Washington sentinel., 1853-10-14
NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE FAIR.
ADDRESS OF hon, EDWARD EVERETT.
The correspondent of the Boston Adretiser
thus describes the annual exhibition at Man

stock, Implements and domestic goods also fruits
flowers and vegetables. OF all these there is but
moderately extensive show; but the charac-
! ter of the contributions is generally very good
Horses, working aud fat oxen, and sheep and
SWINE are superior, excepting but few details
Mich stock is not well represented al the time
this is written, % o'cock) but the entries promise
a more liberal display. Ef
"The departments Of domestic corporation and
other home manufactures are very hll and very
| creditably exhibited. Vegetables and fruits look
well; and the competition in cereals is close, and
| the show line, beyond that of any former year
There are few articles contributed which are not
strictly usefuI-the merely ornamental having al
| most no representation unassocated with the
| utie. The attendance is large, and strangers are
arriving with every train, in great numbers
MANcHEsTER, N H.. Oct o.
The proceedings commenced Thursday morn.
ing with trial OF ploughs, after which the fire
department Of Manchester marched into the show
yard, and tested the relative prowess of its several
details. The body was accompanied by the Mer-
| rmack Company, of Concord, and the aggregate
made very splendid appearance. AT ii o'clock
the City Guard of Manchester mustered at the
City Hail. and at little after twelve preceded
the civic authorities and the State Agricultural
Association 10 the show ground, where an excel
lent practical address was delivered by b. b.
Johnson, esq. Secretary ofthe New York Agricul-
tural Society.
sHe was followed, at the call of the meeting, by
acterisic speeches. embodyng power of mind
and of eoquence peculiarly his own. II has rarely
happened that applause has followed sentiment
with greater appreciation than on this occasion.
1 The crowd was very great-supposed 10 be from
thirty to forty thousand people The procession
and the address, with that of Mr.. Everett. We're
the grand features ofthe day. The weather was
fine, although somewhat disqualified in its plea
santness by high wind. The receipts at the
gate were over three thousand dollars On Friday
o hair Of
announcement will be given at three o'clock, and
an auction sale will conclude the fair
BsyThe speech of Mr.. Everett, like all of his
efforts, was graceful and interesting. We have
not the space for the whole speech, and must
content ourselves with the closing paragraphs
He said:
& And then, sir, for natural beauty. have been
something of a traveller in own country
though far less than could wish-and in Europe
have all that is most attractive from the
highlands of Scotland TO the golden horn of Con-
stantinople; from the summit of the Hartz noun
tuins to the fountain of Vaucluse but my eye has
yet to rest on lovelier than that which
smiles around you as you sail from Weir's Land
ing to Senter harbor j have yet 10 behold SUBJ
liner spectacle than that which is disclosed from
Mount Washington when, on some clear, cool
summers morning at sunrise, the cloud curtain
is drawn up from natures grand proscenium,
and all that chaos of wdness and beauty starts
into life. the bare granite tops Of the surrounding
heights-the preciptous gorges thousand faith
oms deep, which foot of man or ray of light never
entered-the sombre matted iorest--the moss-cad
rocky wall, weeping with crystal springs-winding
streams, cleaning lakes. and peaceful villages be-
low-and in the dim misty distance, beyond the
lower hills, faint glmpses of the sacred bosom of
the eternal deep, eper-heaving as with the con-
seriousness of its own immensity--all mingled in
one understandable panorama by the hand of the
Divine Artist
"And can speak Of the historical legends-of
the industrial resources-of the natural beauties
of New Hampshire, parent not OF fruits only, but
OF men--without remembering the great and good
who adorn her annas--her immortal Stark who
cheered the heart of the nation at the lowest ebb
of dependency and led the way at Bennington to
the triumphs of Saratoga--your Sullivan, your
Poor, your Scanned your Dearborn, your Nc
Cleary, your Pierce-who from Bunker Hill TO
Yorktown, heard every peal of the trumpet, and
breasted every storm of war--the long line of your
civilians, your Bartletts, your Whipples, your
Ihorntons, your Langdons, your Gimans, your
Smiths, your Masons, your Woodburys, your men
of letters and divines, your Wheelocks your Belk-
maps, your Buckminsters your Abbots How, es-
pecIaily, can forget him, whose deceasc, not yet
twelve month ago, filed the whole land with
sorrow, while, in the sublime language of your
fellow citizen, the President of the United States,
the great heart of the nation beat heavily at the
portals of his tomb" He was the offspring of your
toll, he and his fathers. His infancy was Graded
in the hardships of your frontier settlements he
was taught and trained in your schools, your
academy and your college. You sent him forth in
the panoply of his youthful strength to the service
of his country, and after the labors and the con-
hicts of life, you rose up one man, to welcome
him. when but two years ago, on this anniversary,
he came back, melting with tenderness and ven
Grafton, 10 revisit his native State
Mr.. Everett concluded with renewal Of his
Acknowledgements to the company
Mr.. Everett was frequently interrupted with
enthusiastic applause, and at the close of his elo-
quent remarks, three more hearty cheers came
forth, spontaneously, from the assembled multi
tude.
Troubles In the Cherokee Nation.-Several
days ago we had an account, copied from the Van
Buren InteHfgencer, of the atrocous murder of the