Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-07
The Fair.

! day, and noted down IN desultory way
whatever we happened to see. Wa have
not the time to systematize our account, and
will therefore give things as they come.
The first object that struck our attention
singular coincidence was large number of
bottles of wine, native to California; also
California made peach brandies. These lat
ter were manufactured by c. Covillaud. He
also had an exhibition Of red and white
wines and sherry. Judging from the looks
of these articles they are of rare quality
Indeed we have several times tested Mr.
Covillaud's wines and we believe them tol
equal any ever manufactured in any country
Mr.. jacobs, of San Francisco, had Los Ange-
les wine and native brandies. a. 7. Smith,
of Sacramento. had red and white wines
Antoine Christian, cf Yuba county, exhibit
ed wild grape wine. Mrs W. P. Thompson,
of this city, also has on exhibition red and
white wine, one and two years old. 1t looks
remarkably well. Jacob Geiss, of Marysville,
has ale and porter of his own make. We
can tell whether it is good or not when we
come to test it, which we expect to have the
privilege of doing shortly.
The next thing we noticed was some packs
of French merno wool, sent in 10y NJ. Mar
euse, one fleece of which weighed 81 lbs.
Next we came to fifty bottles of garden
seeds, of every variety. We did not learn
who put them in.
| Il ha of
fectioncry. A very noticeable feature of this
was the Temple of Liberty, made out of can
dy, and three feet and half high 1t is
quite an imposing looking miniature struc-
ture. 1t is the work Of Snyder Zimmerman
Il Co., of this city. A Christening cake and
Swiss cottage in the rocks were gotten up by
Mons. Peri and the work is fine, skillful and
tasteful a champion wedding cake, by
Peri, weighing As pounds, is also a noticeable
thing. Mr.. Qualey's exhibit Of confection-
cry, &c, is good
We noticed some very beautiful light
bread-two loayes of equal merit Which
one of them is entitled to the premium it
would be hard say. They were made by
compile of handsome young matrons in this
city.
The point in the Pavilion occupied by the
Italian bees of S Kennedy IL Co., of this
e city, is one Of considerable attraction The
e working Of these bees can be distinctly seen
in their glass hives. The Italian bees are
e mingled with the Others but may readily be
distinguished by the gold band just back OF
their wings 1t is sal that these bees will
e make two pounds of honey to one of the
common. They have longer proboscis and
r can reach honey in flowers not accessible to
ordinary bees
, Mr. Tucker, of San Francisco, has on exhi-
bition a splendid lot of silver plate and ware
DR.. w. p. Thompsons cabinet in the
southern end of the building, is a decided
5 attraction, and contains a large variety of
curosities and valuables. Among these is q
granite mortar, of small size, which was
t found forty feet below the surface, at Lynch.
] burg, Butte county, q few months ago. He
has black variegOted marble, of fine quail.
ty, from near Downieville also variegated
marble from Suisun, which resembles res
: inous pine; petrfed live and white oak
from kennebeck Hill, near San Juan also
= fossil wood of manzanita from the same place,
so feet under the ground a portion of the
petri6ed tree, near Pyramid Lake, which
measures 6G6 feet in length, as stated by Ste.
vens Totman and others; micaceous oxide of
iron from the Iuba black oxide of iron,
slightly magnetic; carburet of iron from
Sierra; ignite-out-eroppng of coal-an
excellent material for jet jewelry; pure as
bestus from Amador-vareties of the same
from Yuba, Sierra and Nevada; tripoli from
La Porte gold-bearing conglomerates from
all the Northern Districts cinnabar from the
New Almaden mines; felspar from the
Guba river; petrifed cedar and bark from
Timbuctoo; obsidian from Shasta county :;
agates from Humboldt county numerous
specimens from Washoe; sulphuret of lead
from Oregon Guch and Browns Valley
soda from Soda Springs in Washoe; copper
from Whislley Dggings in Sierra county ;
specimens from the Coral Cave of Ell Dorado ;
petrifed teeth from Black Rock, in the Utah
country, of size larger than those of the
modern OK, and variety of things too nu
merous to mention.
Wm Abbot, of "A d street, Marysville, has
a very attractive display of Kerosene lamps
&c, and new kind of stove called the
Erovapor, which supersedes the necessity of
coal and wood. 1t is a treat to see how
eharmingly the patent works
The leather from the Pioneer Tannery of
Valentine Kreese & Co., Marysyille, Is a
credit to the State. We notice a superior
specimen of harness leather from tho tannery
of G. A. Hoelcher IL Co., Feather river. 1t
is the finest heavy harness leather we have
yet SEEN
G. Armstrong has fine display of boots
and shoes
We saw some beautiful blankets from the
San Francisco wooden factory. One of them
is Mackinaw 81 by 6S inches, and weigh
ing 81 pounds.
E. Bint, saddle-tree manufacturer, Marys-
vile, has some saddle-trees on exhibition
which show him to be tip-top workman
IL. Harris d Co., Assoyers, have a show
case containing, among other things gold
bar worth between seven and eight thou
sand dollars; beautiful coarse gold from the
Round Tent, Yuba county; Washoe silver
in its combination with gold, and the pure
silver and pure gold, as separated a speci-