Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-10
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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1857.
The State Fair.

We shah make no excuses for Frequently
calling the attention of the readers of the
PATRIOT to the State Fair, which opens
next Monday. These exhibitions originate
ed in an earnest desire TO advance the IN
terests of the farmer, the planter, the me-
chanic; and, we may add, of every class OF
society-for whatever tends to build up the
interests of the industrial and productive
classes. is of advantage to all-and it is
but right that the public journalist should
devote to it a share-a liberal share-of
his labors The first of our State Fairs
was highly successful. The masses jumped
at it, as they often do, at new idea, with
uncommon, but unfortunately not persistent,
zeal. The succeeding efforts of the Agri-
cultural Bureau did not find the public as
constant nor as appreeiative, as they had
anticipated; whilst the political conven-
ton, held on their grounds last year, at an
extremely dusty and unpleasant season,
created an unfavorable impression against
the place chosen for holding the Fairs
Now, what we wish to do to-day is to re-
move, if any remain, the last trace of this
| impression. We had heard much of the
improvements in progress on the grounds
but, until Thursday afternoon, when we &C
| cepted kind invitation from Chief Mar,
shall CHEATHAM to visit the place, had made
no personal inspection of them We were
gratifed, nay, delighted, to find that the
| improvements are Of character to render
| the coming Fair, in all respects, more COM
Portable to both visitors and exhibitors,
than we had hoped for. The immense am
! phitheatre, as we have heretofore remark
/ ed, has been covered in to protect the au-
dience against sun and rain, whilst the
! seats have been so enclosed as to render
! them far more suitable to the occupation
Of ladies. Back of them, too, on a level
with the uppermost seat, a new feature has
been introduced, a wide promenade en-
! bracing the whole circle of the pavilion
This will afford ample room for the au-
dience to relieve themselves of the fatigues
of sitting. We have no doubt it will be-
come vastly popular with the ladies. There
will be no dust to annoy. Accommoda-
tions will be provided for the press, giving
reporters better facilities than they have
ever had to get at the results of the pro-
ceedings daily. The accommodations for
visitors have been made on an enlarged
scale The list of premiums offered to
draw out competitors has been extended.
and the premiums themselves are richer and
more valuable than any hitherto offered
So far, then, as the efforts of the Bureau
are concerned, every thing has been done,
and properly done, to make the Fair sue
cessful. Every cause of complaint as to
the grounds has been removed, and it now
rests with those for whose benefit the fairs
were instituted, to complete the work.
What are fair grounds, and the best of ac-
commodations, if the exhibition is not at
tractive? Every farmer and planter in Da-
wilson county, every mechanic and manu-
facturer in Nashville, should have some
thing there to show; as ought every one in
other counties of the State who can do so
conveniently. Let them do this and the
fair next week will he all that its most ar
dent friends could desire.