Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-17
Bapxrille M'tekln Ghrpnit(e
SOMETHING ABOUT VIENNA.
Tennessee minerals at the EXPOSE tom.
ThOrnburGh and wilder.


Hon. A. \. fireman, Republican candidate |
for Governor last year, under date of Au-
gust 9TH, we make the following extracts |
about Tennessee and the Vienna EXPOSE |
ton:
have met quite a number of Americans |
here, among them Col. Prosser, of Nash
vile, and Col. Thornburgh, OF your place. |
speaking of Col. Thorrburgh, | think it |
nothing but jus ice to him that L say a |
word of his Efforts in behalf of Tennessee |
at Vienna. / believe that had forgotten |
TO mention the fact that had seen the |
great Exhibition, acknowledged to be the |
greatest affair the world has ever seen, far |
excelling that OF Paris and London. To |
say that it is utterly indescribable, is to |
give a very faint idea of the universally |
of this, the worlds great fair. You ira |
verse the main hall of the building up one |
side and then back on the other, and ifyou !
do not turn aside into any of the courts or
halls or side rooms, as you will be tempted
to do every few paces-I say, IL you take a
straight course in making your tour of the
building YOU will have walked only one
and q half miles, and in making that cir
cult you will have seen ten thousand diff
ferent things that would required travel
of ten thousand miles to see elsewhere. In
addition to this, you will hear spoken eve-
nv known tongue, including Bohemian.
After you have made this circuit, which
will occupy at least three hours, lit took
me four hours the first time and five the
next You sit down for little breath
and venture to suggest to friend, that
YOU think you have seen the "show,n he
Smiles smile that is childlike and bland,
and very innocently tells you that he has
been in constant attendance for two weeks,
and thinks that if he can remain two
weeks longer that he will have been en-
abled to see the most of it himself. What
is there to be seen? Rather ask me what
q 10, nd L mill III n, .
don't know. l will answer generally
and specifically, by saying that there is
here, on exhibition, q specimen of eUerV
thing in the tCortd, animate and inanimate
Of the vegetable, mineral and animal
kingdoms.
Here are the very finest specimens
of every thing that is made by the
hand of mantle material Of which, and
the machine by which it is made, and if
YOU will walk five steps further you will
see the raw material-the machine and the
man making the thing itself At that ma
chine you see a man weaving a web of the
finest lace; at this the most beautiful ribbon
here you pass an ice machine and there
fountain that sends forth its myriad of
lets of pure cologne. And whether you
stand amid the work shops of England
with their complicated machinery in lively
operation or battle in the aroma of the East
and rest your eyes upon the Turkish or
NulIece ldDTICS anu luLal6 ING OuOTS
of Arabia and Persia, you feel that you
are in fairy castle, amid scenes of en-
chantment. But far ahead of all other
countries in the display of beautiful work
manship and fine arts, is France, La Belle
France, beautiful France! AS | stood per-
fectly bewildered, lost in amazement and
wonder at the pre-eminently wonderful
and richly gorgeous array of the most ex-
quisitely artistic display of works of fine
arts, thought within myself, If a country
oVerrun and scourged with war as France
has been, can do all this, what could she
not accomplish if blessed with such gov.
eminent as ours. The comparison, howev-
er, in this instance is not so favorable fol
US and l am sorry that alluded to it for il
compels me to speak of our own represen
tation Well as L am talking to you l haC
as well speak plainly and say thai
SO far as bad management and gros:
blunders can accomplish it we have been
utterly disgraced Instead of endeavor-
ing to sustain the honor and dignity of the
government that sent them, our Commits
siOners, if charges against them be true
had no sooner been appointed than they
began to speculate upon their position. l
is charged that one man paid the Com
missioner over three thousand dollars 10
the use of one lot to be used as a saloon
The drinking arrangements here are tru
ly wonderful. You can, without the leas
trouble, get anything you want from tn
n1edneSt Tennessee rot-gut to pure Turkisl
coffee twice as black as tar and as strong q
acquafortis. American machinery is goo
and very good. Nearly all the specimen
have been sold.
ABOUT OUR MINERALS
Tennessee is represented by fine spec
men Of coal, large enoughtO burn u
Chicago. Thornburg told me it weigh
ed nearly two tons, and Jake ought
know-he brought it or had it brougf
from Hamburg to Vienna. 1t, togeth'
with some fine specimens of East Tenne
see iron, had reached the former cit
through the agency Of Gen, Wilder, Il
only Commissioner from Tennessee wi
seems to have done anything at all for Il
State. AS before mentioned it is but d
ing justice to a.galiant Tennesseean to So
that TO Col. Thornburg we are indebt,
for having the fine specimens of our iro
marble and coal placed on exhibition, T
up TO the time that / left Vienna not
single Commissioner from our State hi
put In his appearance. Though, than
~ the energy OF Col. Thornburgh and Ge
~ llder, we are not unrepresented, and o
.sEecl mems of Tennessee coal, iron al
marble stands ur rivaled i'm this rich an
versai storehouse. They have attract
great attenl ION, and have been the subie
OF universal col1mendation. The Emper
Francis Joseph IL mself, 1t was said,
slowed on them markeu attention
Tennessee Possesses withiI her horde
'all the elements of material greatness, al