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the largest room iu America, besides the machine room, and the 

 long avenue leading into the Castle. Look around you now, and 

 behold tlie scene which presents itself. 



The receipts from this year's exhibition have been about 

 twenty-two thousand dollars ; and, counting our free tickets given 

 to charitable institutions, to distinguished individuals, to com- 

 mon schools, and to others whom propriety would admit to re- 

 ceive them — added to those who have entered upon the payment 

 for their admission tickets — we can say that we have had three 

 hundred thousand visitors at the Fair during tlie last three weeks. 

 These facts show the tone of public sentiment — the love of or- 

 der, industry, domestic production, and the pursuits of peace. 

 Out of these moneys, our expenses will be first paid ; and then, 

 the amount required for the Premiums awarded, and the balance 

 reserved as a payment upon the debt incurred for the Library, 

 and purchase of the house and rooms, 351 Broadway, for our 

 convenient accommodation. We feel, and we have a right to say 

 that our finances, as well as our popular condition, stand with 

 the utmoat manifestations of prosperity. It is matter for some 

 exultation that Eighteen States are now represented here in com- 

 petition for the premiums of the American Institute ; among 

 which the Institute hailed with great satisfaction Georgia, Vir- 

 ginia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas. 



The occasion, continued Gen. T., invites us to a slight retro- 

 spect, and seems to render it a duty to submit a few isolated re- 

 marks on the past and present condition of our country. 



Holland, in her bygone days, as an opening to her surplus 

 population. Colonized and settled the now Middle States of the 

 United States. England was torn asunder by her intestinal com- 

 motions. With miserably imbecile monarchs ; with an unprin- 

 eipled aristocracy and a corrupted nobility ; with a people bur- 

 thened, taxed and oppressed ; with every right violated and al- 

 most every wrong inflicted, which incapacity and misrule could 

 devise — she sought refuge in religious persecutions, in the shed- 

 ding of blood, in the beheacHng of her kings, and in civil war. 

 She too in the throes of her afiiiction, undertook colonization. 

 The then Southern portion of this country was blessed with a 



