The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-16
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LOCAL maTTEns.
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IHB GUARANTEE against loss asked far
by the United States Agricultural Society will cer-
| ta'niy be made by our citizens and the nexs Ma
| tionai Fair will be held in Richmond As chr
readers are aware, the Virginia Central Agricultu.
| raj Society have pledged their first years mem.
hershlp, aud the gate fees during the Fails to the
| y society, and cur business men ara nobiy sus
taning the Central Association in its Efforts 10 Sc
cure the U. s. Agricultural Fair. The H. 8 Society
proposes TO distribute In premiums $I00O0--uiore
! tnan three times as much as has ever been given
oy any other Society at one exhibition--and by
thls magnificent distribution will attract exhthi.
tors from all parts of the Union to contend E,r
| the premiums Not only will our Virgins farmers
pour IN their stock of horses aud cattle sheen
swine aud poultry, TO contest the palm of snperi
ority with each other, bat our meehanics and
manufacturers will send in speeimens of thar
work to compete with the productions Of their
brethren of North, South, East and West and
thus ensure such an assemblage as has never
beflre been witnessed Ia the metropolis q,
the Old Dominion With such prospects before
us, would il not be madness in our cifizsns-mer-
chants manu- acturers, mechanics, hotel. restau.
rant, clearinghouse and livery stable keepers
to hesitate for a moment to aid iu making up the
guara9:eeg Aud especially co. when they will be
warmly backed by the various railroad companies,
whose receipts are TO be largely augmented this
fall by the myrads of strangers who will pour 10
bere from all quarters, 70 attend the great Ma.
tIouai falr III the guarantee required was $4,000
instead OF the paitry sum of $4,000, which the
Central Society will be more than able to paw our
citizens should give it promptly, as a matter OF
speculation, and We have no Doubt would do so
Be AT YOUR PosTs-At o'clock this
afternoon the Executive Committee Of the yirei
MIA Central Agricultural Society viii meet at The
Office of The President to transact important busi-
ness at which tiUe the committee appointed 10
secure guarantors for the U. s Agricultural Socie
~ VIII be called upon TO report. If the gentle.
men WHO have undertaken this labor have perform
ed it faithfully the Executive COMMITTEES will be
nHfn 10 ma
put at rest all doubts as to where the next Nation
al Fair will be held.
Ihere are very many citizens ready and willing |
to give s. or $40 for u membership, who do uot |
wish to join IN the guarantee, aud there are thou.
sands OF others anxious to pay a memLe, ship |
tee as soon as called upon to do, but they |
must be sought for and invited to co operate |
wita the Cential Society once. The Commit |
tee should put iuto the field as man good
agents as they could get, and hot rely uI- |
nn the Efforts of one gentleman to do thi
work that an hundred cannot properly perform
The City Of Richmond IIeurico, Hanover, Louisa |
Abemarle. Orange. Nelson. Amhe 81, ChesteItieid |
dooehlaud, P'whaisn, Buckingham Prince I'd |
saro, Campbell, Bedford. Rtckbridge, Botetourt. |
Augusta, and indeed all the couuties along the |
lines # Railroads and canals leading TO this city,
- we'll as those bordering on the james River
should be thoroughly caavassed at once aud active
agents should be seBt lu the mountainous regions
oith State to secure contributions of stock a.
sell as members Not Only in Virginia. but in the
adJJihing States, thousands Of pei sons will hf
anxious to attend this Great National Fair ALI of
whom will gladly hnct tme members. because b,
doing So their ra / Dad fair will be l. epei
aud, their privileges increased on getting here
ts'ttbe friends cf IN" pnterVr go 10 work With
zeal and energy, aId heir la s will be doubIy
crowned with success