Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-04
FROM NEW YORK.
American Institute FafF-RaiIway
TraveI-GeReraI Gossip.
[From an Occasional corrs-pondent.l

lFrom an Occasional Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. %, 1865.
THE FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE
paid IA visit to this venerable arrange
ment yesterday, and was highly delighted
and amply repaid for my expenditure of
sixty-fve cents, fifty for admission and
fifteen for catalogues this last by the
way, being an useless disbursement, as
every article bears plain and prominent
label. 1 ought to say that call the In
stitute venerable because 1 well remember
the occurrence of its fifteenth anniversary
many years ago, when L was a boy-and
I am no chicken now. The Fair is held
in the Armory or Drill room of the some
thingth Regiment on Fourteenth street,
just where our great Sanitary Fair was
located two years ago, only it is confined
to the brick building, while the great Fair
was extended, by out-buildings, to much
greater extent. On entering, we find
machinery, machinery everywhere, but
nary drop to drink" which is to say, that
the buzzing, or POLITICALLY speaking 'the
sound of busy labor 1 love, etsettery" is
predominant, and that the thirsty soul has
to go outside (no checks given) to the
Woodlawn, or the Gem, or the BUou, if
he wants anything more potent than soda
water. But one is content with any
amount of buzzing and whirring when
conscious of the absence of the stereotvped
grab-bag and the post-ofiice, (no aIlusion
intended) and the ''please, sir, won't YOU
take ticket in this pincushion,7 of the
Church Fairs of the present day. Then
the old "bach' thank Heaven lam not One)
is interested in the startling announce
ment that such thing exists as "buttons
sewn on without needle or thread and he
indulges in visions of liberty tgive me
liberty or give me death, and, confound
these fellows, they never aOiU know what
true happiness is, until they undergo the
charming sensation of being unconscious
lv led by the nose so usual in the more
elevated sphere of matrimony.) By the
way, my ideas of exactly Hol0 buttons are
thus sewn on is somewhat crude, because
the whole operation was performed by a
pair of nice, round white hands, to which
were attached nimble fingers and well de-
veloped arms, and though 1 said 1 under
stood perfectly, yet l cannot take my reg
ular Bible oath on it. Dear me, what will
my wife say if she reads this, and so l
hope that the occasionally unavoidable
miscarriage of the mail may occur while
conveying eastward thecopy of the LEAD
Err containing the print of this scrawl.
Then the sewing machines and the candy
girls-but 1 must stop or l shall have no
sleep for a month, because Madame re-
quires implicit devotion. "Love me all
in all OF not at all' as Wellington said
Just before the battle of Solferipo, and
she has chosen the same as her motto
Suffice to say, while concluding this sub
ject, that there was so much charming and
Interesting at the Fair that did not reach
home until long after the hour for the
usual evening meal-was met with a dig
nifed frigidity and suffered during the
watches of the night as Barry Gray
says, just because the Fair of the
American Institute was unusually inter
esting, and because in my capacity of pub
lie chrOnicler | visited it alone, and be-
cause my watch ran down, which 1 think
was one of the excuses l gave, and which
assertion was received with the most in
credulously sarcastic laughter and sneers