Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-12
Northern District Fair.


city at the end of the present month. Car
penters are industrously at work erecting
the stalls and shelters and fixing the enclo
sures for the live stock to be exhibited on th,
occasion. The Pavilion is already in goot
condition but will be placed in a still better
Public interest is greatly excited in the mat
ter, and especially are the people in the
country aroused to the Importance of the oc
casion. As the Fair is not so much for the
purpose of giving premiums as it is for the
purpose of securing a fine display of the
products, advantages and resources of the
country, all persons seem desirous of bring
ing their stock or their products or their in
ventions, of whatever nature, to the Fair
regardless of the prospect of premium oil
the contrary. So it should be. Let there b,
no small vanity in the matter, but let all con
tribute what they may have to the genera
object which is in view. The occasion will
be one at which an interchange of knowl-
edge on agricultural and mechanical subjects
will very naturally occur, and the advanta.
ges of such an interchange are not lightly to
be estimated.
Besides there is feeling of just and hon
est pride in this matter When the State
Fair was held here, last year, the Southern
portion of the State took particular pains to
throw cold water on every effort that we
made to give dignity and interest to the oc
cason They were very particular to keep
their agricultural, horticultural and other
products at home, as well as their inventions,
such as they were, and discoveries, so as to
throw us back as much as possible upon our
own resources and to cause the Fair to pre-
sent as meagre an appearance as the nature
of things would allow. The Fair was some-
what meagre in appearance, considering it as
a representation Of the whole State, but con.
sidered as representation for the most
part Of the Northern half, it was very credit
able inde ID. 1t was far better than our
jealous neighbors of the South expected and
it gives our northern section good en-
couragement to 60 on in the pesent effort.
! We showed them, then, that the North was
able to hold her own, under the full respon.
sibilty of getting up a State Fair, and we
can show them no less degree of ability
when we depend upon ourselves entirely, in
the getting up of an exclusively northern
Fair.
For our exertons before, we got no credit.
Our city was sneered at by itenerant hire.
lings who were paid to run us down-our
hotels. (Which are as good as any in the
State) ridiculed and our landlords slandered
and every effort which we made to be
hospitable and generous and to accommodate
the strangers who visited us, maliciouslv ig.
norcd or tortured into a mean desire to be
pecuniarily benefited at last. Private dwell
ings We're thrown open, family arrangements
Disconnected, additional servants hired for the
accommodation of an increased household
and thousand things of this nature cheer
fully submitted to, for the sake it seems of
being belied all over the southern portion of
the State by peregrinating hirelings who
were paid to think that the sun rose and set
for the benefit of that particular region of
California which lies south of the northern
boundaries Of the City of Sacramento, or
perhaps of the northern boundaries of Sac
ramento county.
We shall endeavor hereafter to take care
Of ourselves. We shall raise our own corn,
corcumbers and tobacco; our own wheat,
rye and barley our own grapes and melons;
our own peaches, apples and pears; our own
hens and chickens; our own horses and cat.
tie. We shall ask no odds of our neighbors
of the South in the matter of mechanical and
other inventions We shall have our own
system of mining, with all the improvements
that art and science can bring to bear upon
1t, without waiting to be instructed by Sac
amento San Francisco, Stockton and San
Jose The light of civilization shines up
this way as well as there, and men of genius
are not indigenous to those sections exclu
sively. We shall build our own railroads.
too, as well, enlarge our own towns and cities,
and march forward in our own way in the
path Of agricultural, mechanical and CON-
mercial prosperity. Since we are treated
with such petulant jealousy by the South,
not to say malignant spitefu littleness-since
we are hidden to take care Of ourselves, "By'r
Lady, we will endeavor to do it, and we
think we are abundantly able.
We are gratihed to have it in our power to
state what many already know, that the
County, through her Board of Supervisors,
has donated $500 to the Northern District
Society, for the purpose of the contemplated
Fair, while the City, through her Council,
has donated 5000 more. Private suLscrip-
ton, DC, will make out the balance of the
needed funds, aud We shall have an exhibi
tion which will do credit to our rich and fer
tile region of country, and bring confusion
to the checks of our revilers and traducers.
Let every good citizen, both in the city
and tn ecountry, do his utmost in the work
The Tehama Court of Sessions have sent
two prisoners, Paeienda and J. Hudson, to
the Penitentiary, the former for three years,
and the latter for one year
PEDRO JUAREz, Mexican, who was sent to
the State Prison two years ago from Santa
Cruz county, was liberated on the 7th inst,
having served out his full term.
The Democratic Convention in Savannah.
Ga, has nominated Peter E. Love for Con-