The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-11-18

CHTcxeo, Ill, Nov. 13, 1863,


Der Democrat:
The wing of time has swept another week
into the eternity of the past. With it has
gone the North Western Soldiers Fair. This |
fair in its results has been far greater sue
cess than its most sanguine friends dared TO
hope. It's sessions lasted eleven days, and IT'S
receipts have been over sixty-fve thousand
dollars. Many notable characters have been
in attendance on the fair. Owen Lovsjoy is
a fine specimen of an American philanthro-
pist and Statesman. He Is a thick set heavy
man, with a large face, high broad forehead,
grey hair. and aa active temperament. He
speaks huently aud at times very eloquently.
Gov. Soloman, Wisconsin, is German Jew.
I judge man of good strong common sense
He is far from interesting as aspeaker.
Gov. Blair of Michigan, is smnll black
haired man, without any particularly marked
ability, bat he is loyal, and intensely in earn
est in all he says and does.
Gen. Oglesby, and the Governors elect of
Wisconsin and Iowa, are all fine men of ave-
rage ability.
Anna Dickinson, created very marked
sensation. She is a born orator heard her
on Friday evening. The Metropolitan was
packed and repacked with as fine an audience
as ever saw. At precisely eight o'clock, a
young gir.ish, almost childless form STEPPED
from side door upon the platform. She
walked some forty feet to the front of the
platform. and the inspired Anna Dickinson
stood before u.s. Her face was as calm a
morning in summer. Two thousand pair oi
eyes were scanning the child woman, and two
Thousand voices were making the hall shake
with applause No orator either living o,
dead ever received a warmer or more enthu-
siastic greeting Before the storm of ap-
plause had wholly died away, voice full oi
melody-clear, distinct and full, came float
ing over and among the audience with the
words @men and women of the great north
west-lovers of liberty-haters of slavery,
| gladly greet you this evening" Her address
was logical. and argumentatiye, and bristhng
all the way through with dates, facts and
events. Her argument demolished slavery
| crushed rebels and annihilated the wicked in
famous tory organization of which Vallandig-
ham is the head and Seymour of New York
the tail.
She was as natural as child, as cool and de-
liberate as Webster-as finished as an Ever
| EFT, and as eloquent as Sumner. She never
| raised or shrieked or screamed. You could
have heard clearly every word and as distinct
| ly as though each one was cut out of a sen.
tence and stood alone. She never was tragi-
cal, but always intensely in earnest. When
/ she told the story of the little black drummer
boy who when the flag staff was shot away
and the color-bearer killed, seiaed the flag and
wrapping it around him, fell at the head Of
| the column pierced by hundred bullets. She
seemed to be spiritual and ethereal for &
| mortal, when she said God never made an
arm long enough to reach over the pulseless
bodies of our two hundred thousand deac
heroes and offer their murderous terms.n She
looked like one inspired. You say, well, how
does she look and act !? She was plainly bu
richly dressed. She is just little below the
! average height of American women. He
Iorehead is low ouG'uroad anu iuii. Her CHI
is heavy and protrudes slightly. Her ceun
tenance when at rest is a little heavy, bu
when the soul animates it is wonderousl,
| beautiful. She gesticulates but little, yet sh.
moves almost constantly from left to righ
and right to left on the stage. In the mids
of her most grand and magnificent passages
she strikes back with quick motion he
heavy waivy hair from her deep broad tenn
plies. So much for this wonderfully endowed
and rarely gifted girl.
PORTAGE.