The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-03
KNOXVILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
KNOXVILLE, Thursday, OFT. 26, 1854.

Id FOS.-l naSten 10 give you SOhle ~
count of the Agricultural Fair yesterday,
and which is to be continued to-day. shall
endeavor to give you some account of to-
days proceedings at future period.
! may generalize at the outset that the Fair
has been an affair of far more importance than
its most sanguine friends anticipated. The
attendance has been far more numerous, and
the number and variety Of articles on exhi-
bition, far greater than any one expected
Numerous strangers of distinction are here,
whose presence lends additional interest to
the occasion. Among these may mention
Senator Dunlap, of Henry county, member
of the Legislature; Col. w. G. Harding, of
Davidson county; Ex-Gov. Aaron V. Brown,
and E. G. Eastman, of Davidson; F. A. Par
ham, Esq, the veteran and worthy editor of
the Chattanooga Gazette, and divers others
whose names do not occur TO me rs hastily
pen this scrawl
The Fair comes off at the Glass Factory
about mile east of town. On repairing
thither early in the forenoon, ! found very
large crowd, of both sexes, in and around
every part of the building wherever were ar
ticles for exhibition; and perhaps still larger
crowd Of men at some little distance in n
large enclosure containing almost every va
riety of domestic animals, such as men and
boys, stations, geldings, mares, colts, jacks,
jennets, mules, cows, calves, dogs, and the
Lord knows what else, all mixed up in pro-
miscuous confusion. The first act which
strongly and specifically arrested my atten-
ton as advanced into this heterogeneous
congregation was a collision between the
front end of bull and the rear end of
stallion. The horse had man attached to
the far end of his halter and was playing
round said man in circle, occasionally diver
styling the amusement by pausing to paw and
snort and do some other very fierce maneu-
wes. A very large, fine bull stood near and
evidently contemplated the snowy stallion
with feelings of envy. As the horse paused
n moment with that end towards the bull
which was the least capable of perceiving
danger, the bull made sudden lunge at him
with his keen sharp horn. AS the latter came
in contact with the posteriors of the horse,
it somehow so affected his muscular energies
as TO cause him to spring perpendicularly
into the air some trifle less perhaps than ten
feet. The look of utter establishment with
which the stallion gazed round him on alight-
ing from his aerial journey sufficiently testi.
fled to its unprecedented and involuntary
character, and to his startled and vivid sense
of that species of danger which comeih I'M
perceived ''like thief in the night" after
wards examined the horse to see where the
bull had wounded him, but could not discov-
er any break of the skin although the bulls
horn certainly had penetrated him. did not
examine the horn to see what sign might APP
pear upon it, because he appeared to have an
envious disposition towards all other animals
of his own gender, and kept ut respect
full distance in order to avoid any exhibition
of my own agility.
About this time the irregular and uncon-
certed voices of this large collection of ami
mails, upon some unknown signal, suddenly |
broke forth into one general crash and roar
of discordant harmony, which outdid all the
BRASS bands in creation. | felt sudden and |
glorious realization of the line of Pope:
"An discord, harmony not understood"
The cows and calves first began lowing, then
he bulls beloved, next the jacks came in
With reinforcement of sounds which was
perfectly astounding
sand furious every charger neighed,
To Join the dreadful revelry."
never want to hear the mockery of brass
,and again.
Shortly afterward this portion of the Fair
grounds was the scene of lamentable TRACE
ly, which cast n deep gloom over the minds
If all present Two stations which happen
ID to be led too near each other suddenly fell
o fighting, and one of them in the act of
striking at his antagonist, struck Mr.. Butler,
the younger Of two brothers,) an amiable
ind accomplished young gentleman who is
teacher of male school in this city. He
vas greatly injured, but not MORALLY, and is
'oid to be improving this morning. There
vas general stampede of men and animals
It the time of the disaster. Several horses
we're loose and dashing through the crowd,
md the wonder is that several persons were
lot killed.
About noon, all the congregation that
Gould get in assembled in the main building,
md lecture, prepared Cor the occasion, was
-ead by F. s. HeiskelI.. Esq; and the latter
was followed by ,Ey-Gov. Brown in very
lively and ente5a'hing extcpporaneous ad-
dress for about half an hour. | have one
Tault'to find with the productions of both
these gentlemen. They both assumed that
there are distinct classes in society among us,
whose interests are antagonistical; that the |
members of the "learned" professions are
hostile in interest and feeling to the farmers
md mechanics; that the "lawyers" and "doc-
tors" have legislated against the farmers in.
terests, and have put collegiate learning out
Of reach of farmers and mechanics, and hold |
ADORE the laborng classes. These
agricultural fairs were then hailed as enamel
pdtors of the aboring classes from this in