Year: 1872







Yesterday being Monday, the attendance
was not IS large as that of the few previous
days, yet there were many present, mostly
visitors from distant points. The atten-
dance from now until the close will, from
what we can learn, far exceed the expecta-
tions of those most sanguine for the well
doing of this great industrial temple. We
hear of many excursion parties in different
sections of this State. Among the visitors
yesterday were


EIGHTEEN YOUNG LADIES,


pupils in Mrs. Lindsley's school in VIII
son county. These young ladies enjoyed
themselves very much and could have
proftably spent several days in going
through the various departments of the
building. The interest in the Ex-
position, though already great daily in
creases and the people are realizing many
benefits which could never be received in
any other manner than by display of our
much interested in the attrae-
prised at the magnitude and splendid
magnifcence of this great temple of art and
science. The energy of Nashville's citizens
was never SO fully and satisfactorily made
known to the public and consequently, we
again say, the benefits resulting, though
perhaps in some instances not as immedi-
ate as might be expected, can not fail to be
great and many. Of the thousands who visit
Nashville now it is not every one that
comes simply to be pleased and return
home to think no more of what has been seen.
The grand object of the Exposition is near
er attainment than this and we hardly are
willing 10 think that capitalist, manufac-
turer, or machinist who visit sthe Exposition
goes away without receiving practical sug
gestions and new ideas. Many men of ex-
perience and enlarged ideas living in the
Northern and Eastern States, the very
home and seat Of manufacturing enterprise
and mechanical invention, have been COM
pelled to visit Nashville in order to ascer-
tain if there may be seen any improvement
in machinery. 1t is well known fact that
competition is the life of every settled busi-
ness, and that the means of one man or
company in competing with others, lies
generally in the means one has of produc-
ing at very small expense. MachiGery
beng required more or less in the manufac-
ture of most every kind Of goods, it is neces-
say that men engaged in these pursuits be
well pOsteo concerning the latest inventions
and best improvements, tending as all such
do to cheaper the cost Of manufacturing,
saving labor, etc. From this point we read
lily see why men are compelled to visit the
Nashville Industrial Exposition, where is
collected some of the finest specimens of
mechanical skill and ingenuity ever exist
ing in this country. The interest then at
tached to this Exposition is broad as the
land and comprehensive in every respect.
The machinist receives instruction not easi-
ly acquired under other circumstances. The
farmer and planter see what would have
cost them much correspondence, money
and time, perhaps, to examine and judge of
anywhere else. The merchant displays his
goods to the admiration of the pubic and
directs attention to what could only have
been made knoTn through the columns of
the press. The inventor has the same adj
vantages, and the country derives benefits
which are of untold value. Every
mechanical pursuit, every agricultural
vocation is advanced in its inter-
est, elevated In its character and ex-
panded in its desired objects. Looking, then,
at the Exposition in this light, which falls
with the same conviction on many others,
we feel that interest in the Exposition
which its purposes justify and results will
prove to the people.


Among the Nashville men who are fore
most in displaying the energy and enter
prise of our prosperous city are MesSrs.
Wheeler, Marshal & Bruce, stationers,
book binders and book manufacturers.
This firm haq a section on the gallery for
the exhibition of their goods, and the dis
Ylo IL x,orxy f;po nna ifopn IF No inoODsid-
erable moment is two


LARGE BLANK BOOKS,


These books were ma3s by Wheeler,
Marshall & Bruce, at their stand, on Cher
~ street next door to the Maxwell House,
for the Third National Bank of this city.
They are individual ledgers, numbered
respectively from A to and x to q. They
are of royal size of each one thousand
pages which arg beautifully ruled, and that
too bI young lady! They are bound in
full Russia, having cancelled sides in the
center of which is a Maltese cross, and
the fly leaves are of lavender color
The workmanship is most elaborate, there
being over two thousand lleaves] of gold
in the ornamentation of these books. The
inside of the cover is elegantly worked
with gold, while the bottom of the board is
silver mounted to prctecs them from in
jury consequent upon handling books of
this size. Altogether they are the finest
books We have yet seen, and cannot b. q ur-
passed by those made in Eastern cities. In
addiiian to these unusually splendid books
there is a complete set Of volumes made by
Wheeler, Marshall y Bruce for the State
Bank at Lawrence, Kansas, and also set
for Spurlock 4 Co., wholesale grocers of
this city, These two last named sets are
of the usual good make Of this firm, which
also have on display large show case Of