ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 51 



€(1 this year m a department which is so intimately connected with 

 our understanding, it being the largest manufacturing business in 

 the county, if not the state. Indeed it would appear as if the shoe- 

 maker, so far as relates to our Annual Exhibition, neither bristled 

 nor tvax^d warm in this cause, but that he had come to his end, or 

 at least lost his awl. But we hope in future years to see a larger 

 display of the specimens of the Boot and Shoe manufactures of Old 

 Essex — such as are worthy of the reputation of her shoemakers, and 

 such as we know that if they attempt it, they can exhibit. 



The following gratuities are recommended to be awarded : 

 Sumner C. SpofFord, Georgetown, 1 pair mining brogans, $2 00 

 J. W. Monill, do., 1 pair copper nailed do. 1 50 



Jacob Dickinson, do, 3 pairs Boots, 6 00 



Eliza A Small, Danvers, 1 pair gaiter boot uppers, 60 



Sarah B. Whipple, Hamilton, 6 pair kid uppers, 25 



Sarah B. Kilham, Danvers, 5 pair brogan uppers, fitted, 50 



Richard Tenney, Georgetown, leather shoe strings, 1 00 



E. A. Whipple, Hamilton, 10 pair Brogans, fitted, 25 



One pair of brogans, presented by Samuel Putnam, of Danvers, 

 were manufactured by a slave in the Penitentiary, in Virginia, 

 thirty years since. By these, the contrast is most forcibly illustrat- 

 ed between slave labor and free labor ; and until the chains of the 

 oppressor are broken, we must continue to be in advance in all our 

 mechanical pursuits. 



STEPHEN DRIVER, Chairman. 



Salem, Sept. 27, 1849. 



ON FANCY ARTICLES. 



The Committee* on Articles, not included in the duties of other 

 Committees, regret that they were deprived of the services of 

 their Chairman, who was absent at the time in a neighboring State. 

 They, however, attended to the duty assigned them, so far as they 

 could do it within their limited time. It was with a feeling of some 

 discouragement, that they found, on entering the Hall, such a vari- 



Fituh Poole o( Danvers, Moses Hale of Ne^vburyl■lOl>, and Choate Buriiham of Hamilton. 



