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common scnool system — of the wide dissemination of that Education 

 which is the glory of our nation j — the blight of despotism j and the 

 bane of monarchy. 



The speaker next pointed to the productions of agriculture of a 

 mammoth charactei, then on exhibition, — specifying several of them, 

 aisd among others, a cheese from Oliio of some seventeen hundred 

 pounds weight. Passing rapidly over this ground, 



He then held up and called particular attention to a specimen of 

 the fine shawls manufactured at the Bay State mills, in Massachusetts 

 — where the progress of this work is such that the Company give con- 

 stant employment to one thousand laborers ; and produce at their 

 mills a thousand of these shawls per day. The speaker passed a 

 well-merited eulogium upon the extent and character of this com- 

 paratively new branch of American manufactures. 



The premium piece of broadcloth was then exhibited, from among 

 other pieces of great excellence and merit — made from American 

 wool, and remarkable for its fineness and the delicacy of its manufac- 

 ture. 



The next subject was one of pecuUar interest : a specimen of 

 American Linen, made from American flax. This linen was of very 

 fine and superior quality, and obtained as a premium " The Tall- 

 raadge Gold Medal," which it well deserved. 



Gen. T. then asked the spectators, at their leisure, to continue their 

 examination in detail — the occasion forbidding him further to specify, 

 than to make a very brief allusion to " Dodge's Cop-Spinner" — be- 

 lieved to be a new and decided improvement in the spinning of cotton, 

 it was intended, he said, and was fully able to spin both warps and 

 fillings with equal accuracy. The importance of the improvement, he 

 continued, might be judged by the fact, that this machine was capable 

 of running one-third faster, (doing equal work,) than the ordinary 

 Cop-Spinner, — a gain sufficiently large to revolutionize this pursuit. 

 The spindles of this machine make with ease ten thousand turns per 

 minute, throwing forty feet of thread in the same time. 



