New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-01
THEE.Y STATE AGRICULTURAL FAIR.

CDfpespcrdNDee Of 1ba ~ y. Irbu1>
Buyr.Io, Sept. o9, 1857.
Tie erections for the annual chow Of the STATE A,r
cultural Society are now pretty much comPiste, and'
taken altogether the preparations In The way Oh oui'd
ipgs, and general accommodation to men and their
con mooities, are moro complete than on any IKE
previous occasion. The grounds are oesuihoi over.
looking lake, yiver and city, with bold command o'
the sweeping hills away to the SOUTH and tne green
shore, Of Canada on the west. The position 10 hish
above the water with the Erie Canal and the Niagara
Falls and Lockpoit branches of the Central RAILWAY
below, ar fine slope 70 the grounds ranging 'owAo
them TO carry cf ard give ersirase for the idihns
water, if any there nay be. The local Committee Oh
Il people Of Buffalo, who a1s1ged and got up t'e
whole affair under the direction Of the Execuave
Committee Of the State Society, have manifested
,pirit 10 do ell the requirements in thorough manrer
and Messrs Bonney and Fowler, having toe matter
ainly in charge have been unremitng in their a.
tebfion 10 the work which Mr. See, the energetic me-
cbanc has executed; 90 tn if there be only fair
we aher from the 5th to the 10Th day Of October. in
elusive, an agricultural display may be expected such
AZ wen this State excelled, il anywhere near
.quaed. Had that deectsble roost OF old fogies at
Washington who burrow about the War Department
bu INDUCED the Society with the use of part Of the
a6 Joining % ourds Of Fort Potter, which, in the exer
cse of their Immaculate hosthty to encouraging the
productltn Of the bread and butter which feeds hen
they would not, every desirable appliance would have
been complete, in the way OF imposing scenery to add
10 the attraction of the GROUNDS. IL would have given
the spec stOrs reach out to the liver banks, ffom
which
Tsn ,pre and sttcrDg roof and baement,
And ban foatrg in the sunny All,
Ard white sells DER the calm blue waters bent
would be seen in their wild esty from beneath the
green trees ard the high cliff overhangng the nver.
They will ali he in view notwithstanding, but notwitn
the completeness in single sweep ot vision, which
thatex xfe Ia the show grounds would have AQdeC
There are no people earth 40 stupid as those who
sriH not understand plain proposition; and IN this
matter aithoush Judge Dibbe of Batavia, one OF the
Executive Committee, Who was specially delegated
on The part Of the STATE Society to 20 to washington,
TO treat with the Secretary at War for the Of the
grounds Of Fort Porter made the proposition ~ hin
in the ainest possible manner, and the secretary
gave that gentleman every encouragement that he
could have them, 10 sooner was his back turned
thar the Judge forgotten and his pspers quietly
folded away in the pigeon boe OF " rejected Az
wardtd him that bis application was insdms,ibl
which, by the way, to so loyal Democrat as Judge
Dibbe VAS no doubt, for the time, any thing bu, con-
soliDg TO biz party fealty. Still, in this as in other
csses Of like character, by-gones WILL in time, be-
come by cones again and the stream psss
this temporary ripple IN the course OF the o?cie
~ affairs as TRANQUILITY 8s not only the grounds but
the fotress Of Fort Porter itself were divested OF its
meek her eountenance for the time, and given up
10 peaceful saturnalia of the hardhsted farmers Of
New.YOrk.
ce ase not with the revusi0ns which check mani ra
pscity TO gather 70 himse Of the goods Of this
world than is needful. Overstrained credit may be
PROSTATE; the wrecks of !-gOtten fortune may lie
strewed all about us; bloated pride may suddenly
collapse from the extent Of its own imitation; the piled
up securities, grown up from the shsrpest usury may
Prove worthless the paper which represen;s them
but time aid harvest, with the funess thereof,
aud the fruits Of the early and the latter rains, are
sure to yield their annual increase to the toins hus-
bandman- and never more bountfuy than in this year
Of grace 1857. From the far Down-East border
of Maine to the extreme wids OF Minnesotai from the
Capes OF Florida to the fsrhest verge Of Texas; and
all between, north and SOUTH the earth teens with
unwonted agricultural bounty There is nothing Ike
il aDywhere--there anything like 1t III
America. TheIe may have been a. great crops per
acre, many times; but the breadth Of land sown and
planned and IL great bulk Of production thereon
when was ever the ike Untold millions, in bushels
sud pounds Of grain and meats and the commodities
producing and to be produced from them, In a their
different manipuaiiOns-whO has seen them In equal
mount! The railways, although in stock and IN bond
they be broken utterly, Ill TEEN with the rich hsr-
vests Of the lands which they traverse. The canals
although they may be burdened with ext8yagant
debts, will be crowded with untold lights, while lake
sId river will be fietted with their busy craft and tae
common highways Of the country grosn with the
heaped-up loads toiling on their way 10 market And
With all tbis abundance, prices, although comparatively
low, will not be really co. They will be better than
event. "Jeshurun has waxed fat and kicked"
Buoyed up BY niger prices than usual, our farmers
have proepered beyond example. They have become
exuavsgant. SJ'ne have bought too much Western
land son 9 have dashed into railways; others have
dipped into baI stocks; and now and then one has
tOiled his hands with heavy usufy, taken from his
needy reighb0r, whom honest men will not weep for
if lie loses. Yet the great pulse Of the farming com.
nuplty beats soundy. n is worth hundred cents the
do sr st other estInents and securities at this
mon ent are. His capital is the solid earth, whose
see edtme aid harvest God has youchsafed TO him IN
all good and returui time. His career OF pros
peiity nay be checked tor season; 1t Is better that
Low and then il should be so but it is not an over.
wteluiDg check. He gathers strength from his very
rvyeIses, and goes on to his renewed labors with
CHEF rful ard gisddened heart, buoysnt always, and
hopeful, toliDg honestly, as he does, for the main
tel apce Of the millions who eat Of his labors.
Highly fitting it s then, that the husbsndmaR holds
bis annual agricultural festival that in carrying forth
tn. toll Of his own hands 70 compare in exc. Hence
with bis fellow farmers, be meets the mechanic who
aids bis labois by the handwok OF bis own Invention
fabrication great grand concentrated interest
Of mutual help and domestic production. These an
rus coDgIegated gatherings Of our agc u!tura com:
u.urities are worth oil the associated snObbery, all
the conventional coteries of luxury, all tae be-
dizer ed collections Of fashionable rvOty-ore than
all The huter and nonsense and parvenue pretension
that eli the cities 81 towns Of the whole country have
aspired TO accomplish in the way Of mutual benefit for
Q century Of time, put together lio, then, for the
Cattle Shows Lei the ter Of the earth olce with
the abundance thereof and the depending In other
pursuits be cheered with the knowledge that in the
UyeTwoIkirg of bis own schemes, one great, indis-
pthrate occupation Is left never overburdeped never
overwhelmed in bankruptcy or ruin or excess, and
whico, in all good iinie will uphold aat renew his
ow totteiipg fortunes. X.i.Z.