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how rich, fine, and tasteful ! they are worthy of the lovely per- 

 sons of our lovely ladies. 



In painting anfl sculpture our headway is great. A Greek 

 slave, by a Yankee sculptor, stood before the world an object of 

 admiration. Unions are doing nobly in the arts of design, fast 

 going from good to best. Our recent fashion of unions and clubs 

 in our country excites the attention of intelligent Europeans. A 

 French scientific journal says: "They have among them for 

 instruction what they call meetings at which some unknovm 

 samebody is expected to rise and say something entirely new to the 

 savansV 



This meetings called the American Institute, by the zeal and 

 knowledge of its members, by integrity, by never having such a 

 thing (as our worthy President says,) as an absent dollar, has 

 done good in its working. Many of you will live, I trust, to 

 crown its great edifice with the Braucli of Palm. It never has 

 envied others; it has always urged like wee^tngs every where. 

 It has always appealed to the South to do likewise, and it will 

 rejoice to be beaten in every good thing by meetings in every 

 State in the Union, except one, and that is in good intentions. 



Ladies and Gentlemen^ — We now bid you good night, and may 

 God bless you all, and keep you till the next Fair. 



