New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-26
Netu11ork DAILY Tribn,,e.
CHATAUQUE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
FAIR.

Here we 90 on d trip 10 w, sti,d in ChaItauque
County. The annual fair OF the Chatauque County
Agricultural Society is 10 be held in that village this
wear. one William T.. Robinson is announced to deliver
the Annual Address, and be says that unless go he
will not speak | wake up at o'clock, just n the
cars ON the Hudson River Railroad leaving Cham
bers street depot. I dress, pack and breakfast, and
Am at the Thirty First street depot before them hat
lovely ride Il is after the rain of yesterday along tins
romantic bank of the classic Hudson. What wild
dance of magic scenery sweep through, sitting next
the window overlooking this noble riverl The fog
has been drawn over the heads OF the high
lands during the night, and ia lazly lifted from ~
Anthony features we sweep by under his patr
archal nose. Up somewhere about Hudson we shoot
b ,b, ,t-nm-r, ,hct lofs Eow-Yorh tho previous
evening at O'Clock. Detained as they have been by
the fog We shall scamper off from their passengers at
Albany though they have had twelve hours start
of us Fifteen minutes past II o'clock we are of in
the ears Of the Central Railroad, and flying through
Amsterdam. Utica Rome, Syracuse, Jordan, Palmyra
Macedop and other elebaied localities OF the classical
dictionary and arrive in Buffalo about o'clock. In
n few minutes we are of again on the Lake Shore
Road, and about l2I o'clock in eighteen hours after
leaving Thirty first street, AM here in Westhed, five
hundle miles from that starting point.
But oil the hotels, and every house IN Wostheld, are
full with strangers coming 10 the Fair which opens To-
morrow. Half IN hours drive into the country brings
me 10 ho.pi,able farm house and welcome bed IN
which lose nysef at about o'clock. Blessed be
steam its annha.ion of space, and sleep for s
initiation of time, and the farners hospitality for its
toys and comforts of home.
This bright warm morning Wcstfeld i. all alive with
the farmers and their wives and daughters Of this pros
porous county, but to-day is only preliminary; let US
jump into Tomorrow Walk around and see what hn9
specimens Of agricultural implements, of horses, and
cattle end sheep and swine OF butter, and cheese,
and fruits and flowers, and the goddesses who move
about Ike Floras and Pomonos and Ccreses, crowned
with fluits and flowers and grain, and plenty Never
this county. l should think there were at least one
thousand wegons around the groves in which the Fair
is beld and il is calculated that there fifteen
thousand people the ground There are two adj.
dresses; one by the afore said William +. Robinson Of
New-York City, and the other by Cassus vi. Clay OF
Kentucky. Mr.. Cay's address is the first public
agricultural address he has ever prepared and in he
has exhibited rea. research, and mass Of the most
useful information. Earth, and cir have been ran
sacked ard analzed and their wants, propertie. and
uses lesrnedy and clearly described. trust il will
ye. be published in permanent form Tor 1t VIII add
much 10 the fame of IFS distlng ulshed author
Mr. Robinsons address consisted OF description Of
tie agriculture Of the elasscs the contrasts OF city and
county ie der crptiOn Of The agricultural horicul-
,rral and aroorcutural achievements on city lot,
description Of the farm Of NJ Me hi in EsseI, England
OF TIE farm Of Prof Napes, in Essex NewJerey, and
Of Mr. Greeley and his farm at Chepps4us, IN West
chester County, New York, closing with some remarks
the developments OF lnN tDHtu otde uhd tho
noble field here offered for the exercise Of high am
bitin in the youth Of America, drawn from the history
OF the three poor boys Of unknown parents who are
now con,tstiDg for the highest honor in the world The
elective Presidency VI thirty millions Of freemen
Mr.. X. made but very brief work Of hs speech, 40
lie wished % yield all The time possible to Mr. Clay.
There was 10 reference 10 politics in either OF the
addresses though the political bearings of the multi
tude were evidently in favor of Fremont The Presi-
dent # the Society, Judge Campbell IL q Buchanan
man. and he woe somewhat uneasy when he found Mr..
Csy Was to speak He had bis doubts of Mr.. Robin
son, bu. be had his fears Of Mr.. Clay. However all
doubts and fears gppessed by the speakers stick
ing to the tex. Of Agriculture.
l. would BE- impossible for me 20 3eserbe ,he articles
exhibited at the fair or the premiums awarded. may
meLuon, however that the fnt premium Tor female
equestraDism was taken by Miss Warner OF James
town. for the best trot,ng horse by Thomas pende,-
gast Of Wes'fed; for the best Devon bull by Elan Y.
Bss, who aso took the hrs. prize Tor the bes DGYSa
cow Devon heiser and Suffolk boar and COW lF
latter was but two years old in February ssf ana PIC
has already produced about fifty pig, "nfh' Tn. msr.
three or four weeks old sell easily at el2 each. har
mon j. Bss took .be frs. prize for jag o' n.' -
appearance. which he purchased some 'nn' IN IT, !.
Keu,ueky for 81, 500. John u. Patterson ol VIZ
field nephew OF our friend George W. Pa,'ef.on, eic
h;hi,.d snme sne French ~. rno eheep, for which, OF
course he took the hrs, premium. dc has s2mehies
a. many as ,hou-and sheep, and they !ysa '., n6 5
an ayetage al 400 each. He has frequently got NV
for a sirete ram. | presume be colid gst y2Wo o.
1900 for the one he had here ON stuip'Eoh nj
PrnSergns, OF Ripley took the highest r'murn. ior
.a,ae r., On,hsro cows and bult which he had Oh
T, n,s.sn, Fair Produced 500 more than sny hh-
s,,nh.H Mich Of the credit Of It's sacces- 10 due 70
Us,mon !, Bss, tho Secretary, but every lady anil
osntIenap OF Wss,feld seemed !e VIZ With each sibsI