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On Thursday evening the doors of the agricultural and miner- 

 alogical exhibition, on the corner of Washington and Kerrney 

 streets, San Francisco, were thrown open to the public on the 

 occasion of the presentation by Mr. C. A. Shelton of a silver cup, 

 which had been awarded to Mr. Horner for the best assortment 

 of vegetables and grains at the exhibition, and a small hat, made 

 of California gold, to Messrs. Boyd & Dolsen, for the best hats of 

 California manufacture. The committee appointed to examine 

 the vegetables, and report the parties entitled to the prizes, con- 

 sisted of the Hon. Messrs. King, Wright, Fremont, Snyder, and 

 S. B. C. Saunders. The same committee appointed A. Williams, 

 Esq., to deliver an address, on the occasion of the presentation 

 of prizes. After the audience had assembled he arose and ad- 

 dressed them as follows : 



ADDRESS OF ANDREW WILLIAMS, Esq 



Ladies and Gentlemen. — Having been invited by Mr. Shelton 

 to present to our fellow citizen, Mr. Horner, a silver goblet, as a 

 premium for his success in advancing the Agricultural interests 

 •of our State,! embrace the opportunity to congratulate you upon 

 the occasion which we are assembled. I congratulate him, whose 

 laudable enterprise and untiring industry in producing so varied 

 and rich a display of the products of our soil and State, have 

 been crowned with such brilliant success ; and especially do I 

 congratulate our State and country upon the first dawn of that 

 development of our agricultui'al wealth and resources, which is 

 destined soon to convert these western '• forests into a garden, 

 and make the wilderness bud and blossom as the rose." It is 

 the first bright ray of that morning sun of American enterprise, 

 perseverance, and industry, and skill, wliose rising beams shall 

 warm into life the young but giant energies of the great West, 

 and whose meridian splendor shall throw its radiance over every 

 nation of the earth. But a short day shall intervene, before 

 the whole of this western coast, from the ice-bound regions of 

 Kamschatka and Lapland on the north, the benighted realms of 

 Patagonia on the south, shall spring, with an electric bound, 

 into life, beneath its vivifying rays — when the swarthy Indian 

 in his sunny isle, the copper-colored Celestial in his secluded 



