Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-09-19
The Fair.

Nothing surely could be more gratifying to eV-
err, Dotriotio citizen, than the complete success
of the annual Fair which has just closed It's ex-
bibtiou, The improvement made upon all past
exhibitions demonstrates that in agriculture and
the mechanic arts, at least, our people belong to
the best style OF "Youug America" eco ahead"
IS an exemplified maxim, and with the best kind
Of emulation. an emulation fostered by the high
est ambition, yet free from all faint and tnge OF
envy and jealousy, our people seem to be deter
mined to ego ahead" of themselves. This is night
Nobody will or can complain. Whata study for
the rejecting observer is great far' in which al
classes and conditions of society come together on
the broad platform of the Fair grounds, to contend
for the Justly awarded rewards of careful Industry,
and 10 see and be seen, each as much as the
hest. without shame OF tIammels of etiquette.
Pumpkins and potatoes, beets and barn-locks-
corn and corn lleGs-drillS and dresses-chick-
ems and children-trunks and trunklets-h;nges
and hats-monuments and merriments-Aowers
and flounces-pictures and pigeons-fowls aqua
tic and fowls terratic--rabbIts white and rabbits
black-quadrupeds bovian, quadrupeds equian'
and some that were neither-ploughs and plough
men-cakes and candy, minerals and music box
es-curosties and candlesticks-carpets and
Observation-Disclosures, shell-work, bed-quilts'
penmanship, pianoes, melodeons and beautiful
commit,ee-ladies to entice from their slumbers
the sweet ha1monies reposing upon their chords
these and other things, which would be disagreea-
BILE 10 think of, after the last above named crown
ing excellence of all that is delightful IN life
constitute small inventory of the good things
and agreeable presented in the Bill oil Far on TINS
gala day of the industry and handicratt OF the
Wheeling Western Virginia Industrial Exhibition
II is a common and not unphiloSOphic adage'
that the proof of meri: is succesS-and IN the
ease before us, how demonstrably evident is the
desert of the good people in the neighborhood OF
Wbeeling-for who eau question the unparalleled
success of the Fair which has just closed. Every
thing was encouraging TO our hopes, and not
among the lecst of the noble displays or the occa-
sion was the exhibition of the people themselves
for who would give farthing for progress in
anything that did not carry with it, anu in fact
itself spring out of the growth, development and
true progress of the people, who think, OF these
fairs as designed for no higher purpose than SIM
ply to improve the breed of horses and develope
the muscles of oxenl 1t is small matter TO grow
bigger mules atthe expense of smaller men-and
10 fatten chickens to the neglect of the children
Wet1ust that the cheering exhibition OF the indus
try OF the people, presented on this occasion is
Int an exponent of the state os civilization and
true progress among the citizens themselves. In
deed we know it is so-for where would you lind
amore respectable congregation of men, women'
and children than graced the Fair grounds during
the three days that the entertainments were kept
up7 Where finer specimens of gentlemen and
ladies for the imitation and emulation of the
young? True, we had no premiums for such, bu
we noticed no small number or self-conshtuted
committees who were studiously and searchingly
scanning the costumes, manners and general
hearing of their more favored and gifted fellows
in society-and it took no very cunning OWNERS
of spirits to see that many pretty roSy-cheeked
country lassie was meditating in her own mind
the STYLE and cut Of her nextholiday-g while
she curiously gazed on the flowing robes of some
city belle, who moved by her with the floating
grace and ease of a mermaid on her native wave.
success to these fairs then;-praise to the public
spirited men and women who got them up and
Cratuitousy toilfor the good of the country in an
enterprize stirring so radically the deeper foun-
tains of earthly prosperity. Praise and thanks to
the President, Secretaries, Marshals, Committees
and all other officials male and female, who have
laborcd in this good work, and honor TO the noble
orator whose eloquence gave the browning glory
to th,skingly exhibition of the free men and wo'
menof our free and favored mountain home. Es-
to perPetuG.