Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-09-11
NM NEW ENGLAND FAIR.

PRovIDENCE, F'uday, Sept g.
1t has been big thing, and managers, exhibit
tors visitors, conductors, reporters, (twenu five
in number), car horses aud prize animals arc alike
tired, satisfied and glad, Sixty thousand persons,
by estimate, have visited this exhibition in the
last four days aud the gross gate receipts must bc
fully $4,000; Sl2lO was taken one day upon the
seats. The figures are 50 great that the accounts
have not been kept up from day to day, though
the secretary of the New England society, Colonel
Ncedham, declares that he has not slept but four
hours this week. All things being ready and the
magnates in position, ~ a quarter before y NJ.
the American brass band played one of is most
stirring pieces, and senator Sprague briefly intro
duced Gen. o. O. Howard head of the freedmen s
bureau, and major general OF the United States.
Gen Towards appearance is that Of a straight
slender man OF middle age, and yet man Of yigor
and power. One coat sleeve is empty. his right
arm having been sacrificed ON the field OF Gettys-
burg. lie commonly wears a linen duster over
his uniform, aud he handled his manuscript by
means Of paper-weights, with ease and deXterity
Senator Sprague assisting. He said there was a
connection between the army and agriculture
The soul and snew Of the former was drawn from
the latter besides, he was born and bred on a
Maine farm he superior excellence of educated
labor was the great idea of the speaker, and it
gowed aud expanded under his eloquent lips for
an hour and twenty Minutes lie defended the
freedmen, who, when first emancipated, do not
succeed well. They do not have fair start
They lack the skill of ireemen 1t takes years to
remove the spirit Of seryility. Besides slaves 30
wears old and rather white the best subjects
OF education Englishmen OF that age learn slow
ly. 1t takes the Irish several generations to be-
come Yankees. The freedmen need schools five
times as many as they now have, though 100000
OF them are learning TO read and write. Noble,
Christian teachers needed, though hundreds
now stand up for the right aud truth all over the
South. The government is doing for the freed
men all that the sovereign people allow It, but ey-
cry man should have penny, or dime or a dol
lar to help forward this noble work
Among those who occupied the speakers stand
during Gen. Howard's address were Chief Justice
Chase, Coy. Burnside, eX-Goys. Andrew, Anthouy
and Smith, three lieutenant governors and u do3-
On others -Sprn&feid RepadtcaH
CAEAPER TEA.-Ilow the little China cups will
rattle and eatter in their saucers, at tdings OF
such pleasant import. Russia is not going to get
all the choicest " drawings away from the rest OF
the world, after this. The China tea-market, re-
port says, has just opened at prices one-third low
er than the prices at the opening of last year aud
that means that the valuable tongues OF proiessed
tea-drnkers are henctforth 10 run with uue-thirl
more Nolubility. The news has had It's effect in
London, which is the great tea mart of the mod.
ern world, since the tea merchants there who have
been holding on for rise like our own butter
men anu gram hpeculatofs, nave received adVices
from their principals in China to "unloadn a.
quick as they conveniently can. Now let the tea.
pots all get up their tempest together. The
spoons should make merry music in cup aud sauc-
en- Such STIR ought TO be started as never
arcs from tea-tables before. Have all the old
l'i.es in the land been promptly appraised Of thi,
alliig OF in the price OF lea2 IL Is of more ion,
portanoe % them than their rations Of Aiaccaby
vanilla bean all together We may have tea par
ties now Thru, three per cent. cheaper than the,
baye cost Us IA the pleasant past.