The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-26
LATEST MAI. VS.
Petersburg Fair.
LADIES CONTEST FOR A SaDDI.E .-MR
VENABLE,s SPEECH.-TfIE s. A. B. Ga.
SECOND DAY

to-day. How many there were will not ATTEMPT
to estimate. People differ about as wide In their
estimates OF the number Ia great crowd, as about
anything lelse imaginable. The assemolage was,
however, very large one-mueh larger than I
anticipated. The cars on the s1uthside road last
ntsh, brought down between eight hundred and
thc@.aud-iae noauoke ami Petersburg read also
contributed an immense number, and the adjacent
counties sent their hundreds. Add to these the.
many who live Ia Petersburg, and those who came
to-day by the Petersburg and Richmond cars, and
add all to the number mostly members, who were
10 the city yesterday and visied the Fair, and you
have very considerable multitude, which assem-
bled at the Fair to day. / heard II variousy est.
rns.ed a, from I ol0to !, 600.
The dust which was go great an evil yesterdss,
1.as greatly increased TO day, aud on The road sr
preaching the Fair Grounds there was one coli.
tnual cloud Of dus, from the opening to the close
Of the exhibition. lns ide the grounds there wass
continual mist, not SO dense that without b,A
sufficiently annoying for all practical purposes,
and was caution to broad cloths, silks and fui
bonnets. Everybody present made an awful stride
towards the swallowing of their peck of dirt which
according to the old saying is to be srhieve before
,hey die. 4, =
ftoine to the air before the commencement of
the annual address, made f4rther examination
and add few items 10 my notes OF yesterday I
r Rhsrn, of the Eagle Works Richmond, exhib-
tied mill
Eitchis. Dunnavant, handsome specimens of
their Lithogfaphing and Printing.
G Leonsrd, of Pete rssnrg guns, Nc.
'-o. B. Eye, o. Peterstsrt vety fine diaplay of
blank books
Jno r. Eekles case of beautiful hats and furs
Pc Gibhes DasueueotYpes from his establish
nents IN both Petersburg aud Lynehburg
Jas. II. simmons, of Petersburg, blank books.
Or. E. Robins on paintings very fine) from the
pencil of his brother, VIM Nj Robinson.
Beautiful domestic Competing, by Mis-. A. c. Nose
Wen made oEaaburgs. from the Mills at Lawrence
vide, aulnne tt county Ga, by Paul McIwsine.
CsnneI coal from the Virginia Cannel Goal Com.
Water melon weighing 55z lba. by +. Bracy, Meek
enburg, Va
Josiah Dabbs of Halifax, and Mrs. Mary q. blanch
OF Mecslenburg.
son, Riato Mills, and Thos N. Lee Co, of the
fine hearth rug, by Mrs Anderson Tucker Of Ches.
terri sid.
The most fnssniassptiy large Irish potatoes, by
Thos w. Gee OF Ssssex county.
sois wafstsa ark, very beautiful, by annie Bur
russ, aged ~ years, of Petersburg.
Paintings by Miss Whitworth of Petersburg
Asset OF napkins with handsome designs, with the
pen, by Miss a II. But er of Diuwicdie.
number of paintings exhibited by Henry Myers
Thee many other things which deserve no.
tlce, but impossible justice to all.
LADIES RIDE-At II o'clock the fair competitors
for the Steward saddle (worth $50 were called,
but only two came-a Miss HARRISON, very good
looking young lady, with spirited countenance,
aud Miss REBEccA READ, a little gill only nine
years old. This disappointment to the pub
llc well probably Miss Harrison, who, no
doubt, expected other competitors thau the petite
Eebecca. The two however, took their places on
the track and rede tHiee srohnd Ia very AMIGA.
bic sort OF manner, and without any display of
dashing horsernanship; they rode well enough and
bo:h Sat very gEacetdy. We shall not attempt 20
deci &c WHICH eyeeed--leavinq thet 70 the Judges,
40 viii publish their decision the last day OF the
Fair.
Mr. VENABLEs SPEECH-Mr. Venable was Intro.
daeed to the audience about IL O'Clock, and ad-
dressed them in a speech about two hours long. He
began with few remarks touching the objection
which he said had been made to the Union L air OF
Virginia and North Carolina, and the ground that
it had originated in a spirit of rivalry. 1t seemed
to be forgotten that two beams might start from the
same source and travel eff dispensing their light
without conflicting with each other. He opposed
the idea that there was eny antagonsni in this
air to other Fairs in North Carolina and Virginia,
and being born in Virginia and living in North Ca
rolina be thought he could take the liberty 10 re-
buke the spirit which had suggested the idea OF riy
airy.
Mr. V. said he would not enter into any abstrac.
lions; but merely have little plantation talk with
bis auditors: and he did after his fashion. can
not al the late hour at which write give you
an outline of his speech, which was interlarded
with some of his peculiarly homely and pointed
illustrations that excited much LAUGHTER as well as
applause One of the most prominent ideas of the
speech was that the greatest advantage might be
derived to farming by diminishing the surface
cultivated and increasing the fertility OF that
face. He assumed that one-third of the land cult
waited in Virginia and North Carolina ddntpay for
the trouble of cutvating II and he asked Is il not
glorious business which loses one-third and yet
makes the country richt He said it would be an
swered by some farmers that it they diminished
their surface, they would not have employment for
their negroes. Then said he, let them be without
employment; better they should play marbles than
cuitisate land tnat paid nothing, The true way he
contended, for the farmer was to hire out his
plus labor, which he could do at high prices and
with the hire buy guano or otherwise improve the
diminished surface keptunder cultivation. By this
practice farms would improve more rapidly and
farmers become moi thrifty
On the subject of manures, he advised the use IF
Guano; but opposed its application TO naked land
lie urged that IL be spread on land that had been
covered with leaves or other material, and upon
land that had grown up in straw, the straw being
piou CHE in and not burned az some farmers insist.
ed. With regard to the home made manures he
urged their prompt sttibution and poughins into
the land Ths practice of gathering mate iai into
farm pen TO be trccdea pom b. the stock and
bleached and drained by the rains of winter, he
eefsuTed with much sarcasm; to haul cut such stuh
In the spIing and cal 1t manure, was a perjury
which the earth will not endorse the future crops
would snow. He adsis the ffequent moving OF
pers ard the keeping stock out of them in wet
Their. As soon as the pen is moved the ground where
1t stood should be covered with straw laaves and
sctsped-up manure, to be together pie U shed in -
THE mode of promptly distributing and ploughing
in the manure, he contended won'd Dor in the
spring when the force upon the farm was like
Steer in spring, weak but vii ing. The labor
crowded when tue force was weak, and CT course
ould not bo well done.
MIR Nenable indicated the farming of our snces
tors-lsnd cheap, labor dear 10 them; they
cleared and worked the best lands just would
do; and we wou find it cheaper TO improve the
god lands selected by forefahers, than to cut
down tho forests upon the inferior lands He vind-
Gated the much abused broom straw; but for IL he
did not know what poor lands would do. It az
frds 1t cover while il is ginning strength and per-
forms "a important part in its restoration. First
comes hen nest grass; then brown straw; then pine
which with its long top root descends into the
and pumps up the akalis W hich ave been exhau,ted
by excessive cultivation. These, after time, are
iol Owed BY sweet growth. by deg wood and hickory,
L.,
He drew picture of the country, of good farming
the painted h1uses, the neat fences the clean well
dressed lands &c the very opposite of slovenly til
lase, with its 6ilapidated houses one-h hinge gates,
pillows and hats in windows, NC. from toe latter
instinctiyely fly Mr.. v. me d to be psrtcu-
larry fond of sllireration and single Speaking of
the s'ovenly farm, where everything Is neglected
ADD ths fence il grown Ia bushes he said the fence
ros, the land squats, and the ma trots" for home
in the Western wilderness. lie urged good farming
Is the great psnacee for emigration.
be considersd Internal Improvements and Manu-
features important suxisres TO the advancement he
fressw in aericuituIe; bur he objected TO any feel
ing of rivalry and jealousy In the great of it,
ternal improvement. He objected 10 any attempt to
force trade v ktopp ectops he and furcBe