Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-15
WHOLE NO. s3Os


 -. badge, with motto inscribed upon it, cor responding with the national colors, red. white and blue, and though each school was in unison, they were readily distin- guished by the different colors of their badges. The notices were "Faith, Hope and Charity" Each school had a banner and motto inscribed upon it. West Go shen motto was "Search the Scriptures" North Goshen Stand up for Jesus, and on the Goshen Center banner was an em- blem of the Bible, the closed book, and the words Holy Bible stamped upon it; also, the sentence, "Thy word is a lamp to my feet" The Band had their own banner, with the motto |" Excelsior" and the device of Horn. At the entrance to the grove, the word "WELcoME" on can vas, was suspended over the pathway. guarded by & large national flag. The The Stars and Stripes also graced the Speakers stand. N. P. Hart was appoint. ed President of the Day, and E. Richards, R. Pendleton, and Deacon Lawton, Vice Presidents. Space will not permit to even glance at the order of the day, or to give the names of the individuals who honored us with speeches and toasts, except to make honorable mention of the Rev. gen tlemen, MT. Stebbins of West Goshen, Wixon of North, and Doubleday of the Center, and Albert Wadhams, Esq, who repeated the Declaration of Independence, every word of which is as familiar to him as household words. Vocal and instru- mental music by the Band and by our own Organist on the melodeon, were frequent ly interspersed during the exercises. This was the first appearance of the Band in public, and, judging from the expressions of praise lavished upon them. and which they richly merited, we are inclined to think the whole town were as proud of them as little boy once was of his new whistle on training day, and who said that after this, he would neither borrow nor lend. Great credit is due the Committee and the Marshals, for so finely perfecting all the arrangemen ts; also, to the Decora- ting and Table Committees, for the taste displayed, Those bountifully filled tables, those baskets of fragments left, the lem onade, the pyramids of flowers, the con fectionery, &c., we meant to have said word about each; but we give it up-we cannot do them justice. and conclude by saying-the whole affair was 8 banquet of delight. It is estimated that over Q thou sand people were present. +sa..... s. f7 The following statistics are part of . note to the text of Hollister's forthcoming History of Hayti:" t8tHoaaaog | i In 1789, the French colony could count 792 sugar-houses, 3,099 indigo facto- ries, 2,S10 coffee plantations, 705 cotton estates, 69 chocolate plantations, l73 rum distilleries, tanneries, 28 potteries, and B brick-yards. There were also 75,908 horses and mules, 77,904 horned cattle, l 7,756, ,225 banana trees, l, ,278, 229 hills of tapioca, g, 202 acres of maize, 56, 2l4 acres of potatoes, 35, ,475 acres of yams, and 2l.- | 13S acres of Guinea corn. The best French WF1terS tell us that tue aggreSaCo oA aAnuht exportation from Hayti at that period amounted to more than sixty-six millions of dollars. The staples so- exported con sisted of white and brown sugar. coffee, cotton, indigo, syrup made from the juice of the sugar-cane, rum, leather, cassia, manilla, hemp, chocolate, mahogany. ig- numvite, and oil of Palma Christi. The valuations given are reckoned in French coin at the lowest prices that colonial pro ducts ever sold for in the market. The staples above enumerated were of sut1i- cient weight to load 600 vessels of 300 tons each; and as the imports from France were much more bulky than the exports of this island, the national commerce em- ployed in 1789 in this trade more than 500 vessels, and more than 1000 seamen. This was trife compared with the trade be- tween the Colony and the mother country. These statistics are gathered from the State papers of France, corroborated by the best writers of that day. They Indi- cate more clearly than rhetoric could do. the fertility of the best island of the An titles. The country could easily support 20, ,OO0, ,O0C inhabitants. "-N. Y. Tribune. | -f88s5tt. f-------------~ -s- if3a I9112