The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-27
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Middlcbury, Aug %. 1851.
For the Midllcbury Register.
The Fair Grounds, &c,


Your readers will be pleased to turn their at
tention from the more distant note Of prepara.
lion, to the evidences OF extensive arrangement
close beside them. The anticipated arrival of
Gen w DOL and Judge Wondbury, the lisau
pointment as TO Mr.. Webster, concern The ma.
irity Of them less than the rhere ami the how
they are themselves 10 he accommodated, who
for the first time assemble to see the first Farm
ers Festival Of the State, and witness what in
the progress of Agricultural development NAV
become the grand central point of observation,
both A. to the character and the resources of
people. The beginnings of the Ellis or Del
phic festivals were both more trivial and more
accidental than those CT these grand nuricultur-
al exhibitions, and when a quadrennia FAIR
shall be announced at Worcester. Tor the peo.
Pile of New England, the foundation of II ccle.
bralion will he laid, which, like those TO the Hell
lenic. may incorporate itself with all the social
institutions and personal aspirations of our com
munity, and Indicate, against the aggressous OF
time aud revolution from without, The soul of
Union iu kindred Of race.
AT present onr vocation is TO cherish the he.
ginnings, and for these We ARE IT, have an ample
fitness of space rs well as Of time. The Com
mit;ee have taken camille out from the farm Of
one of our venerable citizens, leaving fences
AMI buildings without their enclosure just as
they found them The ground selected ir-
regular enough in figure aud equally Sc in sur
face includes eighteen, acres, part in orchard,
| severay, assure, or late IN moving and
| grain nd set of in a moulded shape to the
rear, with pleasant grove skirling the bank
of the river. Two entrances are devised, which
| open to the east few rods from The turnpike,
one for visitors on foot, the oftcr for carriages
| Within the first at the orchard are sheep pens,
where the stranger is to find the first TASTE of
the husbandry of Vermont l DO not say the
best That is like prai,ing sparkling rather
than sober housekeeping itself, which is not
| for nv day. You will find another specimen
to the morrill, far off, showing up when occupied
no doubt-like the tents of Kedar,-and spec
linens many and good it is 10 he hoped scat
tered over the grounds Strangers are expec-
| ted to feed their flocks here as securely as at
home; we expect a real sheep congress from
nl the State, and shall be pleased if a patriarch
| from the flock at Wealhcrsfcld, full of years
AMI Of honcrs, shall be called to preside. The
next ridge is for the cattle train.
In this the pride Of Addison, Rutland and
Chiitenden Counties may cxpatiatc If they
are the cattle people, we'll but an indefinite
region orr The mountain will compete aud ten
/ 10 one. somebody or other will draw in his
horns Who is the shepherd from that show
| 10 70 home shorn and who is TO be the herds
man to 20 home polled There are those who
are looking for some honors Of thar occasion TO
the poor mans f,voritc, dead or alive, that
STAYS hy him faithfully, the tenant Of the stye
lie will have his place near the gully We are TO
cross, and doubtless claim his share OF attcn-
ton
Al the entrance of the grove, on its eastern
line are booths erected for refreshments, an EN-
Enlistment that pleads the lower law OF Appe
lite against the higher law of 'aste and il
thought sometimes to reconcile the two. Be
low, the wood extends in every direction, hav
ing the river 10 define il in the rear, and chal
longing the soltest recollection Of man or womar
for such scene filter TO remember or 10 enjoy
Not far from the rivers border is the speaker
stand, aud here the officers of the day, and The
magnates and the maTshals, and the press, vii
enact their historical parts in the beginning o
these games, in the prescuce oflades, strangers
and citizens generally here the praises of ng
riculturc will be ennounced, and here the mer
its of Devonshres, Atwoads, and PAular Meri
nos declared in voices echoing to their own
Here the excel encies Of llamilionans, the fas
cinations of Morcans in leaf-startling speech
will be left Tor their own!
Formosa resonare decent animalia SlVas
For Hill, and Kidder and their compeers be
yond the upper valley Of the Sacramento, al
we now call it, a stream most dry in summer
which here divides the wood, they are IN pos
sess sion of a irotting course, half mlle "
circuit, and Black Hawk and the young clifford
Iuhkiu's nag, and u host Of their Kind, hol,
time still as il were, lil The gaze OF thousand
delighted with their sight, shall bid II hy witt
their own speed, if only il keep the track an'
take the spectator with it. One can grow
ernv willingly, unconsciously, while III
horse of his fancy is ia his sight. And her
are those that would give new energy to Ih'
Oh riot Of day
wish TO anticipate nothing, Mr.. Editor, bn
from the high ground near what is called IN th'
farm parlance, the white brock marble out
crop, that ought ic he gathered in,-is We"
not only of the whole ground We have len be
hind Us, and of the village set there against ih'
beautiful Dunmore mountain, AZ distance, 70
mantically, at least, hut Of the course pre,eml
nently prepared At its side; and here, l. !
While & Co. as untiring as enterprising in q
good work propose TO put up structure lo'
exhibition Of manufactures, machines, ws.es
aud nick-nacks, with seats reserved Iar ,s''ss
and this is 10 be no l'nger fpr the pceasioh, he
White Rock, but Boomers Hill Aver b'oom
ers Hill. Fine, ifh does not rain u T.