Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-25
OUR EXPOSITION.
The Attendance and Interest Inereas-
ing DaIIy-NOtes on the Art Gallery
and horticultural Garden.

The Exposition increases in interest every
day, and draws larger and larger crowd.
\ esteTday was the best day in every re-
spect that it has yet enjoyed. Exhibitors,
who clearly evince genuine enthusiasm IN
their displays, and strive TO excel in at
tTactiveneSS and expensiveneSS, were busily
engaged in peTfectiug their arrangements
all day, accomplishing very notable I'M
prOyement in the appearance of things.
There Is now comparatively little space left
In the building without a show more or
less ailuring, and if the Cling up goes on a
few days longer at its past rate, the entire
grounds will be crowded with the products,
manufactures and merchandise of our city
and its tributary territory.
A great many visitors could have been
seen yesterday on the streets, and the at
tendance at the Exposition inthe afternoon
was the largest seen there in the day time
before, since the opening. 1t being a
holiday at the St. Demands Academy, the
school, numbering about 100 young ladies,
visited the Exposition, attended by the sis
tiers. St. Mary's school also made a visit
in a body. Last night there was another
rOusing gay crowd on hand and all went
merry.
\ large United States flag was raised
over the main cupOla yesterday.
The Art Gallery received a number of
additional paintings and proved a favorite
resort. 1t contains one of the largest and
6nest collections of pictures to be fOundl in
the country. We note the following as
specimens: Portraits of Madison, Jefferson
and Polk-copies from Stewart, contribu-
ted by Mrs. eX-President Polk; thirteen
portraits and landscapes, including por-
traits of Aaron V. Brown and Gen. Pillow,
contributed by Mrs. A. V. Brown; fourteen
paintings, including several very
ancient historic productions contributed
by Mrs. DR.. Cheatham; six, four of which
represent the voyage Of life, by DR.. j. W.
Hoyte; four very elegant specimens, by
Mrs. Shankland; four handsome turf
scenes. by Mr.. Bissicks; seven excellent
pieces. bv Mrs. John Porterfield; family
portraits by Mrs. John Overton; four por-
traits, by William Cooper and four by
Washington Cooper; fourteen engravings
by Daniel Adams; three engrayings, more
than one hundred years old, by Col. Thurs
ton; seven portraits by VIM. Clendenning
seven by George DOwery; eleven paintings
from st. Cecilia, and other Interesting pic
tyres from various sources. Most Of these
pictures are of the highest merit.
MeSsrs. Lou WhOrley and Max Sax, the
Committee on Horticultural Display, and
Mr.. David Douglass, the landscape gar
dener, who has superintendent the depart
ment, deserve much credit for the success
they have achieved in getting up the horti
cultural garden. This contains many of
the TareSt and most beautiful plants in the
whole country, and finer collection cannot
be found outside of a few metropolitan
cities. 1t would be impossible to enUme-
rate all the plants in the displays, and we
will only mention few that
were pointed out to our reporter
contributed by DIR. w. a. Cheatham, Rev.
p. S. FAN, Messrs. ID. Z. wilkins, Danl
Mcintyre, and Pigue, Capt. StOckell, Mrs.
Stewart and the flower dealers of the city.
In the collection the following may be des-
ignated to show the worth Of the vegetable
exhibition: The RhOdOdendrOn Hybridum,
a very Iare plant, difficult TO grow in this
climate, which produces magnificent bios
SONS; the Acacia LOngifolia, imported from
New Holland; the date and sage palm; the
StenOcarpus Cunningham, a beautiful ma
tive of Australia; the Sax GOthea Con-
spicua, from Patagonia South America, a
hardy evergreen in this climate;
small specimen of the WellingtOnea
Gigantea, or mammoth of tree of California,
which often grows to diameter of thirty
feet: the japanese Rice Paper plant; Pa
pyrus from Egypt; thirteen varieties of
foreign cacti; the Cycas Reyoluta; the India
Rubber tree; Pampas grass of South Ameri-
c.: Mexican and Brazilian century plants;
wax plants, bananas, oranges, etc. But
probably the most interesting vegetable in
The garden is the Calladium, of which there
are numerous diverse specimens. We have
not alluded to a 1.-THE Of the collection,
which is certainly as fine as can be found
in the South.
All parts of the Exposition presented
much improved appearance last night, and
no display was neglected by the multitude
which thronged the building.
Among the neat displays in the west
gallery is a case of goods from the Maxwell
House Shoe Store, noted for the excellent
and stylish quality of its boots and shoes.
MeSsrs. T. Z. Winstead q Co, proprietors
of this house, No. North Cherry street,
are stocked to accommodate retail buyers
with the latest STYLES of ladies' and gents
boots and shoes, guaranteed TO last and to
please.