,
heather Chinee, and all such nonsense,
they report us sociable, high-toned peO-
pie. By seeing them we can return the
compliment, get the benefit of their me-
chanical ingenuity, learn all about
manufactures, labor-saving machines,
etc.
Within the Power Hall there are ma
chimes which give an impulse to the
mechanical world as startling as it is
useful. You find machines that viii
manufacture everything the South
needs, and l hope it viii not be long be-
fore the South wakes up from her leth-
argy, and takes advantage Of the inven-
tions now on exhibition here, and es-
tablish manufactures, and become a
manufacturing as we'll as a producing
country. Instead of selling our cotton at
twenty cents, and paying thirty-five
and forty-five cents for it in cotton
goods, make it up into goods and
save the difference, to build up the
South and make it the ''garden spot of
the world"
The entries in the exposition number
about two thousand five hundred, con-
sisting of every conceivable work of
beauty, novelty and utility. Most every
city in the United States that manufac-
lures has contributed something. Gin
cinnati leads the list.
In the mineral department the noun
tains of ore attract considerable atten-
ton. One block of ore weighs four
thousand pounds, and several humps of
coal weigh from one thousand to two
thousand pounds. The copper ores are
Of remarkable size, and arranged in
their tiers corresponding with their Oc-
curTence in the mines. The brown tier
is the yellow sulphurate of copper, the
next above being oxide Of copper, while
at the top Is iron ore, the latter always
composing the veins. A specimen of
magnetic ore from Carter county is said
to be the best ore in our State, and su-
periOr tough iron. A great many fine
specimens of Tennessee marble present
a beautiful appearance. would like 10
give list of the agricultural imple-
ments, but it would occupy too much of
your valuable paper. Everything is so
beautifully arranged that a visitor is
bound to see all articles exhibited. Ar
ticles Of the same manufacture, but from
different factories, are arranged in diff
ferent parts Of the hall, so that instead
of giving a glance and taking in a
whole department at a time, you find a
variety which is a relief to the eye as
well as the mind. Every step you find
something beautiful to admire. Hope
our Secretary will become well posted
and arrange our Exposition just as this
is. A splendid brass band discourses
sweet music day and night, and for a
change they have concerts by the differ
ent schools, and some fine music ON the
piano, accompanied with good voices.
Everything is calculated to make a visit
pleasant and instructive. hope to at
tend many more like this.
BALD-HEADa