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erally, are really as much interested in the prices and pro- 

 ductions of agriculture, as any other class of people, our 

 neighbors have either got beyond the necessity of such 

 vulgar renovation as comes in the form of roast beef, and 

 bread and butter, or that they have not lately studied po- 

 litical economy. The ladies never forget their duty, and 

 we saw a bouquet from Mrs. S. B. Haley, and a beautiful 

 specimen of needle-work from Mrs. Hackett, of that city. 



The Mechanics' contribution to the Fair, was not as full as 

 we could have wished ; but the specimens of hats, shoes, furs^ 

 &c., show that our manufactures are not a whit behind our 

 agriculture, and tliat when we cannot live by the soil, we 

 can exist by our wits. When a mechanic can furnish and 

 employ ten such wagons as were exhibited in the procession 

 by our townsmen, J. Gctchel & Son, and make only a little 

 money on each article disposed of, he is as independant as 

 a London banker. 



The Ladies' Department in the Fair, was rich and full, 

 and beautiful. It is impossible to enumerate the variety 

 of pretty and useful things exhibited. It was far beyond 

 any exhibition we have heretofore had. The worsted em- 

 broideries were particularly beautiful and in great variety. 

 Among them were specimens from Mrs. Gilman, of Exeter, 

 who for so many years has furnished those which were 

 most beautiful, and who, at the age of eighty, still provides 

 the largest proportion of this department. Mrs. Tuxbury^ 

 Mrs. Sherman, Miss Murry, the Misses Robinson, and other 

 ladies, whose names we have not obtained, also sent in 

 beautiful specimens of this kind of embroidery. The cotton 

 thread and silk embroideries were also beautiful — we hard- 

 ly know how to specify, and pity the committee who have to 

 award the premiums, wliere all were so worthy of them. 

 Our interest was chiefly in the pictures and we were glad to 

 sec so good specimens of crayons, Grecian and oil paintings, 

 ambrotypes by Mr. Sawyer, painting on glass, and in water 

 colors, beautiful papier mache tables, port folios, &(. 



