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The people of America maintain the opposite doctrine, and place 

 many of their blessings to the score of the widely disseminated intelli- 

 gence in our land. 



'"Tis Education forms the common mmd ; 

 Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." 



It may be pleasing to this audience to be informed thdit free tickets 

 have been distributed by the American Institute, to the Charity 

 Schools of this city, including the inmates of the Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum, and the Alms House. The children from these schools have 

 visited this Fair, and witnessed the spectacle now before you. The 

 delight of the little urchins, on the occasion, you can better imag- 

 ine than I can describe. 



The wide-spread intelligerce in our land is curiously and abundant- 

 ly shown in the numerous and multiplied new inventions, and im- 

 provements in established machinery, more conveniently to accom- 

 plish some mechanic result. The Committee of Examination speak 

 favorably of many of the inventions and improvements now on ex- 

 hibition. 



Among the number of improvements. Gen. T. enumerated the fol- 

 lowing as having special merit and worthy of notice: Flour mills, 

 not much larger than the crown of a man's hat, which will grind 60 

 bushels of wheat per day, into first rate flour; they can be pur- 

 chased for $150, complete, with bolting apparatus. There were 

 corn-mills on exhibition, which do their work admirably, with nearly 

 the same expedition, and costing even less. There were eight im- 

 portant machines for the manufacture of cotton and woolen cloths, 

 ■which may be said to advance such machinery in the series by which 

 cloth is now made, to enable the manufacturer to reduce the cost 

 several mills per yard: should a corresponding number of improve- 

 ments annually appear at our fairs for the next ten years, a yard of 

 good unbleached shirting will be made for one cent per yard. Anoth- 

 er machine is for the manufacture of weavers'^ harness, reducing the 

 price of that necessary article to weavers. Another, a throstle spin- 

 ner, for cop spinning, by Mr. W. B. Leonard of the Matteawan Com- 

 pany; also, by the same, a superb drawing head frame, and by a gen- 

 tleman of Paterson, New Jersey, a very convenient improvement in 

 the Railroad drawing: a new and important improvement in the card 

 sticking machine. Among the machinery exhibited there are file 

 cutting machines, bullet making machines, stave dressing machines 

 screw bolt making, steam fire engines with pump for local purposes; 



