New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-18
THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR At BARN
STABLE.

/ BosTos, Oct IA, 1861
1t was pumpkins pumpkins all the way. have
high authority, the celebrated ARENAS Ward, for
my epithet He uses il even in the comparative de-
ee-pumpkins-er, thereby clearly implying SUI
perlatiye To my mind, the term is better consid-
cred as simple and absolute. 1t is question fer
rhetoricians TO decide. Mr.. Everett now, who is a
master of rhetoric might choose to say, pump
knsest his style being of the horid and arabesque
description. But / should Ike TO make the express
sion in itself supreme, that when thing Is said TO
be pumpkins, il should be understood that no
phrase can 20 beyond that simple one, 60 happily
applied by our brother ARENAS. We don't say you
know that one nSn is more, less honest, than
another A mar either is honest or is not. You,
my sincere, simple friend, with the bowed'out fore.
head, who walk straight up TO the mark, and tell
your actual feeling, belief, or intention, are honest,
and that gives the health and calm that your face
shows. And you, my skillful diplomatic friend, who
wrggle up to the point you wish to attain hoping that
no one will guess from your eternal zigzsg, which
way you are tending nor where you expect to ar
rive, you are dishonest, though very likely you
don't know it. And your face is pale or flushed, as
the case may be- with the violence of a compressed
! conflict For you will struggle with nature within
Won till You strangle her, and will then walk
about her living sepulchre. But the cattle-show
Well, as i said before, it was pumpkins, and
it's remembrance is pies But as for the how and
WHY. your imagination is 30 feeble that must sup
ply it with a few hints. Hence the following col
umn, or columns. You see, went along with the
Governor. Whether l was invited TO do 80 OF
whether volunteered, with the help Of an UNI
brea and little serviceabe brass TO adJoin myself
to his august party, will not say because 1t would
make the Governor responsible for my words and be-
havior and he knows that, with the cares OF Office
and military exgencies already weighing upon him,
be cannot assume this new burden We who &C.
compapied him were hardly well-seated in the
cars when sound Of military music was heard
and the cadets. who were to escort as, marched
into the depot. preceded by their band, playing like
all possessed, with the Drum major Us~,.e-e his frT
cap at their head They Unanswered little in the
narrow space beside the cars, danced backward and
forward and dressed right, and dressed left, and
presented arms, and took out their bayonets and
corked IN their guns and finally got into the cars,
very much as other people do, and hung up their
knapsacks, which look ike something between a
pedders pack and lady's companion. They man
aged TO seat themselves and away we went When
the blaze of glory in which we first saw them had
little subsided, we began TO recognize friends
among them. "Why, Tommy, is that you And
there's Frank, and Harry, and Sebastian" Even
their Colonel proved to be human, and sat and enter
tanned US as costly as If he had not epauletes
and gold lace. The journey, though cloudy. was
rapid. We devoured the distance from Boston to
Barnstabls Ike thing of naught. The very loco.
i. Vpdat fba pnbla
burden il carried, and to roll along like bippopo
Janus inspired with drink in its impotence to put US
through. When we arrived, two or three leading
individuals came and put in leading strings, and
they led M ont Of the cars and into the depot which
was windier than Fourth-of-July GRAFTON. All the
doors were wide open, and the map of our country
really shivered in the blast, with the wrong end up,
and in dangerous proximity to fluid lamp WE
were put into q two-borse carriage, with cadets
before and behind, and all around US, and the band
played
| "Ths Govemsr's coming ohho! Oh no"
And the steel bayones flashed through the darkness
and the hours went slowly not to disturb the march
ing of the troop and it felt very grand, most like
military funeral and yourself as cold az the corpse
you know for the night was outrageous. But glory,
glory kept US warm. Several houses were iumina-
ted in Our honor, and we took it very kindly. And
when We arrived at the house Of Our entertainer, it
was lighted up also, and the door stood open, and
they felt for us in the dark and brought US ont, and
into the house. where a friendly welcome and a CO.
pious tea awaited US. And it may be as well to state
here that from this moment our life in BarnStable
became one course of Teasing, interrupted only by
drives, speeches. and dances. Our host was Major
aoJ InoDitobla IN at
the fear that if he went on always as he did with u.s.
be would one day have nothing left for himself.
There was champagne after supper, and every one
who could not get in anywhere else was brought
here and squeezed into bed, without hesitation.
The Cadets biyouacked in large hall, and having
each a bag of straw and blanket TO himself, were
reasonably comfortable. n. B.-A dispatch written
at in the morning testified that they had not closed
an eye up to that time, the merry majority torment
ing the soberer few that said their prayers in good
STYLE and turned in to be turned out with laugh and
shout, and wondering what the devils about, and
| so on.
| The next morning our hosts vivacity and good
nature began to manifest itself in new forms, and
finally broke out all over. He put us ntoa carriage,
and drove us wildly over the country. The day was
CLOUDY, but propitous to exercise and observation
We visited Yarmouth Port and Hyannis, and drove
over good deal of space between To our surprise,
the fields were still as green as in Summer, and the
trees much ess touched by frost than those on Boston
Common. On the way to Hyannis we crossed a
wide tract of wood and thicket, brilliant with red
leaves, but with the green still prevailing. And
returning, we saw the sands and the salt-works.
The country roads were full Of vehicles going to the
Fair. There were farm-wagons in abundance, with
their usual overload Of females ,mared up for best
and genteel carryalls, with an occasional chaise.