124 Editorial Miscellany. 



STATE FAIR. 



This exliibitlon came off, as per in-evions announcement, in the first 

 week of October. The weather was not propitious, and therefore the 

 display and attendance fell short of anticipations. Notwithstanding these 

 untoward circumstances, the Fair was creditable, even for the Empire 

 State. The fruit show was good, as was also the flowers. Gov. "Wright 

 dehvered an exceedingly long address, in which he recapitulated the 

 oft-repeated tale that farming was a vocation that none need blush for, 

 that labor was ennobling, etc. He then repeated a great deal of informa- 

 tion statistical, regarding the profits derived from good cultivation ; after 

 which he glanced down the vista into futurity, and conjured up two him- 

 dred millions of inhabitants who would get their bread and butter in the 

 republican area ; he said that the to'WTis and villages would be so large 

 that people would tire of metropolitan existence, and involuntarily imbibe 

 a desire for rural life. Vei-y probable. Gov. "Wright then explained — as 

 every orator does who addresses himself to the " bone and sinew" — the 

 beneficial influence that agricultm-al pursuits exerted on the social and 

 moral nature of man ; that it was a powerful promoter of virtue, and 

 would infallibly surround the hearthstone with that species of happiness 

 that is reciprocated by an approving conscience, — which, by the way, is a 

 happy and efiective method of winding up an oration. The discourse 

 was listened to by a numerous auditory, who seemed highly delighted 

 with the Governor's remarks, applauding him at all the little intervals 

 occasioned by an outburst of elofiuence which induced a desire for a 

 mouthful of water, and thus the audience could indulge their encore 

 without interrupting the speaker — a sort of sympathetic arrangement, 

 engendered by mutual admiration. The principal subject of the discourse 

 was the subject of grapes. 



The evening concluding the Fair was devoted to Terpsichore, and 

 everybody who appeared to be nearly exhausted during the day became 

 sufiiciently refreshed to humor their propensity for the agreeable pastime 

 of the evening, which waned pleasantly for all. On Saturday morning, 

 the ladies appeared on horseback, charmingly attired, and performed, in 

 the presence of a great many gratified young men, Amazonian feats of 

 horsemanship that were astonishing to behold, and equaled in daring 

 those wild men who catch cattle on the plains of Mexico. "What with • 

 baby shows, and bloomers, and female horse racers, a portion of our 



